The Tiffin weekly tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1859-1868, 1867-07-25


Ter from one Of our regiments, on
this subject, and he told me that he
had been taken prisoner, aud after
suffering the tortures Of the damned,
al Andersonville, he succeeded 10
making bis escape. He was wretch
edly weak and III, covered with sores
and.clothed ia rags. He hid in woods
aud swamps by day, and but for the
assistance he received from negroes
he would have perished. He never
hositated 10 approach slave, tell
his story aud solicit help. He was
never betrayed, and always assisted.
On one occasion whilo being guided
BY friendly black, they were pursu.
ed By rebels assisted BY bloodhcunds
The soldier, Campbell, was too weak
and i'll TO Ay with much hope Of sue
cess, aud the slave said 70 him, "croas
de run massa, aaa hide, de dogs "
follow me--deys taught 20 hunt do
niggers. MY friend obeyOd and
escaped. Long after. accompanying
our victorious army in its march to
tho soa, passing through the same
souptry, he won't in search Of the
humble friend, who had saved his
life, and found after diligent inquiry,
that the dogs followed and overlook
the poor negro, and he was shot and
torn TO pieces.
My friends, you who had 10 re-
main at homo through tho late long
and dreary war. while your loved one
marched and fought; you who sat
lonely aud desolsts by the Ere at
night, and thought sorrowfully Of the
one nearest and best who watched by
that other ere in the distant camp;
you who turned and turned In bed
and prayed in agony to God TO spare
that loved one; you who seized the
morning journtl with trembling, ca
ger hands, and read, through tears,
the list OF tho killed aud wounded,
fearing that the name so dear might
be among the listof killed aud wound
ed, remember now that the only
friend he had was the humble negro,
who warned him Of danger, fed him
whom hungry, was his nurse while
sick, and his guide from death when
an escaped prisoner, and do not de.
sert him now that he appeals TO you
for help. five do we are unworthy
our success, and will go down TO the
latest generation a by-word Of scorn,
adisgraee to humanity.
He only asks tho ballot at your
hands. Give him that, and he is woll
armed for self-proteotion. 1t Is said |
that the master Of the South will
control that vote. l care not. He
can have that control only through |
Kindness, aud thAt-is all that l con-
tend for.
This is the process through which |
wo propose to elevate tho race. Give
tho poorest wretch that walks share
In the control Of our government, and
you infuse a manhood into his form
aud n self respect into his soul Take |
the poorest, ineanest foreigner who
comes to our shores, and contrast this
man with himself Eve years after. II
was an Irishman who, looking at
machine breaking stone, exclaimed !
"Bo the powers, ye may break stone
like the divil; ye may take me bread
out Of me mouth. but, bcjsbbers, 20
cant vote" There was consolation
in that.
We cannot violate the plainest
principles underlying the government,
that upon which our fathers fought
out their hard 6ehts, that claims rep.
resentation for taxation, aud expect
to retain our government as II was
given to us, aud as we hope to hand
II down to our children. We can not
oppress the negro without trampliug
on our own rights, and to be safe
ourselves We are forced to be just to
him.