The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1863-04-25
BURLINGTON WEEKLY HAWK EYE.

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ole man and de gals was down heah in
Dixie wOrkin' in de cotton wild de hard
lashes on DER back. Onol Gawd bress
you bofe for yer kineness to ole auntie: but
l could mt do 1t. nevah feel right in my
heart II did," And the old slave was ST.
lent, for her voice was choked with tears.
ana her frame trembled with emotion
Many other negroes Of both sexes stood
near, as we were in the slave quarters. and
though they did not hear what was said.
tney felt what was passing and looked on
IN silence and in sympathy. IS
between love and desire for freedom. 10th
SO natural yet so opposed; the yielding to
one destroying the hope of the other.
! Most gladly would we have furnished to
auntie and her whole family the means of
going North; but we could not. We had
no power. We had done all we could and
so we tod her. II knows dat, my young
| massas, She sObbed out. You,s berry
good. Fse berry thankful. God Dress
you -
lay no claim to religion as it is usually
understood, and see little meaning in or
thodox Technology, but there was an earn
estness In. the woman's benediction that
was not without its impressiveness.
you'll! which =,
| ny daily use hath almost lost its sense"
and from lips that were fresh with youth
and rosy with beauty; but the celestial in
vocation, am sure, never came from a
more grateful heart, or fell from tongue,
albert uneducated, more sincere in it's i'm
FASHIONED utterance.
When the devotion of this poor. ignorant
negress to her husband and children was
made so pathetically manifest, could not
help but contrast it with the feeling of
many of the fair daughters of Fortune. the
darling favorites of Society, who lounge on
satin sofas, or tread with dainty feet the
luxurious boudoirs Of Fifth avenue or
Madlson square. JUNIUs.
SUNsY-SIDE LANDING, Ark, l1s miles
from Vicksburg, March 81, 1863.
! Finding it very difficult to obtain cattle
at the American Bend, we returned below
to this point, hoping to have our quest here
rewarded. At this place, very near the
northern Louisiana line, resides third
brother of the Worthingtons I have men,
toned, or rather his plantation is here
married, though he has availed himself OF
| the recognized succedaneum of the South,
having, many years ago, taken as his mis-
tress the daughter of a Choctaw Indian and
a negress, and admitted her to all the pri-
vileges and advantages supposed to belong
to the uxorial state. This gentleman OF
rare taste and choice morals has two chill
and II years old, whom he educated in
Ohio and sent to Europe, but who still bear
the appearance and something of the man.
ners of the native African. They dwell in
their fathers mansion, one of the most
comfortable, Ihave seen in Arkansas, keep
ing house for him during his absence in
Texas, whittier he went last June, after the
fall of Memphis. He is said to be noto-
rious Rebel, and fled from what he believed
to be the Yankee wrath, knowing, no
doubt, far better than we how well he de-
served hanging.
The masculine Chocktaw African-C eau
casian offspring of this charming connec-
ton has been urged again and again to
join the Rebel army, and has been offered
way of inducement; but he has obstinately
refused to turn soldier, and given his pc
culiar antecedentS as the cause Of his I'M
Willingness. His "bleeding country" it
seems was very much disposed to make
him one of it's ''illustrious defenders" in
spite of his sang noir; proving that the
Southern prejudice against the mixed
race does not go beyond their own selfish
ness, and that their notions of caste do not
apply to their army.
We visited recently plantation, a few
miles from here on the Mississippi side,
owned by Mrs. Fanny Bullitt, Of Louis
vile, after whom one or two steamboats,
city to be the highest honor that can be
paid to woman. The Louisville bellies
have no ambition beyond that. When
such a christening has been made the
measure of their social glory is full, and
the star of their vanity has reached its eli
nlacteric. Their daily orison is, go Lord,
when have had a steamboat named in my
honor, forgive my hirtations, and receive
me to thy bosom. .-....- !
Mrs. Bullitt appears to have been an eX-
celIent hearted and highly estimable lady.
She was very kind to her slaves, and at
her death, by special clause in her WILL
gave them all their freedom. So humane
1y did she regard them that during her
life she would not employ an overseer on
her plantation; knowing no doubt that an
overseer is the meanest tyrant and the most
cruel brute that ever disgraced any form Of
American society.
The laws of Mississippi forbade the man.
omission OF slaves, as was afterward dis
covered, and the blacks reverted to the
mother of the deceased lady: subsequently
passing into the hands of Alexander Bull
lit, formerly one OF the proprietors and ed
itors of the New Orleans Picdyu1le. rs
Mr.. Bullitt has gone to Texas with his
most valuable negroes, leaving two OF his
feminine relatives on this very pleasant
and quite tasteful plantation. These rela-
tives are well educated and well bred, and
rather moderate in their political views for
Southern women; for which, perhaps their
birth and long residence in kentucky may
account. Their house and grounds have
not been injured in any way, and even the
rudest soldiers would not disturb them, nor
permit them to be disturbed, because, as
they themselves say, they are mighty nice
ladies'" Their negro quarters are commo-
dious and remind one of the various cot
tages and outhouses at a fashionable South
ern watering place in the years agone.
The garden surrounding the main resi-
dence is filed with choice plants and luxu-
rant rose bushes all in bloom, and the
mocking birds singing in the magnolia and
fig trees as if in worship Of the blue sky
and the warm sunshine, make kind of
oasis in the dreary vicinity of the melan-
choly Mississippi.
It's popular belief that all persons who
go upon foraging expeditions plumber era; and "a
too often true, but my personal observation
has been quite to the contrary. During this
trip. for instance, l have seen no pillaging
nor incondiarism. Cattle have been regu-
larly taken without the least violence or
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