making me miserable."

But his acts show that he "hit the thing hard." It could not recover
from the telling stroke which rent the black oak--the Emancipation
Act.


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THE "LEX TALIONIS" CHRISTIANIZED.

Frederick Douglass, the colored men's representative, called on the
President to procure a pledge that the unfair treatment of negro
soldiers in the Union uniform should cease by retaliatory measures
on the captured Confederates. But his hearer shrank, from the bare
thought of hanging men in cold blood, even though the rebels should
slay the negroes taken.

"Oh, Douglass, I cannot do that! If I could get hold of the actual
murderers of colored prisoners, I would retaliate; but to hang those
who have no hand in the atrocities, I cannot do _that_!"--(By
F. Douglass, in _Northwestern Advocate_.)


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THE SLAVE-DEALER.