The daily Evansville journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1862-1863, 1862-11-22
How Beautiful the system!

much of her time-indeed all her time
recently, to ameiorating the condition
of the contrabands at Port Royal, S. c.
In long letter to the New York Tri-
bune, she gives the particulars of late
expedition to the coast of Florida and /
Georgia by one or two companies of the /
First Regiment South Carolina volun-
teers. The expedition, it will be remem-
bered, was eminently successful. Sew
eral large salt works were entirely de
stroyed, and rebel property to a large
amount conGscated or burned. In one
or two skirmishes that took place, the
negroes behaved with great gallantry,
firing with cooluess and precision, and
won the warmest praise both from their
immediate commanding officer, Colo
mel of a New York Regiment, and from
the captain of the gunboat accompanying
the expedition.
On the return of the party, large num-
bers of contrabands accompanied them.
That portion of Mrs Cages letter des-
cribing these fugitives from the house
of bondage" we give below. 1t is worth
reading and worth thinking about 1t is
not surprising that an institution produc-
ing such fruit, should attempt to destroy
the very government under which it has
strengthened and prospered. Is the
Government safe, free from danger, so
long as such an evil exists within i?
This is the problem to be solved by the
present war-a problem the Presidents
Proclamation will gofar towards solving
in January next
The following is from Mrs. Cages
letter:
h The laborers on the Sea Islands seem
more oppressive and degraded class
than those gathered upon the mainland
plantations or che coast towns. 1t is
said the flying rebels took with them all
the bright, sound, salable ones, and left
bshna bbssh5Sa thHs thsn Ebq E6 qn6RRSd 6RRSd the net a8e mgGh
maintaining and sustaining the only
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or will not sustain themselves.
This opinion gains ground by every ac'
cession of contrabands brought IN from
other parts Of the country, where the
masters have had no chance of selecting
MANY of the shrewd and intelligent
have made use of their wit by escaping
to our lines, and are now doing gooC
service in the Union cause, which vii
find no recorder in the present. Bu
the historic pen will, in coming time, dc
Justice to the noble deeds and daring en-
terprises which they have accomplished
They, and they alone in this heart ofreh
eldom, hold the key that shall open al
doors for our entree. For they knov
5 every inch of ground, they kdow ever
), mark of high or low tide, they SnoN
q where the cotton is stored, where tn
y corn, rice, and sweet potatoes grow
where the enemy is weakest, and wher
!: the people are most ready for liberty, an
not since the first hour of this fratrlcidf
war has our Government done bette
or wiser thing than to order them to
enlisted into the service of the countl
), of their birth. Black Slavery at IL
North is different thing from whi
Slavery, and beg to say to those wi
still lean to the side of the oppresso
that white Slavery is Constitutional
in Georgia. Among the slaves broug
from the coast is grandmother and
numerous family. The elder woman
til tall. stately ard digni6ed. The blood
s99 some proud race fushes her almC
Al white face. Her daughters are bo
winter and darker than herself, and
az grand children are winter still, and sol
@ of them very beautiful
One babe is perfectly white. 1t
: not a florid blush, sandy hair and bl
:. ewes; but its skin is very fair, its e.
large, lustrous and brown, while not
sY, vestige of the kinky hair would sha
the proudest Anglo-Saxon mother to c
nc it her own.
ID 1t was amusing to one who has b.
cultured into belief that human libe
,tIv is not based upon the color of the S
or or curl of hair, and that virtue and v
test belong TO no sex but on the eternal p
. ciples of right and wrong, to witness
IN attention paid to the child of some f
man born into Slavery through the d
ue- full curse laid by the law upon its mot
No doubt this father, whoever he /
DID be, holds up his hands In holy horro
8iG aid the idea of legal amalgamation, re
ness, his Bible to find some semblance of
tprs; old Jewish law, to prove it a divine
ad. d. stitution," " and talks wisely and ON
streets, too,' about the degradation
N en- RIGHTEOUSNESS of the negro race.
~ This little white lamb among col
N. flock was petted and patted, and {
THE y on kissed; for it was kept sweet and c
and in pink and white. What worl
ntion thought clustered about this one s
and child.
Hing "She has stolen it, says one.
y 1snd, nd has run away with her mistress ch
said another But the great brown
IN to so full of subdued sorrow, revealing
2 u apd lo5 in babyhood the wrong of another,
SO exactly duplicates of those that 10
e. one down upon it tenderly that there wa
co. left room for the shadow of a doubt
- she was its true mother.
"Oh, how the soldiers of Fort Pu
r,s did curse and swear at the Institute
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