Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1862-04-26

place of the fight last Sunday night Such
another set of mortals l never saw--all sexes
and all ages, dressed up in all sorts of cloth.
ing Some women decked with coats and
hats for want of female clothing, and nearly
all the women toting baby. One little "nig,"
smart as steel trap, was appropriated by Mr..
Haven, our principal drummer. and he is
nightly pleased with him. and has him dress.
ed UP nicely. The little fellow is about five
years old, and can dance like top. ques.
TONED him. lie said he ran away from his
massa captain l asked him what he ran
away for, not thinking the little fellow could
realize anything, hen he answered, prompt
ly, "kase didn'G want to be slave-Tse
want to be free" ! talked with many of the
slaves, and found That they understood affairs
pretty well. The people have told the slaves
most horrible stories about the Yankees, but
the negroes say ooh Lor, massa, dunna
'bleve word day say-we knowed dey lied
ives been praying 10 de Lord dat you Van.
KEGS might come" &C., &c. One negro told
Maj Picket flank God, massa, now 1 do
'hIisve de Lord is come for sure! Yes, de
Lord is come nov! We've ben praying and
paying dis long time dat de Lord might come,
and knoiced he woud-kaae for, desc 63
years Use read in de Bible dat de time was
comm, IsC read it in de 11th chapter OF Dan.
irl so many times-more times massa den dis
niger has hairs on dis head, and now sees
it wild my own eyes, and bress de Lord
] think, il you will read that chapter in
Daniel, you will be satisfied that old ebony
made Shrewd calculation. You can put the
emphasis on the underscorcd words OF the
Africans speech, and it will sound quite like
him. The more think OF this matter, the
more see of the white people here, the more
| learn OF their miserable and deviish con.
duct in this rebellion-the more l see the
joy of the slaves they flee to US for protec-
ton, the more satisfied am that a deadly blOlo
must be struck nj the cause Of this rebellion
There is no use in prating about the Union
sentiment in the south-there may be = little
of it, but when you find it, it is the rare excep.
ton, and it is seldom, if ever, you find
man who is a STAKEHOLDER possessed
of spark Of Unionism. The people here
are all walowing in the filth of secession 10.
gether, and are all ready to fight US as long
as they can hold out. They kill and burn
They destroy all their property before they
leave it. They ask for no quarters. If they
have determined TO burn and destroy their
villages, their cotton, urpentine-everything
they have which they can burn-why cannot
We help the matter along by destroying all
the property they have left which they cannot
burn-ther slaves Why should we protect
them in This kind of property when they de-
clare that they i'll destroy everything rather
than it shall fall into our hands l say pitch
in and give these rebels all they want plenty
OF grape and shot, as much hemp as will serve
for the leaders and freedom for their slaves.
They think to trouble us when they burn
up their property. saw the smoke to-day of
hundreds Of barrels Of turpentine turned over
to the flames just over our picket lines. 1
said, lei them burn and destroy-the moro the
better-for they are only making their calami.
~ the grenter, and the day of their suffering
will come. The fields here are all running to
waste-net planter thinks of cultvatingsny
thing No cotton, or corn, or tobacco, is
They take no thought of the morrow what they
shall eat! Here in Newbern the government
of the United States is daily feeding hundreds
OF men and women whose sons, husbands and
fathers are in arms against US. All they can
get to eat comes from the United States, and
while they are eating of our charity, they are
cursing the Yankees, and praying that their
hua 4 L.
| in killing and destroy ing US This is no fan,
| cy sketch, but exactly the truth as l sec it
every day. Il we must feed the south,
because its people will not provide for
themselves let us make clean thing of it, II
they keep their slaves we must feed them, if
they are free we cNn do no more and it won't
cos, any more l reckon it, 10 feed free
man, than a slave. They compel their slaves
to aid in their rebellion against their will
They are now compelling all the slaves they
can get together, to work on the entrench.
ments around GoldsborOugh to oppose the fed.
eral advance. II is a just punishment to
them 1.-THE rebels) if we declare their slaves
fee, and trust measures to this end will be
speedily adopted as war measure of vital
necessity l find this feeling unanimous
among officers in III. army, Those who have
been known as strongly conservative men,
some whom l know to have been Breckin-
ridge democrats, in fact, all men without re.
gard to former political proclvties are salts,
fed that the time has come when the adoption
OF this retaliatory war measure has become a
necessity. You may be surprised to hear me
"Open" in this way, but l am sure that other
men Of the north who have thought different
ly, as have heretofore, would be satisfied to
adopt my views, if they could see the devil of
rebellion with his cloven foot as have seen
him. Jw.D
SECRETARY WELLEs.--A dispatch from
New York, as printed in THE SPY yesterday
morning, stated that according to report in
the Evening Post, Secretary Weles is to be