Year: 1870

and that no blood would be shed, Tor
surely the American people were too
far advanced in civilization and
christian intelligence to ever engage
in this barbaric method of settling
difficulties. At last when there was
no longer room to doubt, he debated
the question thus:


"My home, my property, my ev-
ery interest are here, and about to be
invaded by those bent upon the an
Inhalation of our homes and home in
terests. Shall remain silent and In
active and see these interests all de
stroyed? No. is not in nature, and /
will fight.


So saying, he buekled on the con-
federate uniform and went forth To
meet the invader 1t was in this
dress that he met his friend.


sfI can tell you, Mr.. Lazelle, the
North will wish they had let the this
job alone before they get through
The Southern peOplear armed to the
teeth, and viii light as long as there
remains a man or dollar. You GER
tally cannot forget the spirit of SOUTH
ern chivalry, and the tenacity with
which they maintain their honor
Think you these men will yield to
such an opposition as this. Never"


''Mr. Granger, just ask yourself if
your cause is a just one. If you have
the appreciation of heaven resting up
on the interests you are fighting to
maintain, think this will assist you
in seeing where you stand. We are
fighting for truth, justice and human
ity, AMI we know the God of Truth
will give us the victory"


'I am not disposed to take any
such spiritual view of the subject. 1t
is man, not spirits that / am called
upon to fight, and I think you will
find that man answers unto man In
the day of battle; and slavery is an
institution of earth, not heaven, and
I think the spirits have very little to
do with it. tell you, you can no
more uproot slavery than you can re-
move the eternal hills from the place
where God has planted them 1t is
not simply an excresence growing
upon our great tree Of Liberty, but is
part of root and tree and branch, and
to separat them would be to annihil-
ate our Republic. l say, Mr.. Lazelle,
it cannot be done"


srMr. Granger, the Lord can speak
to-day and the slave become free, as
easily as he spake in the days of old
and il was done. HeScommanded and
it stood fast"


''The Lord don't talk to people in
that way nowadays, III he ever
did," replied Mr.. Granger, doubling
Y


HSupposing there should go forth
some unlocked for fiat, and the slaves
should all be liberated in an hour,
would you believe the Lord had spO-
ken therefore let the people trem-
ble?Ui


ayes, if such a thing should happen
would say the gods had come down
to us for there is no power on earth
caa accomplish the overthrow of
slavery. Why just look at it. Think
of the amount of money vested in the
slave trade, and the hundreds of
thousands of persons who follow it as
a legitimate business. Why it would
Law waste One-third of our territory,
and reduce to beggary large, respec
table, and influential class of free
men. 1 tell you sir it is impossible
thus to"


Here the sentence was cut short by
a sudden cannonading, and the Amer
lean flag ran up to an unusual hight,
and the shout of emancipation rung
through the camp with a deafening
sound. Soon the papers proclaiming
to the world that the time had come
'sto loose the bands Of wiGkedpess, to
undo the heavy burden, and to let the
90 free, and that We break
every yoke" were spread through the
camp.


Mr.. Granger clenched the paper till
his hands were black, his muscles rig
i'd and his face ashy pale. For a mo-
ment he stood as one petrified, then
reeling FROM his position,
fell, his head resting upon q broken
rock near. The blood flowed copiOus-
ly, and it was soon ascertained that
his skull was fractured severely
From that moment he never uttered
a rational word, but was carried to
tie nearest place of comfort for the
sick and dying, and in few hours