VOL. 1. _
THE FREE SOUTH, j
BE1UMBT, 8. C., AFGUST 15, 1863.
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pifcfic opinion settles into conviction,
each day adds new proofs that
the recent riot in New York has been a
decided advantage to the government
Coming as it did, it was not an unfitting ,
accompaniment to the great drama of the
dav. The great national victory and
jubilee might of course be followed by
the writhings and convulsions of baffled
treason.
Not so much the draft and the Govern- ;
men* were so madly and vainly resitted as
the great crushing facts of victory?Gettysburg
and V ickaburg?piled like Ossa upon
Pali on. t
The great lesson of the riot is not taught
id the Government, but to the aiders and
abettors of treason, whom its revelation
exposes beyond mistake and dooms beyond
reprieve. Purely in the filt^est of
* the rebellion, the riot, rather than having
revealed We&knesB in the North, has exhibited
the despair of the South. The
train laid by the invasion, to explode the
North, was put out at Gettysburg. Fired
in New York, it exploded the Confederacy
rather than the Government.
The nation has beheld the growth and
outburst of a faction whose hostile malcontent
with every act of the Government,
under a pretence of jealous regard
for the Constitution, was in soul with the
organized anarchy 01 the South, and subvenire
of the very foundations of order.
'jp Of this there is now no doni^t; the evid
ance is circumstantial, instinctiv.e, and in
the faith.
t ^ We have learned how a certain faction,
like other factions in history, based on
ignorant prejudice and actuated by motives
disguised because they were shameful,
grew step by step to falsify with every
pretext however small; to intrigue, conV
spire, to riot, and, let history frown to
t it
record it, murder?such heartless, savage,
but deliberate murder as could find no
'ijf apologists but the fratricides who might
as well have ipurdered icith the mob. This
was its atrocious method of saving the
/ Union?getting rid of the negro. Let us
compare the butcher with his victim,
whose fellows died for us at Port Hudson,
IfiTHVen's Bend, Helena, and on the ramparts
of Wagner. Between these outcast
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parallel suggestive ? Between those who
are fighting for freedom, and those who
murdered for slavery, every on* may
judge wisely who has pondered the lesson
of the riot Out of its massacre another
victory has been won for the eanseof
humanity.
Bdtir oar foreign foes and the rebels
themselves have received the first news of
the uprising in New York against the constituted
authorities, with grateful joy.
But their disappointment in this, as in
reference to their expectations of a defeat
of the Union armies in Pennsylvania and
at Vicksbnrg and Port Hudson, will be
overwhelming. Not only has the New
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lor*, not oeen rerouted ana aruanea, oui
the people of kQ other cities and sections
are responding to the call of the Government,
and daily showing their horror of
the bloody turbulence that has disgraced
the boasted commercial metropolis. The
lesson thus administered to the rebels and
foreign nations may be profitably committed
to memory.
The Detroit ladies put their old crinoline
to good use. They suspend them by
a pole running through the centre, thus
forming a circular trellis, around which
cypcess vines and morning glories clamber
in the wildest luxuriance.
THE FREE SOUTH, SATU1
Protection of Colored Troops.
We are glad to see, says the Philadelphia
Bulletin, the formal announcement
made by the President, that every man
wearing the military uniform of the
United States is to be protected with all
the power of the nation, in his rights as a
soldier, and especially when taken as a
prisoner of war. With the insufferable
arrogance so characteristic of the rebels,
they have presumed to consider black
ssoldiere as without the pale of civilized
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Fort Wagner and elsewhere, the South
Carolinians have murdered some and
sold others into slavery. We would like
to see any nation trying such a thing
with the black troops in the British army.
It would also have been a dangerous
experiment to have tried it with the
black troops in the American revolution,
or those who fought so bravely under
Jackson at New Orleans. r
The problem of negro aid on the side
of the Union has been clearly solved by
the noble conduct of the black volunteers
in Florida, at Yicksburg, Port Hudson,
Milliken's Bend, and at Fort Wagner,
and the Government must protect them
with all its power, not only ior their own
sake, but for the sake of the tens of
thousands of new recruits which it will
receive under the draft and from rebel
cities and plantations. Government would
be beneath contempt if it asked their aid
now, when it is becoming so signally valuable,
and yet failed to shield them to the
very utmost. In garrisoning the South,
after the main rebel armies are scattered, |
the colored troops will be one of our main j
sources of reliance, and we look to see
their regiments brought to the most perfect
state of efficiency to accomplish this
immense and otherwise almost impossible
Judfe ( the Ncrtkern District (
Fieri da.
The Hon. Phillip Frazer, the newly appointed
Judge of the United States District
Court of the Northern District of
Florida, arrived on the Fulton and proceeded
immediately to St. Augustine in !
the transport Boston. Judge Frazer was |
born in Pennsylvania, but has practiced
the profession of law in Florida for more
than twenty years. Although identifted
by the ties of marriage, property and residence
with his adopted State, he remained
true to the Union in spite of every influence
brought to bear upon him by
friends and enemies. When Jacksonville
was occupied by Gen. Wright, Mr. Fraeer ,
came forward to welcome him, and threw j
his whole soul into the endeavor to bring I
FWida haek into the Union. How these
| then hopeful efforts were frustrated by
the imbecility which seems to have 'ruled
everything connected with the affairs of
Florida is now a matter of history. Although
recently a slaveholder, he is now
heartily in sympathy with the policy which
is to redeem, regenerate and disenthrall
the state by the spirit of univeral emancipation.
Being thoroughly acquainted
with the character and objects of the
leaders of rebellion he is well qualified by
experience and opinion to deal with traitors
as they deserve, and to protect the
loyal man wherever found.
)^?Gold is quoted in Richmond at
$7.75 to $9.00 premium ; silver buying at
$6lOO ; sterling, $8.50@9.25. Wheat,,
$6.00: corn, $10.00; hay, $9.00@1U.UU
. per 100 lbs; supe^ flour, $31.00@*32.00;
coffee, $40.00 ; salt, 45c per lb; leather,
$3.50(54.00 per lb ; whiskey, 25.00@40.00
per gallon, and other good things in about
the same ratio. This state of things must
work slight hardships for the soldier who
does the fighting for $11.00 per month.
A month's pay for four pounds of bu/ter ;
nearly four months' for one pound of coffee,
or a gallon of whiskey; over three
months' for a barrel of family flour ; one
month and a half for one hundred of
bacon, and so on.
1DAY, AUGUST 15,1863.
Important Order from President Lincoln.
Was Dkpaxtmbxt, Adjctant Gkxt.kal'b Omor.)
Washington, .Inly 31. f
General Order No. 252. The following
order of the President is published
for the information and government of
all concerned:
Execctitb Mansion,)
Washington. July 30. J
It is the duty of every government to
give protection to its citizens, of whatever
class, color or condition, and especially
those who are duly organized as soldiers
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and the usages and customs of war, as carried
on by civilized powers, permit no
distinction as to order in the treatment of
prisoners of war as public enemies. To
sell or enslave any captured person on account
of his color, and for no offence
against the laws of war, is a relapse into
barbarism and a crime against the civilization
of the age. The Government of
the United States will give the same protection
to all its soldiers, and if the enemy
shall sell or enslave any one because
of his color, the offence shall be punished
i by retaliation upon the enemy's prisoners
' in our possession. It is, therefore, ordered
that, for every soldier of the United
States killed in violation of the laws of
f' war, a rebel soldier shall be executed, and
for every one enslaved by the enemy or
sold into Slavery, a rebel soldier shall be
placed at hard labor on the public works,
and continued at such labor until the
other shall be released and receive the
treatment due a prisoner of war.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
By order of the Sec'y of War :
E. D. Townsend, Asst. Adj. Gen.
Important from North Carolina.
Fortress Monroe, Aug z.
The Raleigh (N. C.) Standard denounces
Jeff. Davis as a repudiator, in
whom no confidence can be placed, and
rcliose efforts to establish a Southern Confederacy
iciU be a failure.
The Richmond Enquirer calls upon
Jeff. Davis "to suppress the Standard,
and wipe out the Supreme Court of North
Carolina."
The Standard says:
1' Gov. Vanoe will stand by the Supreme
Court and the Standard also, if necessary;
and if Jeff. Davis attempts to use physical
force to suppress the Standard, Davis vill
be met xriih pltysicalforce, and a revolution
in this State will be the result. John Mitchell,
editor of the Richmond Enquirer, is
an agent of Great Britain, which has long
sought to divide the Northern and Southern
people."
The Standard says North Carolina has
furnished 95,000 soldiers for this causeless
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wounded; that North Carolina should
send a delegation to Washington at once,
and see what terms could be obtained,
and not wait for Jeff. Davis.
Rebel Substitutes.?'The following advertisement
appears in the Richmond
Whig of July 27th :
" A farm of two hundred and thirty acre* in Hanover,
near Peak* Turnout, on the Central Railroad, or the
hbrheet price in Confederate money, will be paid for a
suitable man to go aa a substitute m the army. Apply
at the store of Geo. L Herring, No. Fifty-six Main
street."
The price of substitutes in Richmond
has always been high enough to please a
Northern copperhead or a New York
rioter; but this offer goes to prove that
the demand is still heavy and the supply
meagre beyond all former quotations.
"What incredible figure will be given when
Davis's new levy goes into operation?if
any "substitutes can be accepted at all?is
beyond our power of "guessing," but it
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of 230 acres on the Central Road.
The recent cavalry raid from Norfolk
to Jackson, N. C., found the enemy intrenched
strongly at Jaokson, which commands
the approaches to Weldon. Major
Anderson on the 26th ult., captured the
enemy's pickets, and took possession of
an important bridge thereby defeating
the enemy in their intentions.
NO. 32.
Enforce the Draft.
Resistance to the laws is rebellion ; and
rebellion must be put down by the strong
force of lawful authority, whether it be in.
South Carolina, Virginia or New York.?
i There are no terms to be made with reI
bels. Mob or confederacy ofrCsistera of
the law most be made to submit. Compromise
or concession are out of the question
; for to yield to the demands of lawless
violence is to subvert the foundation*
not only of government, but of law' itself,
: and of civil order. The laws must be
maintained and enforced at whatever cost.
It is no matter how many lives are sacrificed
in the assertion of the supremacy of
the law, and of lawful authorities ; for unj
less this supremacy is established, no life
is safe.
The government is bound, therefore, to
use all the force at its command to suppress
the mob, and to enforce the draft
| which has served as a pretext for the mob
I in New York. Every loyal citizen.
I throughout the country rejoiced when the
I conscription was first ordered, for it was
felt that thus an army would be obtained
sufficient, with the forces now in the field,
| to extinguish the rebellion. The draft
was no doubt a heavy one ; but a heavy
draft* at*first was likely to be a less heavy ?
} drain upon the community than a succes'
sion of small and inefficient drafts. This
was the first feeling of loyal men ; and
now, since resistance to the draft has been
: made, since the laws have been violently
; opposed, and traitorous demagogues in
the North have excited the lowest and
most ignorant portions of the community
to rise against the Government, and havo ?
thus given aid to the armed enemies of
; the country ; now, every loyal man feels
j that there is a more pressing need than
ever that the draft be fairly and complete;
ly enforced, and that the legitimate power
! of a popular and democratic government,
j like our own, be exerted in summoning
' and in compelling, if need be, every citizen
to bear his part in the conflict in
which the very life of the nation is at
t stake.
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xne resistance to tne ar&it nas sprung
in the main, from malignant opposition,
to tlis Government which seizes upon the
conscription as a pretext for exiting passion
and hatred of the administration; and
from the easily alarmed ignorance of a
foreign bnt naturalized population suddenly
subjected to a claim for military
sendee. The real opposition to the measure
is confined to a very small olass. It
is only by exaggeration, by panic, by temporizing
and by the unprincipled arts of
demagogues and traitors that it can be
made to take any alarming proportions.
Let the Government then vigorously
enforce the draft The nation feels the
danger of timidity, and demands resolute
onfinn 'Tf foala tha Aiaarras>j* an troll m thff .
peril of irresolution in the enforcement of
the laws. Let the conscription be carried
forward without delay or flinching, and
the administration may rely on the support
of all citizens of whatever party, who
do not desire to see anarchy substituted
for the regular course of social order and
established government, and this support
will be given with such hearty and unani.mous
vigor as to prove to the enemies of
the nation, whether at Richmond or New,
York, that the people know the blessing*
of a Free Government, that the^ understand
the cause of the war in support of
that government; that they mean to giveall
that is needed,?life, property everything,
to it, and that they are resolved to
secure for it finally an overwhelming triumph.
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A correspondent writing of the hospital
at Annapolis says ;
" In front of one bnilding I have seen
four soldiers sitting on a bench, each
minus a leg. Once or twice I noticed
them luxuriating there in the shade, the
old stump laid across the remaining leg,
and* all whistling Yankee Doodle. This
one-legged quartette perform almost daily,
and they din't seem to care whether corn,
is one dollar per bushel, or one cent."
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