The Portland daily press., 1877-08-04

end, for we had decided that cMassa Lincoln
was the ablest man living.
1.-THE next day we rested again, and on the
following night, W. having quite recovered,
we started again on our journey after most
affectionate leave-taking from the darkies,
who gathered again to bid us good bye, and
to bring presents of chickens, meal and pota-
toes, more than we could carry. One Ne
gro went with us as far as he could 20 and
81 back again in the morning to his davis
work, and his directions helped us to find our
way and another guide.
'These people had talked a great deal
about 'Massa Logan powerful rich man.
but few days journey from where thew
were, powerful good friend to col,red
people,
"We took it for granted that If sMassa Lo-
gam was friend to colored people, he would
be to Yankees, too.
| "We reached the little settlement where he
was postmaster, and seemed to be man of
some Importance, early one morning, and
lay concealed there during the day.
eve had had nothing to eat for twenty
four hours, and were, of course, excessively
hungry, but not doubling that we should be
fed by fMassa Logan waited until it was
well into the evening and seemed safe to ven
ture out to his house.
| Gle lived in respectable frame building
| adjoining the post office, and when knocked
at the door colored man opened it. He
| said his master was in the next room, which
was separated from the one entered by
| low board partitio n, and I could see the light
shining over it.
"When went in Mr.. Logan was in bed.
I noticed as passed through the door, as
one often does notice things without realz.
| ing it at the time, an old kings arm standing
| in the corner, ready cooked
II addressed myself at once to Mr.. Logan
and told him freely who was and that had
friends waiting in conceaIment out side."
''If you think I'm your friend, you've
come to the wrong man, he said, 'and I'll
not only give you nothing but what's more,
I'll have every man of you arrested before
morning. As he said this, I saw his eye was
on the musket, and when he started from
his bed, was before him and seized it.''
IL hadn't come there to murder anybody,
aud didn't like the idea of it, but neither
was going to stand still and be shot myself.
| pointed the musket at him q didn't know
whether it was loaded or not, and said, Mr..
Logan, if you stir after me, I'll shoot you,''
"He leaped back into bed, and drew the
| clothes up, over his head; so I found there
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one, for really this was rather disappointing
| when expected to find friend.
"Just as I stepped out again into the dark
ness heard him tell the niger to follow and
not lose sight of me, for that the next day he
would have the officers after US.
Gas went on toward where my friends
lay, heard the negro's cautious steps some
distance behind. This fellow must be a
friend, at any rate, I thought to myself, and
we must have some food;' so as reached
stone wall waited in its shadow until he
came up with me. Then I sprang forward
and Selling him put my hand over ais mouth
| and threw him onto the ground.
Make sound and I'll kill you,' whis-
pered, 'bu. be quiet and I'll do you no harm.
I'm Yankee. have some friends here and
we're starving, and you must get us some.
| thing to eat.
"'Of course Use your friend,' he said; al
the niggers the Yankees friends; I won't
give you up to Massa Logan, nohow.'
Then 60 back and get us something to
eat, and I'll follow to see that you do it aud
| don't deceive me-
Il heard him go into the house and tell
Logan that he couldn't find the Yankees,
and heard Logan swear at him and tell him
to go again, and that if he didn't find us he'd
kill him.
''Then the niger crept down stairs and
soon after joined me, and we went on, noise
lessly, to where my friends lay behind the
wall. There he gave us some fragments of
meat pie in broken earthen dish. Ofcourse
we had to use our fingers for knives and
forks, but 1 shall never forget how good that
meat-pie tasted.
"Then he crept back to the house and got
more food, and afterwards guided us long
way on our journey.
Nights when we had no guide we often
missed our way, and often after travelling
many miles found that we had scarcely ad.
vanced at all. In reality we travelled far
more than the four hundred miles that our
direct course to Knoxville would have meas
ured.
CAT length as we neared the North we be-
gan to relax our vigilance a little and to
travel sometimes by day. 1t was growing
cold now and we found it hard to keep warm,
sleeping in the open air; but we suffered
from the cold especially, when we were
obliged to wade or swim rivers, for already
the ice began to form on them.
"Once, when we had been travelling all
day we arrived toward night at wood near a
little village, and resolved to lie concealed
there until dark and then beg food of some
negro.
sit was Sunday evening The road
passed close to where We lay, and stream
of people, mostly colored, were going home
from church and singing methodist hymns.
cat length when one came by, little
apart from the rest, I sprang out from the
| woods, and Selling him drew him back with
| me. he did not utter sound, and as it was
nearly dark, nobody saw us disappear.
"We told him who we were, and asked for
| food and lodging, and he directed us to the
| house ola white woman across the river.
She was very poor, he said, but her husband
was in the Union army. He could do moth
ing for us himself, he had no home.
"We followed his directions and found as
he had told us, ferry boat at a certain
point in the river. We crossed over in this,
then set it adrift,and went on until we found
the house. We found the woman very poor
| indeed, for she had no provisions but piece
| Of ham and some corn-meal, but when she
| had heard our story, she did the best size
could for our supper and gave us lodging
that night.
"We had no money to give her the next
morning when we left, but she wanted so
much some token of remembrance,
that w. gave her silver pencil.case, c.,