True Democrat., 1863-04-08

wornout horse blanket, which served as wind ing sheet. One of the living was slowly dig. ging trench; the others stood watching.
 "Hollo boys, whats the matter with him!"
 "He's done gone dead nasal" and they chuckled to think we could net guess why he was there.
 "What's the matter of him?"
 "Ioo much hard times, massa! De niggers can't stand ebery ting.'
 ''Niggers die pretty easy here. don't they?" Yes, massa, dey git shut of themselves right smart now-dem's hard times for .niggers!'
 And so thought we as they were left behind to conduct their funeral to termination. In half an hour some thousand dollar chap will be left to rot and add richness to the soil, which will hereafter grow larger peaches than ever before.
 In the house of Dr. Grant, where board, is an intellignt African girl about twenty-four years old, owned by the Dr. The other morn ing, while she was sweeping up the hearth, said T.
 "Mille, are you slave?"
 "Course l is, why's
 "Why don't you run away and be free
 Umph-ump ph--dis chile is too smart for dat Dare is no fuE in slecpn in de mud, starvin to death. and gettin' no medicin when you are sick
 :. "l'bere gre lots apd lots of niggers in town who have run away, aiu't there, ,~Millie?" rl
 mph-zumph ph---rght smart lot of 'om"
 "Well, Mille ain't they better of than before they run away?'
 "Now,, watts de use 6f foolen, you know bets ter. Would you be better off without clothes, and bed, and house to sleep in, and some body to look out for you than if you had e1n aI7 De time was here when Us niggers had our par ties, and heaps of finn; and we had good cloths, and n,1A baiv l war begun a wagon load of nigpers didn't duh gone dead every day as dem goes now. nis chile knows sonehng yet and dat Is to stick to mi5sus.'
 Well, Millie, cannot the ringers take careof themselveo?"
 "l.ord help you no! About one in 4 hundred is smart enough to live, and de odders would dun gone dead fight smart. Wat-wat- -wat-wat de niggers know about baying stuh, and taking care of demselyes-dey never done lem! Do massa always buys for de'n tigers just Ike as if dey was his own family. and when dem is sick he has 'em doctored up. Gnph! umph! de white Yankee folks skin de last chicken out of the ngger fore 1t were hatched if de figgcr took cure of demselves! Deed Ley wouIdl' r "Wel, Millie, you arc very sen4ible girl stick to your home. and you will De better of'
 "Deed will. We "a all dun gon got sick of Yankees long ago. Dry beat de niggers steal in, and some ot de niggers steal right smart to- reckonP
 What do they steal, Mille2'
 "Golly, dey sreal all dey see if two men don't watch k all de ttne. We nebbtr hnd white folks in de al here till the army comei and now dey Is in dar all de time"
 "Don't you Look on the white folks who come with tho army a5 your iunnd5t
 "Imph uinphl- Nnt uow, dry is wirked2 Wat-wat-wni~wat dey cara for nigeera wilen dey lets dem die and won' give them nothiu? Nigeers don't know mach, but dcy learn tings who am dar friends 4ht smart
 And there k world of truth M her ideas. The army with its ugly eyes, cares liule for the rights of any one. Nygtra are good 10 kick and cqh around A drunken officer iu the northern army k the most abusive to them Three times have we ~sih n week intcrerrcd to protect some poor "bov, as the male ni9rers are called, from their cruelty and tyranny. 4 good mule IS here word hundred dollar "a nigger Is not worth cent, present or prospect i've.
 In ono year from nov, wherever the ludc- "a army gains a toOthUd, the ne1ron popll3l~ tion will be reduced onc-half. This k not alone my opinion, but of scores of officers have late Iy conversed witl, fires Dcctive of party. And as they die of, so will the land be impoverished As general thing, they will not work for Wa ges. One dly Last week we came upon plant ation which numbe-. sixty-tour negroes They slaves once, but on'the first of Jan uary were told they were free, and must support themselves. Of this number only five would work--thc rest even refused to gather tie corn yet sadng in the field, or to pick thc cotton hanging iieece-likc from the pod. IL k in ac, tuai fact, hundreds know from personal knowledge. What will be done with the poor wrctchcs, God in His great wisdom only knows.