1968
Cleveland Morning Leader, 14 June 1864
(18 inches)
~ See original
p.2, col.3
~ View at ChronAm
1968 - I, June 14:2/3 - In a letter to the editor, Mrs. Frances D. Gage,
says: That Cairo, where she landed, is the stopping place for the refugees,
white and black, that flee from the terrible oppressions of the Confed-
erates. She found groups of these ill-fated people, lying, sitting, and
standing in an almost unimaginable condition of wretchedness and poverty,
squalid, filthy, pale, haggard with hurger, fever and toil. She says:
"If there is any one who has enlisted in the work of emancipation, that
has felt like turning back, let me beseech them to persevere, if not for
the sake of the Negro, for the sake of the white men and women whose hu-
manity is crushed, almost into brutishness, by this unknown monster,
slavery." (18)