The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1864-01-19


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Ht bgris iia ailam Warrior.
eeJ d jsittd il bra csili-
fafaa q thy aineirth century
Iti somewhat a e58l, appearance
uas Iarap na th uh q aay aa-
liFe Euis riiy % ,.cieus eiscatoa, hat
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81 lst,eael circumstances 81 t5e
: ba civilization and Is. defender.
~ The imagnaiions 81 some - ,lle
North these gentlemen siii appeaf us
aallaai cavaliers, sustaining ibe same
relation othe beautiful ibai ihe brave
tore % tie fair 10 tie oder fables.
IAe pefsors, too, we're seriously
concerned IA The sudden appearance
d the negro brigade Every cmpa-
uy q Them ia that lection bad a fair
opportunity 70 make good their title
81 slaie Defenders bY putting o
fight detached portions q the negro
brigade. They had everything % ,ppr
them on 20 q bold encounter They
behed before them a race they d..
,iised raee whic'i bad had its man
hood irodirn ont BY long oppression.
They Lad an opportunity d weakening
the United States Government and
strengthening their own in a CORE.
spending degree rs proving that ''ni--
gene would not lsli' And yet in
every instance they broke at the first
ire aol took 70 their heels ii die most
approved somhern style. The hills
aud valleys Of the old North Safe
bebe!d baud. 81 her sons running for
life before slightly superior number,
Of plantation 'boys." And one slight
ly inclined 10 sport with fancy might
have given additional interest to
the scene BY drawing above item as
they ran their well kaown motto, a
SoulherneF can ship five Yankee
II this manner they disappeared in
The dark saamps, and tle.r pursueIs
close behind. In single I'll The co..
orcd troops lrac' I'd them through the
dense gloon into sectct paths which
led 70 their concealed camps. These
they destroyed and scattered tie mem
beers Of the band III all directions
through the marsh. In past years
these suamps have been the hiding
place Of iugitives from their masters
who have been led 10 run the risk of
fearful punishment il caught by that
desire Of liberty which Is as potent III
i black slave OF the South to-day as
il was in tie serf Of England in the
century which gave birth 10 the Mag
ma Chana On those little islands
surrounded by dense underg aud
impossible morasses. which now serve
for guerilla camps, they took refuge
from their pursuers, and through those
secret paths by which the state De-
Tenders" recently escaped from the
black yietors, they were tracked BY
bIood-hounds and followed by the
Shareholders hooiiug rabble. If lie
NOVELIST who has 70 wildly portrayed
those scenes Of slaye-huniing in those
dismal swamps bad yenured to pre-
dict thai in. a few years tie thing
would be reversed and the blacks
would chase The whites, th- pnbli>her
would probably have required the
erasure o. ulat sentence before he I'M
deuook the publication. And if three
years ago q Northern orator had. az
ter drawing that picture Of Southern
opalence which Camden and Pasquo-
tank counties with their rich mansions
and broad fields Of growing grain and
and populous slave villages then pre-
sented, declared that IN three years al
army Of negroes would sweep over
that section driving the masters 70 tic
seamp' aud giving libery to tn slaves
il would have been sell for that o,a.
tor 90 retire from observation before
his remark took effect upon the audi.
enee, And yet all that We see To-
day.
We remember Of reading At tie be-
ginning Of the war; al extract from O
Southern paper which referred to.an
Alabama regiment which bad just sei
out for the rebel army bespeaking
them iira-elass cars, siaierooms, ca ]
marches, aud extra fare. for they we're
every one of them gentlemen from tie
eiite of southern society. Three year-
81 - az have doubt, > made sd havoc
With that regiment oi gentlemen. Il
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