Mineral Point weekly tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1859-1868, 1865-04-18
a Revolntion G0ing Forward that was Designed
to 90 Backward,

N'iS -Hbi III WIZ IN iSOiiel Iii AiIdE!tStDti
for being guilty of u skin not colored like
that Of the "chivaIry,'' and the venerable
Judge Hoar, who was sent bv Massa-
chuseits to test the legality of the act,
was hurried from the =" flower city by a
mob
| To-day colored troops patrol the streets
Of Charleston, and not one of its unterrif-
able inhabitants who did not skadaddle at
the approach of the woody heads" can
cross the boundaries of the town without
showing his pass to a negro. The chalice
has returned to plague the lips OF the in
ventor The people who, at the instiga-
ton of their malignant hate and by means
Of malicious mob, sought the humilia-
| ton of a white haired jurist, and who in
| fit of furious spite tumbled a gallant
white Colonel into a trench with the bo-
dies Of his brave blacks who fought under
him and fell with him-this poop are
fugitive yagabonds, are cowed skulkcrs at
their own hearthstones, or are STOPPING to
the humiliation and dishonesty Of taking
an oath which they detest, and swearing;
fealty to a flag which they despise
Who does not remember the days Of
our servility when we were accustomed to
hear from our Southern masters that the
time would come when one Of them would
call the roll of his slaves on Bunker Hill
To~day those very slaves whose names
were to be herd in that roll-call are keep
ing step to the music of the Union as they
trampe out their oppressors from the
Maryland line to the everglades ofFlcri-
da They dance a breakdown in hon
or Of the breakdown Of their old owners,
They sing the year of jubilee has come
around the auction-block at which they
have hitherto been bought and so like
sheep upon the shamhes, and the rice
fields ring with the weird melody Of the
marching Of "Joi n Brown soul"
The Youngest who can recollect any>
t'ling can recoIlect the menaces Of Mason,
the bludceon Of the Brooks, the taunts Of
Stephens, the bravado iests of IIeitt, the
drunken bluster of Wigfall the dictatorial
complaccncy Of Jeff Davis, and the pistol
barrel that peeped from the pocket Of
Foote. To-day Foote Is in confinement at
New York, Davis Is making for Mexico.
Wiglail s following suit, kc;tt and Brooks
are in pur@atory, stephens is sucin- for
peace, and Mason IS minister plenpotcn-
tiary 10 the Court of Ail-ont~doors, sent
/ II,
when he gets there. Plantation man
ncrs" have farsalzcn their ola capital and
their new. The seat Of the scornrul is
given to the "mudsiIlS,' The Yankee
rules and Of the last ditch The slave
drives the sla~e~drivcr. The bust Of Gail
Eoun is trodden under foot by a negress.
"Cotton Is kim, exclaimed Stephens, and
when the king makes war the Yankee
bites the dust. and the whole world falls
ut the feet Of the South The king made
war and to~day his .ghitc locks are red,
saturated with blood-his own blood =
And Alexander does not weep Tor other
worlds to conquer; he has not conquered
his own vet
. Slavery must reign wherever tfc sun
Doth hi successive Journey run,
His Kingdom stretch from shore to shore
TIL moonssha wax and wane more"
So they sung and swore four years ago
To-day the breathing of the monster is
short aud hurried, and presently the YER
diet Of the coroner jury viii be THE de
ceased came to his death by his own
hand Suicide-let him be buried at
the cross roads.
Grass, they flrious'y affirmed would
grow upon the streets of the Northern
cities if they were not INDUCED ia their
wishes and whims. The correspondent of
the London Times AYERS that he saw cows
cropping verdure on the thoroughfares of
Richmond in january last
In the chair of the Chief Magistracy,
through New Hampshire lips, they d" or
dered" the United States Marshal to de-
liver Anthony Burns to his owner on the
streets Of Boston at any cost and ali haz-
ards To-day, with like recklessness
of expense. Pierce or mis- former Secretary
Of War Davis, or any Of their tools, would
he throttled in any Northern city for lay
in. the hand of u kidnapper on any man
of any color
Under the ermine of the Supreme bench
they pronounced black men destitute Of
any rights that white men are bound TO re-
spect To-day black lawyer is il good
and regular standing At the bar of the Su-
preme Court-none daring to molest or
make him afraid
They plunged into this frigbtful and
stupendoas revolution for the purpose, de
family. professel, of sealing the doom Of
enattelage and servtuie upon the negro
forever and ever, To~dav, after four years
of the rebellion the negro Is free, a soldier
of the Republic, the equal of every other,
n commissioned officer, the peer of the
frSt lawyers at the hishes- bar, q can
didate for Office in one at least, of the
States, and destined beyond all question
to be speedily and universally enlranch-
ised. While during these four years every
fugitive slave law has been e-adicated