Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1864-04-08
[From the Southern Punch
CAUGHT A TARTAR.
e7 CAPT. TALBOT GREENE.
"Be they devils, Ronald 2" ,Mak,

-------" Apostates who are neddHnG
With merchandise, pounds, shillings, pence, ant
peddling,
, Or wandering thro' the Southern States, teachin
The A B G, from Webstel's spelling book;
Gallantry and cody, making love and preaching
And gaining by what they csll hook and crook,
, And what the moralists call oyer-reachins,
A decent living. The Southrons look
Upon them with as favorable eyes
AS Gabriel on the devil in Paradise"
On our arrival as prisoners of war at CO.
lumhus, Ohio, we were met at the depot
by Colonel Granville Moody. the Fedora
commander of Camp Chase prison, with a
considerable force to guard US out to OF,
quarters some four miles distant from the
city.
Moody was large, swarthy, pompous
Yankee, having better opinion Of himself
than any one else, and as vain as Broad
way dandy He was Methodist preacher
withal, and like the rest of his fraternity
when they leave their legitimate calling for
other pursuits, become perfect tyrarss to-
tai strangers to that charity they were wont
to teach, while High Priests Of the church.
He was coarse and vulgar 10 his features as
in his mien and department, and notwith
standing his laced broad cloth, lis cockade,
BIS crimson sash, Els trappings Of exterior
adornment, he did not look Enthusiastically q
gentleman. The old adage says: fine
feathers make fine BIRDS" yet they rarely
! disguise the real condition Of the wearer !;
for gentleman seldom looks anything but
gentleman even id dress of the shah
best description: whereas, ape his manner.
as apes may, heap on broad cloth, satin and
! golden lace, jewels and diamonds, there is
always certain indescribable something
which draws decided line between them.
| Such was the man who dominoerod over US
al Camp Chase,
be commenced swearing at, and abusing US
for being Ignorant rebels-a parcel Of
blind sheep being led on by designing men
for their own wicked purposes. and that we
did not know the questions at issue between
the contending States-in short, we did not
know what We were fighting for: we had
never read the Constitutional not know
the FIRST clause of it "
''Say you SO :" cried a friend at my side,
springing up from the midst of the crowd
I Of way-worn prisoners and confronting him.
''Say you so have read the clause in
the Constitution Cart. 1. Sec. q reeogni-
zing slaves as property to be represented
by their masters, and as property to be taxed
upon their masters | have read Cart. /.
Sec. 8 prohibiting Congress to suppress
the slavetrade prior to 1908, but giving
Congress the power to impose tax or du
ty upon each slave imported before that
time, not exceeding ten dollars for each
slave. I have read in art. 4. Sec, 2 the
clause commanding authorities to deliver
up on cIairl cf tie party to whom slave ser
vice may be due, the person or -lave, held
to such service or labor. have read also,
in the Constitution and Decisions of the
Supreme Court Of the. United States, that
before and after It's I'D Confederation in
the divisions of the then unsettled terrific
REG, that all north Of the Ohio was declared
to Is non>5laveholding, ana all soash Of The
I Ohio. to be slaveholdiDg. I have read the
Ordinance July IS, 1887, making free the
territory now Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and
Michigan, but providing therein, also, for
the surrender of fugitive slaves. | have
read the acts, president Washington ap-
proving admitting into the Union the
Territory Of Kentucky, slave holding. then
the property Of Virginia; and afterwards
the Territory of Frankland, slave hslding,
now Tennessee, then the property Of North
Carolina have read of tho purchase Of
Louisiana, Jefferson approving all that
vast region west of the Mississippi, stretch
IN to the Pacific Ocean. and TO the Brit
ish possessions, sla7ebolding, and larger at
that time than the whole Of the United J
States. I have read the judiciary
Act Of 1889, Gath sec.) adopting the con
stitutional laws Of the several States which
recognize slavery. have read the act
enumerating slaves for the purpose of d.
rect taxation, especially the act Of 1868. -
[ have read the Roger Sherman compro-
mise. relative to domestic slavery, which
embraced. "A provision binding on each
State, and upon the Union, to surrender
fugitiyes-a representation in Congress
founded in part on three ffths Of the slave
population--and q guarantee to protect
each State sganist domestic insarrection. "
Now, sir, have read not only ell this, but
| have seen base attempts on the part of
your government, to raise seryile insurrecs
tions throughout the South. .
well, sir Rebel, if you say we have
violated the Constitution, know that we act
from Higher Law. A law that no Chris
tain dare disobey."
"Where is it then Sursly It is not in
| the Bible When our Saviour was on the
earth, He was subject of that vast slave
holding Roman Empire, containing more
than sixty millions Of Slaves. Judea, where
| He was born-GalIilee, where.He lived
Egypt, that He visited-all, were slaye-
holding States. We learn from Holy Writ
! that Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, the Fathers
and Patriarchs were holders Of bondsmen
and bondswomen. And now if there be. in
the Holy Bible any such denunciations Of
slavery or Shareholders as you, aud such as
you, proclaim, point them cut.
Have you not desecrated the pulpit to the
base service of sectonalism ? Have you
not sent missionaries forth to war upon the
domestic institutions Of the South? Have
you not formed comb nations for the stealing
and running off Of slaves, and to prevent
the reclamation Of fugitives +? Have yeu not
enacted personal liberty bills to override
the Constitution? Did you not openly ap-