"LIBERTY!" THE TENDER MERCIES OP THE NORTH TO THE FREE NEGRO. The following article, headed " Liberty, a Romance," appears in a New York journal called Vanity Fair: — "I am an intelligent contraband. lam for ever free. Mr. Lincoln has said so. The Tribune has printed it in big type. "My master was a tobacco-planter in Hoghole Swamp, Arkansas. He was a descendant of the Arkansas traveller. When the Union army arrived, he became a traveller also. There is no law for the return of fugitive masters. I was left alone. " I went into the Union lines, and on New Year's day a general read me Mr. Lincoln's Proclamation and told me I was a free man. Then he gave me some bacon that smelt bad, and set me to work, digging trenches. I don't like to dig trenches. I told a soldier so. He laughed. I told an officer so. He said, 'Go to the d—l.'
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Lake Wakatip Mail, Volume I, Issue 23, 18 July 1863, Page 6
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156Page 6 Advertisements Column 1 Lake Wakatip Mail, Volume I, Issue 23, 18 July 1863, Page 6
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