Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1861-03-07
Railroad Dialogue-.rheYankee
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on the cara OF the New Haven Railroad
shortly after the November election. One
ofthe speakers was peculiar-looking man,
with thin, pale face, sharp black eyes, a
quantity of long, black-snd-gray hair hang
ing from his chin and around his mouth,
and also about bis ears and behind q
slouehed black felt hat-evidently char
acter. He held little parcel in his hand,
wrapped in prown paper. The other per-
son, who sat few seats ahead on the 9TH
or side of the car was snug-built, we'll
dressed, good-looking man.
Just after emerging from the tunnel at
42d street, ga" the first-named, got up
and went to "B," the second, and putting
bis leg4ver the arm of the seat, planting
good large foot with coarse boot on it,
on the cushion, thus commenced:
A.-"Good morning, Captain; how are
yor3"
B.-"Very well how are you?"
A.-"Tolerable. Been down South 7"
B.-"Yes"
A.-"Going home9"
B.-"Yes.'
A.-"Going down again this winteri"
B.-"Yes, if the id abolitionists
don't kick up such bobbery that it wont
be pleasant"
Al guess they won't" land opening
his bundle be showed the captain small
imitation bronze head.) "Captain that's
a fine head; you don't see one such in a
thousand. That,sa great head"
B.-"Whose is it"
A.-"Wby, that's the likeness of John
Brown-a great man be was"
B.-"He got hung, didn't he!"
A.-"Well, yes. but that don't argue
anything agin him; a great many good
men get hung; the first straightforad men
in cause, like John Brown, are apt TO get
hung. Benedict Arnold didn't get, hung,
though l suppose you'd allow he ought to;
no it's your honest men in a good cause
that's apt to get hnng. Traitors and such
generally employ good smart lawyer like
Judge Roosevelt, Caleb Gushing or Rufus
Choate Though he's dead now, and they
generally get clear, specially if there's
nigger in the case"
B.-"Do you know what I'd do if you
brought that thing into my store to sell?'
A.-"No; what you'd you?"
B.-"If you didn't 60 out quick I'd
kick you."
A.-"Would youi 1 wouldn't come,
then; but it's a great head, Captain"
B.-"Why dot you 60 down South and
talk soa"
A-"When l hunt such vermints, I
hunt with long gun and coarse shot,"
B.-"If you did 60, they would kill you
in less than twenty four hours. The slaves
themselves would kill you."
Al don't doubt they might, if they
are as degraded as some of their masters.
| don't doubt slave might get so degra-
ded by association that he'd kill man
that came to set him free"
Bid sooner live down there than
among you id abolitionists."
Awe no sort of objections, if you
like it but I'd rather stay here. Perhaps
you'd like to work on rice plantation for
your victuals and clothes, and throw in all
the children you could raise9"
B.-"White men can't work on rice
plantations; none but niggers can do it."
A.-"Well, I hold that if there is
place on God Almighty's airth that's SO
bad white man can't live there, and mig
ger is willing to work there, he is entitlrd
to dollar a day at least, and to own all
the children they can raise in such cuss-
ed place. l want to see change now and
then; want the masters to stay at home
and raise cotton in the summer and let
their slaves 60 to Saratoga Springs, say
once in seven years. I think they'd work
the better for it"
B.-"The niggers are great deal bet
ter off as slaves; it would be better for
them all to be there, and they'd all be con-
tented, if it wasn't for the abolitionist."
A.-"Maybe they would, but they don't
seem to want to go back much when they
get away. There was real likely chap
got up in our village, somehow or other,
the other day, and there was parcel of
follows holding your opinion-kind of
Charles O'Conor men; so they got track on
him; so they concluded he'd be so much
better off if they'd catch him and send
himiback; they didn't expect any reward, of
course. Well, be saw they were after him,
and be started for the meetin' house, think
ing they wouldn't 60 into the meetin house,
even to catch niger; but he was mis-
taken; they weren't loafers, they were 60
to-meetin' folks, and they knew the meetin'
house better than be did, and in they went,
close to his heels; he didn't know which
way to 60, so up stairs he went, and they
after him, and when he found they had |
him, he made pitch head.foremost
right through the window glass, sash and
all, and down he went about twenty feet
but somehow he lit on his feet, and be
made tracks some cut round the face, of
course. Well, they didn't like to follow
him through that window, no more than
the British did old Put. down them rocks
near Stamford; so down they came to the
door to renew the chase, but I happened
to arrive just then with my fellows. Halo,
says l, what's the matter? We're after
that runaway niger, says they; he don't
want to 60 back much. Says 1, just show
me your warrant for catching him, says /,
cause you see, says l, there's more Of US
than there is of you, and I've a notion
that we've inst as good right to keep you
in the station-house, withouta warrant as
you have to catch that nigger without one.
Well, they had no warrant, and / calcu-