The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1864-03-19

anu QlO not 90 10 lOWn lHaI gay. lney
have another meeting next Saturday, which
/ shall certainly attend, if there be .'no
preventing Providence Clemens told the
people that the Southern Confederacy had
violated every promise the leaders made to
the people when the rebellion broke out.
They had promised them a currency with
cotton basis, which should be equivalent
to gold and silver, and i was not to-day
worth ten cents on the dollar. They had
promised them greater security for their
slave property. Before the rebellion there
had never been twenty-five slaves lost in
this county. ana ..nuw," said he, "no man
can call a negro his own.". guess that
Jerry and others in this locality, as else
where, are beginning to find that "truth Is
stranger than fiction, st H. NJ j, VI.
THEY TAKE IT HARD. I'll
The exploded aristocracy are drought
to grief exceedingly, by the unceremo.
Nous manner. in which they find their
whilom .tchattles'' leaving their former
comfortable stalls and walking forth TO
snuff the first fresh air of liberty they have
ever enjoyed. Some Of the scenes enacted
are comic IN the highest degree. and might
possibly be tragic but for the blue coats
and gliitering bayons,s every where yisi-
BILE. A member Of the Christian Commits
sion, who has been active in getting up a
school here for the "colored population -
returned to the North last week. Wishing
to take a little girl with him, he made a Sc
lection of one for that purpose. The mother
was consulted on the subject, and expressed
her Willingness to have the child go. The
child also. wished to go. But when the
matter came to the knowledge Of the
pseudo mistress you may imagine there
was a very small volcano suddenly un-
capped in that household, and such an
eruption Of wrath as only an Infatuated
lady can send forth. Old Jack Falstaff' s
army in Flanders might have got new
wrinkle in swearing just then. But the
decision of Gen. Logan and the Provost
Marshal was, that the claim of the mis-
tress was subordinate to the claim Of the
mother, and the little uncaged bird is on its
flight northward. The Paymaster, ] un-
derstand, took another. Verify, Jerry is
right; no man here, nor woman either, can
longer say: "This Niger is NINE
SCHoOL-NEGRO GALA-DAY.
The school organized among the colored
people here is progressing finely, under the
superintenlence for the present. of Rev.
Mr.. Merrill, Chaplain Of the 9Th Iowa. Old
and voting seem eager 10 learn. and 60 at
it with a viii Their capccty to learn Is
fully vindicated here as elsewhere.
From time ifsimernoriai Sunday has been
the negroes gala-dav. Il j, their delight 70
appear ut church riggeti on1 IN the cast.of1
finerv of .',nassa'' and I'm issus,' and flirt,
and Edgat, very muck ike u,any white
folks on like occasions. A caterpillar
transformed into a .hudy butterfly does
not undergo a more radical change in out
ward appearance, than these sable ones
" hen they east OF, their working duds and
shine forth in their gaudy Sunday rig
b at here in sunny Dixie the variety OF dress
is scarcely greater than that Of complex
ion. Yon see them here in a Sabbath con-
gregation from the pale and unmistaka BILE
Anglo-Saxon, with the slightest possible
tinge Of African, to the polished ebony.
guiltless Of the least admixture. Yester-
day had for the first tine an opportunity
of hearing them sing one ofthose low ,dirge-
like and weird melodies, which are all
Afric, and which perhaps none other can
learn perfectly. The words are Of their
own composing, lin which Daniel and the
angels usually figure very conspicuously,)
and the music drags along with hum
drum measure, accompanied by beating
always break up with singing and gen.
eral shaking Of hands round the stand.
t.3 THE VETERANS FEN
Are returning almost daily, and others
still going home on furlough. We, l. Z. the
10th, are awaiting our turn, which We hope
will come soon / notice that some of the
regiments that have returned north, are
manufacturing reputation for themselves
which they never earned. by claiming TO
have been In battles which they nerer ,soW,
and others which it would have been much
to their credit never to have seen. I can
say, however. for the IOsca regiments, gen.
orally, that their record is the best possible
testimonial to their heroism. We say to
our friends at home in advance, that the
10th, has mot been in oil the battles fought
during this war, and we don't intend TO
pay any newspaper scribbler for saying so.
II any one Is rash or foolish enough TO saw
gratuitously, don't believe it. Our record
will show that we have been in = few slight
sk1raisaes, such AZ Champion Hills and
Mission Ridge, which have unfortunately
resulted in the loss Of great many heroic
men, but that IL all. Az to having fought
battle on every day of the siege Of Vicks-
burg. besides others too numerous to men
ton, ne would not believe il if even the
said SO. But we will be on the
stand, and yon can cross-examine us when
We oome home. / only give word Of eau
ton to the too credulous. WIG. X.