's _School-Visitor_ for the following song of the
Contrabands, which originated among the latter, and was first sung by
them in the hearing of white people at Fortress Monroe, where it was
noted down by their chaplain, Rev. L.C. Lockwood. It is to a plaintive
and peculiar air, and we may add has been published with it in
'sheet-music style,' with piano-forte accompaniment, by Horace Waters,
New-York:

OH! LET MY PEOPLE GO.

THE SONG OF THE CONTRABANDS.

The Lord, by Moses, to Pharaoh said: Oh! let my people go;
If not, I'll smite your first-born dead--Oh! let my people go.
Oh! go down, Moses,
Away down to Egypt's land,
And tell King Pharaoh
To let my people go.

No more shall they in bondage toil--Oh! let my people go;
Let them come out with Egypt's spoil--Oh! let my people go.

Haste, Moses, till the sea you've crossed--Oh! let my people go;
Pharaoh shall in the deep be lost--Oh! let my people go.

The sea before you shall divide--Oh! let my people go;
You'll cross dry-shod to the other aide--Oh! let my people go.

Fear not King Pharaoh or his host--Oh! let my people go;
For they shall in the sea be lost--Oh! let my people go.

They'll sink like lead, to rise no more--Oh! let my people go;
An' you'll hear a shout on the other shore--Oh! let my people go.

The fiery cloud shall lead the way--Oh! let my people go;
A light by night and a shade by day--Oh! let my people go.

Jordan shall stand up like a wall--Oh! let my people go;
And the wails of Jericho shall fall--Oh! let my people go.

Your foes shall not before you stand--Oh! let my people go;
And you'll possess fair Canaan's land--Oh! let my people go.

Oh! let us all from bondage flee--Oh! let my people go;
And let us all in Christ be free--Oh! let my people go.

This world's a wilderness of woe--Oh! let my people go;
Oh! let us all to glory go--Oh! let my people go.
Oh! go down, Moses,
Away down to Egypt's land,
And tell King Pharaoh
To let my people go.

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Speaking of the interview some weeks since between M. le Comte Henri de
Mercier with the extremely 'honorable' J.P. Benjamin, the secession
Secretary of State, the Petersburg (Virginia) _Express_ uses the
following elegantly accurate language:

'It is said that these two di