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August, 1861.    DOUGLASS MONTHLY.    499
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How marked and striking is the contrast between the two peoples, and the two armies.  Where the one tortures and sometimes kills its prisoners, the other treats them kindly, and often releases them upon taking the oath of allegiance.  Where the one slays only in battle, the other shoots down our unarmed men in cold blood.  While the South does not hesitate to employ their slaves against the Government, the Government refuses to accept the services of any colored citizen in suppressing the rebellion, lest they should lead to the freedom of the slaves, and thus inflict too heavy a blow upon the slaveholding rebels.  The one is very careful about the rights of property, while the other fills the sea with pirates, and plunders the Government of every thing it can get its hands upon.  The slaveholders have no scruples; they wage this war with unrelenting and desperate earnestness, sustained and fed by immeasurable malice, unmixed, and as deadly as the poison from the fang of a rattlesnake.  Herein is the secret of their success.  It is not their numbers, not their wealth, not the goodness of their cause, not their skill, but the quenchless fire of a deadly hate, which spurns all restraints of law and humanity, and walks to its purpose with a single eye and a determined hand.  The battle at Bull's Run has done something to open Northern eyes to the real character of their Southern brethren; but it may require other lessons of the same sort to lead them to strike the South only where it can do so effectually, and that is the abolition of slavery.
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A BLACK HERO.
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While our Government still refuses to acknowledge the just claims of the negro, and takes all possible pains to assure 'our Southern brethren' that it does not intend to interfere in any way with this kind of property; while the assistance of colored citizens in suppressing the slaveholders' rebellion is peremptorily and insultingly declined; while even Republicans still deny and reject their natural allies and unite with pro-slavery Democrats in recognizing their alleged inferiority--it has happened that one of the most daring and heroic deeds--one which will be likely to inflict the heaviest blow upon the piratical enterprizes of JEFF. DAVIS--has been struck by an obscure negro.  All know the story of this achievement: The schooner 'S. J. Waring,' bound to Montevideo, having on board a valuable cargo, when scarcely beyond the waters of New York, was captured by the privateer 'Jeff. Davis.'  The captain and the mate of the Waring were sent home, and a prize crew, consisting of five men, were put on board of her.  Three of the original crew, two seamen and WILLIAM TILLMAN, the colored steward, besides a passenger, were retained.  TILLMAN, our hero, very soon ascertained from conversations which he was not intended to hear, that the vessel was to be taken to Charleston, and that he himself was to be sold as a slave.  The pirates had chuckled over their last item of their good luck; but, unfortunately for them, they had a man to deal with, one whose brave heart and nerves of steel stood athwart their infernal purposes.

TILLMAN took an early occasion to make known to his fellow prisoners the devilish purpose of the pirates, and declared that they should never succeed in getting him to Charleston alive.  Only one of his fellow prisoners,
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a German named STEDDING, consented to take part in the dangerous task of recapturing the vessel.  He watched anxiously for a favorable moment to slay the pirates and gain his freedom.  So vigilant, however, were the prize captain and crew, that it was not until they had nearly reached the waters of Charleston, in the very jaws of a fate which he dreaded more than death, that an opportunity offered.  They were within fifty miles of Charleston; night and sleep had come down upon them--for even pirates have to sleep.  STEDDING, the German, discovered that now was the time, and passing the word to TILLMAN, the latter began his fearful work--killing the pirate captain, mate and second mate, and thus making himself master of the ship with no other weapon than a common hatchet, and doing his work so well that the whole was accomplished in seven minutes, including the giving the bodies of the pirates to the sharks.  The other two men were secured, but afterwards released on condition that they would help to work the ship back to New York.  Here was a grand difficulty, even after the essential had been accomplished, one before which a man less hopeful and brave than TILLMAN would have faltered.  Neither himself nor his companions possessed any knowledge of navigation, and they might have fallen upon shores quite as unfriendly as those from which they were escaping, or they might have been overtaken by pirates as savage as those whose bodies they had given to the waves.  But, despite of possible shipwreck and death, they managed safely to reach New York, TILLMAN humorously remarking that he came home as captain of the vessel in which he went out as steward.
 
When we consider all the circumstances of this transaction, we cannot fail to perceive in TILLMAN a degree of personal valor and presence of mind equal to those displayed by the boldest deeds recorded in history.  The soldier who marches to the battle field with all inspirations of numbers, music, popular applause, 'the pomp and circumstance of glorious war,' is brave; but he who, like TILLMAN, has no one to share danger with him, in whose surroundings there is nothing to steel his arm or fire his heart, who has to draw from his own bosom the stern confidence required for the performance of the task of man-slaying, is braver.  The soldier knows that even in case of defeat there are stronger probabilities in his favor than against him.  TILLMAN, on the other side, was almost alone against five, and well knew that if he failed, an excruciating death would be the consequence.  He was on the perilous ocean, at the mercy of the winds and waves, with whose powers he was as well acquainted as he was conscious of his inability by skill and knowledge to defy them.  How much nerve, moreover, does it not require in a man unaccustomed to bloodshed, a stranger to the sights and scenes of the battle field, to strike thus for liberty!  TILLMAN is described as anything but a sanguinary man.  His whole conduct in sparing the lives of part of the pirate crew proves that the description of his good-natured and gentle disposition is no exaggeration of his virtues.  Love of liberty alone inspired him and supported him, as it had inspired DENMARK VESEY, NATHANIEL TURNER, MADISON WASHINGTON, TOUSSAINT L'OUVERTURE, SHIELDS GREEN, COPELAND, and other negro heroes before him, and he walked
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to his work of self-deliverance with a step as firm and dauntless as the noblest Roman of them all.  Well done for TILLMAN!  The N. Y. [[italics]] Tribune [[/italics]] well says of him, that the nation is indebted to him for the fiirst [sic] vindication of its honor on the sea.  When will this nation cease to disparage the negro race?  When will they become sensible of the force of this irresistible TILLMAN argument?
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THE GREAT CONSPIRACY AND ENGLAND'S NEUTRALITY.  MR. JAY'S ADDRESS AT MT. KISCO, JULY, 4TH, 1861.

In after years, when the present conflict of arms has given place to a reign of peace and security, when the disturbing causes of the present generation shall have been completely disposed of, and men shall desire to have a clear view of the history and philosophy of the events now transpiring, Mr. JAY'S Address will be sought and read as one of the most comprehensive, elaborate, candid and masterly expositions of the mighty issues of the hour yet accomplished.  For the present, men have no appetite for such expositions.--The mightiest orations are tame and spiritless by the side of 'Bull's Run' and 'Manassas Junction.'  And yet we thank Mr. JAY for his able Address.  Like WILLIAM JAY, his noble father, JOHN JAY is a patriot, a philanthropist, and an industrious and pains-taking writer.  The Address before us largely exhibits the excellent qualities of his mind, and for the sake of our readers we would gladly find space for lengthy extracts from it.

The most valuable part of the Address is that in which Mr. JAY unfolds the secret history of the conspiracy, and meets the arguments of secessionists, exposes the unfair, unfounded and dishonorable pretenses by which the whole movement for secession has been thus far conducted and defended.  He lets the slaveholding rebels speak for themselves, and out of their own mouths they are shown to be only worthy of infamy and execration.

There is, to our mind, but one defect in Mr. JAY'S otherwise admirable Address.  For some reason or other, he has chosen to look at the rebellion as a fact by itself, and as a thing to be dealt with as such.  He describes the fact with minuteness and fidelity, but does not sufficiently look behind the fact to the force which made the fact.  In his mind, it would appear that the suppression of rebellion is the one thing needful.  To us the mere forcible subjugation of the South, while leaving slavery, the cause of the rebellion, remaining, would not be a very worthy achievement.  Men of high positions, like Mr. JAY, can do no better service just now, than that of demonstrating to the present Administration the utter worthlessness of any termination of the present conflict which stops short of emancipating the slaves.  Two cannot walk together except they be agreed.  A house divided against itself cannot stand.  There must be a union of heart, a union of interest, a union of idea, otherwise there can be no permanent union.  The slaveholders know that no one Government can legislate satisfactorily to slavery and freedom at the same time.  The experiment has been tried and has failed.  Common sense asks why try it again?  It is true that Mr. JAY does not, like many other Republican statesmen, take pains to tell us that he is opposed to the abolition of slavery in the present impending crisis.  But the course of his argument implies the possi-
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