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brought them newspapers to let them know what was going on. “I thought of dat,” replied the contraband, “and fetched a Charleston paper wid me.”
With this he put his hand in his bosom and brought forth a paper, and with the air of a man who was rendering an important service, handed it to the circle of inquirers.
They grasped it eagerly, but one glance induced a general burst of laughter, to the profound astonishment of poor Cuffee, who, it seems, could not read, and imagining that one paper was as good as another, had brought one dated 1822.
This South-Carolina relic was forwarded to Thomas B. Stillman, Esq., of this city, as one of the curiosities of the war. It is a little odd that this paper, which has floated so long down the stream of time, contains an article in favor of negro emancipation.--New-York Commercial Advertiser.
Van Nostrand. New York, New York. 1862.
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