Year: 1865


following pertinent inquiries. They are we'll
worthy Of serious consideration:


If man is a "rehel," is that a reason
why thisving official should plunder him
Of his property?


Is the so,called loyalty Of certain parties
a justification for their commission of crimes
against every law of God and naiurel


DO we prove our devotion TO the Union
by widening The breach between the North
and The South?


Is political freedom best subserved by the
overthrow Of every constitutional guaranteed
Is the Republican party. which inaugurated
the suppression Of free speech and free press,
the suspension Of the hobeos corpus, etc, the
friend or the foe of constitutional liber,y2


Does seIfgovernment mean the people
ruling, or the military ruling9


Are Northern men of the Abolition stamp
better qualified to govern the South than
the Southern people themselves!


Is it not the policy of the Republican par
ty to prevent the Southern States from OBJ
tanning their political rights, so that they,
the Republicans, may have a longer lease of
powel9


Does the Black Republican policy embrace
the only true principles of self government,
and is any other policy that differs lheretron
necessarily wrong!


What proportion Of the national debt
was incurred for the lust value of the mate
rlas furnished, and what proportion of i,
represents the amount swindled by dishones
con,ractors9


What is loyaltyl Is it fidelity to the grea
siituton, or is it obedience to the dictates @
Black Republican policy?


Extraordinary Decision of Negro Mectin


The Boston (Abohlion) Journal, viii
open>eyed astonishment, publishes the fol
lowing:


The Mobile Advertiser Of the 10th of An
gust makes the following extraordinary an
nouncemennt, on the authority of u citizen
who was present at a meeting Of negroes on
the previous Sunday, near that city,


mine hundred of them assembled to con.
slider their condition, their rights and duties
under the new state of existence upon which
they have been SO suddenly launched. Our
informant was surprised at the hard practical
sense and moderation Of tone with which
the spoEesmen of the meeting urged their
views After long talk and careful delibera.
ton, this meeting resolved, by vote of sew.
en- hundred voices to two hundred that they
had made a practical trial for three months
of the freedom which the war has bequeath
ell to them; that its realities were far from
being SO flatterng as their imagination had
painted it; that they had discovered that the
prejudices of color were bv no means con-
fined to the people of the South; but on the
contrary, that it was stronger and more
marked against them in the strangers from
The North than in the home people of the
South, among whom they had been reared;
that negroes, no more than white men, could
live without work, or be comfortable wlhou,
homes; that their Northern deverers from
bondage had not, as they had expected and
been taught to expect, undertaken to provide
for their happy existence in their new state
of freedom, and that their old masters had
ceased to take any interest in them or have
care for them; aud finally. that their last
state was worse than the first and it was
their deliberate conclusion that their true
happiness and welI-being required them TO
return to their homes which they bad aban
doned in moment OF excitement and 90
to work again under their old masters. And
SO the resolutions were passed, and at last
accounts the wanderers were packing up
their Iltle stock of movable goods, prepara
tory to the execution of their sensible pur.
poses"