Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1865-01-06

H1oiefahce- can understand. as / never did be-
pre- Why y was that few PERSONS who every year
ieIresented the South in Congress, able to WELD
hat influence as unit To be sure the interest Of
laery was all-controlhng, yet it never would have
eFpug ghf this people TO the pitch Of civil war had
Ehey received the most common benefits Of educa-
Ion. lhe solemn truth is, that the Southern peo-
pie have never had any conceptions Of the nation as
Ii did. They do not know what it Is to be an Amer
sean.
1t must not be supposed that we dol not meet many
PERSONS who claim to have been Unlonists from the
BEGINNING Of the The vote of Georgia was un-
ppbtedly given by a large majority against seceg-
4oni aud most every old man when he sees his pigs
4ld poultry killed IN his very barn yards and gazes
Nth mourntm eyes upon the wagons that are filed
fth his corn, protests that he always was Union
dan lt seems hard sometimes to strip such men
clear ot all eatables as do our troops who have
ae art cultivated to the most eminent degree, but
General Sherman often says to them- IF ii Is
| tue that You are Unionists, you should not have
Ermltted JEFF Davis to dragoon you, until YOU are
much his slaves as once the niggers were yeErs. "
HOWELL ooBp's PLANTATION.
Just before his entrance into Milledgevlle Gener-
4 fisherman canped on one Of the plantations of
lowell Cobb IL was coincidence that Macon
lper containing Cobb address to the Georgians
General Commanding was received the same
Ry. This plantation was the property of Cobb's
life, who was a DeInar. do not know that this
bbb ever claimed any great reputation as a man of
tety and many virtues, but / could not help con
@sting the call upon hisfellow citizens rise and
dend their liberties, homes, ETC., from the step Of
u invader, to burn and destroy everything in his
flint, assail him on all Sides and all that, with his
ON conduct here and the wretched condition of his
ngroes and their quarters.
hi e found his graneries well filed with corn and
weat part of which was distributed aud eaten by
a animals and men. A large supply of syrup,
1hde from sorghum (which we have found at near
T4on +affc oradi
dt-house. This was also disposed of to the sol |
eFs and the poor decrepid negroes, which ths hui |
hne, liberty loving Major General left to die in |
lis place few days ago. Becoming alarmed, Cobb |
Int to that place and removed all the ahlebodied
Jules, horses, cows and slaves He left here some
'ith clothing scarce covering their nakedness, |
18th little or no food and without means of procur
hg any. We found them covering over the fire.
laces OF their miserable huts, where the wind |
hitled through the ereyiees between the logs fright
eel at the approach Of the Yankees who, they had |
bel told, would kill them. A more forlorn ne
ghded set of human beings never saw.
Gneral Sherman distributed to the negroes with /
hiB en hands the provisions left here, and assured
thenthat we were their friends, and they need not
be eaaid that we we're foes. One old man answer
ed hh Il spose dat you Sc true but massa you Sc
II gsFay to morrow, and anudder white viii
cont He had never known anything but perse-
eutiG and fears from the white man, and had been
kept such ignorance of us that he did not dare
put tth in any white man.
REBEL LIES TO NEGROES.
TB terrorism, which forms so striking feature
ofslery has had marked illustrations ever since
we il Atlanta. The negroes were told thatas soon
as WEet them into our clutches they were put into
the ont of the battle and we killed them if they
did It fight; that we threw the and chill
dreEnto the Chattahooehie, and when the buildings
weraurned in Atlanta, we flledthem with negroes
to b'oasted and deYoured by the flames. These
stors, which appear absurd to us, are not too ex
travant for the simple, untutored minds of the ne
gFsa4 They are easily frightened. and full OF su
at.on. IN ost any other instances such bloody
tai would have frightened them entirely out of our
sig to the woods and other hiding places but they
asEt with much earnestness and glee, that +massa
csl come dat over we; we know heap better
Nlt for de Yankees $ant to hurt black men ? Mas
Sc ltes de Yankees, and he no fren ter me; SO
wein de Yankees bis frens. Very simple logic
ina but 1t is sufficient for the negroes.
tperal Sherman invites all able bodied negroes
(oGrs could not make the march to join the col
umand he takes especial pleasure when they JOIN
tharoeession on some occasions telling them they
areee; that Massa Lincoln has given them their
ibty, and that they can go where they please
thif they earn their freedom they should have it
bJGat Massa Lincoln had given it to them any
ho They all seem to understand that the proc
laltion Of freedom had made them free, and I
hA met but few instances where they did not say
tlt expected the Yankees were coming down
s9tme or other, and very generally they are
pdssed with the idea that we are lighting for
th, and that their freedom is the object of the
W; This notion they got from hearing the talk Of
til masters.
stick in dar, = was the angry exclamation of one
ofparty of negroes to another, who asking
tonany questions of the officer who had given
th permission to join the column. Stuck IN dar
it'll right; we'se gNne along, We Sc free.
ok I;adf ~ q sob vas l
deople hereabouts were heap frightened when
deeard you Sc coming; dey busted out yer sud ;
de-
DESTRUCTION OF RAILROADS. s
the way the destruction of railroads in this
caaign has been most thorough. The destruction
ofoh long lines Of road necessarily requires time,
VIII in an expedition Of this kind is valuable in
thighest decree. The ordinary method of de-
strion was to place the rails across pile of burn
in;eepers, their own weight bending them.
this does not iniure the rail so much but that
it be heated and Strengthened again. lnstru- !
ms have been made, one is clasp, which locks
uIr the rail. 1t has ring in the top into which
is erted long lever; and the rail is thus ripped
frdhe sleeper. When the rail has become heated
nch is applied, which fits close over the ends
ofe rail BY turning them in opposite directions
thtil is so twisted that even a rolling machine
co not bring it back into shape. In this manner
habeen destroyed some thirty miles of rails which
lai the city Of Atlanta, and also all the rails on
thugusta and Atlanta Road from the last named
plito Madison and thus far the Georgia Central
R4 from few miles east of Macon to- Tonyille !
Sbn, where / am now writing. !
NEAR JoHNsoN's, on THE South SIDE
or GEORGIA RAILROAD, November 20. !
have not heard from the army north of the !
raad since it left us at Sandersyile; +; not from a
Ktrick till to-day, and then indirectly through
No. who reports that the son of his master rode
ale way from Louisville in great haste, reporting u
thsheeer was fighting the Yankees, who were f
adeing on Augusta. General Sherman's second c
sql this campaign viii have been equally success
futh the hrst if he is able to cross the Ogeechee
torrow without much opposition Davis and t
ktrck's movement was a blind in orGer to facil- O
fitahe passage over the Ogeechee of the main
bcof the army, which for two days past has been n
mAing on parallel roads south of the railroad l.
Is far we have reason to believe that the hebels S
arnorant of our principal movements and are
trlng with the fear that Augusta is our obJee- p
+ ti9 r
/ patrick is doing the same work which he ac- a
edished with such high honor when covering our 2