North Branch democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Pa.) 1854-1867, 1864-08-31
SACRED TO THE MEMORY
t'THE NIGER" AND kennedy

LIE NlGUEh AMI hEN ED1.
We are informed that a fund is be-
Ing raised. by subscription, for the purpose
of placing monument over the body of the
negro .deserter-H Holmes, who was shot
swhfle; in the act of desertion frcm this place,
Aefew weeks ago. The honor of leading +
this enterprise belongs to the pot ,gutted
parsoD, Jacob Kennedy of Eaton, the place to
which the negro escaped and where he was
killed. The sum OF $50 is said to have been
'Feeeiyed, and still the work goes op. OF
course the work of commemoratng the
syirtues of this ebony deity is confined to the
rsfaithful" a..- =. ....-. ..
{ The memory of John Brown the traitor sede-
ionist and murderer who by them was .acrIlig
eusly styled the second jesus Christ"-the
J" Christian Martyr'-and whose portrait
was, in this place, hung up the side that of
the Immortal Rashington's is likely to pale
before the increasing spleu1er of the perur-
cd negro deserter, George Holmes. The
saviour had his apostle Paul. Thi, negro
adsity5 of the abolitionists, has his apostle
Jacob We wish it to be distinctly UNDER
stood that we do not wish to divert the af-
.seetione of the pot bellied parson nor any Of
OF hia co-worksrs, from the niger. They
are joined to their idols and We will let them
alone. But there should be fitness n pro-
priety in oil things. We are told that, in the
same place where Holmes is buried. are the
K <Rm@nMina 0f a, raw Iptio
aof}76, whose grave has not even stone to
mark the the spot. That the place of inter
-nent, Hits known at all exists only in the
memories of few gray-haired men, who will
socnitaks up their abode with him, The
graves of thousands of our brave soldiers who
lave fallen within the past three yepra are
ao-day without a stone to mark the st.t
and will remain SO to the end of time. This
Rsalons apostle if he chooses, NAV find many
such within the circuit of his ministerial
Peregrinations. -.,....
gSineS the present deporable war, in the
dead OF winter the news came to this town,
from the town in which he resides that the
child ofa soldier had died from exposure
.and want. Asubscription was started hare.
Money, provisions, shoes, dresses and other
Iarticies of clio thing were freely given (prlnci-
O paliy by those whom the pious Jacob weekly
denounced as eopperheads and ira itors y
Two eoppcrhead women, with a copperhe cad
fsarnc carried these things to the house of
death, A scene of destltution and want
nsuch no they never before beheld, met their
eyes. In hUuse through which the cold
piercing winds Of winter whistled, the sol
fdiers wife--the bereaved mother-surround-
Cd by her remaining little ones, told them
taa story Of their sutferings. How the feet
of her dead child were frozen. how mort,f-
cation ensued, and how death came to the
relief If the little sufferer. 4 ~
That mother and those children still live
within few minutes walk of the Lovap,
pursy parsons house. We venture the as
sertion that they have not pound Of coal nor
an aImful of wood for the long cold winter
which W i'll soon be upon them. We dare
assert too, that this negro worship3ine apos :
stie never darkened the door of that lovIy
aoode with his pcrtly fgure-and that h.
sever W'li, as long as there is dead Niger
IN the ground or live ono out Of IL unon
which hs can bsstew his tears and cha sritiss