The Buchanan County guardian. (Independence, Buchanan County, Iowa) 1858-1864, 1863-07-28

out jest now case Tse rid nigh onter
hundred an fifty mile, an he'd ter tote
my 'ooman powerful piece o the way.
Where have you come from 2
Clay county, nigh on ter Manches
ter. | lived thar. Ise plumb from thai
this evenin''
'And you were driven away 2
Vas, Sir; druv away-robbed-
hous'n burned--everything burned, an
my ole r-killed-E,&a killed !.
lie bent down his head v .spc,<-
and as he repeated the !. rls
seemed 10 we'll nigh strans see1HtT
1t can't be possible !! i exclaimed
human beings Go not do such things :
But they haint human bein 's-tbey' S
fen's-devils from hcll-from hell, Sir,
| know their passions are reused,
but | did not suppose they murdered
acomen'
They does, Sir I'll tell We bout
hit ! and grasping one arm of NY chair,
and leaning forward with his blazing,
unsteady eye looking into mine, he told
me the following story
Bout a mile from whac | b'lone thar
lived ole man by the name Of Begley-
Squire Begley we called him, though he
didn't own no slaves He was ME on ter
seventy, but was right peart ole gentle
man, an Union ter the core. Two or
his boys, Sam an John, IS in the army
now-8h loyal Kaintuck. Wall, bout
fortnt gone. on the mornin' NV the fl
'ecnth ny April, three men, dressed in
Union cloes, comes ter The ole genie
mans house, an telled him they wus
round raisin' company Ter put down
the Rebs that was poreing inter the
county. The. ole man was mighty pleas
ed. an reckon he was unprudant in his
talk fur when they'd drawei him out
they telled him they wus raaly Seeesh
oldiers. Then he ordered 'em ter leave
but they trottled him, and dragged him
of ter the edge Of branch. bout half q
mile away, and there hung him or the
limb Nv tree. A ole mig thet was
pasSin' long the road heerd the ole
Snqire.s cries as he begged EN- ter hev
magcr on his gray hags. an KNOWN |
wus Ter home, he put FUR my house, and
tellpd me on it. | axnd him to tote my
two mars, ter the bush, fur | know'd
thar wus more on 'em round. an feared
they'd be arter the naLs. AMI then pu'
off ter save the ole man. was too lle
He was dead. an the internal devils he'd
rot nigh back tel his house. meaning to
steal his filles an what plumber he he'd
thet could be toted followed EN-, an
as soon as come in distance, | drappal
one on en- Then me an tothers tax
ahiud trees, an blazad away ter one an
other fur more'n a hour | winged ono
hut | got n ball vere,' showing an ugly
wound in his shoulder Arter a while
six more on EN- rid up the road an
come at me- | seed il warnI no use, So
put fur the thick timber, an faarly
seeing they couldn't kotch mo. they guy
up the chase. know d twouIdn't do .er
gwo in sight Nv home. so | made a long
spell round. ahind n hill. an put fur the
bushes whar | thort the ole darkey'd be
wu,h the mars. It he'd cot ME ou.er
dark, on Ia crowd powerful weak. on
count NV the blood I'll let 50 sot down
an tried ter stop il. | hedn't sot thar
long fore | ihort I heerd a CONAN
schreechin', an lookin' round I seed my
own wife. She'd Jest lost har baby. an
hedn't been out NV bed fur nigh month.
but she'd come six mile through the
brush arter me. She couldn't speak.
bu, she brnng me . short piece from
ahind the hjll. an showed me my hou5 u
an barn-all | he'd in the wolld--a heap
NV black an ashes Thcv'd burned
'em, an druv my sick wife, an my ole
mother, who'd been bedrI for mere
two year, out NV doors =
/ He paused for a moment, and then in
4 n slow, broken voice added The uighl
she died. Diei-thar-in tie dark, an
the cold nothing undcr bar but lhe
yerth--nothin over har but the ole 20 i
thet my 'ooman heltup ter keep tie rain
off bar face an when | kneelel down
tEar on the ground ter yere bar lasl
words, | swore. Sir, that Id never rest
! til I'd drunk thar blood--lhe heart 5
blood nv every Rebel in Kaintnck
The next day the ole darky buried
har. | couldn't be thar They wan
'hundn' me ike q wild beast Foj
more'n a week. me an my sick wife, lay
on, in the woods but we're yere now
an all ask is tel sell my mars, an ci
my 'ooman Ter safe place, an tly>n II
guy 'em--whot tn vs. gum me :
From various sources, | aherwarl re,
ceiyed confirmation Of The natives story
but it needed none Tor in the fierce pas
sion which blazei in lis eyes, and III N
his haggar4 face, there WAS nothing bu
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