Abraham Lincoln . rders. The mayor and a deputation ofcitizens called upon President Davis, and protested against the execu-tion of the order. Your statement, said Davis, that the burning of the warehouseswill endanger the city is only a cowardly pretext to save 3our propertyfrom the Yankees. () General Ewell endeavored to impress upon theauthorities the necessity of providing protection against the mob afterthe withdrawal of the troops. A half-dozen members of the councilhastily assembled, and decided that the liquor in the city should bedestro3^ed. The railroad to Danville and the James Kive
Abraham Lincoln . rders. The mayor and a deputation ofcitizens called upon President Davis, and protested against the execu-tion of the order. Your statement, said Davis, that the burning of the warehouseswill endanger the city is only a cowardly pretext to save 3our propertyfrom the Yankees. () General Ewell endeavored to impress upon theauthorities the necessity of providing protection against the mob afterthe withdrawal of the troops. A half-dozen members of the councilhastily assembled, and decided that the liquor in the city should bedestro3^ed. The railroad to Danville and the James Kiver Canal were the onlyavenues by which the Confederate Government could leave. Coaches,wagons, carts, vehicles of every description, were brought into use toconvey to the railroad station chests and boxes packed with publicdocuments and the personal baggage of Jefferson Davis and his Cabi-net. An excited crowd gathered. Women gave way to lamentations,men cursed and blasphemed, as soldiers with fixed bayonets pushed. 498 LIFE OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN. back all except a favored fe^v^ From Lumpkinss prison came a gangof fifty negroes with clanking chains—the last slave coffle of NorthAmerica. From the day when cotton became king, in the estimation of thepropagandists of slavery, Virginia had been purchasing human flesh forsouthern markets. The Richmond mart with its iron-grated cells wasscarcely a stones-throw from the mansion purchased by the Confeder-ate Government for Jefferson Davis. There was no room on the train for Lurapkinss chattels. What loss!In 1861 those fifty men and womenwould have brought $50,000, but onthat Sunday evening they were utter-ly valueless. There was no longer aKKY OF THE RICHMOND SLAVE PRISON. ^^^^^ mart iu thc United Statcs-[in possession of the author.] no lougcr a skve. Lumpkius could only tui-n his chattels loose amid thesurging crowd. Tlie prison, whip, shackles, driver, auction block — rel-ics of barbarism — were of the past. The excited multitude
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