The Jeffersonian Democrat. [volume] (Chardon, Ohio) 1854-1865, 1865-03-17
Charleston Again Under the Old Flag
FIRST APPEARANCES.

FIRST APPEARANcRs. r'i
The wharves looked as il they had been
deserted for half century-broken
down, dlapida;ed, grass and moss peep.
ing up between the paveaents, where
once the busy feet OF commerce lrode in.
cessantlv. The ware. bouyes near the
river; the streets as we enter them; the
houses and the stores and the pnbic
buildiDgs,-we look at them and hold
our brea,hs in utter amazement. No pen
no pencil, no tongue can do justice TO the
scene. No Imagination can conceive Of
the utter wreck, the universal ruin, the
stupendous desolation. Ruin-ruin-ruin
above and below; on the right hand
and The left; ruin, ruin, ruin, everywhere
and always-staring at us from every
paneless window; looking out at us from
every shell-torn wall; glaring at us from
every battered door and pillar and veran.
dab; crouching beneath our feel on every
sidewalk. Not Pompeii nor Herculane-
um, nor Thebes nor the Nile have ruins
SO complete, so saJdening SO plaintvely
eloquent, for they speak 10 US OF an a. e
not ours, and long ago dead, with those
people and life and ideas we have no
sympathy whatever. But here on these
shattered wrecks Of houses-built in our
own style, many Of them doing credit 10
the architecture of our epoch-we read
names familiar to us all; telling us Of
trades and professions and commercial
institution, which every modern city rcck-
ons up by the hundred; yet dead, dead,
dead; as silent as the grave of lbe Phara-
obs,as deserted as the bazaars Of the mer-
chant princes of old Tyre. Whoever
among us wished 10 know how his spirit
would feel il he were 10 revisit by the
pale glimpses of the moon the ruins OF his
native city after the present civilization
shall have passed away, learned it 10 his
com plete satisfaction on the morning OF
last Monday here. 1t was early-lew
siregglers were abroad; just enough to
make the desolalicn the more desolate by
contrast; and the stiffness, not OF The Sab
bath, blu. OF the desert, hung heavily over
all. Hardly a building in all this part Of
the city-and this the business part--has
escaped the terrible crashing and smash
ing OF the shells. And right in the cen.
ter Of it, are at least, should Judge
ten acres Of ruins, the monuments Of the
great fire which occurred three years ago.
This is an open space-only blackened
walls and solitary chimneys remain ia it,.
And all around this area OF desolation, are
the ruined houses that still stand--"Gill.
more's Town." as the negroes call il; a
triumph OF military skll--of the art de-
struc,ive Of all arts; proof to The Chris
tlan that Gods Judgments are sure, and
that the cries Of the poor are heard at The
Great Throne and avenged by the all.
Righteous Judge. They acted the men
who lived in these mansions and .rafficed
in these stores and mar,s, as il God were
dead, as il their own will WAS tie only
standard of right--ihcy Knocked at any
"higber law" they sold the poor men in
their avarice and killed the good men in
their hate; when, 10! the people whom
they despised rose up against them and
subdued them. and the race whom they
| enslaved trod their streets under the
banners and as the comrades OF their con-
querors! .. ,-..... .-..".s d. 800.
.. H THE MASSACHUSETTS FIFTY FIFTH.
Oh WYNN - uoout ocVcu CLOCK.
we heard prolonged and hearty cheering in
neighboring street. ] ran in the direc.
ton indicated by tho shouts, and found that
tho Massachusetts Fify-fit,h (Colored) repi-
mont had just landed in the city: 2
John Brown body lies molderng in the grave
Johu Browns body lies molde. ing in the grave
John Brown S body lies moldering in The ra ye,
II is FOUL is marching on!
Glory! Glory! Hollelujah!
Glory! Glory! Hullelnjah! e' ''-
Glroy! Glory! HalleluJ ah! .i.. .. ..r.
- We go marching on! ...,a.. r..I
Well hang jeff Davis on crab apple tree,
Well hang jeff Davis on a crab apple tree, .
Well hang Jeff Davis on a orab applo-uee,
AS we go marching On! '''
Imagine, it you can, this stirring song
chantod with the most rapturous, most ex-
ultant emphasis, by regiment of negro
troops, who had been lying in sight of
Charleston for nearly two years-as thoy
trod with tnmultuous deli ght along the
streets of this pro. Slavery city,
whose soil they had just touched for
the first time-imagine them, in the dim
light of the evening, seeing on every side
groups of their own race-men, women,
maidens and little children, who greeted
them with joy that knew no bounds save
khnk e Lila