The Shasta Courier

Strong Talk For an Old Democrat.-Gen. Hunter-born in a slave district, and before the war a Democrat--concludes in the following radical style his famous letter informing Jeff. Davis that the negro soldiers in the service of the United States must, if taken prisoners, be treated as other prisoners of war are:

" The poor negro is fighting for liberty in its truest sense. and Mr. Jefferson has beautifully said; 'In such a war there is no attribute of the Almighty which will induce him to fight on the side of the oppressor. You say you are fighting for liberty. Yes! you are fighting for liberty—liberty to keep four millions of your fellow beings in ignorance and degradation-liberty to separate parents and children, husband and wife. brother and sister--liberty to steal the products of their labor, exacted with many a cruel lash and bitter tear--liberty to seduce their wives and daughters, and to sell your own children into bondage-liberty to kill these children with impunity when the murder cannot be proven by one of pure white blood. This is the kind of liberty-the liberty to do wrong. which Satan, chief of the fallen angels, was contending for when he was cast into hell."