Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1862-08-21

them North TO camps Of instruction, thew will
have their boats, with armed bodies of men in
operation in less than 80 days and tbey will
sioeep the rirer bottom. l Intend as soon os
Curtis gets out the way, to make an effort to
get my negroes across the river and have them
brought to this region of country. l send this
to you by SOL | wrote TO you few days since
to send down ,cdggons for my Family to move
home. That had better be deferred until all
and until our army enters Tennessee and drives
back the Federals. In the meantime you had
better look to your young negro men. Igreaty
want your services to aid me in getting mine
out. but do not know if it will be safe to wait
until YOU can come. We will accomplish our
independence, but we will lose One Thousand
Million of Dollars worth of Negroes. If our
negroes learn that tie Federals are catching
negroes to fill their army-and are told that
when the war is over, that they will be taken
to Cuba and sold to the Spanish-they would
be hard to catch. 1t will beyond all doubt
come to that Two shiploads have already been
taken from South Carolina Coast and sold 10
Cuba-and the North will make any DISPOSE
ton of the great int7,,r of negroes they find to
their interest in the future. Come by this place
to see me. II is important. The policy of
which speak will be in full operation in thirty
days, possibly sooner.
Your Brother GID. J. Pillow.
"Come without the loss of day, and don't
hint the matter to any living creature. The
secret must be kept else it will fail, and in Ar
kansas, if my movement is known or suspected,
it will produce a stampede. CIR.
"If from i'll health you cannot come, write
me fully about matters at home. am satisfied
the army will soon move into Tenn. The safety
of our property depends upon an early action.
If you cannot come, send the bearer back as
early as possible and let him have a fresh mule
if one can be had. If the system Of catching
once commences, it will be too late to remove
our fellows. There is great difficulty in feeding
negroes over here or of hiring them out or
making any other disposition of them, but
prefer all these TO the danger OF toosing them.
G. J. p.
Brother Gideon's fears have been realized.
His great plantation in Arkansas, with all its
chattels, some 300 in number, is in possession
of the government, and the negroes have been
freed. This will be a loss TO Pillow, as his
profits have been as high as 100000 per year.
A letter from our camp at Helena gives the
following account of negro jubilee on Pillows
plantation -
"They remain quietly at home taking care of
but are absolutely free and have generally re-
ceived free papers, They were dressed in a
tidy and clearly manner for our reception,
had gathered from neighboring plantations to
the number of about 300, and had commenced
their jubilee meeting with singing and prayer
when we arrived. The assemblage occupied
the piazzas, and after the Introductory exer-
cises, which were very fervent, were ended, they
were addressed by DR.. NJ. p Hanson, assistant
surgeon of the ID Wisconsin cavalry, and by
Rev. J. G. Forman, chaplain of Sd Missouri
infantry. DIR. Hanson gave them some excel
lent advice, and chaplain Foreman delivered an
address on the history of the West India eman-
cipation, and the rights and duties of the slave
population of the South-their right to freedom,
and their duty to assist in achieving it. The
meeting was closed with prayer and singing,
and the invited guests partook of an excellent
evening m eal prepared by their sable colored
friends The occasion was one of sincere
pleasures and profit to all who were present,
and would have been severe pill to Gen. Pill
low, if he could have been within hearing, and
seen the JOY with which his victims listened to
the story of West India emancipation and the
rights and liberties now about to be realized by
themselves"