New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1866-08-10


mistaken by the failure to support it at the Dayone'
point but tie SouthemeTs generally proiessed an ahAe
to come back into tho Union and resume the exercise oi
power which they had enjoyed before the war We
must Join hands" they said, "wth the Democratic p1!i
and so long as we let them have Offices they Will allow us
20 manage everything else in our own way as We du
OF old"
In North Carolina is great deal Of s9meing that
calls itsclf hut know nothing more IKE tue apples
OF Sodom than most Of this North Carolina n,osm: ~ IS
cheat viii ohcwisp and any m,1 ~HV .edI ~ oyv ft
woe 10 him DO mistakes the germ oI vac IYeneI u "a
ing or local ssoDsti bat how la o. promise lo Tue new
era Of national lie is the UnioEsm when rests OILY On 'is
South Carolina there very little pretcnsc oflovo fr the
Tron but everywhere passionate devotion 70 the state;
Who Tes the United States South Carolina There is 10
occasion wonder the admiration Of the people for Wade
1ioD and narrow and domneering spirit Its duty
he says which he has recently addressed TO the
lie United States long he maniesis disposition to
restore all ouI rights as sovereign State That sentence
Will stand model of cool and yet Is IN
full accord with tie spirit Of the South Caronians Inc war
has taught Item that ne physical force OF me na.n Game, ~
the whole current OF their lives flows IN direct anasonn 10
In Georgia there is something worse than sham Unionism
or cold scGuesoencc in the Issue Of battle the universally
prevail mt doctrine Of the supremacy Of the state IN SCUM
Carolina few stood MP against the Storm but In Georgia
that hopelessv dead who doubted or faltere Ihe
al classes pushes the necessity OF allegiance
10 the state into OF morals well as into that Of
rorc and he who did not 20 State in the Rebel
lion held mitted the objectionable sin AT Ma
con met q who Of The leading Unionists IN the
Winter s60-G. lie told how he suffered then for bis
hostility Secession and yet he added should nave con
sdered forever disgraced hadn't heartily gone with
the when she decided TO fight believe Is the con
testimony of all careful travellers IN georgia ha mere
everywhere only cold liberation for the idea o. naoHa
sovereignty and ont little pride IN the strength and glory ana
renown Of the United states OF Amerlcs. - 49,, To-. ~,
Much said the hypocrisy Of the South found bl NJ
lie of il anywhere The North Clronian calls himself
Unionst bat he makes special preiense OF ioVe lo
UnioD lie desires many i4vors bni ne Gshs 'sn "a
nation 10 recognize rare virtue in that hatred and hopes
his state the restoration o her pochl Htsi
dcny IN removngi 1t. The South Caronian demands only
oc,b1 e, Than he did In the DAYS before the War he
offers no plea Of Uuionism guarantee for the iue ne
, tIe war and he Honesty bcieyes that he has 50
acquesced. Ills confidence in South Caglna is 50 supreme
such light a he has and cannot vet bel eve that destiny
ecreed his State secondary place in the Union The Ge0r
gan began by believing that Rebellion IN the Interest slavery
was h the result Of the has not charged hs
opinion. He is anxious for readmission TO fellowship Win
NowYosk and Pennsylvania and Connecticut but he supports
his application by little claim OF community Of interest with
other States His spirit is hard and uncomprom1f De de.
mand ghs but does not ask favo aud be confident ifat
Georgia fully important TO toe United States rs they are
TO Georgia.
There are few chapters in the book which will be read
with more interest than the describing tie military
prison OF Florence s. c., from which we subloin few
paragraphs
Does any man. bofed by the stories told concerning IT,
believe that tho famous and Infamous "deadhne' was
mvthi However it may have been elsewhere here IL -
hateful reality about 20 feet inside the sookade walls
Part Of the way marked by light pole laid in eToehes
elsewhere il only marked by the line which distinguishes
rodden unirodden groundof earth rank with grass ad
Of earth bare of grass just back OF TINS hut IN the north
quarter there only this line OF grass and no grass
this the best Of tho Southern prsonpens bat
here report such Of the people
be induced speak all OF the socknde Is rue be
guards ~ a o to ann cce Fl
bread the ockale between the wall asd dead line in
order shot at Yankee boy who was 80 hungry
tbouehesy rush for it, These fellows would have their
joke see Shall We mrds,s complain theTeat II ihey
| between the wall and the dead liner
Go 10 even 9 IL wo to Hero UIP as e Of h @
dead-eity Dopnous as those as fruitful as those 10 TIE
signs life that and Is not On these 10 or
II acres at least $500 houses-pcrhaps 300
correct fgne and not less than three ouTths
Of thcm are nearly good they the day Of their
sudden evacuation aud in hundreds of them are memorials OF
that life Of aud which 1900 men knew here and
which passed ouhrough the door Of the deidouse
TO the slope way yonder by the timber and laid themselves
down long for the final sleep and for the glorious re-
In the construction Of these habatlons here almost in
and through which the s driving storm begins beat
furnishes that general plan with very little elaboration OF Gee
and have Won horror Of this squat roof and those
smoky walls and this earth hooi Yet here lived three or
four for many weeks doubtless and perhaps Tor many
The hot is six and bafee long feet and thr,e nehe.
and about Eve feet high in the center hole Of -
me IS Get h t ks was sjd riJrep"le The wall a.
our house is tie side Of the ho the slope Of sticks
or slabs OF M9od Ie:og on .S & T bo I hs smaller Than
this numerous than those larger
The back end is made OF sticks driven into the ground
against whch earth has been thrown The front end built
with Hall Of it Of mud brick and the door and
the little chimney at tho occupy the other ha he
door simply hoe the chimney is seemingly Dnit up Of 1t
lie bricks and gives tiny fireplace Of about IS inches square
The first covered with pine brush and then with BIZ
Perhaps hundred Of the entirely above ground
Possibly high that an oIdnay man can stand
straight in them But then there are Thousand butt over
feet deep thousand not more than four feet
high the ridge thousand not more than four feet square
well filed grave DO you deem Is awful that men should live
in such habsobs tbesei Yet they palaces beside
the burrows Of Salisbury. The thousands OF tiny BRICK ued
here were made from the reddish earth OF the
hillside west Of the brook The graded MAJ, extend
parade ground, but IL only the bed on which these
sometimes great deal OF skill and ingenuity displayed one
with pleasure two Of chimneys that models
constructed with elaborate improvements So few Of
the have doors euouy braided Of sTlntes
house above ground woven walls and roof like basket
These things though are exceptional generally there was
Tsaw with glaness that there was plenty wood
g. as have already said still piled in long rank just
about ncosure particularly east Of the brook Look into
hundred hu and you shall wood ready cut for tie little
fireplace IS Of them surely. In few yet lies
nicely piled against the chimney on the outside.
They were Yankee boys the inhabitants Of this city Here
IL great pine fashioned into BARRIERS chair which
many would be glad bid BOO at sanitary fair Its
nothing but rough bit Of log evident enough
row the little post at which they aimed
an old horseshoe yng near 80 TOO hey seem to have
his forces the State above for found
srroysi for picked M what was clearly an arrow That
they played checkers certain for just down the hill little
the fireplace tumbled half their pieces-ur
round and two square, cut from pine spnter guess they
also played cards for In hut picked the ten Of Gibbs
spot and the queen hearts and the and tie Jack
Of spades. You life sudden pause hefe-there
ence; and walk where will, you stumble against
thing that suggests was but yesterday these prlsonboys
The occupant Of one house Here s a scrap