The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1861-11-12


tom ,he lovers ul iilffiy ali oyef ih Rorla
and bal i better tiana gc dould hatl
ihe sympathy d Heaven
OILERS equally patriotic, believe lisa
nothing bot dire Necessity would iusiif,
such policy. sheald li,e question ar d
shall slavery or ibe Republic 50 down
they would not hesitate 10 choose wllel
should kick the beam. but now, in iheil
apprehension, the business Of The govern
meat is 10 suppress he rebellion, to save
tho constitution and the Union, and in do
ing his, not 10 touth the aHcieaa thing
leaving il 10 the destructive influence q
moral and natural auiagonsms.
While there is this difference among
genuine patriots, apprebend there arc tew
unwilling to take the ground, thai although
our army may not be employed IN eradi
eating slavery it shall not be employed as
a potice force 10 hunt, apprehend, and re-
turn fugiliscs 10 their masters. II may
be asked, is there any occasion for the pas
sage OF such resolution as We are dis
cussing. We have no means Of knowing
what is Transporting or What is done by the
government except by the public press
] am aware that great allowance should
be made FOR the excitement Of the times,
and the yeraclity Of the press is no occa-
sion Of self eomplacency on the part Of our
people; still, that the army OF the United
States is occasionally, how often we have
no meaus Of knowing, employed in arrest
ing lugiiiees aud eseorting them back 10
Egypt whence they have escaped, cannot
admit Of rational doubt. With the consent
81 the Senate | viii read an extract from
one Of our newspapers. | read from that
highly respectable Journal, the Springfield
Repp6iieoa o Oct. -:
"fhis morning. as some Of Capt. Stones
men were bathing IN a river, they saw a
negro, spent and almost drowned, slrug-
Cling towards them across the rapids
They saved him from a watery grave, and
brought him, naked ms he was born, 10
headquarters. Hefe some old clothes, and
some bread and meat, the FIRST he had taken
Tor more tl:an week, were given him, and
then he was ordered to give m account OF
himself The fugiliye's name is Gorce.
lie is a slave and was the body servant Of
Lieut.. Col. Bob johnson Of the rebel Camp
Boone. Gorce ran away from him for be-
ing beaten without offence. and after ad.
venture enough to make an Uncle Toms |
Cabin, arrived at daylight this morning
on the bank OF the friendly Ohio. But he
was not yet safe. Sopulling oil his clothes
and wrapping them around his head, lie /
plunged into the river, and struck out bold !
y Tor the further shore, distant almost a
nile. The swift current swept him down
among the rocks and breakers; his heavy /
urban became saturated, and threatened |
o sink him; lie was bruised and cut hor-
'ibly by the jagged granite Of the falls
He struggled manfully rather than part
With his clothes, bis little earthly all but
inding that he must choose between death
md nakedness, he concluded to take the
after, and so set his wardrobe adrft He
continued TO founder on towards freedoms
,ank, now sucked under by the powerful
.ddies, now swept forward with frghtful
apidity by the eurent, Or dashed hard
.gainst The rocks. He must have perish
ID if Stones men had not drawn him from
he river. His surprise and distress at
hiding himself ia camp may be imagined.
lie supposed he would instantly be return
d away down in Dixie's land, for his mas
er had told him that Lincoln's soldiers
aught all runaway niggers aud sold them
own South again Poor Gorce, / pity
i'm. As ! write, he is crying as though
is heart would break. and refuses 10 be
Gorce is a really intelligent ,
ID. lie can read and spell and write rs
fcll as any boy of his age in the land and
he had but white skin, he might make
respectable man. But like all his un-
,rtunate race, he has no resting in this .
fe, and his only future lies in the vale Of
hadows beyond the tomb. Amid his sobs, /
G mplores that he may not be sent back Z
} the brutal Johnson. He says lie does
OF care what becomes of him, so that he
not returned to him. But he will be !,
turned. As | write, sergeant and !
quad have him in their midst, and are
iarching him back TO slavery Il
1t is said that in one instance at least an
slave actually died in prison,
here he bad been consigned by soldiers,
altered from their distant homes. to de- i
nd our National Capital againstihe slave /
olding rebels whose human property seems
be sacred in tie eyes Of our Rulers i
othing 50 dishealtens our people as such a
)palllng facts as these. When we re- :
ember what Jefferson said in relation TO /,
conflict with slaves, in state OF insur-
.ction, HAT "the Almighty had not sin T,
G attribute to take sides with as" and =
,w tiud our government thrown into n
ruggle for lts very existence, an exis- b
nee threatened BY slavery alone, employ 4
z our soldiers who have gone forth from ii
lr free homes, oyerflowing with love Of D
,erty, IN such a service as this resolution Il
how repuisiye to all the impul- :,
s Of every patriotic heart. II operates Il
weripily toprevent the enlistment Of our r,
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