Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1869-12-24

antless houses. Crows cav from church
steeplcs; buzzards flap their wingsin the
grass grown streets A Sabbath stiffness
reigns where Commerce, four years pre-
vious, held its busy mart.
see the 54th Massachusetts, Regiment
--colored troops recruited in South Car.
olina--slaves once, freedmen then, march
into .he proud but humbed city.
1t is the hour of their revenge Let
him be buried beneath his niggers," was
the insulting answer sung out by arro-
giant Charleston, when the friends OF
Col. Shaw asked for the remains oftheir
heroic commander 1.-THE painter pic
ture 1.-THE poet rehearse it. With the
old flag above them, keeping step to free
dom's drum-beat, they march into the
town, past the slave mart where many in
the ranks had been sold to the highest
bidder. They lay down their arms and
work the fire engines to extinguish the
flames kindled by the departing rebels
shall not soon forget my first night
in Charleston occupied Rev. DIR.
! Porters bed, the fiery rector of the
| Church of the Holy Communion, who, on
the Sunday before. called on all his peo-
| pie to fight the Yankees till the streets
ran with blood, and then, when he found
that the Yankees were coming, ran as
fast as his legs could carry him to an
out-of-the-way place in the country.
How the old negress who had made
the Doctors bed for many years danced
and grinned and shook her jolly sides in
the morning hear her saying 40,
massa, Is tickled to tink dat massa DR..
Porter who said only last Sunday dat no
Yank would ebber set his foot in dis yer
city, had to cut and run, and dat Yank
slept in massa Doctors bed. Bress de
Lord for dat "
THE END.
A few weeks later am in front of Pc
tersburg beholding the last attack. see
the advancing column inspired by what
has been already accomplished moving
in even line upon the sIrongholds that
for nearly twelvemonth have defied
: their utmost efforts. They climb the
breastworks Men drop to rise no more.
but their comrades move on. Amid
= bursts of fame and clouds of smoke /
:. see the flag of our country go up and the
: stars and bars go down. Louder than
= the roar Of battle is the wild hurrah of
:, victory!
" Richmond is sen of flames as | reg.
- ister my name at the Spotswood Hotel
- the first guest from the north. Confede
= rate bonds by the cart load litter ths
streets. The G. S. A.-the ship Of Stat'
- launched with such great expectations
M M with such arrogant hopes and high re
y, solves with the deaths head and eros
bones at its mast head, bound over th
Sea Of Time on a cruise against huma
liberty, justice, truth and rights
20 wreck, officers and crew in fight, th
commander an exile.
walk the streets Of the confederat
capital by the side of President Lincoln
1t is the last scene-one of the grandeI
of history. He is the chief Of gres
nation--entering the conquered capita
I Twelve sailors compose his guard of hoi
or He is deliyerer--the Messiah.
- is he esteemed by multitude who hay
: suddenly passed from bondage to libert.
II, They kneel at his feet, tears stream dow
IS their cheeks, they kiss his hands. A
.he old man with garments tattered and tor
shoes out at the toes, down at the hee
:, wearing hat without crown and wan
,vn ing rim, kneeling upon the pavemel
ar with clasped hands, calls upon De goo
-, Lord to bress Massa Linkum."
:. !, The tragedy is over The martyr,
!, President is borne to his rest. mourn'
non by the nation, honored by the world.
,.r The great struggle is ended. 4
are grand army of the Republic rests up
its arms, and the men who have foug
in fifty battles 60 home to their farl
voa and workshops. Their work is done n
- for day, but for all time-not for glo
and :. i"ne' ouS ~ 'Ae .o"ne''' s''0 -
lo.d bic, for themselves. the human race I
a erywhere.
~, Thenceforth America is to be the gr,
ho;r teacher of the nations, and to-day she
rbev leading them onward and upward to
- larger liberty and nobler life.
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