Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1862-04-17

| Our stores disclosed boiled chicken, ba
con, sandwiches, sweet potatoes, short cake
buttered waf1es, and common doin s.; to-
numerous To mention, enough to last ,
family of one for fortnight, but all com
pletely saturated with water. Wet or dry
however, the provisions were God d-sent
to the half-starved family, and their heart
seemed to open to me with amazing rapid
ity. The dog got up and wagged his tail
and even the marble like beauty arose
from her reclining posture, and invited me
TO a seat with her on the bench.
The kettle was soon steaming over the
fire, and the boiling water. naked with a
little brandy, served as capital substitu' 'e
for tea. After the chicken was re-cooked
and the other edibles "warmed up" the
little pine table was brought out, and /
Iearned-what had before suspected
that the big wooden bowl and the half doz,
en- pewter spoons were the only ''crockery'
the family possessed.
l declined the proffered seat at the table
the cooking utensils being anything but in
viting, aud contented myself with the
brandy and water; but forgetting for a
moment his color, / motioned to the dar-
key-who was wet aud jaded and mneh
more hungry than l was-to take the
place offered TO me. The negro did not
seem inclined to do so, but the woman,
observing my gesture, yelled cut, her eyes
flashing with anger:
"No sar! No darkies eats with US. Hope
yer don't reckon yerse!f no better than a
good -for-nothin', no account niggsr!"
IL beg your pardon. madam; | intended
no offense. Scipio has served me very
faithfully for days, and is very tired and
hungry. l forgot myself"
This molIified lhe lady and she replied ::
"Niggers is good enough in their place,
but warn't meant TO 'sociate with white
folks"
There may have been some ground for
a distinction in that case; there certainly
was difference in the specimens of the
two races then before me; bat, not being
one of the chivaIry, it struck me that the
odds were on the side of the black man.
The whites were shiftless, ragged and
starving; the black well clad, cleanly, en-
ergetic, and as much above the others in
intellect as Jupiter is above church siee-
pie. To be sure color was against him,
and he was, after all, a servant in the land
of cbivalry and of servant owners. Of
course the woman was right after all.
She soon resumed the conversation with
this remark:
Reckon yer stranger in these parts;
wbar dive come ftom?'
"From New York, madam"
Anew York! whar's tbat!"
sits city at the North"
"Oh! yas; I've hearn tell on il; that's
whar the Cunnel sells his turpenline.-.
Quite place, amt it9"
"Yss, quite place. Something larger
Than all Sonth Carolina"
"What dye say? Larger nor South
Carolina Kinder reckon tain't, is it?",
"Yes, madam, it is"
"Du tell! Tain't so large as Charles'n,
is i,?"
"Yes, twenty times larger than Charles
toni
Lord o'massy! How does all the folks
live there?"
"Lve quite as well as they do here
"Ye don't have no niggers there, does
yew
"Yes, but none that are slaves"
"Have Ablisherners- thar. don't ye?-
Them people that go agin the South"
eyes, some of them"
"What do they go agin the South for!'
"They 60 for freeing all the slaves
Some Of them think black pan as good
- Quar-, sa,' that; hat: yer an lblshsrner, ain.
ye!"
mo, I'm an old-fashioned whig."
"Whal's that! l never heerd on them
afere."
IAN old fashioned whig, madam, is a
man whose political principles are perfect,
and who is as perfect as his principles"
That was a 'stumper" for the poor wo-
man, who evidently did not understand ;
one-half of the sentence. II } 4
"Right sort of folks, them," she saidi
in half inquiring tone.
"Yes, but they're all dead now"
"Dead 2"
ayes, dead beyond the hope Of resur-
rectiou."
"l've heerd all the dead war to be resur-
rec,ed. Didn't ye say ye war one on 'em!
Ye ANT dead yet" said the woman, chuck
ling at having coruered me.
sBut I'm more than half dead just now"
.Ah," replied the woman, still laughing
"yer chicken"
IA chicken! what's that?"
"a thing that goes on tu legs and kar-
kles," was the ready reply. -
"Ah, my dear madam, you can out talk
me-" ...--.-.-...
"Yes, I reckon I kin outrun re, tu. Ye
amt over rugged" Then, after pause,
she added: "What dye 'lect that darkey
Linkum for President for 2"
81 didn't elect him. l voted for Doug
las. But Lincoln is not a darkey."
"He's q mulatter, then; I've heern he
war;" she replied.
"No, he's not a mulatte; he's rail-
splitter"
"Rail .splitterl Then he's a Niger,
skure." t.,a t.s
"No, madam, white men at the North
split rails"
San white wimmin tu, p'raps," said the
al. nf he