Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1863-01-20

freedom, and one daughter is singing of freedom
ln the presence Of God
Here is Little of our conversation, verbatim ei
HerdtiD,, which have been having with this black.
smith:
How much business do you do year uncle p
Last year ! Garnet between ten and eleven
hundred dollars, but this year it will be about
thirteen hundred"
VI course your master gives you liberal
share OF what you earn"
Not a cent, SIR gets nothing only what the
! gentlemen gives me. | have worked hard, sir
and master soys if | take good care Of the tool,
and shop he will give EN- 10 me when he dies 30
| takes good care Of EN-"
How old your master?p
lie is seventy years Old"
81 should think, when 30 many negroes are
running away you would want to get your free.
dom, for fear they would sell you down South.
81 told my master | would always stay with
him, and SO he has prom ed to give me the tools.
81 should think you would Ike to be where
you could live with your wife"
! Yes, | would, sir, but they don't think of q
mans feelings here. We amt no more than THEN
stock, Sir! They abuses US, cause theys got the
/ power"
You have money, haven you uncle ?"
"les Ise got about three hundred dollars
About iihy dollars is Southern confederate mon.
ey. Use mighty oneasy about that 'raid shall
lose it,. The rest Is in Virginia bank notes. Ise
been saving il this long WHILE
DON'T you find il rather hard times ?"
/ Mighty hard fir. llan't had no sugar nor
coffee Ibis long while. 0ue OF your soldiers gave
me a epoonIu Of sugar Yesterday. You'ss got d
mighty fine army slr There's more good clothes
IN one etiment hat went by Yesterday than in
/ the entire southern army
/ Then you have seen the Southern arny?"
"Oh yes Gen. Walkers division went down
week ago today and Long,iree. went down a
week ago day alole yesterday
! lhh was mportiuiIniormaiion aSalI Of my PIE
ylou' inquiries Of white residents upon the matter
bad rough, only unsalishc,ory re plies.
T Walkers army you Say, wasn't very wei
eohcd?'
"Nc, sirj they uas ni,eraby clothed. Lott
on en was barefoot. One on EN- offered me six
dollars for these ere hoes l'se gyt on, and pit
led him 50 ! WAS good mind to let hin hsyC
emf then thought may be couldn't get an
other pair. was afraid lie would suffer"
" ! should Think uncle, YOU would be lone some
here nights"
"On, lse got used to it. ltwas kind Of lone.
some at first. bu. / don't have any body to trouble
me, and 80 gets along fret rate
need not continue The narration. While h5
shaped the shoes aud fastened them upon the feet
oil horse, wila The drxtery equll 10 thH OF
any New England blacksmith, / lltll into revere.
/ Here was smith stout, bale and hearty, earn
/ ing rdsome fortune iol hrs master robbed OF
his wages OF his wife, bis children less cared for
than Ihe dumb beasts, seeking the shelter Of the
stables in the Norm-a human being with soul
/ to be saved, with capabilities OF immortal life, Of
/ glory unspeakaOle with the angels with Jesu.
/ God, and oil the society Of heaven, and vet, in
the estimation Of every white man in the slave
States, and one halt Of the population Of the free
State, bs has no rights thai white man is bound
/ to respect.
/ No wonder that this nalioA trclds tho wine-
/ press. ~ wonder that our bhsphemy setting
a. defiance Gods immutlble AVS has brought
re,r.ou,ios We .fs nat re,dy IN do iusiies :,
I people. We want tie rebellion queiled, the Usion
restored, but We do not want the negro to be a
/ fee man. lhs is the white mans war The ne.
/ gro hl, no place on this continent. lie has nc
business here. The President has no right to
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sliluuonil. So we feel so We aet so elect Fernan.
DO Wood 10 Congress and Seymour Governor Of
+ New York. We will put an end TO the ar, bul
will not have the slaves liberated. We will all be
conservatives and save the Union and the Consti
tuition. Fools! We forget that justice IS tue
mightiest power in the universe. The inhabtanl,
an ant hiiI might as well attempt to turn TEN
/ pest with grain Of sand, as We the action oi
( Gods Laws, by our conservative txpedents.
/ There is lIdgnen, for every eum, 10 doubt
/ IL, is to souht the existence Of deity. No ar
gumeht from logic, from humtn brains, from the
! Bible, can make it right to rob a man Of bimSeli
having committed no crime. Through suffer
! ing We reach justice. We wrths in our pain
Our punishment is greater than We can bear. We
cry " How long, o Lord and vote for Fer
naudo Wood aud The conservative ticket,
which means opposition ioemaacp patton and hatred
/ to the negro.
But the wheels Of justice never stand still
they turn forever. We gaze upon the manged
forms Of our beloved ones, here are vacant places
/ hy our iresdes there are blanks in our heart:
never more 10 be hlled-aehing yolds-sounds
which time will never heal A still small voice
within calls upon US 10 do justly, 10 love mercy,
to let the oppressed 60 Tree, to sustain the proca-
nation. We hesiale-rsiase by Que votes TO the
/ polls.
Viii those little bits Of paper throw back the
hands upon the dm2 Never. They are NOV
iug on rapidly to the inevitable hour when the
bells Of time will ring the death-knell Of nation,
or the birthday of four millions Of free men.
So sitting here by this black blacksmths FIRE,
/ have read the signs Of the times.
/ Near Salem, Va, Nov, 1862.