The most eloquent, perhaps, was Corporal Price Lambkin, just arrived from Fernandina, who evidently had a previous reputation among them.

His historical references were very interesting.

He reminded them that he had predicted this war ever since Fremont's time, to which some of the crowd assented; he gave a very intelligent account of that Presidential campaign, and then described most impressively the secret anxiety of the slaves in Florida to know all about President Lincoln's election, and told how they all refused to work on the fourth of March, expecting their freedom to date from that day.

He finally brought out one of the few really impressive appeals for the American flag that I have ever heard.

"Our mas'rs dey hab lib under de flag, dey got dere wealth under it, and ebryting beautiful for dere chilen.