Thomas Butler Gunn Diaries: Volume 21, page 141 photographs and newspaper clipping, continued, December 31, 1862

Includes a newspaper clipping written by Gunn for the New York Tribune and two photographs of Col. T.B. Thorpe and Lieut. Col. Strother. Transcription: 127 Letter to the Tribune. photograph Col. T. B. Thorpe. photograph Lieut. Col. Strother. (Porte Crayon.) newspaper clipping continued titled to all the privileges of conserving, for a time the cherished evil, out of which all our national troubles have germinated. Whether she is or is not included in that act of tardy recognition of God's justice, to become to-morrow the law of the land, I do not venture to decide, but here, in this locality, I deem it my duty to place on record the fact of this impression as well as others, I am sorry to say, tending to justify it. That Slavery exists in New-Orleans only by sufferance, but virtual consent of the chattels who choose to remain such, I am willing to believe. Military law superseded civil on the advent of Gen. Butler; and Judge Peabody, at present the personification of the former in its resumed functions, is a very unlikely person to exercise them on behalf of slaveholders, in opposition to the clearly announced legislation of our executive. If a slave ran away in this city, hi

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