The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1861-08-02
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The last Covrier has an article
copied from the Cincinnati tsscessioD)
Ehguirsr, emb,acing'a correspond.
cnco from tho army 10 Western vir.
kinis, 10 which occurs the following
paragraph, over which the Editor OF
that sheet mahifests no little joy:
"we had 10. day, at Genera, McCllellan's =
headquarters. afugiiiye slave case. Some
OF the Soldiers lsom 0idjings' district took
negro for Cook, and refused TO deliver
him up. Tne case was investigated and
Judge Key very properly decided that the
,negto must 70 beek 10 his mas'er' and back
he went.o
The Editor Of the Courier, prompt.
eddy his peculiar instinct in tracking
negroes, snuff the breeze and inm,-
dia,eiy "gives tongue in the follow
ing style:
''Thst confirms, % far rs il goes. what we
have already said Of The feelings that promp;
that clsss 0f Republicans TO 20 in for the
Uaions by no desire 10 msintain fhe iniegri-
tyef-tbe Constitution. They are mUyed by
revenge, ballei OF the South. by desire 10
iibeiute the siaSes.'' @
Now let US see how the Secession
lists employ these negroes, tbat are
TINS so CAREFUL ~ sen. back to their
accession Minister'S.
A correspondent OF the Pbiladel-
phia Evening Bulletin, gives the
following stat, ment, obtained from a
slsveholder in Virginia:
"0ut informant thinks that the govern
ment is not at oil aware OF the extent Of
these rebel preparations 10 destroy our troops.
Upward Of 1900 negroes were employed to
work on the entertainments at Manassas,
and about the same number were employed
10 work on the entrcnchments at Richmond.
Our informant is the owner OF large
number OF slaves. and was required TO fur.
nish a certain number of tfem 10 work ior
the rebels every day.
There are two regiments OF well-dtlled
negroes at Richmond"
Thus II will be seen that these for
midable works at Manassas, the
ct orming Of which cost us so many
valuable lives, were made by negro
slaves. Now during the making Of
these works, had one Of these slaves
escaped and come into tho federal
camp, md been employed as Cook to
relieve from this duty loyal SOL
dicr, that he might go into the ranks
70 fight the rebels, the Editor Of the
En7uirGr and the Editor of the
Courier wonld have raised n hue
ard cry, and demanded that be be
sent back TO his MASTER" to aid the
rebels in making the contest still
moro difficuli-siill more bloody
Had the mule that drew the earth.
made his way into the Union lines,
he would have been seized at once. as
very properly "con.raband" and been
converted to the nse OF onr troops;
but the negro that drove him, and in
point OF efficiency and service, worth
TO the rebels twenty such mulcs,
must, according to the Editor Of the
Courier, be sent back to his master,
10 supply him with nerve and mus
Gle, in proseculiong war Tor the
overthrow Of tho government. Was
ever anything so absurda Was ever
any one 30 demen.ed on the suhiect
Of slaverya The thought with him,
that overshadows all other thoughts
is how any particular line ol policy
will effect the inst tuition Of slavery.
To be sffiicted as he is, must be
worse than Night. Mare, Delerium
Tremens, ST. Vitus's Dance, and the
worst case of Diabolism, all com.
bined. To suffer such solicitude,
during the prevalence of the war,
and still survive, wonld manifest a
power o; endurance far beyond that
oi ordinary man.
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