ent to the front under auspicious
circumstances.

The 20th Regiment, under the command of Col. Bartram, landed at
Thirty-Sixth Street, was headed by the police and the patriotic
members of the Union League Club, and had a triumphal march through
the city.

"The scene of yesterday," says a New York paper, "was one which
marks an era of progress in the political and social history of
New York. A thousand men with black skins and clad and equipped
with the uniforms and arms of the United States Government,
marched from their camp through the most aristocratic and busy
streets, received a grand ovation at the hands of the wealthiest
and most respectable ladies and gentlemen of New York, and then
moved down Broadway to the steamer which bears them to their
destination--all amid the enthusiastic cheers, the encouraging
plaudits, the waving handkerchiefs, the showering bouquets and
other approving manifestations of a hundred thousand of the most
loyal of our people.

"In the month of July last the homes of these people were burned
and pillaged by an infuriated political mob; they and their
families were hunted down and murdered in the public streets of
this city; and the force and majesty of the law were powerless to
protect them. Seven brief months have passed, and a thousand of
these despised and persecuted men march through the city in the
garb of United States soldiers, in vindication of their own
manhood, and with the approval of a countless multitude--in
effect saving from inevitable and distasteful conscription the
same number of those who hunted their persons and destroyed their
homes during those days of humiliation and disgrace. This is
noble vengeance--a vengeance taught by Him who commanded, 'Love
them that hate you; do good to them that persecute you.'"

The recruiting of Colored troops in Pennsylvania was carried on,
perhaps, with more vigor, intelligence, and enthusiasm than in any of
the other free States. A committee for the recruiting of men of color
for the United States army was appointed at Philadelphia, with Thomas
Webster as Chairman, Cadwalader Biddle, as Secretary, and S. A.
Mercer, as Treasurer. This committee raised $33,388.00 for the
recruiting of Colored regiments. The 54th and 55th Massachusetts
regiments had cost about $60,000, but this committee agreed to raise
three