Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1864-09-23

gagged viii know its whole extent
Please write II and VIC may know you
are with US.
"Be assured, general, that a copy Of
this letter has been sent to every depart
ment in the rebel states, that the time of
the movement may thus be made general
over the entire South'
was re.reading the letter when the
general again said:--
"What do you think of ?"
1T would end the rebellion. 1t taps
the great negro orgaaizatios, of which ]
sneak in among the Pines, and coop
Grated with by our forces would succeed,
but-the South would run with blood
Innocent blood! Women and chill
dren'
Yes women and children. If you let
the blacks loose, they will rush into car
mage Ike horses into burning barn.
St. Domingo viii be multiplied by a mil
lion
"But he says no blood is to be shed ex-
cept in selfdefense-'
He says so, and the leaders may mean
so, but they cannot restrain the rabble.
Every slave has some real or faocied
wrong, and he would take such time to
avenge it.
well, must talk to Garfield. Come,
20 with me-.
/ We crossed the street to Garfeld's
lodgings, and found him bolstered up in
bed, quite sick with fever The gener-
al sat down at the foot of bis bed, and
handed him the letter. Garfield read il
over carefully, and then laying it down,
said
1T will never DO, general. We don't
want to whip by such means. If the
slaves of their own accord, rise and assert
their original right to themselves, thas
will be their own affair; but we can haqe
no completely with them without oufrag-
ing The moral sense of the civilized
world
Il knew you'd say so bot be speaks
Of other department commanders-may
they rot come into it
Yes they may, aud that should be
looked to. Send this letter to---,and
let him head of the movement
1t was not thought prudent to intrust
the letter to the mails; nor with the rail
way, infested with guerrillas; nor was it
a safe document TO carry about the per
son. A short shrift and a long rope
might have been the consequences of its
being found on a traveller. So, by rip
ping open the top Of my boot, slowed it
snugly away in the lining, and took it
north. On the 4gh of june following,
Garfield wrote me that he had just heard
from the writer Of the letter; and that
five cut of nine department commanders
had come into the project, and subse-
quendy that another general had also
promised it bis support
But l can say no more. All the
world knows the insurrection did not
take place. The outbreaks in Septem-
Der, among the blacks of Georgia and
Alabama, were only parts of the plan,
the work of subordinate leaders, who,
maddened at the miscarriage ofthe grand
scheme, determined to carry out their
own share of the program at all hazards.
II was a gigantic project, and the trains
were all laid, the matches all lighted, and
two centuries Of cruel wrong were about
to be avenged 10 a night, when a white
man said to a negro, "You will slaughter
friends and enemies. You will wade
knee deep in innocent blood. God can
not be with you in midnight massacre Y
A white man said that, and the uplifted
torch fell from tho negroes hand, and
saying, Il will leave vengeance to God, "
he went back TO his toll and his stripes.
Didn't you tell me you could plow !
said a farmer to a man he had taken on
trial-Arrab, be aisy now ! said Pat
How the duce am | to how'd it, and two
horses drawing It away from me