Journal of the War [pp. 537-557]

JOURNAL OF THE WAR.
Provost-marshal.
Governor Andrew. of Massachusetts, with the
Knights of Altoona.
Band.
Contra-Bands.
Managers of the Underground Railroad, two
abreast.
Provo st-niarshal.
Joshua R. Giddings. Frederick Douglass
(black man), andl Al,by Kelly Foster, repre sentimig the Three Graces.
Stri,ng-minded Women.
Rev. Henry Ward Screecher.
Sergt. Fitz,gerald, of the Corcoran Legion.
Banid-" List, t1h List."
Mi,,re C-ntra-Bands.
Supt. of the Negro Schools at Port Royal.
Provost-miarshal.
Sh,idliy Contract,rs.
The Libelers,f Get'l McClellan biting a File.
Aunty Slavery, led by Uncle Tom.
Fremont.
More Sh,,ddy Contractors.
The Ghi(st of Magna Charta.
Goddess of Liberty, with a broken Constitution.
Knights of the Order of Fort Lafayette.
Pr,,vost- marshal.
The mirtal remains,f the late
liabeas Corpus, Esq.
Pall bearers.
MTourn-ers. etc., etc.
Provost-marshal.
Armny Speculators.
Field-marshal Ho-race Greeley and Staff, with
Assista.i,ts bearing Pand(ora's Box.
Tableai. —'epresenting Servile Insurrection Young St. Domtingii-Apotheosis of Tous sainit l'Ouvetture, etc.
Prov,st-iimarshal.
The Genius of Ditsunion.
Banner, with the inscription, "Let the Union
Slitle."
Ban(ld.
Air-" John Browvn's Body Lies a-Mouldering
in the Grave," etc.
Prov,st-marshal.
Rev. Dr. Cheever, with a Man and a Brother.
D)elegates fromn Exeter Hall.
Postage-stain l)s.
Wide Awakes.
(:on tra-Bands.
Pr-ovost-marslhal.
More Wide Awakes.
Nine IHundred andi Ninety-niite Thousand
Substitutes.
"The route of the Procession xvill be along
the Unde'gri(,tndl R.ailroad, through the Realnis
of InmaginLtioit, tutil it reaches the Limbo of
Vanity anti Paradise of Fools, when the crowd
will be dismisse( until next Election ]Day."
SUNI)AY.-N-0 rumors or dispatches.
'lihe Yt:.kees will no doubt succeed
in breakitng up our s,tlt works on the
Ttche, in Louisiana, which will be a
serious blow.
Unless s;lt can be obtained, little
nteat will be saved in the Soutltwest.
People are ineatly mad on the subject.
A latrge trade ltas been tolerated bI)e tw een iere alnd New Orleants; but the
Governimeitt hias come down upon it,
and seiz,s al the vessels and their car goes on the Lake Shlore. It was a source
of great corruption nn(l aobuse, or believed to be so. Tlhe Yanketl,s were beginning to get a good deal of cotton.
They will give anything for it, even
arms.
A NORTIHERN OPINION OF SOUTIIERN SOCIETY,
-Among the most slriking episodes in the
proceedings of the Unitarian Autuminal Convention which opened its session in New York
last week, is the peculiar feeling excited by
the remarks of Rev. Dr. Bellows. in eulogy of
Southern social life and the influences proceeding from it. The opinioin so frainkly expressed
by the reverend gentleman has elicited the
most bitter comnment among the members of
the Convention.
No candid mind will deny the peculiar chlarm
of Southern youn(g imen at college, or Southern
young women in s,ciety. How far race and
climate, independent of servile institutions,
may have produced the Southern chivalric
spirit and manner, I will not here consider.
But one may as well (deny the small feet and
hands of that people as deny a certaini imibred
habit of coiinmanil; a contemipt of life in defence of honor or class: a tale nt for political
life, and an easy control of infer:iors. Nor is
this merely an external and llfsliy heroism.
It is real. It showed itself in Conigress early
and always, by the c(,urage, eloquence, skill,
and success with which it control!ed( najorities. It showed itself in the social life of
Washington, by the grace, fascination and ease,
the free and charuitig hospitality by hich it
governed society. It io(w svhows itself in England and( France, by the success with which
it manages the c(,utirts and the circles of literature and fashions in both c(unitries. It shows
itself in this war in the orders and proclamations of its generals, in the messages of the
rebel Congress, and in the essential god(l-breeding andl humanity (contrary to a diligently encouraged plublic impresoin) with which it not
seldom divides its medical stores, and gives
our sick and wounded as favortable care as it is
able to extend to its own. It exceeds us at
this mioment in the possession of an ambulance
corps.
I think the war must have increased the respect felt by the North fi,r the South. Its miraculous resources; the bralver) of its troops,
their patience under hardshlils, their unshriiiking firmness in the (lespelrate position they
have assumed; the wonderful success with
which they have extemporized manufactures
and muinitions of war, and kept themselves in
relation with the world in spite of our magnificetit blockadle; the elasticity with which
they have risen fronl defeat; and the courage
they have shown in tlirea.tenting again and
atgain our capital, aid eveni our interior, can not fail to extort'am unwilling adl.iiratioii and
respect. Well is Getneral M(ClelI.II reported
to have said (privately), as lie watched their
obstinate fighting at Antietatti, ani(d saw them
retiriiig in perlect order in the ittidst of the
mlost frightful carnage.' What terrible neighbors these would be! We minttt conquer them,
or they will conquer us!"
MONDAY. -A large ntlint er of the
river plianters are remloviig their ne groes to Texas, and iman.iy t'o thle in terior of Mississi)pi are doing the same.
They thus protect thersi fronm the Yah
541