James Redpath, The Roving Editor: or, Talks with Slaves in the Southern States.

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[342] a hundred men at their establishment preparing to start across the prairies. They were told to go and fight the Yankees, furnished with arms and powder, and had the same pay that they received for their services at their ordinary work.

This same firm appealed, with Atchison, to the South for men and arms; one of them acted as the treasurer to the Southern contributors, and disbursed the treasury of desolation and civil war as the exigencies of their guerilla forces and armies required.

This firm has made millions by the government contracts.

For a specimen of the manner in which they have been rewarded, I refer you to the last report of the Secretary of the Treasury, from which you will see that they have been paid at the rate of $187 per barrel for transporting each and every barrel of flour forwarded to the army at Utah.

If, then, as Charles Sumner says, “he who is not for freedom in her hour of peril, is against her,” be true, and be equally true of slavery, how will the South and her oligarchy ever be able to defray their indebtedness to the Democracy? and how, too, will New England and the North ever be able to square their accounts, even when the terrible day of reckoning does come?