South Danvers Wizard, 5/4/1864, p. 2/3
RETALIATION – “The butchery of Negro soldiers by the rebels at Fort Pillow and Plymouth, N.C. says, the Newburyport Herald, is a new phase of the war, barbarous and cruel beyond precedent.  It must lead to retaliation; and then comes the dark hour of the war.  But there is no avoiding it.  If the government puts colored soldiers in the field it must protect them. If they are murdered it must punish the murderers; and if it cannot catch the principals in the crime, it must take the accessories, which list includes all rebels.  A bitter day will it be when we come to this wholesale slaughter; but unless the government is ready to abandon its cause it must not hesitate.  In a little time, the colored soldiers, as at present exposed, would become demoralized and useless; nay, they would become worse than useless – ready to create panic in any battle.”

South Danvers Wizard, 5/4/21864, p. 2/2
SOLDIER’S PAY

South Danvers Wizard, 5/11/1864, p. 2/2
REMEMBER FORT PILLOW – “The Texans never fought so desperately as when the cry ‘Remember the Alamo’ rang in their ears, and the rebels will find that ‘Remember Fort Pillow’ will nerve the arm of many a colored soldier to renewed exertion.”

South Danvers Wizard, 5/18/1864, p. 2/7
COLORED TROOPS – “It is said that our colored troops in the late battles, behaved splendidly, and were always ready for the fray.  When a large detachment of rebel prisoners was marched past them, bitter greetings were exchanged.  The ‘unbleached’ would exclaim: ‘How is you rebels? Lucky it wasn’t we that catched you, or we would have made you remember Fort Pillow.’ The infuriated chivalry dared make no offensive replies, but strode sullenly along, with dejected countenance, muttering what they ‘would do if they had the niggers somewhere else.’ The barbarians were evidently brought to realize for the first time that theirs is not the master race.
     Another account says that the colored troops behaved very gallantly on Thursday.  The rebels cried out ‘No quarter!’ and they replied that they would neither receive nor give quarter, and they were as good as their word, as they fought nobly and took no prisoners.”

South Danvers Wizard, 6/1/1864, p. 2/6
JUSTICE TO COLORED SOLDIERS – “Governor Andrew has written a letter to the President calling for prompt and immediate justice to our colored soldiers, by the payment of a full allowance of $18 a month.  That is right.  If we employ colored soldiers we should pay them and not allow them and their families to suffer.  We should do more than that, we should protect them and see that they are not outraged and murdered like brute beasts.  We should do by and for them just as we would be so many white men; and the President should not in relations to them as he would to and for his own sons.  It is not a question who this man or what he is as an individual; he wears the United States uniform and that has rights to be respected.” – Reprinted from the Newburyport Herald.