New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1864-03-26
FEE RgTRnBUTIoNs OF THE wAR
The slave in she Masters EEsusc.

From Our Washington Correspondent
WASHINGTON March ~. 1854
To COxB of Georgetown, OF Fourth street Of
that ilk Coke baptized Richard fugacious in tho Rebel
army
Coke your house is full of grcsts-and they are not
the echoes OF your REASONABLE curses against the coun
try that gave you BIRTH nurtured sou and enriched you
thoy the ghosts Of the dead Mortimer, person.
ally chargeable to You in the account etrrsnt which
Justice is keeping with this Rebellion. They are little
ringers Coxe-sck little niggers" WE'LL little mig.
gers" little girl nggers." little boy nggers ALI
orphaned or waits snatched from the waves Of the war
that has washed Slavery loose in Virginia and Mary
land Some of these "Diggers," Coke very little.
One was picked at midnight out OF ash.barrel just
before it foze stiff in that terrible January weather.
That must have been very little "nigger," Coxe, and
If you should measure with your footl0ng revolver any
one Of the six that nightly get paved in bed in tho
southeast corner OF your drawing room you could
not find one that three times the pistols length
Coke, called your house the other day. You were
not in, bnt CaspT Hauser mot Of Germany, but re-
motely of Timbuctoo) was in and was making himself
comfortable on your dining room sofa-the small one
nearest the place. Caspar instruc.ing himself
in the Of pockethandkerchef. and measuring with
idle fingers the exposure of bis shirttai Coxe what
n striking similarity there is between the childhood Of
little "niggers' and little whites, Caspar had
cold in his head and with the characteristic perversc
Of children threatened to so into measles or try
a young pneumonia for while, or small diphthers-
The big red-plush armchair-you reoolect it, Coke
Alice" and "Mly' were in its deep embrace, just
rine engaged in uprooting each others wool in srug-
gle for the larger half Of ba only triae Coke They
were very well behaved children. assure yon-but
coughing like young wolves, and tormented with
phlcgrn. They had been picked up Coke. it were.
from the very surface of the earth in the month Of
January. They had right to cough ard it was inev-
liable that they should spit Your dining room table.
Coxe-you remember 1.-THE leaves down-beautifui
little "niggcr" under ii, imagining herself Queen OF
Shcba n a palace of gold. A handsomer woman. Coke.
than you ever saw. and better than ever Sucked
STAKEHOLDER stopped down. and with her gloyed hand
drew out the Queen and took her her api and she
kissed the child and covering its pretty upturned face
with look of divine compassion the beautiful and tho
good woman said to it dreamily. May God see that
You be well brought up T would have dishonored
the registering hospitality Of your diniugroom, Coke
for me to hare said "Amenw TO that prayer with 0
tear 30 whrled my back upon the little drama. and
contemplated the use to which another Of your guests
hight "Dinab" putting your Office desk This
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open lid in advanced stage Of the mumps Swathcd
20 her jaws with NAPKIN and suggishy pushing PEG
pie in and out OF house, which she had
constructed ont Of some OF your book.
The house was lcetIc bit Tmbuctooish in It's arches
tnre and the people only bits Of anthracite coal;
hut Coke the childs play aatonishingy like that
! of white Young ones-astOnshngly like. Twoud have
interested you it. The mumps, you will observe
Coke with IN auxiliary catarrh had made the childs
breathing difficult Her mouth open the lips sadly
swollen, the nose (Core. wish cOnd say it dry
we will pass that however,, and her eyes decidedly
bunged up and strcamy But /" Dnah" got comfort
and much of Natures medeament out Of the grammar
and geography and Doddridges Rise and Progress yox
left behind in your rebellious fight She occasionally
unroofcd her house by taking Doddrdge off to look for
pictures. Her enjoyment Of them when subsequently
found in the geography languid and hstless but
really Coke don't know Of anything that would have
made the poor sick orphaned waif upoa your desk-hd
more happy than those pictures unless it might hsve
been pocket-handkerchief
n natural anxiety. Coke. to know the fate OF the
Brussels carpet in your diningroom, undoubtedly
gnaws your bosom. None Of your Secesh neighbors
have hooked it, 1t is safe on the foor and the shod
feet Of your little guests viii out Of its plies all the
varieties Of moth. Not will have chance 70 gee
into it, Dismiss from your mind all anxiety the sub
jeet of moths. Coke.
The drawingroom-your heart is in it. Coke, Sc.
That Kdderminster. white purple and gold-yery
handsome fabric, Coxe-gTeat credit to your taste.
Astonishing how little it is soiled The room was
hospital you know, at f-st-aterwaTda sehoOlroom--
and very good school-room it made. too-just big
enough for fifty All gone now to big Government
bnilt seminary of learning Coke about one hundred and
tythrec feet two inches and onequarter-iOye 10 b
exact Coxe-exactness great virtue-noriheast from
your back drawing room window. All gone, soy.
Coke save heap ofite toys in the bow windowsmau
flags (sars and stripes Of your betrayed country Core
tin eharuts plaster eagles, golden to their wnga
blue dogs pink sheep exceedingly natural in expression.
yellow and red horses on the galop-indeed. all the
delightful trash the little CoSs got on and about jan
uary One every Ammo Domni. All gone. ray, save
an iron bedstead which suspect Coke that two VI
three your little guests moaned and shivered through
the first stages of the smallpox. Through its lest
stages Coke they passed into that celestial Democracy
where no man has footroom ~ stand cow-hde An hand
and deny the equality and brotherhood Of the human
race.
The kind Massachusetts, woman Coke, you and
ought to get down knees every night and thank
God for having created that State) leads the way of
Your MISUNDERSTANDING how well preserved
shat carpet up stairs into bedchamber-le
northeast by the mariners compass, and distant from
Government. built seminary OF learning for the deye
opment OF abandoned young Africans hundred and
fty.tbree feet two inches and quarter-pardon my
exactness. Coxe-quaty Of my mind. There are two
beds In this room wood fire the hearth and on the
right side Of the hearth sits little thng in little
armchair wrapped closely in shawl, which it has