Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1879-03-18

self in the place Of these poor souls, ant
to think with them, so he might best know
how to help them.
He Joined in their simple pleasures too
| Ncgro-like, and child-likc, the poor fel
lows were fond of military parade anC
display, and had formed themselves int
militia companies On the glorious Cen
tennial Fourth they had their most i'm
posing parade, and Nose marched Will
them to please them.
The evening before, in their armoy
Nose made a little speech to them. Tn,
grand revolutionary blood stirred anC
bounded and thrilled in his veins, and il
was with the commanding form, the flash
ing eve and ringing voice Of his white
Revolutionary ancestor that the young
man talked to his lowly brethren thai
night His face seemed glorifcd like tho
sky at sunset, as he badc them be glad on
the morrow as never before, for the first
Centennial of American Freedom found
the black man free, too, with all the right-
OF the white man
NV friends" said he, 1.-THE first man
killed in the cause Of American liberty
was a black man, Crispus Attucks. He
led the people in the streets Of Boston,
March ,, l770, when they opposed the
British guard, and cried, Let us drive
them; they have no business here. Cris-
pus Attucks seized muskct from Brit
ish soldier and turned it against Captain
Preston himself, and cried out, Kill
them they dare not fire. At that mo-
mcnt the British soldiers fired, and one
named Montgomery shot Cnspus Attucks
in the breast and he fell dead, crying as
he fcll. They dare not fire,
80 the first man slain for American IN
dependence was negro. In the Rcyo-
lutionary War there were black soldiers
in the American army from every one OF
the thirteen United States side by side
with the white patriots. these black patrI-
OF, fought and suffered, and gained the
victory. for the white man country. Al
wavs until now il was the white man $
country: now at last it is our country too.
The future Is bright for US, my friends.
Il Is in our hands Peaceful, quiet work
viii give NJ, homes like the white man b,
and schools will educate black children
as we'll as white No people on the
earth ever had brighter hopes and harder
work before them than the black race in
America. When you think Of the hopes,
think of tine work, too. and remember
both tomorrow.
Maybe you have read the rest Of my
story in the newspapers.
The black militia paradcj on the Cen
tsnnial Fourth. Two white men in a
carriage ordered the black soldiers 20 break
ranks. and let them drive through There
was plenty of room on the side, bat the
TWO white men were Southern cnlyaly,
vou know The black soldiers refused 70
comply az FIRST. and then TO preserve or
der, opened their ranks. and let the white
men drive through. The two white men
had the black soldiers arrested tor o5,truct-
ing the highway.
saturday morning early the town of
Hamburg began to I'LL with Southern
chiyalry from two states. The black
soldiers were in town, too, unarmed and
unsuSpcctin.. Nose was among them.
The town kept filling with white men
until the Southern chivalry was fifteen
hundred strong. armed 70 the teeth.
This heroic army was opposed to forty
unarmcd negroes. The blacks became
alarmed, and took refuge in their armory,
where their guns were The noble South
cm chiyalry, l,j00 strong, commanded
bv the brave. heroic and magnanimou,
ex-rcbel General Butler, opened their ar
tillcry on the poor little old Niger arm
ory. 1t was a gallant deed, which vii
shine splendid as long as the name o
Southern chiyalry survives in story. No
shot was fired back The negroe.
jumped from back window and ran III
to a cornheld Twenty-one Of them werc
captured by the Southern chiyalry, anC
their guns taken from them. So the!
could not possibly hurt any Southern
chivalrv. Then the Southern chiyalr!
shot them down. 1t was most yalian
deed. Nose was one of the haplcs
twenty-one. The Southern chiyalry stab
bed and punched Somcof the negroes in IN,
face with bayonets, after they were dead
They beat one dead body over the hea'
and cut its tongue out. That dead bod.
was the body of Nose.
That's only the beginning of wha
we are going to do, remarked the hcroi
General Butler. "The end will conn
next November
Old Joe sat peacefully in his little hom
that Saturday. As the day wore on h
became anxious, in spite of himself. !
| little dog-Mose's dog-barked and whin
ed at intervals, all the afternoon. TO
ward evening he began barking again.
Il wonder what makes the little do
keep up sich a hustration:' said he anx
iously.
He went to the door and looked out
Some black men approached, camyin
something between them. They brough
it in silence and laid it down in the porch
1t was the dead body Of Nose. 1t wa
beaten about the head and the tOngu
was cut out, but the faithful blacks ha
erased the Disagreement as well as the
could, and the face of the dead man Wa
noble to look upon. The features, whic
had settled themselves into a still, class
beauty, were the features Of the whit