Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1870-06-02
MY CoLoRED FRIENDS (:

l spp.ar to-day IN your interest alone.
The white man is able to take care of him.
self; and as you AN all see. l have not
one drop Of white blood in my wins,
Oaughter.) l am a regular, o,d-fashion-
ed, plain corn-f ID niger. aud have not
canacty to instruct white people as 20
their duties, even IL I had the will. I
was slave from my birth always en-
deavored TO serve my master faithfully
according to that letter Of the Bible which
reads .sServan's. be obeiient to your
masters, for this is right" And can
lay nv hand upon my heart to-day and
saw before God, that I entertain no i'll:
will toward any white man on earth, and
least of all toward my old master and his
sons, whom | loved as my own bror hers.
and with whom played in boyhood. In
all our neighboshooi romps, frolics and
fights (for bows will fght). they ood at
my back, as l did at theirs whenever il.
came 10 pinch. aud, thank Col, will
do so yet. I will stani by them So
long as they stand BY me. whether the
impression comes from the Yankees or
from whatever else it may Whenever it
comes TO my making choice between
white men. shall prefer those Of my own
section to all the carpet-baggers in the
world. There amt very much difference
between white men and Yankees, and
whsnsveF ysu fnd il, you'll 6ad il in the
ws.sts - <s5os sWhits folks are All
cut pretty md1h ont Of the same cloth
and both sections have made their love
for the niggers subserve their own inter
est, as Oh men are selfish by nature and
can't help it. aud can't blame them.
When the late war broke out, I am
free p acknowledge, l was MI yhty glad
Of it. somehow felt that my freedom
was ping to come out of it ,me way or
oshers and, as am perhaps as selfish a. =
xhitd man 81 tell you l didn't do"
we'll, ! didu't cry much at the prospect.
Well when tie 6rst company left nv
couu1 for ''old virginny" to fgl. the
YANKEES, I enlisted with the b,iance Of
them and went along as 61s k and
head taiter for one Of my Young masters
bad , pretty god time. 100. Tor Will.
the wiite folks we're ont fighting and
marching. and suffering and dying. I was
lying back with the meat and bread va =
ons. ] felt. for once in my lie, it was a
pretty cool thing to be niger after al,
for be white man wouldn't let m, eight
alongside of him. and after heard the
frss sh,ll 90 ID, God knows I was It very
anxious to do it either k,ewiff had
been abng on the Yankee side wculdn',
have had such easy time. for as selfish as
the Yaakee Is. he never objected 20 ge..
ting somebody 20 do hi- fighting Tor him
wheue YER he could. Not he. Some folks
say he vas willing enough to let the
South 10 it all daring the Mexican var.
Iussd to be right smartly amused
hearing .h, white folks talk. My young
master came in. one night alter a battle.
and sajs he, "Henry. we've inst had a
big six hours fghs. We whipped the
I'D Yankees like smoke aud drove 'em
thirty.six miles. Thinks / to myself,
"Humph! pretty cool driving-all in
six hours, too r But q heap Of people
think the niger fool.
Well, | sorter thought maybe, the
Yaukses were really fighsing TO free the
Biggsrs. But they didn't keep the wool
over my eyes long. Iwa,ched' em mighty
close. One day the news came into camp
thar Mr.. Lineoln had done issued his pro-
clamation, saying that If Mr. Davis would
lay down his arms and como back into the
Unicu and 90 70 paying tariff again the,
Southern people might have their mig
gersl Tanks /. hamph! Mighty poor
chance to get any freedom from you. Mr..
Lincoln. / tell you What I felt mighty
bad :or \ long time. had the blues o.
bad ! was almost black. think in two
weeks l fsll OF tueaty pounds. vas 30
'fr.id Mr.. Davis Vas going 70 do il I
cosAin's sleep. Bat by-and-by the good
word came that Mr. Davis said sshssd be
id IL he d my such shing; ain's
Sighting far niggefs-let the niggers 60;
Pm amer myeua ftssdom frst before any
thing else In he wceld.s tsll ycu nav
heart jsoped night - Il my moush.--
Thinks l, bslly Coz JED Dsvisl He's ny
naal A. ny fsn1ds, if she Yssfess
had hssa i -. Dasi1 rlsse yoaa been
in . eessoa pas1Gse-2.ys ~isk ~ uhip
AFTER yea. instead q siising up hess u
this eosrs suou kooring - spesk. Bss
don't yoo - - dfnsoso beeses1 she
Ssashern aan - - Noeshsru nssl
The Northsr1 - nevse misssa shs
chance 4 sak1e 80 8 - dinss. 1rse.