The bee., 1883-05-19
SCRAPS AND NOTES.

1He reunion tnat mas been so very
successfully held in this city, brings to
mind many things that belong to the
dsad past: We individually remember
the day when contrabands were not
allowed to enter the lines through the
army of the Potomac. Gen. Mcclellan
himself making an order, turning the
freedman, then a slave, seeking liberty
within the Union lines, back to slavery
and chains. Last Wednesday black
men, and some of them the very same
that Ger. Mcclellan would not permit
TO taste freedom through his army,
paraded the streets as honorable ex-sol-
diers of the Union army. Then we
also remember that Gen. Mcclellan
ordered that the famous Hutchinson
family of singers be not allowed to sing
their patriotic melodies to the Union
soldiers (see Greeley's American con-
flict. Then the whole country that
was thinking during the war
can SO well remember that Gen. Nc
Clellan said, keep back the negroes
and will save the union" But Nc
Clellan got defeated, the Union was in
tears, and she called for the help of the
colored volunteers, and they come
Father Abraham, two hundred strong.
Now what must have been the feeling
of ''litrle Mack" and those other gener-
ais and so on. that tried so hard to save
the union with slavery untouched?
All, dear me, what change from that
dark and dreary time, that time when
the American flag was a sham and
delusiOn. Neither one thing or the
other. But We have got away, far
away from that hypocritical period.
away from the reign and the power of
treason, traitors and apologists for the
most heinous crime before man, and
insult to christianity and religion that
a civilized nation ever was disgraced
with.
Look you on that parade, see the
veterans that saved our blessed Union
with slavery dead, damned and buried,
that starry banner no longer lie but a
baptism of fire and blood such as only
just God can send. See the black and
white men of the GrandArmy of THERE
public, those are the men that stood side
10y side and saved the Union. Now
they stand side 10y side and the nation
with big \ honors her noble defend
erS. That is a great sight. Now diff
ferent from the days past and gone.
then the only time you could see
black and white men marching togeth-
er, was when the blacks and whites
were chained together and the whites
were overseeing them 10 the market
to be sold as property to the highest
bidder.
The Union forever hurrah boys, ,hurrah,
Down with the traitors and up with
the stars,
We will rally around the flags boys,
Rally once again, shouting in the
Battle cry Of freedom.
And at the same time we hope to
find the present political Republican
party truthful and faithful to the
faithful allies. Don't forget we men
of the Union.
Next Thursday will be voting day in
Virginia-very true it is only county
matter, or in other words, muDiciple
election, yet there is much importance
attached to it, the outcome. If the
bourbon democrats shall succeed especi-
ally in those counties and cities that
have been grasped from their grip, it
Will be very good touchstone for them
to whet up for decisive victory in
November, and it goes without saying
that should the democrats obtain con-
troll again in Virginia, it will be made
for colored republicans, and what will
be left of white readjusters? A sort
of a (political) second edition of So
dom and Gomorah.
We are not meddlers in Virginia, or
any other state, in the peoples matters,
but we speak this way in order to call
the attention of our people to this one
important fact, namely, that it will,
without the shadow of doubt, set us
back ten years to allow the democrats
to capture the old dominion now. If
our colored friends will only look at the
difference of things as they are to-day
and as they were few years ago under
bourbon rule, this comparison fairly
instituted will be enough of a slogan
to cause them to again rally under the
call, and to the bugle blast of their
friends and thus far faithful allies, the
readjusters and coalitionists.