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"r " . ,v.' . ^ N-/o? > " \ L\ '* j ?, - if THE NEW?SO UTH. M Jj.. VOL. I NO. 17. WHOLE NO. 09. PORT ROYAL, S. a, SATURBAV, JAM AI'.Y 9, ISO1. ' PRICE FIVE CENTS THE NEW SOUTH. ; Published every Saturday Morning by JOS. H..SEAES, Editor and Proprietor. . Price : Five Cexts Per Copt. -* \ i Advertisements, fifty cents a line, each insertion. Terms: inmriably cash. OFFICE: Phoenix Building, Union Sqnare. 1 [b\om l\xlmetto J'icturr.".] LIVE OAK. Magxificejct tree, Over mountain and sea. Sole monarch, the l'orcsta of each thy dominion, Those that wave their tops With a fondago of ropes, And those, whose proud spars stem the coast Carol in Lin. Let the tempest rave, Thou art mighty to save, The trepidant voyager trusting to thee, And bending thine arm, Dost buoy from harm, Ilini breasting the billowy, bellowing sea. Thou bindest the shores Of the Hyperbores TwSJP&ient zone of the teeming Equator, And like an AttJe Of the ArabjaJ^Niglit, 0 magical tree, There's no winter for thee, Never Boreal Sorcery blistered thy sheen. All the weather-cock year Thine unchangeable cheer Over shadow and shine, grass and glacier, green. Representative tree. Ever typical bo Of the soul and the spirit that quickens creation, Plant of deity, Lone liberty tree, Leal Evergreen Oak, h'lr, American Xaiion Correspondence of The New South. First of January Celebration at Beaufort. SWORD PRESENTATION TO GEN. SAXTON AND COL. HIGGINSON?SPEECH-MAKING AND BAR3ECUE ?AN ENTHUSIASTIC CROWD. Beaufort, S. C., Jan. 1st, 1SG3. According to previous announcement, the new year has been ushered in here by a grand demon- i stratioa under the auspices of the freedmen, in - honor of the President's memorable proclamation of a year ago to day. An unusually cold and rampant South-wester did not contribute particulnrlv the cmnfort of the occasion, but the pro-! ' - I gramme was, nevertheless, all carried out with entire success. . A procession of over a thousand colored soldiers, . quartermasters hands, and colored women and j children, was formed under direction of Col. T. W. Iligginson, of the 1st S. C. Vols., assisted by Jacob Robinson, a well known colored resident of this town, and marched through the principal streets to the camp of the 1st S. C. Vols., where ; a large stage had been erected, appropriately ' ornamented with arches inscribed with historic na:ues which the world will not willingly let die. ! Singing by the schools and prayer by the Rev. Abram Murchinson, a colorrti man, opened the exercises. In the mean time salutes were fired from various field works, and the John Adams, slowly, steaming down the river, joined in with the thunder of her guns. The Proclamation of j Emancipation was read by Mr. G. Pil'sbury: r.nd j a happily worded "New "Sear's Greeting from Gen. Sax ton to the freedicen by It. Tomlinson, chief superintendent of the Government plantations on St Helena Islands Than tfone A sword plantation to General Saxton, made by the Rev. Mr. Lynch, an educated colored minister from Baltimore, and no v.- a missionary to the freedmcn in this Department In the course of his truly eloquent presentation address, lie said. "On.1 race here have no pledge to make action: nut the nation's uniform upon ! , 4 tliem?they will never diijgrace it They are ready to repeat Port Hudson, Milliken's Bend,' and "Warner. Over seventy-five well attended schools flourish in this Department The people are rapidly improving, and are self-sustaining." General Saxton replied briefly, spying ?nmong other things, " I accept thi| beautiful sword with solemn determination to wear it in the cause of the freedom till every slave in this land is as free as you are to-day." The General portrayed the blessings to follow in the train of liberty, and exhorted the colored soldiers to stand by the old' flag whether they received $10 a month or nothing. The sword presented is a very fine one, with a richly wrought scabbard on which are engraved the words: "To Brioadisb-Gf.xerai. saxnrv, Military Governor, as a testimonial of the gratitude oLafr.' Fzaedmen of the I)e, i i i i*i Ml. wi?iili?i<BrtTfWW^rirails iftmn hi " "IIW <>>r>ii? lihnrfx- r.rnt../?f inn in<l clxvaHnn. Ucailfort. Jail. riSsT" on the hilt are the Latin words : " Palriaf Tibi. (To thee for God and onr country.)" The next announcement was that of a speech from Colonel Van Wyck, of the 50th X. Y. Vols., formerly chairman of the famous Congressional Investigating Committee. The Colonel traced the real issue between rebeldom and the rest of the country from its inception at the ballot box, to the appeal to the arbitrament of war, showing that issue to be simply the Question whether the labor should be slave or free. He eulogizes Abraham Lincoln, the representative of free labor; "the pure in purpose, the honest.in heart," showed emancipation to be a military necessity : said "the rebels have placed the yew tree and the cypress in all the graveyards of the North, they have clothed mothers and wives in the habiliments of mourning, and have caused the child to moisten his playthings with tears and argued that for these and their other innumerable crimes, the Negroes should go in and possess their land, as did the* emancipated Jews that ol' the Canaanites, for "an inheritance forever," The rebels lie said, talk a great deal about our being invaders. Why, have we no right to come into the State of South Carolina ? Our fathers and theirs gave it to nie as ranch as the soil of New York. We are bound to defend this mighty country for posterity, as we should he treasures ' nlaced in our hands to be kept safely for others. ; Not one of its stars shall be plucked away till j every loyal American has pone down to the tomb. : Colonel Elwell, Chief Quarter-Master of the Department, was next introduced, and made a ; brief speech to the colored people in plain anu j simnle lancmaue. lie alluded to the " yankce weather," and said that the yankee himself had ! come. The Emancipation Proclamation had finished the work of the Declaration of Indepe ndence, and it wonld never more be undone. 'Hie yankec had come to stay, bringing with him his guns and steamboats, and it would not be long before the iron liorsc would tear across those islands,?so long shut out from every energizing influence, and Port Royal, the finest harbor on the Southern coast, would be worth something. " Think of it, Colonel Van Wyck," he exclaimed, turning to the Colonel, " you could stand on the floors of Congress and battle for freedom, but you could not come to Port Royal. Speaking of General Gillmore ho said, "General Gillmore makes you work hard and we work hard, but no man in the Depa-tmcnt of the South works harder than General Gillmoro himself." He closed by saving, "We arc going to fight out this war whether it be two years or i.1.i.V?oln s\f rinil on/1 lltn IUUIJ JCIUB lUU^CI, UJ lilb u? uvu uuu tuv. black man." Dr. Brisbane, one of the Tax Commissioners*, was next called on. He briefly alluded to his early school days at this place, and to his labors as an abolitionist. Unexpectedly to himself, beyond all his hopes, he stood here to-day, seeing that his labors, mingled with those of others, had been successful. Slavery was dead and only nwaited burial. He believed that as sure as there was a God in Heaven, all would speedily be free, throughout the length and breadth of our land. A well written poem, apropos to the occasion, penned by Mr. H. G. Judd, was read by Mr. A. P. Ketchum and congratulatory remarks to the schools were made by the Rev. L. D. Barrows, D. ja ( rianomJ gnp^ri?tpn/ln}flf..f>r Jrmf-'TK-tirrtK An elegant sword was then presented Colonel Higginson by Rev. M. Hall, a colored preacher, in behalf of twelve of the prominent colored residents of Beaufort and vicinity. - a Mr. Hall's speech iu presenting the sword was directly to the point and told more than was expressed, of the high appreciation, in which Colonel H. is held by his men and their friends. Colonel Higginson accepted the sword, not for himself he said, but in the name of that regiment which it was the greatest honor of his life to command. They had not yet made assaults lihe that ' on "Wagner, but it had been their honor to conduct an enterprise of as great danger, that of storming the fortress of prejudice against the black man. It was they who had made Fort Wagner, Fort Hudson and Milliken's Fend, possible. Fifty thouniorir soldiers were now marching throncli the breach which their bayonets were the Crst to storm. He had been presented with another sword, not so line a one as this, which was taken at Willtown Bluff by his soldiers. They had captured it from the rebel Brigadier in command of that place, and his men thought it was about good enough for a Union Colonel. He trusted in the name of God that the one now given him, he should never disgrace. A benediction closed the proceedings at the stand. The good hits of the various speakers were applauded with a vigor which showed their entire appreciation, and cheers were given with a will for President Lincoln, General fc&xtcn, Gen. mill mill rs_ V .111111' 'IV , IliiVi After the speaking the procession was reformed anil marched to the tables m the rear of the camp, where eight roasted oxen, a quantity of hard taclc, two thousand loaves of brer.il and two barrels of molasses were awaiting consumption. These preparations received duo attention from the multitude present, the barbecue closing in time lor those from abroad to take the steamboats for home, in good reason. A friend suggests that something ought to be said the music. He is right. 1 have all along been intending to do it. It was Inrnished by the regimental bands of the 8th Maine, and the ixiU Vr.iv Vm-tr in thmrfof-st stvle. To those who know those bands this will Ik; sufficient?lor the benefit of those who are not so fortunate, I may add that their music was as good as any martial music to be had in this Derailment. C.