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Show 50 TilE <JOLDEN UO H. ~onth will suspect this her d:1ngcr, and will cover it up with a decree of emancipation for all able-bodied men who will bear arms for the Confcllcracy. That woulll free n nrly 500,000 negro men, which would be a cheap price to pay for :1 victory over the North ' which would give them power to recover the emanci-pated half-million by reopening the slave-trade, and would not impair Slavery at all. (For I do not believe the South would give up Slavery for anything!) The children, by the codes of all slave tatcs, follow the condition of the mother, and such a decree would manumit no women. No bid that we could then make for these negroes would bring them to our side ; for they would then be under military rule, and animated by the spirit of the contest. The power that is nearest is that which they have most faith in; a distant, less imposing power might double the offer with no effect. There is one n1an in the South who has his eye steadily on the watch in this direction. J cffcrson Davis has no f;.:tiLh whatever in th fontln ss of the negro for l1is condition . .A. few years ago an arti -t of Ph iladclphia was en-gag_ ed by the State of South Carolina to prepare some natlonal cmble1naLic pictnrc for her ~.. Latc-Ilousc. J cfferson Davis was rcqucstccl to act wi Lh the SouLh Carolina con1nliLLcc in criLi.cisinob- the sLndic • 1,1.o r tl n. s dc s1. gn. The fmt. ,·ketch brought in hy the arti t wa a design rcpre.·cnLlng the North by various 111 chanic ilnplc- LIBE.R TY'S Lh,G ITIMATE WEAPON. mcnts, the We t bY. sotnethin()' 51 1 was rcprc ented b Y VUl'l.O HS "t' hc · sc, whil t th C SO U th however, being a cotton-b l ~ngs, the centrepiece fast a 1 a 0 ccp. When J cf·t· . Wl th a negro upon .t ' tl · . saw 1 t 1 . 1 , ns Will never do ·. ·what will LlC said, " Gel tl 1 omen, when that nc()'ro 1 ecomc of the S o wa ws up ? " ou th ·uT he first blast from tl 1e tr. .u mp f . WI reveal to J cff d l . o tuuvcrsal Frccdon1 an us Col .D d has already \vakcd u . I 1 c crates that the ncb()'ro tl lat the North i \YPa'k cad so, w. hicl l I· s more inlportant marching on to lJloodl cs.. V_Icutpor' y thent will our armY go' not men, Lrcaking fetter ' - ratnpling scourn·es AJ I ' not heart o ' · 1, w lat tongue can eel C1u. rate •· • a VIctory which would rest a VIctory so glorious. links of their circles . 1 . lore to our firesides the lost' l ands of the South a ' bW l!C l WO. u ld toLJch the blight d 1 ld . . s y a maO'JC w d . . c s IOU reJOice and blo "' an ' until Its desert l om as the r cap the broken arch b t ose; which should the infrangible kc t c ween North and South w·tl ys one, eternal Justice ' 1 l • |
