All has been quiet
for the last fortnight, but now we hear reports of a bombardment of Pensacola.
They come through the Rebels and so we have no reasons for believing them, and
great ones for not believing them. We must wait for reliable information.
An order has been
issued by Cameron to Gen. Sherman commanding him to use the negroes at Beaufort
to pick the cotton and then to ship it to New York to be sold on account of the
Government. Free cotton, I rather think, will be as good as slave. Who one
short year ago would have imagined that we should have shiploads of cotton
picked by paid negroes?
SOURCE: William
Rhinelander Stewart, The Philanthropic Work of Josephine Shaw Lowell,
p. 22
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