Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1862-05-29
THE NEGRO POPULATION.

OeieVe, us Judgment OF heaven.
THE NEGRO POPULATION.
The population of Winchester is near five
thousand. of which one thousand are negroes
1t would be difficult to find in any part of the
world thousand laborers who are taking better
of themselves. Many of them are free, and
owners of real estate. Marcia Weaver, q
straight-hared woman, who was left free by her
mistress before she was twenty years old, owns
two houses and the land on which they are
built. One she gave to daughter as a mar
riage portion. But the most imposing piece of
black statuary l have ever seen is Evelina Or
rick sixty years of age, nearly six feet in height
and broad in proportion. She has been a
mother of twenty-six children, the first five by
a white bachelor and involuntarily. By her
legal husband she had twenty -one. She says
'the Lord has been very good % her in taking
twenty of them to their heavenly home" One
of the last who died was daughter, at the age
of eleven years, who "left her testimony" To
my question what she meant, she answered,
with an elevated expression of countenance
"She felt the grace of the Father, and as she
bade us farewell testified to His goodness
The conversation of this old grandmother is
perfectly grammatical, and free from the common
negro pecularities of pronunciation. She is
yet slave, but SO good and strong within her.
self as to be above the injuries of slavery.
Mary Strange, free woman, | believe, fills
the town with her jolly exuberance of spirits
and her uproarious rejoicing of the triumph
and the presence of the northern troops Wher
our sick we've first lodged here she set the ex,
ample of kindness to them by sending into the
hospital dozen pair of chickens, and the col
ored people general contributed according tc
their means, comforts and delicaces. could
add many similar statements to show that thu
negroes are wickedly slandered by those who
in own Congress, as well as in the rebel papers
North and South, represent that they are
stolid and helpless race. 1t is astonishing tc
observe how quickly they detect n northern
countenance. "Well, we are having bette
times now, are we not P" / said to an old man
"Golly, massa, dat we are," was his answer, n
his backest of faces was lit up with vivacit
and ivory. "Massa, know'd you wusn't on
Of dem wicked Shareholders jis as soon as so
eyes on yo'-didn't do'P" The morally cul
tivated part of the population of Wincheste
is the negro class.
THE WHITE PEOPLE.
The whites with some exceptions, are as har
as flint, and frighlfully inhuman. Many year
ago some judicial proceedings in New Orlean
brought TO light the shocking cruelty of
Madame Lalaurie, who had kept in close garre
number of old and sick slaves, on short a
lowance of food, with design to hasten thei
death and get rid of the expense of supportin
them. There is a similar case here. The sam
Doctor Mcguire who instigated the contemI
tuous treatment of the dead body of youn
Brown has kept in an clubhouse a pasied oil
vbo = o1 al al, g l.
g other slaves. In the winter he was without fiji
!, or bed, and his piteous cries for help we,
d heard all through the neighborhood.
l. sEcEssIoNIsT WOMEN.
n The "socesh women" of Winchester are ra
tlesnakes and vipers. They insult our soldie
:. by splitting at them from upper windows an
) by "Jawing" at them, of which the patient fe
f. lows take no notice They wear the rebel fla
~ in the streets, and shout for the "Confedaracy
DALEY, at five o'clock in the afternoon, the
~ is a prayer meeting, at the house of M
Logan, where about thirty women and eig
n men pray for the success Of JEFF. Davis. Son
is of tie women 60 round a block to avoid wal
G. ing under the Stars and Stripes, whereat o.
~ men are diverted, and they contemplate blocka
" trg them by stretching flags across the 9th
IN streets. These spteful and malignant ere
O. lures will give the government more troub
Ct than the men, They seem resolved to ke
Dc alive the watchwords of rebellion and misch
r. JACKsoN's CRUELTIEs
The cruelties of Jackson to the loyal peop
he of Winchester were such Only ms savages a
used to practice. He marched off old m
who could not fight and made them walk ma
miles through the deep mud of winter.
venerable Quaker, Job Throckmorton by nan
ID was so forced off, and broken down under t
ID hardship and exposure lie was taken 81
and sent to the rebel hospital, His relatiy
were refused all access to him, and punishme
threatened to any one who might tell where
:, was, and he died of neglect and ill-treatme
- This is but one of many instances of the ferc
ity of these barbarians.