Unionist.-Were you forced into the

army?

Virginian.-Wall, no, not exactly foreed; I knew I would be, so I j'ined. I thought I'd feel better to go myself!

Unionist.-What do you expect to gain by the rebellion?

was called to be colleague to the Rev. Dr. Spring, of the Brick Church, New York city, which he accepted and was settled. In the midst of these labors, the rebellion burst upon the country. Dr. Hoge was not at once decided as to his course of action. His sympathies were with the South, but he hesitated as to the line of ministe- Virginian. We find our leaders have rial duty. On the 17th of July, 1861, he lied to us. Our big men, like Tyler, Wise, went to the study of Rev. Dr. Prime, Letcher, and others, wanted to get rich and at whose invitation Dr. H. originally came get into high office, and so they have got to New York, and solicited Dr. P's advice us into this mess by their lies. We have as to his duty-should he go to the South, nothing agin the old flag. All we want is or should he remain in New York? Dr. Prime had often argued the political question with him before, and vainly endeavored to convince him that secession was a crime, and would be the ruin of the South. Dr. P. therefore said to him,

"Go this week; to-day, if possible." The result of this conversation was his immediate resignation of his pastoral charge. He preached his farewell sermon on the Sabbath following, while the disastrous battle of Bull Run was in progress. He left for the South, and was soon heard of as settled at Charlottsville. He threw himself into the cause of the rebellion with his accustomed zeal, but died in a short time, in the midst of his years and of the gigantic conspiracy against a nation's life.

Questions and Replies: "Nothing agin the
Old Flag."

Unionist to a Virginian prisoner.-Are you not ashamed to fight against the Union, and the Government which has done so much for you?

John Tyler.

our constitutional rights, according to the instrument under which our forefathers lived. They told us that the election of Lincoln would deprive us of these, and we believed them. But we now know that they were lies."

Poor Tyler, in the midst of his efforts to destroy the nation over which he once presided, in the chair of state consecrated by the immortal Washington, died an outlaw and fills a traitor's grave.

Generals.

One day (says "Edmund Kirke," in his Virginian. I never fought agin the racy volume, "Down in Tennessee,") as Union, and I never will. I was sitting alone with Rosecrans, an aide Unionist.-What were you doing at handed him a letter. He opened it, ceased Fort Donelson? doing half a dozen other things, and be

Virginian.-I hugged the ground closer came at once absorbed in its contents. He nor ever I did before in my life. re-read it, and then, handing it to me, said:

I was re-reading the letter when the
General again said: "What do you think
of it?"
It taps

"Read that. Tell me what you think of of the movement may thus be general over it." I read it. Its outside indicated it the entire South." had come from "over Jordan," and had "a hard road to travel," but its inside startled me. It was written in a round, unpracticed hand, and though badly spelled, showed its author familiar with good Southern English. Its date was May 18th, 1863, and it began thus:

"It would end the rebellion. the great negro organization, of which I speak in 'Among the Pines,' and co-operated with by our forces would certainly succeed, but-the South would run with blood."

"Innocent blood! Women and children!"

"GENERAL :—A plan has been adopted for a simultaneous movement or rising to sever the rebel communications throughout the whole South, which is now disclosed to some General in each military "Yes, women and children. If you let department in the Secesh States, in order the blacks loose, they will rush into carthat they may act in concert, and thus in- nage like horses into a burning barn. St. Domingo will be multiplied by a million.” "But he says no blood is to be shed except in self-defence."

sure us success.

"He says so, and the leaders may mean so, but they cannot restrain the rabble. Every slave has some real or fancied wrong, and he would take such a time to

"Well, I must talk with Garfield. Come,

The plan is for the blacks to make a concerted and simultaneous rising, on the night of the first of August next, over the whole States in rebellion. To arm themselves with any and every kind of weapon that may come to hand, and commence operations by burning all railroad and avenge it." county bridges, tearing up all railroad tracks, and cutting and destroying tele- go with me." graph wires, and when this is done take to the woods, the swamps, or the mountains, whence they may emerge, as occasions may offer, for provisions or for further depredations. No blood is to be shed except in self defence.

The corn will be in roasting ear about the first of August, and upon this, and by foraging on the farms at night, we can subsist. Concerted movement at the time named would be successful, and the rebellion be brought suddenly to an end."

The letter went on with some details which I cannot repeat, and ended thus:

"The plan will be simultaneous over the whole South, and yet few of all engaged will know its whole extent. Please write '1' and "approved" and send by the bearer, that we may know you are with us.

Be assured, General, that a copy of this letter has been sent to every military department in the rebel States, that the time

We crossed the street to Garfield's lodgings, and found him bolstered up in bed, quite sick with a fever. The General sat down at the foot of his bed, and handed him the letter. Garfield read it over carefully, and then laying it down, said:

We don't

"It will never do, General. want to whip by such means. If the slaves, of their own accord, rise and assert their original right to themselves, that will be their own affair; but we can have no complicity with them without outraging the moral sense of the civilized world."

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"I knew you'd say so; but he speaks of other department commanders-may they not come into it?"

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"Yes, they may, and that should be looked to. Send this letter to and let him head off the movement.' It was not thought prudent to intrust the letter to the mails; nor with the railway, infested with guerillas, was it a safe

document to carry about the person. A great act about to be consummated. The

short shrift and a long rope might have been the consequence of its being found on a traveler. So, ripping open the top of my boot, I stowed it snugly away in the lining, and took it North. On the 4th of June following, Garfield wrote me that he had just heard from the writer of the letter; that five out of our nine department commanders had come into the project, and, subsequently, that another general had also promised it his support.

But I can say no more. All the world knows that the insurrection did not take place. The outbreaks in September, among the blacks of Georgia and Alabama, were only parts of the plan, the work of subordinate leaders, who, maddened at the miscarriage of the grand scheme, determined to carry out their own share of the programme at all hazards. It was a gigantic project, and the trains were all laid, the matches all lighted.

Ratifying the Ordinance: Startling Scene.

whole assembly at once arose to its feet, and, with hats off, listened to the prayer. At the close of this performance, the President advanced with the consecrated parchment upon which was inscribed the decision of the State, with the great seal attached. Slowly and solemnly it was read until the last word-' dissolved'; when men could contain themselves no longer, and a shout that shook the very building, reverberating long continued, rose up, and ceased only with the loss of breath. Such was the scene, in the midst of which

P. S. Brooks.

Preston S. Brooks, South Carolina's archassassin of liberty of speech on the floor of the United States Senate.

On the ratification of the South Carolina Ordinance of Secession, Rev. Dr. Bachman was selected by the Secession Convention to offer a prayer before them, in religious observance of the act. Dr. Bachman's name had become quite dis- no portrait could have been suspended tinguished in scientific circles, he being an with more appropriateness, than that of eminent naturalist; but he had also become even more conspicuous by his strong political leanings to the side of Disunion. The scene was one that partook alike of the startling and the impressive. Most of Non-Combatant-but a Tough One. the men there assembled to commit the high- Mr. Mark R. Cockrill, was an old man est and gravest act against their country, of great wealth living near Nashville, were those upon whose heads the snow of Tennessee; he was reputed to be worth sixty winters had been shed-patriarchs in two million dollars, and owned twelve age-the dignitaries of the land-the high miles of land lying on the Cumberland river. priests of the Church-reverend states- It was reported to the Federal Chief of men-and the judges of the law. In the Army Police, that this Mr. Cockrill had midst of deep silence an old man, with induced guerrillas to lie in wait near his bowed form and hair as white as snow, the place for the purpose of seizing upon and Rev. Dr. Bachman, advanced forward, destroying Union forage trains, &c., and with upraised hands, in prayer to Almighty that he was a very bitter rebel. Having God for his blessings and favor on the been ordered to appear at the office of the

Chief of Police, he made the subjoined over three thousand dollars worth of wood statement:from me. I have never received any

"I am upwards of seventy-four years pay for anything taken from me. I came of age, and have six children,-three of in yesterday to get a negro blacksmith of them being sons, and one of them is in mine to go out with me, he consented to go the Confederate army. I was born near if I could get a pass for him; have not this city. I had about ninety-eight slaves, been in town before for four months. I but most all have left me. My son has been paid one thousand dollars as an assessment in the Confederate service since the war by General Negley, about four months began; is twenty-two years old; was cap- since, to the United States government, as tain in that service; think he is now in a loan. I have been very much aggrathe commissary department. I voted for vated by the taking of my property, and separation every time; was not a member have been very harsh in my expressions of any public committee; have had noth- towards those who have visited my place ing to do with getting up companies or for such purposes. I will not give bond any thing else connected with the army. for loyal conduct, or that I will not aid or Have talked a good deal; was opposed to abet by word or deed the Southern cause. guerrillaism; have ordered them away The loan to the South was made voluntafrom my house. I have lost twenty thou- rily, and supposing it to be a good investsand bushels of corn, thirty-six head of ment. While I was loaning to individuals horses and mules; sixty head of Durham the loan was made to the Southern govCattle, two hundred and twenty sheep,-ernment just as I would have loaned to any very fine ones, valued at one hundred dol- other party." lars each, two hundred tons of hay. When brought into the police office, Mr. The Federals have taken all this. I have Cockrill was almost beside himself with pastwo thousand sheep left, and I have a few sion. The language he used with respect milch cows and five or six heifers. I was to the Federal troops was, "Kill 'em! worth about two million dollars before the Plant 'em out!

Manure the soil with 'em!" &c. He utterly

war commenced. The Confederates have 'em taken three horses from me only. I have refused to give the non-combatant's oath loaned the Confederates twenty-five thou- and bond; and when assured by General sand dollars in gold. They have pressed Rosecrans that he must do so or he would from me no other property. I have their be sent out of the State, and perhaps to a bonds at eight per cent interest, payable Northern prison, he struck his hands semi-annually in gold, for this twenty-five against his breast, and exclaimed,thousand dollars. I thought when I loaned the money that the South would succeed, and I think so now. I do not think that the two sections can ever be brought together. The Federals also took two thou- The General assured him that he had sand pounds of bacon from me; also two but a choice of two evils, to give the thousand bushels of oats. Some twenty- bond or be sent away. He preferred the five or thirty of my men negroes ran former.

"Take my heart out,-kill me if you will; I will not give any bond by which enemies here can swear falsely and I be prosecuted for its forfeiture."

away,—six of them, however, being press-Interesting Historical Episode, Civil and

ed. I have about five thousand six hun

Military.

dred acres of land. My son, James R., It is a fact of some interest, that Genis with the South; lives on a place belong- eral Robert E. Lee, of the Confederate ing to me; but he has never taken any army, commanded in person the small active part. The Federals have taken body of marines sent to Harper's Ferry

from Washington, on the occasion of John | Five on each side, the soldiers drove Brown's attack upon that place, and that the ladder against the door, and at the it was to Colonel Lee that the old man third stroke it yielded and fell back. Colsurrendered. The Virginia militiamen hav-onel Lee and the marines jumped in-one ing driven Brown and his gang into the man John Brown shot through the heartengine house, awaited anxiously the arrival and then was overpowered and surrenof government troops, known to be on dered. Colonel Washington, with other their way from Washington, the greatest citizens, in Brown's hands, was released, excitement in the mean time prevailing at Harper's Ferry, as several citizens who had shown themselves near the engine house had been shot by the invaders.

and John Brown was handed over to the civil authorities, after which, Colonel Lee took the train to Washington again.

Who knows how much this episode, in its civil and military bearings, may have influenced Robert E. Lee to forsake the flag of the United States and become a chieftain in the rebel cause!

The Boy Father to the Man.

By three o'clock the following morning, sixty marines, under the immediate command of Lieut. Green, but directed by Col. Robert E. Lee, reached the Ferry by cars from the capital. Colonel Lee ordered his detail to stand under arms in the public streets until sunrise, when he conducted the men, leading them himself to the front When General Grant was a boy, he atof the building fortified and occupied by tended the same school with his cousin Brown. The lookers-on viewed this sol- John, a Canadian, who had come to the dierly movement with astonishment and States to be educated. The two youths awe, expecting to see Colonel Lee shot mingled as relatives; and, whenever the down as other leaders had been. But not Canadian restrained his inherited prejua shot was fired. Lieutenant Green was dices, their intercourse was pleasant. He Ulysses felt all the true impulse of patri

ordered to demand a surrender.

knocked at the door of the engine house. John Brown asked

"Who goes there?"

"Lieutenant Green, United States Marines, who, by authority of Colonel Lee, demands an immediate surrender."

"I refuse it;" said Brown, "unless I, with my men, are allowed to cross the bridge again into Maryland, unmolested, after which you can take us prisoners if you can."

Lee refused to allow this, and ordered Lieutenant Green to renew his demand for an immediate and unconditional surrender. John Brown refused those terms, and four of the marines, who had got tremendous sledge-hammers from the works, began battering at the door of the engine house. The engine had been moved against the door, and it would not yield. "Ten of you," said Lee, "take that ladder and break down the door."

otism when a student at school. It was his conviction, born and nourished in his boy's heart, that his country was the equal of any other, and that his countrymen were the equals of the best of mankind.

"Speaking of Washington," said his Canadian cousin, one day, "it seems to me,