The Continental Monthly, Vol 2, No 6, December 1862, page 159 by Various Authors
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p>'Nobody but Mr. Kirke, Joe. He has paid the judgment.'
'Bress you, Mr. Kirke, de Lord bress you, sar. But dar's more you knows, massa Robert. You tole Mr. Kirke 'bout dem?'
'No, Joe. I know I ought to; but I couldn't.
'P'raps Mr. Kirke wouldn't hab paid dat, if he'd know'd de whole!' said Joe, in a hesitating tone.
'Undoubtedly I would, Joe. It's no great matter, I'm sure,' I replied.
'Well, Joe, never mind this now. We'll talk affairs all over with Mr. Kirke before he goes,' said Preston.
'Dat's right, massa Robert; gemman like Mr. Kirke knows 'bout dese tings better'n you nor me.'
Saying we would see him again that day, Preston and I then reëntered the mansion.
FOOTNOTES:
[Footnote 4: This transaction, improbable as it may seem to Northern readers, occurred literally as I have narrated it.--The AUTHOR.]
ENLISTING!
There's not a trade agoing, Worth knowing or showing, Like that from glory growing! Says the bold soldier boy.
THE FREED MEN OF THE SOUTH.
A question of great magnitude, concerning the fate of vast numbers of freed men in the South, and affecting material interests of world-wide importance, is looming up and shaping itself among the clouds which surround us, and is daily growing more pressing in its demand for solution, and for wise and beneficent action. The entire social and industrial arrangements of the South are likely to be completely disorganized, and more or less permanently broken up. The civil war itself, in its very nature, from its avowed principles and purposes, was well calculated to produce this result; but the proclamation of the President, declaring emancipation after the 1st of January next, in all the rebellious States, comes in at this critical moment speedily to perfect the work which the madness of the rebels had already begun.
We do not propose to consider the legal effect of that measure; its conformity to the Constitution, or to the laws of war; it