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JULY 1862      DOUGLASS' MONTHLY.      677

From what I have said do not deem me your enemy.  And if I have committed an error, be assured that it has been of the head and not of the heart.

Accept, then, my dear sir, my highest regards and believe me to be your abiding friend for the elevation of our despised race.
W. W. TATE.


LETTERS FROM THE ST. MARK EMIGRANTS

ST. Mark, Hayti, April 15, 1862.

We, the undersigned immigrants, established in the vicinity of St. Mark, have received and heard read a letter from the General Agent of the Haytian movement in the United States, in substance stating that certain returned emigrants have informed him that we are greatly discontented; that the Haytian Government has not done its duty to us; that we desire to return to the menial position we formerly occupied in America, and requesting us to state, freely and frankly, our grievances, if any we have, and the truth, at all events.——Now, therefore, we wish in reply to say as follows:

We came to Hayti of our own accord.——We considered ourselves capable of judging as to whether it was best for us to come here.  We are not therefore deceived.

Many of us had visited this Island previous to immigrating hither as residents, and those of us who had not, were familiar with the resources of the country, its climate, and its marvelous soil.  We had every reason to believe that the liberal invitation of our excellent President Geffrard was made in good faith.  We have found this to be true.  We are not therefore, disappointed.

The Government officials have more than fulfilled their pledges.  They have given us lands and paid for the surveying.  They have given us doors and window-shutters, hinges and nails, and in most cases the coverings for our houses.  They were to provide for us eight days after our arrival in the Island, but in consequence of the necessities of many of the immigrants, the Government has supported such persons for an indefinite period——until they could raise a crop.

We have been furnished with a physician when sick.  They have granted us sites for chapels and schools.  And, all in all, we have prospered, as a body, equal to our most sanguine anticipations.

Many of us have suffered.  Some things have not gone as smoothly as they might have gone.  Some of us have been sick——the friends of others have died.  But no reasonable man expected anything less.

In fine, friends in America, whatever may be said to the contrary by those whose characters we have no need to expose, we believe that no people ever rose sooner from the inferior positions accorded to us a few months ago in the States and the Canadas, to the respected position which we, thanks to a beneficent Government, occupy to-day in Hayti.

William Brazier, M. D., of Buxton, C. W.; Frederick D. Hart of Cleveland, Ohio; Rev. George Jacobs of Buxton, C. W., Charles Harrison of Chatham, C. W.; John A. Wilson of Chillicothe, Ohio; Henry Rann of Buxton, C. W.; Peter Simmons of Buxton, C. W.; John F. Thomas of Lewiston, Penn; J. W. Duffin of Geneva, N.Y.; Lloyd Britton of Danville, Penn; David Cooper of Canada West; Perry Haughey of Buxton, C. W.; Benjamin Lewis unknown; William James of Canada West; Edward Augustus of Pennsylvania; Wm. A. Berry of Maryland;   George W. Morgan of Rondeau, C. W.; R. A. Sandars of Lewiston, Penn; Henry Moore of Canada West; Samuel Parker of Canada West; Nelson Schofield of Lewiston, Penn; Wm. G. Jones of Canada; James Parker of Michigan: Richard Jones of Canada West; W. E. Barry of Charleston, S.C.; John J. Dyer of Columbiana County, Ohio; Alfred Smith of Chatham, C. W.;  Pleasant Cross of Chatham, C. W.; Eliza Harris of Canada West; J. H. Willard, unknown; Lorenzo Peterson of Lewistown, Penn.

WASHINGTON, June 3.——The Rev. Dr. Tyng, of New York, and Stephen Caldwell of Philadelphia, representing the Freedmen's Associations of those cities, waited on Sec. Stanton this morning, in company with Senator Sumner, to inquire into the authority under which Governor Stanley issued his order, closing the colored schools in North Carolina.

These gentlemen had official advices that this had been done, from Vincent Collyer, who was teaching 1,500 loyal blacks when the order was issued.

Sec. Stanton showed them his instructions to Gov. Stanley, which contained not a word directing him to inforce the local laws in North Carolina, nor do they in any other way authorize him to issue the order in question.

Secretary Stanton also said that he would not remain one hour a member of any Administration which sanctioned such proceedings as that of Gov. Stanley, and read his visitors a letter which he had just written that functionary after consultation with the President, in which he was directed to revoke the obnoxious order and to allow the schools to go on as heretofore.

The commissions and instructions to Gov. Stanley and Gov. Andy Johnson were to-day sent into the Senate, in response to Senator Sumner's resolution of inquiry.

The commissions simply constitute them Military Governors of their respective States to keep the peace and maintain the national honor.

Their instructions are in very general terms and prescribe duties such as are suggested in their commissions, as quoted above.

There is not a word in either about enforcing local laws.

——The Washington correspondent of the Evening Post, relates the following incident:

A Northern man of business appeared at the office here and presented a message for Winchester.  'Call Winchester,' said the clerk to the operator, Winchester was called but made no reply.  The man at the counter grew anxious.  'Call Harper's Ferry,' said the clerk.  Harper's Ferry replied: 'Winchester does not reply and for a very good reason——it is in the hands of the rebels!'——This was repeated by the clerk.  The gentleman at the counter raised his hands over his head as if in great distress exclaiming: 'I am a ruined man!  I had just taken ten thousand dollars' worth of goods to Winchester, and it is all the property I had in the world.'  This was the first intimation the public had of the rout or retreat at Winchester.  It was known that Banks had retreated from Strasburg, but it was supposed that it was simply a prudential movement, and that he could easily hold Winchester.

——Correspondents have rather hard times in the Peninsula.  One of the quill squad gives the following incident:

A New York correspondent yesterday paid a contraband five dollars for a copy of the Richmond Enquirer of the previous day.  He sent it by a messenger to the Landing, for New York.  Headquarters found it out——wanted it——sent a squad of cavalry after it——put the correspondent in the guard-house, and gobbled up the paper.  Correspondents are having a hard time of it.  Two of them slept in a meadow last night, with a board over them, thus dodging the sergeant's cavalry guard that was rummaging the camp to find them.

The Post's Washington correspondent says:

This morning a handbill is to be seen in several parts of the city, calling upon all the enemies of the Administration and friends of Southern rights to rally to the polls to secure the election of Halliday.  This is certainly doing up the work boldly.  A prominent supporter of Halliday stated, in conversation on Saturday, his belief that Washington would certainly be taken by Southern troops, and that he considered it to be a very wise thing to put the city into the hands of a Mayor well affected towards the South, for in the event of capture, by the judicious action of the municipal authorities, the property of the city, private and public, might be saved.  Another pro slavery Democrat argued openly as follows: 'We are safe as a city under the Federal government, no matter into whose hands we commit its government.  If we elect Southern rights men to govern it, in case Jeff. Davis succeeds we shalt still be safe.'

The New York Tribune, of Friday last, prints the following letters from Gov. Andrew of Massachusetts, which has been received at the War Department.

Boston, May 19, 1862.
To Hon. E. M. Stanton, Secretary of War.

SIR,——I have at this moment received a telegram in these words, viz:——

'The Secretary of War desires to know how soon you can raise and organize three or four more Infantry Regiments, and have them ready to be forwarded here, to be armed and equipped.  Please answer immediately, and state the number you can raise.

[Signed]  L. THOMAS, Adjutant General.

A call so sudden and unexpected finds me without material for an intelligent reply.  Our young men are pre-occupied with other views, still, if a real call for three regiments is made I believe we can raise them in forty days.——The arms and equipments would need to be furnished here.  Our people have never marched without them.  They go into camp while forming into regiments, and are drilled and practiced with arms and muskets as soldiers.

To attempt the other course would dampen the enthusiasm, and make the men feel that they were not soldiers, but a mob.  Again if our people feel that they are going into the South to help fight the rebels, who will kill and destroy them by all the means known to savage as well as civilized war, will deceive them by fraudulent flags of truce and lying pretences, as they did the Massachusetts boys at Williamsburg, will use their negro slaves against them, both as laborers and fighting men, while they themselves must never fire at the enemy's magazine, I think they will feel the draft is heavy on their patriotism.  But if the President will sustain Gen. Hunter, and recognize all men, even black men, as legally capable of that loyalty the blacks are waiting to manifest, and let them fight with God and human nature on their side, the roads will swarm if need be, with multitudes, whom New England would pour out to obey your call.

Always ready to do my utmost, I remain, most faithfully, your obedient servant.

JOHN A. ANDREW.

[[symbol: index]]  We hear today from Richmond.  An omnibus with four horses driven by a mulatto, and having two African gentlemen as inside passengers came into Heintzleman's camp this afternoon amid more laughter and cheering than I have heard in a year.  A South Carolinian chartered it this morning of the keeper of the Columbia house, to remove wounded friends from the field of Seven Pines.  Jehu, of mulatto tint, drove the four bays right into our pickets, on Casey's old ground.  The South Carolinian tumbled out of the bus and the three blacks were sent to headquarters.  The driver, a very sharp fellow, says that the rebel wounded of yesterday are awfully numerous——that every carriage in Richmond was impressed to carry them away——that all the houses in the city contain more or less of them, and there was talk of turning the hotels into hospitals——that the inhabitants are removing to Danville, and that the army was retreating from before us in large masses
——Cor. of the New York Tribune.

——Through the exertions of Gen. Burnside says a correspondent, about 1500 Federal soldiers in the hands of the rebels will immediately be released from prison at Salsbury, on parole, and delivered at Washington, N. C. by the rebel military authorities.  Many New England men will be included in the number

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