THE NEW H SOUTH.
Vol. 3, No. 2. Port Royal, S. C., Saturday, October 15,1864. Whole No. 106.
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OBSERVATIONS IN THE SOUTH.
A Mawachuwett's Chaplain's
Narrative.
Rev. J. H. Fooler, Chaplain ot the
Thirty-third United States colored infantry,
released afl9r nearly a year's imprisonment
at the South, writes to the Boston
Journal as follows:
" I had many free conversations with
intelligent Southern men. They were
unanimous in their determination to tight
for independence even to extermination.
They were looking forward to the next
Presidential election, hoping for a change
of administration in their favor. They
depend a great deal upon tne lmai success
of the opposition party at the North
?not that they desired any kind of reunion,
or would accept anything short
of complete independence. The exceptions
were among men of little or no influence,
men of no opinions, and merely
sic* of the hardships of the war.
THE PEI80XEBS XX CHARLESTON.
"After two weeks at Pocotaligo, I was
taken to Charleston. Marching through
the burnt portion of the city, the corporal
in charge pointed to the rains of the
hall where the first declaration of secession
had been signed by traitors, where
the sentence of desolation and ruin for
that city and our country had been
passed. 'There,' said he, * is a spot ot
earth sacred to every South Carolinian, a
spot of which every man and woman in
the Confederacy is proud.' We were kept
in Charleston jail six weeks, with blan
kets *nd with a starving allowance uj
food.?Bat through the kindness of some
friends I was provided with a small
amount of money and some additional
clothing. Two Masonic bodies gave me
twenty-five dollars each. Other prison
erg came in with money, and we guttered
comparatively little.
PBOC'CRIXG 81PPIJKS?HOW PRISONERS ARE
TRXATlub.
" When we had money of onx own we
coaid always buy what we wanted. We
had blankets, some famished by the
rebs, some borrowed, some bought, some
M it over by oar Government. Of wood
we drew a little and bought the rest. We
found the best way to procure money wu.<
to have sent us bills of exchange payable
in nnr These we could negotiaU
with a banker getting something near an
equivalent Next in value to foreign exchange
to send a prisoner gold, but in nc
case greenbacks. The privates in Colombia
occupied barracks* in the jail yard,
and faxed much worse than the officers,
having fewer blankets, none furnished bj
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the rebs, and being very pooriy ?au
some of them nearly naked and without
money, except such as the ofticers gavi
them or paid them for work. There wai
plenty of good water in a small back yard
10 which we were all admitted threi
times each day. A very kind and gentle
manly surgeon came around once a day
and when any one !>ecanie very sick hi
was taken to the hospital and well cam
for. Several w<>unded men brought int<
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the barracxs from the hospitals suffered I
considerably for the want of blankets and ]
proper clothing. In December some <
seventy-live privates, mostly barefooted, ]
some hatless, coatless, shirtless, and i
without pants even, were forwarded to ]
! Belie Isle, expecting an immediate ex- f
j change. They must have suffered in- <
1 tensely during the winter. In the spring, |
while the prisoners of Belle Isle were be- j
ing removed to Andersonville, several t
' wuo had escaped from the cars and were ]
I recaptured were brought into our prison
| living skeletons ; the pictures they gave
I of their suffering trom coia ana nunger ;
[ during the winter was terrible to contemI
plate ; and from reports brought back
j from Audersonyflle by rebel guards from
i our prison who had been there with pris- (
| oners, their condition was in no wise im{proved
there. They* were turned into a
j shelterless yard, exposed to sun and rain. (
Their food was beet and corn-bread, bet- *
ter in itself than they had been uccus- *
tomed to, but with their reduced systems,
change of water and climate, it produced '
a diarrhoea whichgcarried them off at the
rate of fifty to seventy-five out of ten 3
thousand per day. Probably the largest >
half of the prisoners confined on Bell Isle *
last winter ore now dead.
44 At the present time there are at An- 1
dersonville about thirty thousand Union '
prisoners, confined in a yard less tnan 1
five hundred yards square. I doubt if *
they suffer much for want of sufficient j
quantity of food, but their clothing and ]
shelter is as near to nothing as civilized 1
man can endure. Their mortality is
about one hundred per day. They can (
I cuvaNilv I Ipnrn that the nffi.
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| cere who were confined at Macon have
all been taken to Charleston and Savannah
At Charleston they are said to be 1
under fire, but they are as safe from injury 1
by our shells as are the people of Boston. '
Bvery prison in the Confederacy would 1
rejoice to be 4 put under tire at Charles- 1
ton,' believing he would then have some '
, prospect of exchange. All persons writiing
or sending packages to prisoners 1
south of itichmond, should send by wa\ 1
ot Charleston, as the moil arrangements 1
south of Richmond have been 0o broken
up since May that a letter through Rich- '
inond seldom reaches its destiny, and
packages do not go over the roads even ,
, | tor private citizens of the South. All let- J
i ters go through their post lines should
I contain their stamp, ten cento or the mo,
! ney. General Jones, commanding at 1
I! Charleston, seems disposed to do all in (
[; his power for the accomodation of prison- 1
i ers, and would doubtless forward faith'
folly and promptly anything that might
' come into his department for them.
j '
,! XEOEO prisoners.
s! " The officers of negro regiments, after
> being captured, are treated the same as
| other officers, with few individual excep11
tions The privates fare worse, especiali
j ly during the excitement of battle. All,
> white and black, are plundered of eveiy?;
thing, but the negroes, wounded or well,!
'; are brutally murdered before being taken, j
i; Those who succeeded in getting to the I
rear of their lines at the great Petersburg |
> I slaughter, after being marched througu
the city with all the officers captured,
! and scoft'ed at, pelted with bricks> and
i I spit upon, were sent back to the crater of
r j the exploded fort to rebuild the rebel
), works under our lire.
t j " From what I have seen and heard I
?1 know that there is no cruelty or indigni*ty
within the capacity of the rebels
? which they do not perpetrate upon our
't colored soldiers when they dare meet
- them and can overcome them ; but I have
reason to doubt if they have in a single
i | instance committed a colored soldier to,
slavery. X know of several cases where
} the master has been present and claimed'
the negro, and the negro has aeknow-1
[edged himself to be his slave, and de-'
dared his willingness to go with him, but
tie was not for several months given j
lp. I know well what they threaten, and i
iave seen those who say they have seen i
she threats put into execution, but on,
jlosely questioning it did not appeasthat
:he negroes had been soldiers. That they
daughter them on the field, and even af?r
battle, is certain, and were I a negro
[ would not be taken by them."
Ifitz-O-reene Halleclr on Literary
Style.
An Andover correspondent of the In-'
Impendent writes as follows :
(i Among the pleasures of a short resilence
in Guilford, Ct, was an acquaintance
I formed with Fitz-Greenc Halleck,
;he author of 4 Marco Bozarris.'
44 Meeting him one day in the street, I
le stopped me and said : 4 I learn that
rou are going to be a minister. I want
pou to call npon me. I wish to read yon
i sermon, that I deem a model for men
){ your profession.'
44 I promised to call, and the next
morning I went to the poet's house, and
was shown into the sitting room, where
the poet bade me welcome. He beckcned
me to a chair, and then took down
jrom a shelf a volume, and began to read
in that sonorous, dreamy, undnlatory
tone of voice so peculiar to him. The
volume was 'Charter's Sermons,' Char-j
ter was a Scotch preacher, located at,
Wilton, Scotland.
" The poet read from a sermon on the
text 41 would not live alway.' He read
until the tears gathered in his eyes and
coursed down his cheeks. He finished,
the sermon, laid down the book, and
asked, 4 How do you like it ? 4 Very i
much,' was my reply. Said he, 4 That'
sermon is what I call a perfect poem.'
? then ventured to remark, 4 Its greatest'
charm, in my opiuion, is in its simplicity.
Many of the sentences, I remark,
are composed whollv of mouosvllables.'
.. . t .l!_, e ? ...'J u .n'^v ?
" " 1 tlllllK SU| IWj nam uaucvwim that
reminds me of an incident that came
ander my observation while in New
York. While there a letter fell into my j
hands which a Scotch servant-girl had
wriiten to her lover. Its style charmed j
me. It was fairly inimitable ; I wonder- j
ed how, in her circumstances in life, she
could have so elegant and perfect a j
style. I showed the letter to some of
my literary friends in New York, and,
they unanimously agreed that it was a j
model of beauty and elegance. I then i
determined to solve the mystery, and IJ
went to the house where she was employ-1
ed. and asked her how it was mat in ner
humble circumstances in lil'e, she had
acquired a style so beautiful that thej
most cultivated ininds could but admire
it.' 4 Sir,' she said, 41 came to tiiisj
country four years airo. Then I did not J
know how to read or write. But since I
then I have learned. how to road and.
write, but I have not yet learned how to
spell; so, always when I sit down to
write a letter, I choose those words!
which are so short and simple that I am
sure I know how to spell them.' There
was the whole secret. The reply of this
simplc-mifided Scotch girl condemn a'
world of rhetoric into a nut shell. Sim-;
plicity is beauty. Simplicity is power.
" I would that every man could read
this anecdote. How many words, how
much bombast, would this principle,
here inculcated, eliminate from ambitious
sermons and addresses."
The cloudy weather melts nt length
into beauty, and the brightest smile* oi
the heirt are bom of it* tears.
jl uu'iuliv;
Sickles.
General Sickles, who in other times
was one of the toremost of the democratic
leaders in this city, has written tho
following letter, which will, no doubt,
cause the McClellan and Pendleton men
to denounce him, as they did Gen. Logan
lately, as an 4' abolitionist " :
"New Yoke, Sept. 20, 1864.
" Dear Sir : Your inquiry made on behalf
of several members of -the Union
Congressional Convention for the Ninth ,
District, whether 1 would accept a nom?
* 1
ination for Congress, nas receiveu
respectful attention due to the patriotic
source from which the suggestion emanated
In declining the use of my name
as a candidate for the high trust, I only
adhere to a resolution tormed when I entered
the military service, to retire altogether
from politics while holdinj a commission
in the army. This determination
with other considerations, has already
constrained me, during the present canvass,
to decline a similar request made
by a number of my old and esteemed
constituents in the fourth district, who
desired to present my name to the Democratic
Convention. I yield to 110 citizen
or soldier in my solicitude for the honorable
termination of the war. The tear
teas deliberately begun by the rebels and is
persistently waged by them to divide and
compter the Union. It is not so strange
that our enemies should hud allies among
European antagonists of free institutions
but it will never cea^je/o be a matter of
humiliation and wonder that our ownpeople
could be seriously divided upon
the question of submission or resistance.
Let icho 1cill be for submission, I am for
resistance as long as tee have a battalion
? 1 1
and n batlie-jieia iyi>
44 Until tiie constitution and laws are
vindicated in their supremacy throughout
the land, the government should be contided
to no hands ttiut will hesitate to
employ all the powers of tho nation to
put down the rebellion. The resources
of the insurgents are already so lor exhausted
that they will give up the struggle
as soon as a majority of tne people at
the ballot-box, seeonding the martial
summons of Farragut and Grant, demand
the unconditional surrender of the enemy.
44 Feace so won, through the noblo
aspirations of the people, will exalt the
national character aud challenge tho
homai?e of all who honor patriotism and
valor. Peace imposed ou us by an audacious
and arrogant foe, who would owe
his triumph not to the superiority of hh>
arms, but to a degenerate population,
unworthy of their lineage and forgetful
of their traditions, could only last until
until the contemmt of mankind evoked
from our shame enough manhood to renew
the struggle.
Very respectfully,
" Daniel ?. Sickles, Maj. Gen.
" Homer Franklin, Esq.'* f
A single snow-flake?who cares lor it '
But a whole day of snow-flakes, obliterating
the land marks, drifting over the
doors, gathering upon the mountains to
crash iu uvalanches?who does not cor.for
that ? Private opinion is weak, but
public opinion is almost omnipotent.
Never 1m; oust down by trities. If a
spider brinks his web twenty times, twenty
times will he mend it. Muke up your
minds to do a tiling, ond}ou will do it.
i Fear not if trouble comes upon you, keep
up your spirits, though the day may t? a
dark out.