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October 6th (search for this): chapter 21
s contemplating matters, he gave his collar a jerk, and exclaimed, proudly: Hurrah, Lucy, we've killed a big bear! blamed if we ain't! So it is with the peace-men of to-day. They cry now loudly for peace, and whine about the unconstitutional arrest of a few tories. And when it is over, and freedom triumphs, their coward lips will boast of victories won over the legions of secession. Such are the Vallandigham traitors. General Prentiss remained in close confinement until October 6th, and during the time he had been absent from our party. I had been taken with a severe illness, which obtained for me admission to a rear room of the prison, which was dignified by the name of a hospital. Here I enjoyed the privilege of drawing my allowance of corn-meal from the commissary, and taking it, or sending it, under guard, out to some one in the town, to have it cooked. I got a slave, called Aunt Susie, belonging to a widow, to attend to mine, and she did it well. I was for
October 7th (search for this): chapter 21
ed dollars, which the General divided among the officers. Our mess, consisting of three, received $100,which, of course, with prices as high as they were in Dixie at that time, was almost useless. Sometimes we complained of our bad fare, and asked for wheat-bread. Wheat-bread seemed to be a standing joke in rebeldom, or rather one of the institutions that were long since forgotten. Wheat-bread indeed! laughed our keepers, why poor flour is sixty-nine dollars per barrel! On the 7th of October, we left Madison, Georgia, as we hoped, for our homes. Arriving at Augusta, we remained a short time, not being allowed to leave the cars. During our stay, however, we managed to learn from the negroes that there were but few white men in the place. The loquacity of the darkies gave the guards much trouble; that is, those who were not Unionists themselves, and of the latter class there were many. Captain Collins, whom I have mentioned just before, still had us, in his charge, of
December (search for this): chapter 21
ill give us the great victory. Brethren, give to the winds your fears! A word in view of our national truth. Bless God! in our prosperous North, that has been full and free; and it shall be as enduring as the Plymouth Rock, where it first breasted the New World's winter and storm. That Truth is Christian liberty, unalloyed and untrammeled, the Pilgrim fathers' treasure; that is the citizen-children's inheritance, and it shall be perpetuated. The Mayflower weathered the storms of a December Atlantic. The blood she brought to America courses now in so many veins, and the spirit-life at Plymouth planted, is to-day so thrilling all true Christian hearts, that this strife must end in proclamation of a Gospel to the poor. These we have with us always. Let the people — the whole people, have the Truth-the whole Truth-and nothing but the Truth. If this include body and conscience-liberty, be not afraid of that, and let the good news go forth to captive ones. Truth is used to sto
1820 AD (search for this): chapter 21
live in my house. If she comes, she must be free. She came, and took up her free abode with the family of this great champion of American liberty, and there she continued free until her death. General Kosciusko, by his will, placed in the hands of Mr. Jefferson a sum exceeding twenty thousand dollars, to be laid out in the purchase of young female slaves, who were to be both educated and emancipated. The laws of Virginia prevented the will of Kosciusko from being carried into effect-1820. A tyrant power had captured nine hundred and twenty Sardinian slaves, of whom General William Eaton thus makes mention: Many have died of grief, and others linger out a life less tolerable than death. Alas! remorse seizes my whole soul when I reflect that this is indeed but a copy of the very barbarity which my eyes have seen in my own native country. Dissipation, as well as power, wrote the immortal John Randolph, hardens the heart; but avarice deadens it to every feeling b
1862 AD (search for this): chapter 21
ged themselves on the side of the oppressed slave. Would to heaven that ministers of religion, as well as statesmen, would shake off their lipfetters, and throughout the whole nation proclaim, as with one voice, the liberty of Gospel love! As long as the heralds of salvation are time-servers and caste-courters, there will be Pharisaical hatred to God's poor. The reader will peruse an extract here from a sermon on Christian Courage, by Rev. Alexander Clark, delivered in the mid-summer of 1862, some weeks before the announcement of the Emancipation Proclamation. The words are timely and truthful now as then: To the Christian citizen, who, in this nation, is greater than a ruler in any other, I would say a word to-day. These are times of sorrow. Our nation is terribly lacerated, and bleeding at every pore: Horrid civil war hangs her black pall over our summer skies. The clouds have hovered long, and still they gather. All the light we have are the vivid lightnings that f
Mike Adams (search for this): chapter 21
latter having been sent to Richmond. They were all tall and ungainly, and, in speaking, always said har, sar, whar and dar. Their most favorite exclamations were, tamal Jesus, and I golly. As I was thus surveying these degraded creatures, I heard one of them say: Tom, what do you always go to old Sanders's mill for? Why don't you go to Mike Adams's mill? Why, you tamal fool, was the reply, don't you know there's a good deal better clay up at old Sanders's than there is at Mike Adams's? As we were at this time under the charge of one Captain Collins, who was more indulgent than any of our previous keepers, we were allowed to converse with the guards. I resolved to settle this matter of clay-eating. So I asked one of the fellows to whom I have just referred, what his comrade wanted with the clay that he got at the mill. Why, tarnal J-s, retorted the repulsive brute, and don't you know nothin‘? He wanted it to eat, I golly! Reader, it would be impossible to d
Samuel Adams (search for this): chapter 21
sor! I am aware that those who would excuse the slave system, often attempt to give conclusive weight to their arguments by asserting that our forefathers were slaveholders. Let me give some facts to the contrary. One day, the wife of Samuel Adams returning home from a visit, informed her husband that a dear friend had made her a present of a female slave. My dear, replied Mr. Adams, she may come; but not as a slave, for a slave cannot live in my house. If she comes, she must be frMr. Adams, she may come; but not as a slave, for a slave cannot live in my house. If she comes, she must be free. She came, and took up her free abode with the family of this great champion of American liberty, and there she continued free until her death. General Kosciusko, by his will, placed in the hands of Mr. Jefferson a sum exceeding twenty thousand dollars, to be laid out in the purchase of young female slaves, who were to be both educated and emancipated. The laws of Virginia prevented the will of Kosciusko from being carried into effect-1820. A tyrant power had captured nine hundr
Americans (search for this): chapter 21
meled Pulpit Clay-eaters commissioners to Washington homeward bound an Irate Southron my yellow angel our journey an accident Jeff Davis' Coffin Don't know myself safe at home conclusion. Is it not passing strange that enlightened Americans can be thus so barbarous? It is related of a certain English judge, that a criminal was brought before him, whom, for certain offences, he sentenced to seven years transportation. The prisoner's friends immediately sent a petition to the judglready overtaken them. For the first time in their political history, disgraceful tumults and anarchy have been witnessed in their cities. Blood has been shed without the sanction of the law, and even Sir Robert Peel has been enabled to taunt Americans with gross inconsistency and lawless proceedings. I differ with Sir Robert Peel on many points. On one point, however, I fully agree with him. Let the proud Americans learn that all parties in this country unite in condemnation of their pres
Bruin (search for this): chapter 21
fe, was working in the garden, while John was nursing the baby. Suddenly an old, hungry bear was seen coming down the mountain side, directly toward them. John instantly dropped the child, ran to the cabin, climbed up the ladder into the loft, and pulled the ladder up after him, thus leaving the mother and baby to do the best they could. Lucy, seeing her chance of escape thus cut off, did not wait to scold her cowardly husband, but seizing an ax, went out to meet the bear. As soon as old Bruin came within reach, the courageous mother struck him on the head again and again. John, as he witnessed this from the loft-window, cried out: Quit that, you Lucy; you'll make him madder and madder! Lucy paid no attention to John, but continued chopping away at the bear until she killed him. As the beast fell dead, John breathed somewhat more freely, and called out: Lucy, is he dead? Yes. Are you sure he's dead, Lucy? Yes! Of course he is. John came down, an
Alexander Clark (search for this): chapter 21
urtured into strength, and that they have ranged themselves on the side of the oppressed slave. Would to heaven that ministers of religion, as well as statesmen, would shake off their lipfetters, and throughout the whole nation proclaim, as with one voice, the liberty of Gospel love! As long as the heralds of salvation are time-servers and caste-courters, there will be Pharisaical hatred to God's poor. The reader will peruse an extract here from a sermon on Christian Courage, by Rev. Alexander Clark, delivered in the mid-summer of 1862, some weeks before the announcement of the Emancipation Proclamation. The words are timely and truthful now as then: To the Christian citizen, who, in this nation, is greater than a ruler in any other, I would say a word to-day. These are times of sorrow. Our nation is terribly lacerated, and bleeding at every pore: Horrid civil war hangs her black pall over our summer skies. The clouds have hovered long, and still they gather. All the
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