Dayton daily empire. [volume] (Dayton [Ohio]) 1850-1865, 1863-12-01

% rs gotten up utterly feiardess OF ex,l
ponse--ke an army contracbrs wife, gor-
geous as full.blown peony, gscarlet tulip, OF
macaw-eVideutly intended II be elaborately
ornate, yet withal somewhatbssarre, not TO
say outre. Mr. Lincoln's Tha afssgiying Table
cloth is a thing, once seem lot TO bo forgot
ten
The material was the ineslshoddy, dyed as
nearly the hue Of fresh ooziIk blood as prhc-
ticabie The artisan studid tho tint on the
battlefield Of Fredeficksbuk The hgures
were peculiar, and Of q natub % romlnd the
behoder Of passing events.
First in order, the borderl Upon this were
depicted negro soldiers, wh9 commanded BY
white officers, marched and deountermarched,
deployed, filed, wheeled, lbd went through
the manual and all the vaIious evolutions OF
the drill They swarmed They were in di-
visions, in brigades, in regiments IN com
paniee, and in platoons. There were delin-
eased on this border otherinegroes, of all ages
and sexes, in all the attitudes which betoken
joIlity and animal enjoynibnt Here the bro
ken hoe and spade, and dow left standing In
the furrow-types of their abandonment OF
the labors Of peace; there the banjo and the
dance, and the unearnbd neal provided at
Uncle Sans expense, and eaten with true
Ethiopian gusto This border was intended TO
represent the apothesis of the negro in its in
ception.
Next in the border was q space filed with
deliueations Of death and agony upon the bat
ltle-feld-pilos of dissevertd limbs, some crush
ed and mangled, some dtopping gore heads
disjointed from the body, some with staring
IeyebRlls, others in various stages o. mutila-
tion--some mashed into an almost pnrecog.
| L e aud
Ihair, headless trunks, sporting blood wound
ed soldiers slowly dying the life-blood oozlug
drop by drep, while down upon oil came the
pitiless pelting, numbing rain, that iroze as i
lel
Next came space filled with hospita
scenes, usy nurses and surgeons, Iallid pa
! TENTS baudaged heads and limbs, lint, saws
} knives, lgatures and all the appliances neces
} STATED by the casualties Of war which, In III
} turn, is necesstated by the contemplated
apothesis OF the negro.
J Between this and the center piece, on ont
; side, was q representation of Mr.. Seward ex
hibiting to group Of admiring Russian OH
) GERS, pictures representing the sacking o
l Athens, Georgia-the hanging OF Missonrian
: by General Mcneil and the ruins of Sumter
!, surmeunted by the legend 'er anoy disco on!
! mia -foreshadowing the condition TO whiel
t the seeded States are to be reduced, in &C
r complishing the final apothesis Of the negro
o Opposite, and on the. other side Of the cepte
8 piece, was a cture representinga o square O
: market place in Warsaw, with General Ber
a in the foreground, experimenting the whiG
j ping of some Polish ladies suspected Of syn
i pathy with treason. Under il, the words I'VE
o too, have a Rebellion to put down." y
J, The center piece represented the interio
r ofa Northern laborers cottage, There wasi
= mean bed with scanty apparel; on it lay
conscript, wounded and dying; around stoo
) the aged parents, the wife and . group {
$ small children. He whose labor has hitherto
b supported them, is passing away before thei
= eyes, to that land "where the wicked ceas
, from troubling and the weary are at rest
( They are to remain and face the world an
!. its hardships as best they may. Such is tn
s sacrifice required torender possible the apotl
esis of the negro ae
g 1t was worthy of note that when the bal
II quet was spread this center piece was entlr
e ly covered by an immense venison pie wit
't the figure OF a negress upon the crust, Ii
n size, in alto reiieUo.