Daily Democrat and news. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1859-1864, 1863-04-06
TIE LOVE OF ILLINOIS SOLNlRRS
FOR NEGROES AND AB0Ll-
T,ONlSTS.
An Incid ent Narrated by IN lbo.
litj0n Sheet.
(Core.p ondencs Of tho inoinnsa vines ASoii'
YouSG's PoINT, La, March 20.

fco,re.p ondence OF tho incinnat Times Adolf.
ton
YousG's PoIsT, La, March 20.
A day or two ago most disgracoiui
riot occurred among portion OF the
soldiers of Gen. Logan's division at
Providence, the generating cause being
an inotieusiye negro whom the mlitary
,nffi ans determined 10 beat 10 death De-
cause Nature had convicted nm OF pc
ina an African. At first, two or three
fellows began to strike the cont'aband
merely because they could, aud In
few minutes hundreds, ii not thousands,
Of the soldiers were bowling after and
would have killed him, had not Capt.
Voeleson, OF the Comm. sary Depart
m.u,, inteafered aud rescued the poor
devil at the point OF the pistol. ;,
Tho mob, which at this time had
crown most turbulent and savage, turn
ed upon Nogeson, denouncing h'm IS an
"abo!',,oui.t," "nigger's brother"
"nlcger tLief,' and INDUCING IN
every indecer. y Of language and every
coarseness Il ,l,upcraton.
The Captain s'ood firm, aud preserved
his coone,s, telling the enraged soldiers
that he would shoot the first man who
laid hands upon him, and holding the
revolver before him, finger on the 'r'g.
ger. They pressed round him ike Wild
beasts they jeered theJ shook their
filthy tsts IN his face; they tainted and
brulally insulted him-evelylh thing but
strike.
That they feared TO do, though had
apy one dared to offer the first blow
they would have sacrificed him 10 their
,ury. They would have torn limb from
limb the man who had feeling and cour
aye to step between an unfortunate and
: innocent paIiah and = brutal and cow
ardly moo.
VogIeson saw BIZ. danger; that the
crowd we're gradually surrounding hun
$ that no must soon be crus ed, rent an
murdered foully by hundreds OF be.t'A
: poltroons who dared 10 cal lhemsclve
a soldiers. lie preserved his GOODNESS ant
:. hs pistol, and slowly retreated to thu
City Of Madison. lie gained the stage
! plauk, walked to the bow OF the boat
u and assembled into the cabin.
: Guard, were on the bow and on th
y staging, but in moment the crow
2 ruched ike torrent upon the tlanspor
= after the Captain, and would have FOL
low ed him up but for the fixed bayone'
! that mt their beamlng eyes on Ia
. s,airways. They swore, yeilee, roare
. vi Ii DISAPPOINTMENT, and, IN the
- betii d rage, endeayofed to silmuia,
y cah otter to new violence, cryin!
~ Bling out the abollionist y "kill th
ct son o. --.' "llang tho nlggeI
y brother.
~ The guard was strengthened. TIL
mob was ven ten minutes to disrcrs
70 II they did not at the expirau OF Thu
nc tune, they would be ited upon. The
leeIel at this, and uooted aud deride'
us But, Ike all MODS, they were cowardl
ut and, betore half the period bad passe
no they had sueaked eli, and stood IN koo
u and groups, no longer furious, no long
f. miJabe.
Bot for this decided coarse, the insu
gent soldiers would have murdered II
.e. brave No.leson, aud all who sought
protect hun, and have ASSASSIN ated,
doabt, every negro they could ha
TO found within miles Of Providence.