| Show lincoln in richmond BY af saw after his interview with judge Caro the president being about to return to tha W abash I took him and admiral porter in my carriage an concourse of colored people thronged thron ged the streets accod paned and followed the carriage railing upon the president in the wildest exclamations of gratitude an delight IQ waa the iloe the messiah to the slaves of the south colored women toed hands high in the air and then bent down to be ground fo foloy joy aono on of deliverance and gang the old plantation refrain which had prophesied the coming ot a deliverer trona bondage god bless you father abraham went up from a thousand anly who hiiva been tho paroxysmal enthusiasm of ft re ligion meeting of slaves can form any adequate conception the way in hou the tear and smiles fand shouts of theae emancipated people clinco t tho frenzy of their gratitude to their deliverer he looked at it all A face only of a sort of wonder it would alternate with one of hi peculiar smiled and he would remark on the great proportion of those choso whoso color indicated a mixed lineage irom the whito master and th daok glayfa and that reminded him of abino little story of bi life in kentucky which he would smilingly tell and ihen hi fetco would relapse loo that all will remember waft saw him during the baat lew weeks of the rebellion perhaps it wati of his impending fate I accompanied him to he ship bade him ta rewell aad left him to aih face no more hot conr after the beatings the kindest hearts that ever throbbed in human july atlantic |
