Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1865-01-19
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and ages was very dense. The banners
bore suggestive inscriptions, most of which
We give: ra
America. the Home of the Brave and the
Free"
"Hurrah for General Grant"
1.-THE Freedmen of Memphis greet the
Freedmen Of Savannah"
"tIHrrah for General Dana" 4
"Jsff. Davis, the great Aboitionist. "
Liberty or Death"
"lS63.
The year Of Jubilee"
"Ole Massa's Done Gone and Left U.s.
"Toti and Success"
Willing to Work"
Twenty Schools One Thousand Schol
lars"
Free and Equal."
"All Nations ofone Blood."
Good Bless Our Northern Teachers"
"Proclaim Liberty Throughout the World"
The General Superintendent OF Freed
men"
"Our Rights Protected"
Fourth Reader"
"OHly Onr Rights"
Liberty, Education, and the Right Of
Suffrage"
JEFF Davis Ample Tree"
"We Can Work, or We Can Fight"
'llurrah for General Thomas.
''Sons Of Ham, Organized 1859
"God Bless the Emaucpators.
"Thev Rebelled Against Right"
'Two Years of Liber,y-We are Marching
On"
"No Compromise.
"Down with the Traitor"
"llurrah for Gen. Sherman"
Many of the inscriptions were strikingly
illustrated. Cotton Dethroned" was rep.
resented by negro seated on bale Of cot
ton, in a wagon, bearing the inscription,
An apple tree in wagon was suggestive of
the fate of jeff, Davis, as the song goes. -
Every industrial pursuit was represe nted,
and many Of the trades were being carried
on on a small scale in wagons as the process
sion moved through the city. One vehicle
carried school, the scholars busily enga-
ged with books, states and pencils; another
contained printing office; another repre-
sented a sewing machine establishment; a
shoemaker piled his trade vigorously, and
barber carried on the lather and shave
operation at brisk ratio, while here and
there through the procession mechanics Of
every trade, whitewashers, laundresses,
pcrters, walters, and "hewers of wood and
carriers of water" made mimic display of
their respective vocatiuns using the various
tools connected Herewith.
Large as was the procession occupying
two hours in passing one point-excellent
order was maintained. One Hiberian gem
tleman, well known about town from the
grotesqueness of his dress carrying about
him medals of ribbons sufficient to bedeck
the most honorcd of the field marshals OF
France, and for his disposition to enlighten
the public at street corners with strange
harranguos, interspersed with fearful whirl.
ings through his fingers ofa shelaleh. and
mourniul tones from battered accordeon,
took accoption to the demonstration of his
colored brethren, and damned ".Old Abe
and the niggers" in manner that would
have secured Tor any one not lunatic, an
unpleasant abiding place in Irving Block,
Four colored men took him quietly in hand
and by nothing more than moral suasion
induced him 90 reverse his anathemas. He
took the head of the procession, and bran
dished his shelaleh, while he cheered lusti
" for those whom he had just damned Al
the Pleasure Gsrlens few unru'y boy:
sought TO make disturbance by throwing
stones, but were soon quieted.
The procession having reached the pleas
ure grounds, Col. John. Eaton, jr., Genera
Superintendent Of Freedmen. being pres
ent, was called to the stand, and in few
happy remarks, suggested by the occasion
opened the exercises: First, asong 10 whic
all participates; then prayer by Rev. w
Wolford, presiding Elder, A. N Il. Church
followed by speeches from Lieut.. Col. L.
b. Eaton, Superintendent Of Freedmen
Department of Arkansas, Col. Samue
Thomas, Assistant General Superintendent
and Provost Marshal of Freedmen, Capt. T.
A. Walker, Superintendent OF Freedme I
District West Tennessee, Brig. Gen, Chst
lain and Rev. l.. III. Cobb. Superintendent
Of Memphis colorcd Schools. Speecbe,
we're also made by colored men, promiaen
among whom, were Guy Moody and Nor
rison Henderson.
The exercises were varied by singing o
hymns and patriotic songs. On the whole
it wss the greatest jubilee Of colored people
""-- h''a !" ."y State North or South.
A. the close, a sprightly looking little
negro of six or seven years came upon tnt
stsnd. and recited some verses, touShlngly
Abiding to the change in his conditien-
FROM slavery tefsesd0%.