Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1863-06-25
NEW sERIES-vOL. 25-NO. 10.

northern friends Of our most excellent
President have supplied us abundantly
with most disinterested mon and women,
whose loyal tongues are heard in melodi-
ous tones wherever we "hold, occupy,
and possess" cotton or contraband sot-
Element in the Confederate Wilderness
Look at Hilton Head, where tho tender
maiden and tougher matron Of the North
minglc upon sistorly terms with the Pal
metto African ladies Of South Carolina.
a bountiful Issue Of tracts and catechisms
will no doubt soon be followed by an
improved issue OF contrabands--not so
white rs the pure Anglo, not so black as
the normal African. In few yea,s they
will
Walk in beauty like the night
OF cloudess climes and starry skies,
And all that's best of dark and bright
Meet in their aspect and their eyes.
In North Carolina Charles Henry Fos-
ter, Esq, originally from Maine, and O
warm pO1itican rrftnd of Brovlinridoe.
has organized free labor association.
and Governor Stsnly has gone back to
California in difgust. In Nashville we
have q regularly organized abolition So
cicty. Its organ is the same as that OF
the State and Federal government, and
the editor, though imported from abroad.
is doing moro TO sustain the glorious ad-
ministration of President Lincoln than
any native born citizen of the State can
do or is willing to do. This abolition
society end this abolition newspaper, al
though conducted within the Notifications
Of the city, is doing, no doubt, very much
to induce the people of Middle Tennessee
to cease all further opposition to tho
wise, gentle and constitutional rule Of our
distinguished Chief Magistrate.
In Memphis the harvest is a tempting
one. With cotton at dollar per pound
and likely contrabsnds "lying about
loose" our enterprising northern friends,
who love the Union and wish it preserv-
ed under the guarantees of the constitu-
ton, may make &c good thing of it,
Already hear of several who have farms
in Kansas, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana and
other ''loyal" States, which are now we'll
titled by negroes who once belonged to
the Union men of the South. Facts like
these will tend greatly to the restoration
of peace and harmony, and materially
aid in removing the prejudice which the
people of the insurrectionary States have
entertained against their northern kim
dred. They now know that the war is
not to be so conducted as to deprive
them unnecessarily of any portion Of
their property; and they now have posi-
tive proof that southern secessionis.s and
northern copperheads, who charged tina.
the war was to be finally waged against
the South as a section, instead of the reb-
els and their allies, were guilty of false
hood. Furthermore, there is large par
ty of the North who have persistently
refused to regard the African as the best
representative of the human race. This
infex of negroes will do much to change
their opinions, and by the same means
southern manners and customs will be-
come gradually introduced north of the
Ohio and Potomac, rendering our people
more HON ogeneous than in former times.
Thus we will again become united and
loving people. The lion and the lamb
the contractor and the contraband-wili
lie down together, and then the millen-
mum will have come. Excuse the haste
with which write, and accept assuran-
ces of my highest regard.
Very respectfully, your ob't. servt.
EN-. ETP ERIDGE.
To j. NJ. Tommy, G. D. johnson and 9th
ers, Memphis, Tenn.