Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1862-11-29

the poor fugitive whose life had been made
bitter by their enemies, and whose willing
3 ness to live and die 10 their service was be
yo1d question How couH few hons
Ond men, scarcely out Of reach Of leu time.
their number Of deadly enemies, hesiiate &c
welcome, and treat kindly, some thousand.
z ofhumble but zdalous and numerous ant
not Ineffective allies, whose numbers are
susceptible df inuefnite increase by simple
jnstcc How could sane men hesitate lc
do right when their own safety aud success,
could no other wise be assured?
b. Alas for our boastcd reasona! The viggs
4 OF Slavery runs riot in the veins even ol
81 those who are dying of Savery's traitor.
ous shots and stabs Mem whom Rebel
Shareholders for Suvery's sake are lurking
in every thicket TO kill or maim at 40 Der.
b sonal risk, are so mad o. to. hate The tyai
tors lifelong victims and now deadlg foes
n mQle than timtOrs thin sslves md many of
them are as drunk With the mcjadce Of
3 caste, tho love Of tyrannizmg over human
beings gnty Of nothing bur q dark skin,
q as any Toombs or Wiufrll i ii ehce the
failures or prof'Iess riumphs Of the Union
cause in the past hence the suicidal re.
pugnance "f many load tongued Unionists
to the employment of Blacks in aid OF the
! Union cause ; hence the dsallowauce at
Washington Of FremOnrs, Hunters Phelps
early efforts to render Slavery the weakness
rather than lhe strength of the Rebellion ;
lbencc the diSbanding, some months since of
Gen. Hunters nucleus of n First Rpgi.
ment Of South Carolina Volunteers :" hence
| the fuct that the final overthrow Of the Re
belIion is now no nearer Than it might aud
1 should bave been full year ago -.-
Yet progress has beer made: the fact
that, in the Department of he Sonth,
Black Volunteers, wearing the uniform
and bearing the arms of the Union, were
for the first time on the b inst. engaged
at short range with Rebel sharpshoolers,
aud fought as braveh and effectively as
vet ernns. is a cheering proof Of it, .a '..
Rev. Mr.. French was eupBged-in the
expedition, sharer in It's periIs, and his
narrative of its incidents fully jlstifes the
above Testimonial Let me barely glance
at the leading facts: ~. z
/ Gen. Saxon, on the 28h ult, dispatched
from Hilton Head the priz9 steamer Dar.
lingt on, Capl. WundelI, down the coast Of
| Georgia and Florida TO harrAss the Rebels
aud obtain recruits for the flst s. @. Y ol
ueers' aforesaid. Lient Col. BenrdG OF
the 4Sth New York commanded the small
Military force embark ed q AtSt. Simons,
Ga. 60 Blacks-35 of whom were of the
original Volunteers aForesaid-and at
Fernnndina. Florida 54 more Blacks we're
| received. Only 25 of these we're allowed
| TO 90; the residue smnggled themselves on
hDnt Il. IN
send them back. The Military portion oi
Expedition then consisted of 10 in all, OF
whom all but two or three officers we're
Blacks, and only 80 had ever received any
Military instruction whatever. None had
ever been under fre, unless it might he
that some patriarch had choseu in fit uf
choler 10 take n safe shot of his +'fniggerF
for some real or foncicd impertiuoace.
! This was not, il would seem, q very for.
midahle force wherewith 10 invade two
Isove.cign States Of tho great Confpdcracy
On Monday, Noyemhrp 5 % tho d rrIington
ascendpd Bill River, Florida. d ogc in the
I Rebel pickets, destroyed the sAit-work> :
there in operation, with considerable
sock fprdvi>ions aud stores, and thence
Visied jolly River, where two salt.works
were demolished with n quantity Of salt.
and corn On Tuesday. Nov A, the
steamer entered Kings Boy, Georgia.
where a large snIt,work a mile up a creek
was DESTROYED, at the cost ornn attack
from n superior force Of Rebels, who rushed
ont of The woods and fred on the Black
soldiers as they were embprking in small
boats to retnrn.to their steamer. AZ they
llwere rowed back they coolv loaded and
fred on their assoilants, killing two anil
! losing none, thouph thcir Uoa'g anl The
steamer were well peppered The steamer
opening on the Rebels AT short range they
were glad to regain speedily the shelter Of
the woods.
On the oh, Daricn, Georgia, was visi-
ted, with BntIer's Island, whc5e good
supply of Rehpl'rice was obtained. Dlren
had been cnptnred some days preyons by
part Of the expedition left on St. Smon's
Island on the way to Floriia. At 3 on.
Friday morning, ] 7th the gun boat Poto-
maka led the way up SNpelo Sound and
! River, the Darlington following Arrivel
at Reuben Kings plantation, the Petoma
! ka stopped, having nScended as far as the
depth of water Hficed her. Here reoGfry
slaves waited 10 breu hjess Expectation ua.
! Ill they were cerlain the vessels would stop,
when they brokefor The protection of the
flag Of Freedom, though in sight Of their
old master and his widowed daughter.
Each fugitive brought in bis hand his little
all of worldly goods, and fifty two were
taken on hoard The whistle of the steam
boats having been beard onother planta-
roRa, rugitiyes from these came runnpg to
the watersidc, and were successfully re-
ceived "a
The Darlington proceeded up the river
or creek, Capt Bodd and one guns crew
from the Potomakn Volunteering to go
aIong. Il They were fred upon for some
time from a hight%oodtd bluff at bend of
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