Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1862-10-11
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Tariff, and the ssNigger."

CAIRO, Oct .. 1862.
am willing that your read ers should consider
it master stroke of strategy by which 80 sud
denly and quietly changed my base from the
army in Kentucky TO the army in Arkansas, or
thus far toward it, for il may be the only instance
of activity they may have for some time TO ad
mire In passing, | may say that il is matter
of economy to buy your ticket at Louisville, for
while a ticket from Indianapolis Is ten dollars
TO Cairo. enc from Louisville via indianapolis is
only nine seventy five. the seventy i've being re
Gently added To cover Government taxes prac
teal illustration OF the question, who paws the
tariff the manufacturer or the consumvrg Ii
these letters were not letters from the army, |
would just here say another word or so OF the
beautiful tax system which taxes everything
poor man has to use. and which Is added To the
final cost of the article | only promise tuat al
future time, as in times past. shall labor to
correct the mate wrong of the system. adding
here only that the humbuggery OF those who argue
that the West is comparatively favored, the
tariff j. chiefly on manufactured articles, becomes
sensiby apparent when any manufactured article
is to lee paid for by Western consumer.
The monotony OF usual ride over the inter
minable prairies was relieved last night by an
amusing incident at Centralia. a train of cars
had Just passed. laden with some three hundred
contrabands bound tor the vicinity OF Chicago,
about my color to the unadulterated African
One old codser had gone around the house just
LONG enough to be back when a spirited race after
the recedng ears had 10 end IN defeat His
grmaces and weepings were amusing. nOtwith
standing the evident grief OF the man His ques
tons as TO the probable destination OF the tram
the probability of his getting on without money
AMI finally, what ii some free niger should ap
proorate his wife unto himSelfl-all these made
fell.
finding his wife were indeed slim. as the COLONY
seemed 10 have no special destination. but was to
be scattered OFT the neghborhOod demtuded
While waiting this morning for boat ! con
cluded TO go 70 the mena gere-a real show: the
animals of which are patty Gagged and partly "
ing around loose in and about the old barracks
over on the bank of the Mississippi. Such
sight. old men and older women. heads a. white
a. wool and more knky --ba,,ies from a week
old. all the way up till too biz 10 be babies all
half clad AMI disiresSngly dirty-t is the ee-
plant We cot in the raffe and now what 10 do
with il j. the question. More than two thousand
Of these wre;ched beings have been sent here by
military authority % prevent starvation. They
are ..captlVes OF NAT. most OF them having been
abandoned by their former masters, in and about
Coriuth Iuka and Bolivar. Some are from Car
It's Oh rations They have fallen into our
hands in spite of our military policy 20 preserve
the status OF slavery. ana their NUMBER = daily
increasing There is great demand in this Stale
for the men TO gather the corn and cut the winter
wood sc great that Northern Illinois i complain
ing thst the farmers N iuihern Illinois gubble
uD ali the best a. fast as they come. Men are
here every dsy for hands
Wishing To let into the notions Of the darkies.
| passed around among them a. "a Illinois farmer.
NV army hat answesing capital purpose in the
game. ! proposed 10 hire a man Dun no. san,
WHARF YOU want me 20 GOT What you GIN ee''.
Going up 90 the dirtiest wOmsn saw proposed
to her. Cant 90. sah. Is got four babies
We'll IN take vour babies But Is got a
husband" We'll. I'll take YOUR husband too
But dsrs old granny. can't leave her +" why
can't YOU 20 too. grsnnsg" 20. master. l. in
hope- some diy il will please the good Lord TO
give me back TO old master" ! tried a dozen or
more and found underlying the hopes OF most of
them was an ultimate return 10 their native land
The one refrain
go, carry me oack a"
Their local attachment Is unconquerabe. and
they seem utterly unreconciled TO separating the