A minstrel heads north

[vbetts]

DAILY CONSTITUTIONALIST [AUGUSTA, GA], April 27, 1864, p. 3, c. 2

The Last of “Tim Morris.”—Tim Morris, the negro minstrel, who was forty-six in Richmond but who will not be more than 35 when he gets to Baltimore, has run the blockade and reached the promised land. We find the following notice, of the escape of Tim in the Examiner:

An “Iron-Clad” Runs the Blockade—Tim Morris, nee Joseph Griffin, the irrepressible “Iron Clad,” apprehended as a conscript has run the blockade by the way of Suffolk, paying fifteen hundred passage money. Him has gone. We will never more see his renditions of “John Morgan’s got your mule,” “Wood up,” and the “Grocery store.” Tim will make some fat contract with a Yankee manager, rattle his bones, and we shall read of the old songs we used to hear. Tim went through, we understand, blacked up as an original African, and as he plays the character so well, we don’t wonder at his success.

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