Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1861-04-05

on Passers and waySide object, as if half fright
ened half suspicious of being caught, cooked,
and eaten up by Black Republicans The
same proyerb that gives luck to the fool makes
The poor man a father of many children. 1t
is wonderful TO look at these, all apparently SO
near the same age as to suggest three at
birth, and then at the young slab-sided drag
ged woman, holding on TO the tail of the wag-
gon to keep up her wearied pace with the mo-
wing household. But girls are married and be-
come mothers almost before they cease to be
children, in thinly settled parts of the country,
where women are scarce and they breed rap
idly in the rude state where all the energies Of
life are given to the animal nature and none
to intellectual culture.
My companion conceived warm interest
for this emigrating family, and also had some
curiosity te gratify as TO their whence, whittier
and why So he fell behind for few minutes
and re-appeared with an armload OF cakes
which he gave to the woman, who was struck
dumb by such a rare and spontaneous gift
Her face, however expressed real gratitude.-
S. then stepped to the side of the wagon and
held up stick of candy to the astonished
twelve twinkling eyes, which twinkled imme-
diateiy with less ferceness and more pleasure.
Six sticks with that beautiful spiral rcd streak
on the white ground, which so much pretti-
er than rainbow to all children, converted
the troop into laughing suckers, and opened
the door wide to conversation with the father
of the Cock
Guins North, see."
:. Yes, SIR"
From the South "
"Yes, sir-about a hundred miles below
Louisville. on the Nashville turnpike
We'll, you've got lot of boys and girls
there that will be able to work after while
Going to look for land ?"
That's what I'm calculatin' on-or to get
work of some kind-work is plenty, reckon,
| in the North. And it amt no use tryin' to
live any longer down where come from"
| NV friend had said enough. 4 southern
man will give twenty answers to one question,
while Yankee gives twenty questions to one
answer.
| Il left Virginia five years ago to come
| North, but stopped and bought farm Of fifty
res of and down in Ken uclly. and paid
seven hundred dol ars for it. Had 30 acres
! in corn this season, and didn't get clear bu
shel to the acre. Drouth killed everything
1t wasn't much better last year and the year
before that rain killed everything, So dc
trrinined to come North. l had no niggert
to work my land, and no money 10 buy en-
'Taint no use for poor man to try and live
down there. know q good many that
bound to starve if they dou't cone away
They'll starve this wiuter, if they don't &c
help tried to sell my land, but l couldn'
get anything for it ; so l rented it out for tw,
; years at $40 year and I'm going to try III
North, where everything isn't overrun witt
niggers.
This was the poor mans history, given neal
lv in his own words. 10 some particular iT
ouiries he answered with such facts as ar
abun,lantly set forth in Mr.. Omstcad's work
on Southern life. He was thoroughly wearie
out with successive years of hard work, and q
f finding that every year made him poorer an
sunk him deeper into the ditch of helpleSsnes
He repeated, unprompted, and with great Ell
e phasis, " tell you it's no use for poor whit
a people trying to get along in that country
They're leaving it as fast as they can, the
must leave it. They're actually starvin' wor'
and worse every year."
S. and myself had set out for q walk in a
other direction, and were led nearly two mill
!, out of our way by this encounter. The la
b that we saw of the household team it was toi
ing over the top of hill, measuring its wa
it by slow steps to land where labor is respe
/ table, and where the children of the poore
y laborer enjoy the opportunity of commt
school education.
L. 7 lhar
/ railroad depot another family of Southern ell
, igrants. The man was experimenting Il
d transfer of his entire property from the wag'
It to the cars. All told, it was not one hors
i load. His wife stood near with seven childr
J. round her, the youngest baby in the arms
1t the eldest daughter. They had look
r strangers in strange land that attract
= my sympathy, and asked the mother if th
n were travelling Eorthward. She answered
the affirmative; that they were from Kentcb
ne about 80 miles from Louisville. Her husba
ID came up and Joined in the conversation.
IN had been there slave overseer, and sub
ct quently tried to get along by farming.
IN "Well," said be II found out that all I
Isbor went for nothing. Then tried VOL
We ing for other people; but poor white m
~ mas IlO CnlHCe IL b SidFe L COuSlu
I'm ed that was planting my young children
IN tread in my own steps; and to die in power
O. and ignorance so I determined on chan
ne They say things are better in the free Stat
1al and reckon, it's true-isn't it?"
answered, " Yes; you can get there pl
ty of work, free education for your childr
ho and be respected among equals"
~ ~ He fairly jumped for joy at the assurant
y and, discovering that was Northern m
he broke out into an earnest denunciation
lis slavery as a curse that is running the count
we and ended by thanks to God that he stood
free soil, and felt more like man than
n ever before thought it was in him to feel.
or While am writing another family of e
grants is passing under my window. I
horses lead four great oxen, with large "
to on-load of household goods. Then follow
he girl Of ten years on mnle. Five,or six C
cks come next; then small boy on a large ho
and lastly, &" the old man on another.