The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1861-05-28


Intercourse than any amoaht of mere 9ia.
nor Or evening visiting.
Tie lai time vent. iid hope 70 fnd
aome Improvement ia ihe approaches lo
lbc house. and ia tie surrounding features.
IL net 10 the dwelling itself D----lud
made great deal If money by several
good coilon crops, and had bought more
negroes and Il was natural TO suppose
lllai some of his gains would be applied 10
the removal of discontinue and ugliness.
Bot was cured olall such expectations
before ! came in sight Of the house Ny
driver took lis way among the trees, Or
over knoll, crashing aud plunging
through tie underwood to avoid the
road, which would have to be mendcd be-
fore We could pass some parts Of il.
saw something OF the way Of mendng
4 little further on, where some mules had
broken the fence. 4 white man, who
looked muddy from head TO foot, complex
ion and all, was chipping lazily at a rail ;
negro WAS slowly turning adibble in a
+ hole which was TO hold a stake and two
more negroes were warming their hands
over the fire which was blazing on the
ground. My driver pointed with his whip
up the glade Of wood, and observed that
master was coming. In a moment gen.
lleman on white horse came ambling
down the glade, and | saw il was D.
We agreed that the fence would hardly
be closed before night at the rate the fel-
lows were proceeding; but D said
I that would be better than having il fall to
pieces the next day, as it would If he hur-
ried them. fthis was really the alterna-
+ tiyc, bad nothing to say But who was
+ the alite man actually handling tools.
+ Why, he was from disiance,-a hun
cry wretch who must get bread somehow !;
and hungry enough he must be to work.
or pretend to work.-with negroes. The
gentleman rounl did not like his coming !;
D himself was yexcd at il; but
/ they had asceriaincd that the fellow was
no aboliiionist aud therefore they could
/ not send him away. Some mischief would
come Of it, however. II always did turn
out SO. If nothing worse happened, it was
a bad thing for the negroes to despise a
white; and they were sure to grow cocka-
hoop when they had white among them
whom they could look down upon. What
state OF society il must be in the North,
I D. observed, where white men are
] daily at work before the eyes of the nc
7 groes For the flflicth time | tried to
make my brother-in-law comprt bend that
work was no degradation in my part Of
I tic country, where il was not associated
with the idea ofsla,ery, and that therefore
there was nothing for anybody 10 dcspise
in the act Of earning ones bread; but
D cannot understand il AT ALL
I He turned homeward with me, and he
I enjoyed, Il. more than once before, my ex-
carnations at the bluff, half a mile from
the house. Tie broad, brimming Ala
/ bama river ran far below, between densely
wooded banks, but redeemed from GER
tain look of desolation by The puff of steam
from river boat which was at a landing
place, which was taking in cotton and fire.
wood. Down TO the river, and away on
the other side to near the horizon, was an
expanse of forest so compact that il seem
ed as il an army might march on the tree
tops for miles. Far in tie distance, be-
tween the forest and the sky, appeared
wayy line OF blue uplands and here and
there in the nearer regions there were
clearanccs Of some hundreds of acres, with
rude paths down the river. On our side
were blnffs--two or three right aud left
lifting up their limestone ledgcs and pre-
cipilous crests from the woods below, and
aiiording a stretch Of table land, like that
we were standing on, for cultivation
DIS plantation stretched back from
the ridge above the left bank Of the river,
gently sloping 10 the southeast.
Nothing was left for the wood that
could be got rid Of. The house stood ex-
posed, bare and scorched, without any
shade except such as could be had by
making the yerandahs exceedingly wide.
Ii looks all very pretty, il is admitted, TO
see a background Of evergreen forest and
it sounds very tempting to 20, in the hot
noon into the thickets where the ground is
gay with yioleis, mayapple, buckeye, blue
lupin, iris, and cowpoisonth iieur-de-lis
Of these parts but the mosquitoes spoil
everything. When one chooses oae's
hour for a drive among the clustering
honeysuckIes and the blossoming sour
wood. ali alive with butterflies, and the
yellow jasmine, and all the combined
Shrubs OF the garden and trees Of the for
esi. an Is charming; but il does not DO to
Set down oae's house among them. The
negroes can live in thickets, and nestle un-
der rows Of Pride-of-India trees but tile
whites would 90 mad with the bites and
siings Of insects.
So there stands the loghouse, as former
III. ouIy viih lis shingled roof looking more
parchcd and warped than ever, aud the
fences and gates grayer and shabbier.--
Anna and her young daughter Minnie are
in The piazza, somewhat differently occu-
pied. Ny sister has her hand. dyed blue.
She has been standing at a long board Of
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