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i- POEWRY.
'. . . GOING^tWtl^~
? * Tho following foucTuqj^trie poem appea
oV.aeeiflg V "rej^ent of paroled
Confederate prisoners pass along Broadway,
New York, en route for Richmond :
Nc flaunting banners o'er tliera wave,
No arms flash back the gnu's bright ray,
No shouting crowds around them throng,
No music-cheers them on their way;
They're going home. By adverse fate
Compelled their trusty swords to sheath ;
True soldiers the}-, even tho' disarmed?
^Ileroes, tho' robbed of victory's wreath.
Brave Southerners 1 with sorrowing hearts,
"Wo pare upon them through our tea>\?,
i -.n_ p.^.i i?v,t. vo;n n-pre nil
Arm Stfuijr ?iv?? ?? .. ?
Their heroic deeds through weary years;
Yet 'ruid their enemies they move
With firm, bold step nud dauntless niien :
Oh, liberty, in every age,
Such have thy chosen champions been.
Going home! Alas, to them the words
Bring visions fraught with gloom and woe.
Since last they saw those cherished homes,
The legions of the invading foe
Hath swept, like the siinoon. along.
Spreading destruction far and wide.
,rfhey found a garden, but they left
A howling wilderness behind.
Ah! in those desolated homes,
To which the "fate of war has come;"'
Sad is the welcome?poor the least?
That waits the soldier'e corning home;
Yet loving ones will round him throng.
With smiles more tender, if less gay,
And joy will brighten palid cheeks
At tfitfltt of <lie dear boys in gray. .
Are, give tliem welcome lioruc, f;tir South.
For you they've made a deathless name;
Bright through all after-time will glow
Tlie glorious record of their fame.
They made a nation. "What, though sooti
1 ts radiant sun has seemed to set;
The jmst has showti what they can do.
The future holds bright ;>vomise yet.
"mSCELLANEOUS.
The Young Victim?A
Sad Story of Gambling.
"so Young, and vet so lost."
[Young men, read tbc following narrative,
anil lot the solemn warning never be
forgotten.]
We have already given one' or two illustrations
of tbe sad effects of gambling.
Their publication has, we have reason to
believe, not been without salutary effects.
The vice is, generally speaking, practised
in secret, ami therefore it is that the ruin,
'despair, ciime and suicide, which it so
frequently causes, escape.public notice?
the surviving relatives and friends of the
victims being anxious to draw the veil
of the oblivion over the errors and infirmities
of the tempted and the lost. ^Ve
have, however, Jieard of another case,
which secins to Us fill of admonition.
;It bears, too, more particularly upon the
error ib winch so many, indulge, that no
harm can arise from card playing merely
for amusement, or with a trifle only at
stake.
A few years since, Mr. Green, the reformed
gambler; took passage on board a
steamboat at Louisville, bound for New
PrlcirtJs. A short time after the boit
pusb'ttl iff, it Was discovered that there
'were no less than twenty gamblers on
board, and much dissatisfaction was expressed/because
so many had chosen the
same boat. It was soon agreed that ten
or fifteen should return ashore at the
-iirat ?>pportunity, aud wait for an other
'boat. Shortly after, this determination
was carried into fcffect, and it was while
&fr. Green was standing on he hurricane
'deck, noticing the landing of a portion of
-his old friends, that his attention was arrested
by a youDg man, looking anxioosrt.?
nimn the rtenartine gamblers. He
V "r? ? Avars
pale And -agitated, and a teardrop
glistened in bis eye, His whole appear*
ance was so remarkable, that even Green
became ?excited and -interested. He
sought the youth, and?sked him wbither
* lie was going? lie replied that he "knew
not where," and, as if to shun further no*
lice, left the deck afld descended into
' the cabin.
Green, still moreenrious, followed liim,
and by the expression of sympathy, finally
induced him to uubosom himself.
' He sakl that liis first reply was correct
?that be re/illy did not know whither he
was going, lie was the son of
reputablo parents in Boston, and had
leTt that city a few weeks before .for the
purpose of visiting Louisville, '.'which
place," he continued, ';wc bavc"just passed."
The reasons for 'this course were
sad ones. He had a sister at Louisville,
who had married and removed thither,
while he was yet a child. "The death of
that sister's husband had induced lier to
write for her brother to come pn, to protect
her in her widowhood, and assist in
settling np the estate. His parents provided
hitu with all the necessaries forihe
journey, gave him permission to tarry a
few days at New York and Phildelphia,
should hejthink proper, and also ga.vc
him abouttwo hdndred dollars ip>mdne??
Aliment smoothly^n^plea^Tly^dtitii;
be arrived in Philadelphia/ Here ' \e
took lodgings at aleadlng notel, and soori
formed an acquaintance with two young,
meu of gouteel exterior, plausible man"
ners, and captivating address. Accompanied
by them, he, during the day, visited
several of the leading institutions,
and at night vcepted an invitation to
play a game at whist, the only game of
cards with which he was familiar.
Several days and evenings were occupied
in a similar manner. lie then determined
to continue his journey, which
he did, by taking passage in one of
i the Lines for Pittsburgh. On appearing
at the depot the next morning, he was
delighted to find his two companions.
They also bed business West, and they
regarded it as a ple.'isure to have so
agreeable a companion. After exhausting
the ordinary topics of the day, the
game of whi.t was again thought of- and
renewed. They first played for the cards,
then for liquor, and finally for small
sums of tnonev. The youth became excited
, and ere they reached the iron city,
he had lost every dollar that belonged to
him, with the exception of a sum just
sufficient to pay his passage from Louisville.
' But again the strangers made
their appearance on board an Ohio river
steamer, and in the hope of recovering
what lie had lost, the deluded young
man played again, when his gold watch
was the sacrifice. On arriving at Cincinnati,
he was nearly uiad. lie then
bethought himself of a packoge which
his mother had confided to him for his
sister, lie sought fur it in his trunk,
found and opened it. It contained a
necklace as a love g-ft, and an unsealed
letter, in \vhi? li ws enclosed a bank
note forSlOu.
Still tempted l?y the demon of gambling,
and still anxious to regain what
he had lost, ho returned to his vile
companions and whist. Ho played
hour after hour, lost the money, and
then staked and lost the necklace. At
this point, the horrors of his situation
were iudiseribuble. Louisville was at
hand, but how could he meet his sister?
How could lie explain liis folly, his infatuation
and his crime! He had left
home with a good name, on a mission
of sacred duty, and he was now a thief
and a robber, lie had misemployed
funds given under hallowed circumstances,
nnd his condition was indeed
desperate. Confused and perplexed,
lie at last determined to rush from the
boat, leave the rifled package at the
house of his sister, return and follow
the fortune of the gamblers, who
I lin/1 Inmninrl nnrl Vin+nnttn/1 liirn in fliti
UUU 1-Vlll^VV.U UUVi WWUTVJW Ulillj 111 UIV
hope that they would not be so hoartless
as to throw liim off.. But this hope
was of short duration, for they were
among the party that left the boat as
adovo described, iu consequence of there
being too many of the fraternity on
board.
It was while they were returning
that he was'noticed by Green, and that
heifce a tear forced itself to his eye,
when he realized the loneliness and
wretchedness of his situation. He was
an oucast and a robber?had become
so a few days, from having ventured
upon what he called an innocent game
of whist, and thus he truly said, in reply
to the question put to him?that he
knew not whither he was going. Green
advised him to return to his sister and
make a frank confession?but his heart
failed him?he had not the moral nerve
He could not-meet-the being he had so
bitterly wronged. He gratefully accepted
a slight loan from Green, and
soon after departed.
Two years rolled by. Green was
j again on the Mississippi, a passenger
on the steamer Mediteraneau, on her
way from Orleans to Louisville. An
accident happened by Svhioh she was
induced to stop near Plaquoruine.
^Vhile there, a fellow-passenger remarked^-that
he had jnst witnessed a horrible
feight upon the forward deck of
the boat.
"Ah!" exclaimed Green?and immediately
proceeded to the spot designated
He there beheld five men in chains:?
Oonyicts, on-their way from New Orleans
to Baton Eouge, where the State
Penitentiary of Louisiana is located.
Among them was young Melmot?(the
name is of course ficticious;) the wretched
youth whose unfortunate journey
from Boston to Louisville, we have
here so hastily described ! He bad but
a few days before been convicted of
forgery, and sentenced to the &tate
Prison for five years! This, gentle
reader, is no fiction,.'but' a true story,
and the moral it conveys as to the danger
of gambling, cannot be mistaken.:?
Philadelphia .Enquirer.
The Fire in Darliiigf^ggy
From: John F. Quinn, Esq., lateforia^
man of the Darlington Southerner, who
Came down by the Northeastern Bailroad
last night, we learn that the fire
mentioned in our issue of yesterday,
broke out on Sunday morning, between ;
three and four o'clock, in the store of
Messrs. B. A. & J. F; Early. It spread
thence on one. si.de as .for as LeeV <
drug s^ce^ in^Mchbu^ding !
Jfra'was publSbed. On,the other side
it extended'to Mr. Iseman's, and from
?toi> +/ ? +V10 ntViA-p Tnfimn.fi.
UICAU UXVOOCU VIVA W UMW vvv. ? 7
and swept the southern and eastern
portion of the square, leaving only a
lew houses on the north side. AWng
these the office of the Southerner, and
Mr. T3rown's store; also Mr. Woodruff's
and Mr. McCalTs. Some twenty-five ?
buildings destroyed in all. Among
these was the Court House., Colonel
Charles' store and baqlang agency.
The New Era saved its type, though in
a pied condition; press and imposing
stone burned. The Southerner saved
everything; the type on the "standing
galley," however, was pied; and it will
take some two weeks, probably, to get
things into working order again. Mr.
Brown lost a good deal by the removal
of his goods, as is usual at fires. There
was no engine in the village. The citizens
all worked with might and main
.to stay 'he progress of the flames; and
our infonnaut speaks in the highest j
terms of the assistance rendered by the |
soldiers stationed there; we believe
they were part of the 29th Maine and
30th Massachusetts regiments.
The fire was, doubtless, the work of
an incendiary. Of the value of the
property destroyed, we can form no estimate
; nor aYe we in possession of any
facts regarding insurance, except that
we hoard that Messrs. Early had insurance
on their store, at Mr. W. B.
Jieriot's Agency, and also in Cheraw.
:?Charleston News of the '2$th ult.
A Big Job.
A writer in a Mississippi paper introduces
the America p. Eagle, which for
live years lias been a comparative stranger
in those parts, in this style, prelim-1
inary to. the 4th of July: "The American
Eagle is looking ut ns. His tall
feather- have been plucked out. but
still he is on the roost. Miss Columbia
is also standing with her iiag staff and
flag on to it, but she looks like a passer.
Fourth of July comes but once a-yenr,
but it's duil. Wo must fix up the Eagle,
get the Goddess a new set of teeth and
a waterfall, and have 4th of July got up
regardless of expense. We must give
all th.o Mormon women a husband apiceo,
marry the anxious school inarms
that come down South to teach the darkies,
put the niggers to work, build a
horse rail road from Now York to the
City of Mexico, dam up tko Gulf Stream,
lick England (old and new,) annex Culm
mid wo will be a??am a ureat and
7 - - O O j
glorious eouutry.
The Beautiful World.
Ah, this bountiful world ! Indeed, I
know not what to think of it. Sometimes
it is all gladness and snnslune,
and Heaven itself lies not far off. And
then it changes suddenly, and is dark
and sorrowful, and the clouds shut out
the sky. In the lives of the saddest of
us there are bright days like this, when
we feci as if we could take the great
world in our arms. Then come the
gloomy hours, when the fire will neither
burn in our hearts nor on our
hearths; find all without and within
is dismal, cold and dark. Every heart
has its secret sorrows, and oftentimes
we call a man cold when he is only
| sad.
Comfort at Funerals.
The progress of luxury is rapid?especially
in New York. A company adver'
tiscs that tbey have a convenient and
beaniiful cemetery near that city; that
is reached by railroad; that the cars are |
wanned in cold weather, so that mourners
suffer no exposure; that, iu fact, they
have introduced all the modem improvements,
and can undertake to hurry the
dead in the shortest lime and in style'
whioli leaves nothing to be desired in the
way of case, rapidity and comfort. Conpetition
may be the life of trade; but it
is slightly shocking to have that life carried
up tu the gates of the grave.?Boston
Transcript.
One of the IIorroks.?A Western
soldier, who has been through all the
campaigns, and shared in many of the
fiercest battles of the war, writes from his
home that he "never realized the horror
of war, till ho got home to Indiana and
found his girl married to a stay-at-home
dry g^ods clerk."
Romance of the WarThHlling
Adventures of
. many thrilling events of
.UKiNr-wn', none can exceed the adventaps
of Mrs. Loretta DeUn&ip, the sub-'
m ij'dftn nanie was Roach, was" bo?n io tfi??
^ egjrc?ndiea, in l8^8V?6d-1fl now-about
tvi plight yearsof age. ;At an jearly
-pi parents, moved to the Unitedi
St M^^d^tled nn the Parish, of SK
2'h'e current .of her
the outbreak
(bjhight, the cause of liberty, she donned
tlit male attire, and was among the first
tOTusti to arms, liaising a company of
cav?lry and equipping it at her own expose,
she proceeded to Virginia, and
thire served for eight months on the Peninsula,
nnder the command of the celebrated
Col. Dreux, before her sex was
tiisfcovered. "When this occurred she was
at jf>nce mustered out and ordered home.
Instead of obeying the order, she proceeded
to Columbus, Kentucky, and was
serving with Gen. Polk at the evacuation
of that place.
Bhe proceeded to Island No. 10, but
not being satisfied with the manner in
which affairs were conducted there, she
left and went to Fort Pillow, where she j
was elected 1st Lieutenant in Capt. Phil- \
lip's Company of Independent Tennessee
Cayalry. \\ ith her company she pro- j
cefded to Corinth, and reported to (icn. j
Albert Sidney Johnson. At the battle of,
Shjluh, Capt. Phillip's fell mortally i
Wounded, and the command then devolved
on her. While gallantly leading her
company in a charge she was twice wound
ed. and carried from the field. After the ;
retreat from Corinth, she was taken to
New Orleans for surgical treatment, and
when the city fell into the Federal hands,
she was amongst those token pri.-oner.?
After a confinement of several months,
-i - _ _I.J 1
sue puruieu aun bcuu Mtuau^tu,
Proceeding at once to Richmond, the
disguUed female soldier was conimis
sioned 1st Lieutenant in the Adjutant
General's Department, and ordered to
repoft to Gen. Marcus J. Wright, com-,
muonding the district of Atlanta. Upon
reporting, she was assigned to duty with
the provost marshal, as chief of detectives
and miiitnry conductor. .Serving for
several months in this capacity, sho met
Maj. DeCamp of the Third Arkansas
Cavalry, to whom she was engaged to he
married previous to the war. The ceretnouy
Wits then pet formed at Atlanta,
and fn>ro the dashing Lieut. Roach she
was transformed to the sober Mrs. Maj.
i?../ ......r. I.'.-/.,,, il.ic limn. In.r services i
1/CVlUI'p? j < Will iins <i..wj ....
ceased as uti uflicer in the field, and she !
was engaged in secret service?sometimes ;
in the Confederacy, again in Eugland, and
then iu Canada.
In 1804, she spent several months
traveling in the United States, and even
went as far as the Sioux couutry, in Minnesota.
IJer father, who was taken
prisoner in the tall of 1S03, while sorv.
ing with his regiment in Georgia, wax
carried to New Yurk. After a long and
arduous siege, she at length succeeded in
getting hint paroled,- in January, 16C5,
but lie lived only eight days after his release
from prison. Subsequently to the
death of her husband, (in lanuary 1805,)
she proceeded to Columbus, Ohio, to
watch over the interest of the Confederate
prisoners confined at Camp Chase
After the final collapse of the Confederacy,
Mrs. DcCauip remained in the
North until January, when she returned
to her home, in Louisiana; but remaining
there only a few days, she proceeded
to Memphis and purchased a stock of
goods, which were shipped on the ill-fated
steamer Miami, which was blown up
on the Arkansas in February. She was
one of the two ladies who were saved, but
with the sacrifice of all her baggage and
goods. By an unfortunate oversight on
the part of her merchants, her goods
were not insured, and, consequently, the
lost her all.
Mrs. DoCanip is now in this city, and
sojourning at the Southern Hotel. Many
who served in the Confederate arm^ will
remember the dashing Lieut. Roach, of
whom so much was said in Mobile and
~ ' # * ^ III
seima, m iboo. uur space wm uut pciiriit
a full recital of her adventures.?St.
Louis Republican.
"We Congratulate Got. Watts !?
The Hon. H. S. Foote has written a
book, from which we propose to give extracts
some of these days. According
to the wonderful historian and deserter,
the Cabinet of Jefferson Davis consisted
of two knaves, Benjamin and Seddon;
iXfallow and Arpmminrrmv and
IWU'JIUUAO, illt? g j
only two members, Watts and lleagan,
whose i( qualifications were respectable."
Our Worthy ex-Governor is let off
easy. Whether it may be a compliment
to receive even a respectable commendation
from Helter Skelter Foote is
doubtful.?Montgomery (Ala.,) Mail.
Is the canon of a cathedral its grcutcst
gun ?
A Noi%ern Est^ti^
v Confederate Leaders, m
' -55% extractafhe Rowing from-a,Ifiiffe;
Citvfai;'a.EepabHwui paperj';o<K^d>y;
Col. Hdjg^J|ftte4o?- the United
*8*11 . :-. - m '
. -Davis. op:
Let t^ose .loyal gentlemen, j$iscii51e J!
of Mr. Abbott, who worship the --char-/ j
r?Jter. of Bouapito, shaker some ieqnsisfe j
L ent iiornage to the .bnlliaiit directory of:
tfefferscinD^vis.; ^ot? vweri|- rnen of
'^s&y/;?iosi ^e.f of the suryiLiror'is'hy'rar
.the'nbbleK'r-Gf tlw:&llen
an gels, whose dark pluinageswept frpm" .
our .Senate kails, he inade -tlie^ most
decisions, his was the sagest, the prompt
est, and the most- enduring.. He, of all
the traitors, felt that his auarrel with
the Union was- irreconcilable, and stood
by his Capital to the very last, &nd has
never yet advised submission. His captivity
has been belittled by none of Bonaparte's
querulousness. Blind, and
gray, and wasted, his dominions are
narrowed to a casemate, while the Republic
he would overthrow' reaches to
the silent oceans.
LEE.
In Robert Lee, the same austpre Providence,
to purify our Republicanism,
shattered our faith in traditional respectability.
The heir of Washington
went with the rest of the new chivalry,
and with ten times the talent of that
great Fabius, crushed thp armies of our
lesser respectabilities, till he met a man
without a pedigree. He was the equal
of Wellington in maneuvering great
bodies of troops upon small interior
forces. The Duke, at Waterloo, fought
his whole army upon a mile and a quarter
arcbut Lee, at Cold Harbor, for
five days presented a solid line of battle
wherever wo sought for him, till his
whole force seemed manoeuvered by
the wink of his eye, and every salient
point that we touched was a corpse.?
While the fortifications of Richmond
stand, his name shall evoke admiration.
The art of war is unacquainted with
any defence so admirable. Splendid as
were the triumphs of his engineering,
the victories of his infantry were his
best monuments. But over the glory
of his talent fell a shadow as eternal as
1 - 1- j-1- - H ~
jus memory?me iruwu or a, ibbuiuio
Democracy whose sacrifice whs longer
than his art.
stuabt.
I stood in the cemetery at Hollywood,
at the grave of Stuart?a space
without a shaft. He revolutionized the
cavalry tactics of our time, and was, in
dissoluteness, the Prince Eupert.of the
West. Forrest and Stoneman, Morgan
and Grierson, Mosby and iulpatrick
were his imitators. Ho inaugurated
the grand raid which taught Sheridan
the nothingness of distance, and emboldened
Sherman to tear tho continent
like a pocket map.
The fervid imagination of tho Southern
people, demonstrated in feats of romance,
like Stuart's, made them, during
the war, the great suggestive captains.
They built the first iron-clad, made the
first of the great raids, and under Stonewall
Jackson executed the earliest of
the great infantry marches. But the
colder adaptability of the North devel
oped ever}r dint trom tnc ooutn into a
perfect system. The experiment of the
Merrimac has grown to tho Dictator,
tho Dunderberg and tlio Ironsides.?
Tho engineering assiduity of Beauregard,
imitated at the North, has marked
the camps of our armies, as if tho
protecting mountains had tollowod our
columns. But it may be doubted that
any division commander has yet arisen
to rival the splendid infantry genius of
J acksou.
J/tCKSOJf.
As Lee was master of manoeuvre,
Jackson was tho great captain of aggressive
warfare. He combined the
cunning and boldnoss of Napoleon. To
cover his great movement by the flank,
in 1862, he did not hesitate to fight
Pope's whole army with a division, and
the celerity of his march up the Shenandoah,
to appear again on the field of
Bull Run, was only equalled by the
energy of his attack. He moved infantry
with the speed of horse, and having
hurled three great commanders
back from the Old Dominion, died before
the lustre of his arms had diminished,
in the flush of victory, when ye
bellion had indeed assumed the proportions
of a nation. He was the most republican
of rebels; stern and simplo as
any Eopndhead; and this is why we
hold his memory greener than that of
his companions, whose detection- to the
Union was augmented by their treason
to popular institutions.
There were other personages identified
with this grand historical defence,
but these are tho great statues, Davis,
Lee, Jackson, Stuart and Beauregard.
A smart young clerk, hearing it stated
that "man is merely a machine,"
said?"Then I suppose a lawyer may
be said to be a suing machine."
nel ordered champigne and his older
was honored with alacrity. It is also
hinted that he checked for funds ai}4
obtained them. ....
While' the crowd lingered and fell y
present seemed to be^enioyinic thenr
selves hugely, a gentleman fj?m -Losdon,
well acquainted with the real Cdlonel,
^entered the parlor, and discovering
the imposition, directiy charged it
upon tho, cheat. It is possible he had
been Under fire before. Certain itifj.
that he preserved his self-possession,
and coolly requested the audience to *
suspend judgment for a few momenta
only while he retired 'to his room fqfc
indubitable evidence of hi? indentity., >
While the crowd patiently waited liia
return, the impudent scapegrace decamp ^
ed leaving all bills unsettled as a matter
of course.?Staunton (Va..) Spectator.
Amendments to the
ted States Constitution.
The New York Fori (Republican) ridicules
the number of amendments proposed
by Congress to the Constitution,
and very truly says;
Our constitution is not a'ibingte be
brought into Congress and tossed frod^ - *
band to band in a sort of contempt fofc <
its imperfection, and finally mended Hl^) t
an old shoe, with a new heel and a noW '
toe-piece, a patch Upon one side and a
patch on the other. We fought the Be* <
bcl States, which bad thrown off ita
authority; we pou^^jgtpdr'ljlqodllikli,
1 water ra- ita^whc'e j we mdi^gedvtfif ' " ^ "
revenues of long prosperous years
we might reduce the insurgents und&-kg
dominion ; we eulogfced it through this *
four conrs nf that crndl war an a frame nf
government which had never been felt by
the Rebel States and their popnlatioj|.:
save in tte benefits of it conferred ind
we brought the insurgents backhjrjpefo'
severing efforts and immense sacrifices tb
their allt giance. ' It dpes . not becomes .
now to treat this venehibW, i06t|^enp;f
as if it were the work of sciolists, a thing '' *
yet to be licked into shape, and upqn
which every man who happens to b? re- j
turned to Congress is invited -to try h^* * >
ingenuity. :
Death by Fright.f We
learn that a young lady waa * .
frightened to death last week, in the"
lower part of the county, the 'name Qf
whom we were unable to learn. The
death was caused under the following
circumstances:
Two ladies living alone were preparing
to retire when soma oneknocked, and
receiving no answer, one of the ladtee
started across the floor to-an adjoining >
room and dropped .dead from sheer
frihgt. This brought a shriek from-the
remaining lady as she ran to her sister's ?
assistance; just then the door opened, _ *
and in rushed the brother of the two " ,
sisters, who had been mourned fbk* aa
dead for nearly three years. He stated :
that he intended a nice surprise for his r ' *' y
sisters by not making himself known
until after they had admitted him, ami
judge of his grief oh leaming tliat)n8.'
surprise had'resulted in the" Qeath at
one of his much beicrved?sisters.?JSfa* :
1cm Union Advocate. ' ' 1 '
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Monstrous. y
"It is monstrous that four 'million* '
of people, who have been free and independent,
should be deprived of the
right to vote for no better reason than
the color of their skin." So said Sfri .'
Wart nf thin. State, in t.ha rift hate in th<V
House, last Saturday, on the reoon- , struction
question, and we concur entirely
in the sentiment, though we dif
fer from Mr. H. in the practical application
of it. It is tota lly inapplicable
to the negroes of the South?who, by
the way, do not number four million*, 1
nor anything like it?for they have
never heretofore been "free aqd independent,"
and, as they have nevar
horetofore had the right to vote, it is V,
not easy to comprehend how they can
bo "deprived" of such right. But there h* *
are men at the South, more, than fbhr '
millions of whites, ',who have been free T '
and independent," and who are practically
disinfranchised by the action of >
Mr. Hart and his coadjutors, for no
other reason, that we can see, than the
color of their akin. , And it is unques- m
tionably "monstrous" that this .should '
be so. Perhaps, after all, this js Tvhaf
Mr. Hart meant.?*V. T. jNeurs.
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