The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1868-10-07
No TO.


. The morning returned to the Wateree, a"I
found her about 500 yards from high water mark, one
| II feet above the level the
The tidal wave, by measurement was 40 feet high
Have been hard at work day standing watch, kid
y mapping mules, getting water and burying the dead
, All OF the Fredonas are lost except the Captain
II DR.. Paynin, and two of the crew who were washed
ashore alive I've written this by the camp fire. and
have not time to revise correct it. little off
starboard bow the Fredona and another have been
completely broken up that there is scarcely plank
left to show where they cast ashore. brig ia
upright about half way between here and africa Every
vessel in the harbor ashore. have no idea
what they will do with us.
August 22d.-The Kearsage and Nyaek are in the
. harbor have not yet heard from them.
Hoping that you have not undergone any anxiety
about me, remain your afeetionate son,
EDw. D. TAUss1G.
GES. GoRDos's PLAIN TALK TO CoLoRED MES.-Gen
John B. Gordon, OF Georgia, delivered the night of
the 1th September an eloquent speech at Charleston
S. c. There large number of cOlored men pres
ent and it is General Gordons remarks to them which
we now present to readers The General is a'
plain talker as he gallant soldier He conceals
nothing but makes clearly the interests of
colored population in the present crisis The stamp OF
honesty is upon every word:
III the few words shall say to vou my friends, if
you will listen to me, hope to deal with you c8nddg
| and honestly. The Radicals have told you that the
Southern people your enemies. But believe me-
ter We were all opposed to your freedom. Now,
that's honest, isn'tit? Yes, that's So" from the
crowd.] And why this so I'll tell you. We did
not do this because we were your enemies, but be
cause had bought you and paid our money for YOU
TGrea laughter. You belonged to the Northern peo-
pie once, and some people think you belong to them
now in the Loyal League. II the Northern States
that sent to the shores of Africa and captured and
brought your fathers to the North. And when you,
labor became Improbable, they sold you the South
ern people. The carpet baggers will tell you that the
North brought on the war to free you. Let me ask
why did they set you free when they owned you.
You might then have been born free and might now
have owned the forty acres which the lying rascals
promised you l say that they did not wage the war
to free you and honest soldier who participated in
| it will say The idea never entertained. Gen.
Grant himself at time threatened to quit the SER
vice if you freed. They you free because they
wanted to you, not from any love they bore you.
| And now they tell you that are your enemies.
Have we not been born the same soil Are not
our interests Identical? Have not grown up to-
gether and have not fathers been buried under
| the same sod ? Why, then, your enemies9
| You have been told to arm yourselves against the
whites Cries of No, no. Wel am glad to hear
it. What would be the result of arraying the
A contest will come, which will be of races then
which race must triumph? You are in the majority
on the seaboard and could destroy many people. But
nv friends let tell you the moment the war of
races is inaugurated that moment the death warrant
of the black this continent is signed. There
three millions OF your race and forty millions Of
white Nov, ASK you, IN all reason which race
must 60 DOWN.
The speaker then alluded to the assertion of Helper
who said that before the year 1872, no black will
have habation Oh this continent. In quoting this
the speaker said: He says because of speculation
Lands scarce in the North, they have surplus of
labor aud they desire blot out your race in order
that they mig ght come here take possession Of the
place and cultivate the land. The Indian once lived
where you live bat where is he nowf He couldn't
live in peace with the white and he went to war.
The few scattering mounds that left in the States
speak the result Now this is what Helper says must
be your fate, and most singular to relate, large
jory of the Radical members of Congress subscri
bers to his book and are giving it circulation
Now speak plainly If you disposed to live in
peace with the white people, they extend to you the
hand of friendship But if you attempt to inaugurats
war Of races you will be exterminated The Saxon
race was never created by God Almighty to be ruled
by the African. These are truths. We want peace
with you. We cannot live enemies One or the
other must 60 down. If you turn deaf to the
Southern man. these green leaves that now clothe the
forest will grow red with another autumn before
they will be drenched with your blood aud mine.
JOSEPH HoAe's Prophecy ~ 1903 The following
remarkable prophecy has been record for many
years among a society Of Friends in the interior of
Ohio. copy of it furniehed to the Louisville
Courier, and published as follows
/ was day alone in the fields end | observed
that the sun shone brightly, but mist ecpsed the
brightness Of its shining As reflected on the singu
Iarity CT the event, my mind clothed with silence
the most solemn that remembered ever to have wit
messed, for my faculties were laid low and unusually
brought into silence. said to myself, what can all
this mean? | do not remember to have ben SEN
sbla of such feelings before, and heard voice from
Heaven, saying: This that thou seest that d,s the
brightness Of the sum- sign of the present and COM
ing I took the fathers of this country out of land
of oppression, and planted them here in the forest
blessed them and sustained them, and whilst they
-,
people, but they become proud and lifted up,
and have forgotten me- who nourished and protected
them in the wilderness, and are running into every
ahOmnation of which the old country guilty; have
taken quetudc from the land and have suffered di-
F!dnS spirit to come an!O"g them. Lift up thine eyes
and behold" And saw them dividing in great heat.
This division began in the church points Of doc
trne and next through the various religious denomi-
nations, and III Its progress and close its effects
nearly the same. 1t commenced first in the Preshy-
terian society. Those who dissented went off with
high heads and tauntng words, and those who kept
their original doctrine appeared exercised and SORROW
full And when this dividing spirit entered the Soci-
ETY. Of Friends it ragged in high degree as n anv I
had before discovered. AS before, those who sepa-
rated went off with lofty heads and taunting censur.
ing language, while those who kept to their ancient
principles retired by themselves.
1t next appeared in the lodge of Free Masons and
set the country in uproar for u long time It then
entered politics throughout the United States and did
not stop until it produced civil war; and an abundance
of blood was she'd in the course of the combat The
Southern States lost their power and slavery an
initiated from their horders. Then monarchical
government arose, and established national religion,
and made all societies tributaries support it's ex-
penses. saw them take property from Friends to
large amount. l was amazed at Deholdng all this and
heard voice proclaim, 6 This power shall not al.
ways last; but with this power will l ehastse nv
church until they return to the aithulness of their
foTetathers Thou seest what is on thy native land
for their Diques and the blood Of Africa" The re-
Enembrance Of which has come up before me in this
vision is yet for many days. had no intention for
many years Of writing, but it became such burden
that, for my own relief, have written.
WORD FOR THE SoUTH.-Nr Everett has recently
made speech in New England, from which We extract
the following:
The probable future of the South What land
Scape! What pauoramal How it stretched out
over hundreds and thousands and millions of acres Of
land to be covered With teeining populations When
he thought OF he glorious views be had had there and
then thought that that vast country to be peoped
by large populations, by busy pushing hives of men,
when he remembered that this heautifnl rch