The new South. [volume] (Port Royal, S.C.) 1862-1867, 1864-01-09

chief superintendent of the Government planta-
tons on st. Helena Islanda
Then eeine d sword presentation to General
Saxton, made by the Rev. Mr. Lynch an educated
colored minister from Baltimore, and now miss
ionary to the freedmen in this Department In
the course of his truly eloquent presentation adj
dress, he said "Ou. race here have no pledge to
make action; put the nations uniform upon
them-they will never disgrace it They are
ready to repeat Port Hudson, MilIiken's Bend,
and Wagner. Over seventy-fve well attended
schools flourish in this Department. The people
are rapidly improving and are selfsustaining."
General Saxton replied briefly, saying among
solemn determination to wear it int the cause of the
freedom till every slave in this land is as free
you are to-day" The General portrayed the
blessings to follow in the train of liberty, and ex
horted the colcred soldiers to stand by the old
flag whether they received s10a month or nothing.
The sword presented is very fine one with
richly wrought scabbard on which are engraved
the words:
"To R1GADIERGESERAL sAxrpy, Military Governor as
tsssmsn,s 2. the grs1ss .lsessea 81 .e g Pre- Rs;
their liberty protection and elevation Beaufort JAM
l, 1864.
on the hilt are the Latin words:
"Deo Patriae Tbi Go thee for God and our country"
The next announcement was that of q speech
from Colonel Van Wyck, Of the seth n. Y Vols,
formerly chairman of the famous Congressional
Investigating Committee. The Colonel traced the
real issue between rebeldopp and the rest of the
country from its inception at the ballot box, to
the appeal to the arbitrament of war, showing
that Issue to be simply the question whether the
labor should be slave or free. =: He eulogizes
Abraham Lincoln, the representative of free
labor 'sthe pure in purpose, the honest in
heart" showed emancipation to be military
necessity said "the rebels have placed the yew
tree and the cypress in ali the graveyards of the
North, they have clothed mothers and wives in
the habilments of mourning, and have caused the
child to moisten his playthings with tears )" and
argued that for these and their other innumerable
crimes, the Negroes should go in and possess
their land, as did the emancipated Jews that Of
the Canaanites, for "an inheritance forever"
The rebels he said, talk great deal about our
being invaders Why, have we no right to come
into the State OF South Carolina? Our fathers
and theirs gave it to me as much as the soil of
New York We are bound to defend this mighty
country for posterity, as We should be treasures
placed in our hands to be kept safely for others
Not one of its stars shall be plucked away till
every loyal American has gone down to the tomb.
Colonel Elwell, Chief Quarter-Master OF the
/ Department, was next introduced, and made a
brief speech to the colored people in plain and
simple language He alluded to the 'yankee
weather." and said that the yankee himself had
come. The Emancipation Proclamation had i'm
ished the work of the Declaration of Independence,
and it would never more be undone. The yankee
had come to stay, bringing with him his guns and
a,alc:tS n,,l = ynrild not he lnnG before tie