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Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 4, Chapter 4: the reelection of Lincoln.—1864. (search)
s to humor Kentucky (the Gibraltar of the Border-States obstacle), and his recent Amnesty proclamation, in confirmation. Mr. GarrisonAnte, p. 85. had no apology to make for the Amnesty, which he had elsewhere condemned in unequivocal terms, nor for the Government's course in paying the negro troops as laborers instead of as soldiers. Laborers received only ten dollars a month, while the pay of white soldiers was thirteen dollars. Congress at last voted equal pay to colored soldiers from Jan. 1, 1864, and the Massachusetts 54th and 55th regiments were finally awarded (by a decision of the Attorney-General) full pay from the time of their enlistment. With wonderful spirit and fortitude, they refused to receive any pay from the Government until their claim to the full amount was recognized, though in the year and a half during which the matter was unsettled their families were in want. The Legislature of Massachusetts offered them the pay withheld by the Government, but they refused i