[452] placed in the wagon, and driven off to Mulberry street. Heading up the darkies headed off the mob that time.
We presume the slave-holder whose slaves were disposed of by his friend as related below, hardly contemplated adding recruits to the Union army, but he could not complain of his friend for obeying orders: A slave-holder from the country approached an old acquaintance, also a slave-holder, residing in Nashville, the other day, and said:
I have several negro men lurking about here some where. I wish you would look out for them, and when you find them, do with them as if they were your own.“Certainly I will,” replied his friend. A few days after the parties met again, and the planter asked:
Have you found my slaves?“ I have.” “And where are they?” “ Well, you told me to do with them just as if they were my own, and as I made my men enlist in the Union army, I did the same with yours.” The astonished planter “absquatulated.”
A very independent darkey was Sam, as the reader will discern: During the winter of 1863, a contraband came into the Federal lines n North Carolina, and marched up to
