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~lT'soNG.
[Lines writtit j
m.by Dr. - Shtlierland, a "Live
Yankee, of theo2d N. Y. Rnglinent,•Who was
captured
. by the. Rebels duritig the batte of
Fair Oaks, on the 31st of MaY,l - 1362,tind con
fined in Dixie'4 Land, during the hiimmer and
part of the autumn of- 1862, helnt WC.orrect
his capture, and their confinement; treatment,
and suffering, while prisoneriLttito,.a hit' at
the habits and cast Oms of the Southern' Con
federacy.r]
'Twas on the the tiiirey-firit of itttiy,
In eighteen s i xty-two,
The rebels metlour Union force,
To see what they could do.
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McClellan was hear Rlc,hmond then,
That nasty rlhel den,.
Where whites the gentlemen•aro crowned,
Where nen* are.notmen:
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They met and fought with iron will,
Each eager to obtain
The mead that every soldier loves—
The victor's glorious name.
The cannon sent her iron hail,
The musket showers of lead,
Which filled. the air with dying groans,
And strewed thee field with dead:
The Ninety-Second stood firm in front,
In Palmer's bold brigade,
Until in "Dales land" they had
Some scores pf widoivs made.
But when they Saw they were out-flanked,
They wheeled 'about and fled,
While many of our Northern braves.
Were numbered with the dead.
The double-quick our soldiers took',
Soon left me far behind,
That nimble dep.! could not take,
Although sOvell inclined.
The rebels came with savage yells,
A yankee they bad found,
With curses bid me "face about,!'
And march iiivay to town.
They marched - Me down with many more,
Through mud and mire to town, •
And there' With bars and prison walls,
• Your honor did surround.
They made tobacco within those walls
In times of Peace'and trade,
But now the bedbugs and the lice
Hold nightly I tdrez's parades.
I
They give us ra ti ons twice each day,
But nothing for our beds,
With fleas and bedbugs without nuinber .
Gently crawling zou ( nd Our heads.
Our morning taTions were of bread,
A slice of slinking meat,
Which hunger qtacle us soon devour,
•
And even tasted sweet.
f i
At night we bad a little stitp,
Solite watei.,tioiled with peas,
And then we took our prison beds,
To dream of lice and fleas.
We were conned(' three days and 'night's
Within thost iron bars,
When, oh! the Svelcome news then , calne,
To get aboard the, cars.
They marched u§ through their nasty streets,
That all the crowd might see.
The "living yankees" from the , North,
Tnat in that land rat free:
The crowd was dense on either side,
Composed of whites and blacks,
While many shonted in the crowd,
To shoot them in their tracks.
We traveled all this day and night,
Oppressed by Idust and heat ;
We got some muddy water,
But nothing for to eat.
At length each man five crackers got;
All counted 130 with care,
And this they thought a'libera thing,
Considering who we were. •
S. KELLY
Again we traveled all day and night,
As we had the day before, •
With nothing for our rations,
While our seats were getting sore.
Again our Scanty breakfast came :
Five crackers as befoie,
And this they , thought a heavy draft
On old Jeff's:three years' store.
This morning found us ell within
The North Carolina State,
With Salisbury's prison trails ahead )
Where we could read our fate.
We found Carolina on the fence,
A leg on either tide;
She says it's Southern. fashion
For ladies so to ride.
She sends her troops to help the North,
Then Northern! prisoners keep
But vengeance sure is on her track,
And vengeance never sleeps.
NVAI
Our prison walls were large and high,
For spinning cotton made,
When "old King Colton" ruled as king,
And negiop were in trifle.
Bat when they found his,glorY gont4;
And cotton would not" ell,
They turned their fields into buryittvgrOhnds,
Their factories into hells.
They fired upon our stars and strives,
. They stole our arms nedmOney,
Andtheit thercried, "Let us atone,"
In accents sweet as honey. .
The rebels sung throughout the South,
- In Dixie's land they'd - stand,
And, if they ever lived to die,
They'd:die in D,lxie's land.
We found them 'standing when we came,
When not too drunk 'or tiOsY,• -
"Iligh - taniaFfitlie — Y'4l7rather ran and live,
Than die to lire in Dixie.
M!
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TpocitoD to, fili,iliiipipW of ,thie
. I).oiiophot, 4RO file itqeir?iliqtioq of fohlify, g.iteNtio:oo'..ffito.
COLTDOSPORT I POTTER CORITY t PA, WEDNESDAY, lIILY 13, 1864.
IVO people here are ignorant,
And used as tools by rogues, •
They've herded sitith the blacks so long',
They've got the laugh aid brogue. •
Schoolhotisen here yod never End,
Such sights are seldotn seen.
With truant boys and red-hheeked girls,
A romping on the gielti.
I'm proud to say I'M frOni the North;
Where no one lacks for kharledge,
For every mile'or two 1 . 0• q; •
You' find a school or v:d age.
Thley keep slave pens, and often dell
Their very blood and bone,.
For crosses with the negro slave,
There gentry never own. '
They keep their slaves in ignorance,
They'renever taught to read,
For knowledge and old slavery
Have net* -, et agreed.
They breed - add sell the negro here,
As NOrtliorit'iben would cattle,
The whiter they `can get the skin,
The liiore'veztue in the chattle.
They buy our hats;oaps, Coats and ring%
And 'trinkets we have wrought,
As keepsakes of those Yankee boys
' They, in theirbattles' caught.
The only way they have . to live,
And save our precious
Is to manufacture rings riorri bones,
And trade for cakes acid pies.
If they should get to Heaven's gate,a
And find all Union there,
They would secede aionee to Hell,
And join their kindred there.
And now we've sung about the &nth,
And of their doings there,
Now let us step within the bars,
And learn the prisoners' fare.
They give Us rations twice each day,
Their coarsest negro's fare,
And this they think is generous,
Considering who we were. • .
Our morning rations are of bread,
The loaves are very small,
A. little slice of bacon,
From which the maggots fail.
They take the liquor from this meat,
Stir in a little rice;
And this we have for'supper,
Its flavor very nice.
Our rations here are always fresh,
Because they have no salt,
And if they hear a man complain,
He's told it's his 0!C72 fault.
At vitht we sleep upon the floor,
We often lay in tiers,
While body lice in whole battalions,
Charge upon our fronts and rears.
They turn ns out a while each day,
Upon enr prison hearth,
T 9 pick the lice from off our clothes,
The maggots from our teeth.
they keep a bake-house near our den,
To bake our daily bread,
You'd think some children had the dough,
To mate code loin-cats' heads.
The bakers take Our flour ant rice, •,
To make sweet cake anol'rkie,
The half-starved Yanks think they 'must eat
So to the bakers fly.
They give the prisoners scanty fare,
To rob them of their money,
They say our hungry boys must have,
Some cakes as sweet as honey.
Our generOus keeper says to us,
Tells to us one and all,
I fear your daily rations
May sometimes' be too small.
If any want more rations here,
To keep your souls alive,
Just step into my sutler's shop,
• And buy sweetmeats and pies.
If any lack the dime or scrip,
Or think his fare is bard,
Just take him to the guard-louse,
Or "buck" bird in the yard.
And !font we've silt* alipui Aed i
And how we live in there
No* let us sing about our :dead. )
In "Diltie's land to fair." ,
When any of the prisofiers
No matter what their grade;
They get a negro with Ins cart
To take him to the shades.
They'd get a negro with his cart )
Drawn by a stubborn mule,
To show their height of 'Chivalry
If Southern power conlct fttle.
The fifteenth of August, Carolina cant&
And to the prisoners said,
Just jiimp aboard my cattle cars,
' With some br my "nice hived:"
I'm pledgedito take yott to your Buds,
My pledges seldom fail. • "
find my seats are rather bard,
But easier than my rail.
With bounding hearth We heard het through,
Then through the gate did spring,
And when aboard - her cattle care,
We'made the welkin ring.
In'highest glee we started off,
No joys our tongues could tell;
But instead_of going toonriine9;
We went to "Island Belle."
Belle Island is,a sandy plain;
•
Without a' tree or'shade; '
Or cooling spring toAnenah the ttiirSti
That heat and hunger made. •
Our rations here are veil , small, -
Softie bread and
. stinhing beef,
Whibli only sharpens atipetite,
And gives but faint relief.
Virheii beef is scarce we soMeiiineS get.
A soup of bugs and flies; , . - -
And if perchance there should be beans,
They seldom show their §yei.
.
ThiS nasty, stinking, seeesli fare,
- We often fail to get ;
And.thert With rage we'd gnaili otir teeth,
Like' mailthen in a,fit.
Here many of the prisoners lie
Upon the burning sand;
Too weak by far to walk around;
While many cannot stand. •
Starvation attires us in the fate /
His jaws are open wide ; ,
Unless env friends send quick relief,
We down his thioat miisi glide.
Our numbers here grow leis and less;
The strongest soon must fall,
For old Grim death is on our track;
And soon will on us call.
- Some . six or 'eight die every day,
This fact none can deny ; „.
While, many, with their dying breath;
For food and rations ery.
It's ]laud 'to die in distant lands,
Virithout 'a, kindreVnear,
To wipe the death-sweat from our fii‘e;
Or' drop one friendly tear.
A lady came into our camp,
To bring us small supplies ;
They dragged her to the old guard-honse,
For selling cakes and pies.
They "gagged" and "bucked" a prisoner hails
Until he could not stand,
The blood flowed freely from his mouth
Upon the burning 'sand. '
The only crime he did commit,
The only . wrong he'd ddhd—
Els Northern pride it would not stoop
To scour ;heir Southern gilds.
We are a ragged set of men,.
This prison has no' charms ; .
But "Uncle Sam" will own bib bops,
And give them all a farm.
I long to see 'My friends again,
Of which I fondly dteamt ;
But I'd rather see my country free,
And old Jeff. pulling hemp.
The Stars and Stripes again must float,
O'er Dixie's sunny laud':
And Southern rebels must soon obey;
Old Abram's just demands.
Now here's a toast for Uncle Abe,
Maf he live. one thousand years;
And for his firmness in this war,
We'll give three hearty cheers.
Now here's another for Jeff.--L• .
May the gallows claim its own:
And when he dangles from the rope',
We'll give three doleful groans.-
Farewell old Richmond's prison wall,
Farewell old Salisbury too ;
And now farewell tolsland Belle—
Four, weeks on you will do.
And now you've heard nay story through,
That, happy day has come,
When 'I can bid Secesh farewell.
And leave this Isle for—AnsAioVis.
SPEECH OF
R. Jr. BRECKINRIDGR,
'On taking his seat as President of the
Baltimore Convention
. GENTLEtIE?.I OF THE CONVENTION :
You - Cannot be more sensible than I am
that the part which I have to perform here
to-day is Merely 'a Matter of form, and act
ing upen the hrinaiples of my own life, I
was inclined, when the suggestion 'was
made to me from varlets ;quarters, that it
was in' the mincts*of many members of the
Convention - to confer this distinction upon
me,' - to earnestly &Cline accept it., Be
' cause I haie never sought 'honors, - I have
never sought distinctions, f lhave been
a'working man, and nothing 'eke., But.
Certain' considerations .led me To nhinge
I my Mind. There is a doss of denin 'the
roonntry far ton 'small for the good of the
conntry. These are the men 'mere
ly by; their example, by theirpen, by their
voice—try to do good, and all the more
in perilOna litneS, without regard to the
good that may nome. It isgiven to nittny
buch men to Understand, by the -distine
tion conferred upon me, 'one 'of the' hum
blest 'of their - Blase, that there
. are ben
wilt° the country the:flab; 'and who
1 not be forgotten. Here is another
motive relatiVe to yourselves and the
country, at large. It is god for yen, it is
geed for every nation dad. every people,
every State and every party, to Cherish
ill general itatniliee, to w aIL noble
I:datinnts (and where arc men more noble,
nisregenerons to purge yoniselves of
01_01f-seekers and betrayerk , ,, and to con
fer dOldea, if it only in mere form, up
on. thOse who are worthy to - be trusted,
and ask . nothing more. Now, according
'to my i co9victlons of propriety, having
said,this 'should say nothing More.
_But
it has bee intimated to me . film. many
quarters, rul in a way
_which I cannot_
disregerd, That :I shetild disappoint the
wishes :of my friends, add herbaria the
jua.t. egPapatioasrOf the Contention, if I
did nok7a: briefly and . yotiis 3:46,0i501'y as
Ne:nothing npon'th:e'.ii'ent
matters- -.lob have brought tie here.—
,
Therefore, in a :till' 'foie : voids, and as
plainly as I can, I will endeavor to drat?
yetTy attention to one and ithother of these
greatsmatters in'Which we are all engaged.
In the fitat place, nothing: can be 'more
plain than the fact that 'yen are here as the
reptebentatives of a great nation--volun-
Cary representatives, chosen without forms
of law, but as really representing the feel
itigiand principlet—and-if yohnhocise,the
prejudices - of the Americanyeeple at if
it were written in theit laW, sad already
passed by their votes. For the man 'that
you-will noininate here for Ilfe•Preside by
of the United States and ruler of a reat
i
people, in a great crisis, is just est rtain,
I suppose, to become that ruleiy s any.
thing under heaven is certain b e_ re it is
done; and Moreover, you will al Wme to
say, though' perhaps it is hard! /strictly
proper that [should, but ea far as - I kiwiy
your opinion's, I suppose it is just as Cer
tain, now before you huer it, whose
name you will utter, and which Will be
responded to from one end to the taker of
this nation, as it will be after it is has been
uttered and recorded by Your Secretary - .
Does any .man - doubt-that this Convert
_veation intends to Any that Abraham Lin
coln shall be the nominee ? What I wish,
hoWever, to call 'Your attention to' is'llib
grandeur of the mission upon which you
are met, and therefore the 'dignity and
solemnity, earnestness and conscientious
nets with which, representing one of the
gieatest, and - certainly one of the first
people of the . world, you ought to 'dis
charge thCse duties. Now, beside the
nomination of President and Vite-Presi•
dent, in regard to which latter office I will
say, nothing, because I know there is more
or; Jess difference of opinion among you
but beside these nominations:, you have
other most solemn duties 10 perforce. You
have 'to organize this party throughout
'the United States. l'ou haVe to 'put it
in whatever form your:Wisdom, Will sug
gest, that
-will unite all your wisdotn, en
ergy and determination to gain the victo
ry, which I have . alreadY 'said Wis in our
poWer. More than 'that, ;you . have to lay
down with clearness and precision 'the
principles on which you intend to carry
on this great political Contest, and 'prose
cute the war which is Underneath them,
and the glory of the country. which lies
before us if we succeed, plainly 'not inn
double sense, briefly 'not in a treatise,.
with the dignity and precision of - a great
people—to utter by its representativei the
political Principles by ivhich they intend
to live, and fOr the sake Of Which thev'are
willing to die, 'so that all men VveryWhere
may uuderstand 'Precisely whiit We mean,
and lay that furroir ao deeply and 'Clearly
that while every man Who is Worthy to
associate with freemen May see it and pass
over' it, every man who is unworthy may
he either unable to pass it, Or may be
driven far from it. We want 'none but
those who are like us to be with fis. Now
among these principles if you will allow
me to say it, the first and most distinct is
that ire do not intend to allow this'nation
,
to be destroyed. 'We are a nation,.. uo
doubt a peculiar one, a nation formed of
States - , and no nation except as these
states form it; and thete States are no
Statta tieent as they are States 'in that
nation.. They had no moreright to 'reran
diate the nation than the - nation had to_
repudiate theta.
_None of them hid even
the shadow of a 'right to do this, kid God
helping us, we will vindicate that truth,
so that it shall never be disputed any more
in this world, It is a fearful utterance
that is set before us, butt there are great.
compensations for it. Those of you Who
have alluded to this subject know that
, from_ the foundation of 'the present 'Gov
' eminent before and since ohr 'present Con
stitution 'was formed, 'there have always
been parties that. had no faith in 'ear Gov.
ernment. The mitt that formed it Were
doubtful of its suttess, and, the Men who,
opposed its <formation did not desire'its I
success. And lam bold to say. 'ivitheus
detaining you on this subjectohat for all
tht.outcry about out violations of the Con
stiridol°, this present living genertion
and thin present Union party are more
thoroughly devoted to that Constitution
than any ether 'generation that has ever
lived under it. While I say thig, and
solemnly believe it, and believe it is ca
pable of the strongest 'proof, I may also
add that-it is a :seat error, which is pro
pogated in our land, to say that our na
tional life depends upon' our sustaining
that Constitution. Our fathers made it
and we love•it. I intend to maintain it.
But if it suits us to change it W - e eii, - ,16
so, and when it suits us to change itiiveivill
change it. If it were torn into ten thou
sand pieces, the nation would be as. much
a nation it it Was before the Constitution
was made—a option always—that declar
ed its inidependeince as a united people
until now—a nation independent of all
particular Institutions wider which they
lived, capable of modeling them preeisely
as their interest' require ,We ouglit in
have it 'distinctly 'Understood. by. friends.
'and enemies that while we love_ the in- ,
stranient Ike.. will maintain. it, and Will
with undoubted oartaidty put" to death
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friend Or Toe Who Un'derta'kes th trattiild
it tinder foot,; yet beyond ` a.doiiht . t►n_Rill
reserve, thb right to alter it td at* ditr;
felveit from time to time and Nit' getter
ation toletteration. One moce idea on
that subject;: We have 'incOrperated . id
that instrtiment the right of tevolntiobi
which gives us, without , a doubt the riiht
to change it. It never eaistedliefote id'
the AmeriCalvStates, and there it no need
of rebellion, ih`shrrectioulor civil itat,
cept upon a denial of the furidathentii
principles of all free irovernmente thtit
major part - ,must ruib, and there% bo
er - way of tarrying-on tollety ezdetit. that
the will Of the majority ;'shall be the ~ivll
of the whole. So that in one Itotd;l4
deny the principles I hti l ve tried to'stailt;
is to make a dogmatic assertion that: tits
only form Of government that is piissibli
with perfect liberty, and , acknoWledgea
4-God, is a Pure end alksolute'desPotilth;
The principles, therefore, trhiah I am try.
ink to state before you, ate princitiee
which, if they be not trite, freedom ie an ;
posbible; and no government but oiN of
pure foie° can exist et . 'ought to itidittit
among men.
But the iden tvhioh I wished 'to 'o'4
out as the remedy for these troubles - ind
sorrows, dreadful as they are, is this
This fearful truth funs through the *Mile
history of mankind that 'whatWer
may be done to give stability to anthotity;
whatever else may be ilen'e to give perpe
tuity to institutions. howem wise , how
ever glorious, practical; and ju - st may be
the physiology of it, it, has beet fonod
that the only 'enduring,'Only imperishatlo
cement of all free institution's ha's he'ed
the blood of traitors.\, Government
has ever been built -upon noperishablU
foUndationa, which foundation's were cot
laid in the blood of , traiters. It is a fair
fat trnth,b a t we had as well avow it at - ondki
algid every lick you strike, and ever' rebel
ydu kill, every battle yoti wirt,iireadful as
it is to do It; you nre adding, it may tioa
year, it may be ten years, it may he a-cen
tury, it way be ten centuries, to the NIA
Of the Governmeat, andi the freedont of
!your childrerr. Now passing over that
idea,e passiing over many. other thints
' 'which it would be right for me to say, (114
titueler`tre, and were thai the occasion. ret
too add, you ale a Unliin party. YeAr
otigih has been referred:to an lia'ringnit•
-Burred eight years ago: In one sense it In
true that yon ace far older thug that. I'see
before me not only primitive Republican's
arid 'primitive Abolitionists, but I s'e'e,
also, primitive bemocrate, 'and primitlie
Whigs, pritaitve Americana and, If yon
will alio* , 'min to say so, I myself iimbeie;
who, all my life, have been a party to ea s y;
Self. Ab a Union Party , i will follow you
to the 'ends of the earth and to'the gate
of death; tint 'as a Repnblican 'party, as
Abolition party, as a Whig party, as a
Demeeratia party, as an American paitY,
I will not folloiv you one foot. But it is
true of the mass of the Anderican peoPle.
however` yen bay divide and Scatter, iftille
this war lasts, While thie.tonatry is in
peril, while - yon'eall yourselves as you. 'go
in the call of the Convehtion, the Ualen
party, You are for the prenervation of The
Union and the destruction of this Re' el
lion,root and branch; add, in in'y
- ment one of the great errors that haabien
'co'minitted by our Administration ot tho
Federal Government, -the ebief of *filch
tie are about to nom i date for another 'faro
Qin - Eke—one of the great errors hasleeu
to believe that ire have succeeded *ben
whe have not suceeeded,; and to eel in a
manner which Fs precisely . for those ivbe
have succeeded: You will not, you ean •
not succeed until you hay)) utterly broken
'the military Power of this people. I will not
'detain you on these incidental Points . , ono
of whiCh has been made Prominent To the
remarksnf the eicellent Chain:nal:lV the
National Committee. Iqo not knOitt *hat
would be willing to do 'so far as, 'probe.
Ally, he. would, but I cordially agree with
Min in tjtis, I think consideridg what ha%
been done about Slavery, taking t he thing
as it now stands, Gverlooking - .lidge.ther,
either Sin way of condemnation or aPpsirral
any act , that has brought na in the point
where we are; but believing in Or con
science and with 'all my bean that what
has breught us to where we are in the
matter of Slaiery, is the nrigioar.sin and
folly of treason flia Secession. I)ecause
you remember that 'the Chicaoo,tonien
thin itself was understood, and I Veheyfi
it virtually did explicitly Istate, IVat ttiey
;mould not touch Slaveryilin tile 'Nate.=
Leasing it; therefore; altoiietherent - of the
question-hoiv we 'came ;here Vti are on
'that - print, we nre prepared to - I,tA further;
than the original RepubhearisTremselves
were prepared to go. We nin Premed
to demand not only that The'tsitole terri
tory of the United Statesislialllial be madei
slave, but that the General Government ,
o£' the -American people shall one oe.
two thinci3, and it appears, to me that thero
is nothirw ellvhat can be dont% either to ,
use the whole povier of the GoNeroment,
both war power and peace poirer,.to
Slavery at nearly as possibld
it was r for although that will be'a feirTal
state of society, it is bette that &catchy),
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