Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1862-08-01

ed by Prot. Anson J. Upson, OF Hamilton
College, New York and the Poem by Samuel
Burnham. A.M., Of Boston.
HoRsE AND WAGON SroLES.-A bold rob
bery of horse and wagon, took place 90
Champlain st., last week W ednesday. Joseph
Burbo, Of Charlotte, having business in that
street, tied his horse to post and went into a
hIuse for ten MINUTES. On coming out his horsl
and wagon bad disappeared an after careful
sesrsh throughout the night and most Of next
day, he found no trace Of them The owner
is poor man, and the horse was his whole
/ property the wagon was borrowed one.
GEN DUNoNr on THE y zero QUE.TIJN AT
q war meeting in indianapolis, The other day
/ Gen DGm1-r' lutiy irem Nashville, nata
a sensible speech on the negro question:. Ii
/ said
In the South every man has gone Gu the
| war. The conscripti0n takes everybody and
/ vet it taxes nobody Ut all. In the eye Of the
I Almighty, nobody Is worth as much as Z
red-headed woodpecker unless be works.
/ No recruits who enter the southern army
| 20 there with sun embrowned loreheads and
hands hardened by honest industry. The
| demand for troops takes away q set vt pam
/ Tered meu-yery good men Tor the purp1se-
/ men who are a sort Of walking arsenal, not
! devoid Of courage or talent but lt takes
away nobody from the producing elases-in
other words, it takes away n Jiy dt all.
| Take the three congressional districts lying
| Immediately around Nashville. Go emorg
/ the pe0pie there and you will fud that at
nearly every house you come TO the lady Is O
widow, and she seeks protection Tor herself
and her property, by repeated declarations
that she Is a lone widow, left with a large
number Of negroes to look after. But when
YOU come 70 investigate the matter "a ittle
more clJsaly, you will fad, almost without
exception. that the negroes belong % men
who nra in the field with the gun upon their
Shoulders and the knapsIck upon Their backs
men who, iOrgetful OF their most sacred duty
10 their country, have taken up arms against
tue best government the sun ever sfoae uV-
on.
''WyIl. why can these men 30 90 war
while yoI cInuot? Simply because they
and you have nothing 70 depend upon bu,
your own honest industry. Besides, when
- Is most generally the case, the wife her
self is the better man Of the two, the property
Is as well aken clTe OF iu the absence ot the
husband as when ne is at h0me and thus these
men can 20 into tbs army and stay there uu-
I'll the last star falls from Heaven. and their
wives and children be- none the worse 81 by
81. 1 b.. @
there are 100, 600 slaves, t0ilin- day after
d.y. cheerlgiiY and uclmp!aiuin-.y, iJr
the support df their masters who ara iu the
rebel army. Now. suppose YOU give notice
G, all mankind, and the human family IN
particular, that every man who shall fail %
return 90 his allegiance within a given time,
hrI< forth fruits meet lr repentance and
give suitable guarantees for hls good baha-
or in the iu;urs-h.s negroes shall De con-
ts,.tli. Don't You suppose there would De
a terrible -keia1Ilin- among these men
iblut that time They would soon learn hy
a mysterious mtimatiJn OF Divine Provideucs
that they had ct their rights already, and
that the t-st tuirs they could Do was o. -
home and cniJv them l happened o. meet
one day 10 the road near Nashville, young
man whose appearance was wretchei and
eIAA. fAA-A aAa'A-AH a HsHff taA' H+af--AAAia-
that h bad been iu the army. and Z said 20
him. a." Ny friend, where are you going to p
SAID be, ] am going back % old ksntuck.
Where have y1u been, and what have you
been doing o. His reply was, was s-l-
der On the =acssh army Well, said |,
how lanr did ]. take y0u 90 get your rights
after sou got there p o said ne, | had
them before I started, but didn't know Il.
n . 2 D. ia. .ssfs. ...-t- D..
after such a proclamation as that should be
made public, until all these men would 60
home. And l wish 20 God they would 20
home for one reason particularly, il no
other. The ladies' who are at home are just
as Jealous and bitter now as their husbands
were when they left for the wlr- They
imagine their husbands are Just what they
were when they left home they 10 not
know what terrible falling of these has
been in their devotion to the cause, and when
their husbands do come home they vii hard
Is know them. Laughter. | have had
hundreds Of them come 20 me after having
been in the rebel army, and be- tl take the
oath of allegiance, saying that they had
been deceived, and Oh, they would say,
what a terrible wild goose chase Is shat we
have been led since We were induced % JON
m this. rebellion
Well, say YOU, would you take these ne
gross into the army2 Would not that be
ike winning the elephant In regard to
what | would do personally, | would just
sav that I chauced % capture eleven good
looking negroes in the little fight at Le0a-
don, and have lust been standing still to
see the salvation OF the Lord in the promises.
do not much want 70 zee them in the army.
L - L D. II
possible, and d. not know how better 70
DO it than the way have already indicated
to you.