The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1866-06-12
SENTIMENT AND FIN.
a little nonsense, now and then
is rellshed by the wisest men.
Written for the Toledo Blade.
Mr.. Nasty, Though not two Major
Generals, Reports to the President
on the Workings Of the Freedmen's
Written for the Tnlado

Bureau, &c. '''''o"
aat. CoNFEDRIr x ROADS, which
Is ~ the Stait Nv KentuckX1
May 27, 1856:
To- HIS Eggslency the Dispenser nv Pos,
A9 Orsfees, Aaldroo. johnson, President
az tie United STATES: -. ! NE
In akordanee with yoor esteemed
request, dated the 18th and received
TINS morning, | to Wunst proceeded to
make doc. enquiry ez to the Freedmen's
Burow and the condishun NV the
AfrIkln citizens Nv Amerikin descent
Ia this vicinity, The fact that a Abb
lIshlnst still holds the Post Orifce AT
the Corners (Which place by the way
| hey been solicited to accent) inter
Tered materially with the bizness i
ned In hand. to wunst footed the
morn, ez is the custom when we hey
religious seryis, and called my congre-
gasae nun togethers They KUN runnin
here another difficulty ensood. The
i grosery keepers wanted to know what
we Wuz Q goln to hey meetin on week
days for? They wus willin to shut nm
doorin meetin time on SUNDAYS az
they respected the Church. and # rive
EN- tme 70 sweep out the terbaeker.
ct 'settry, but they'd be id ef tllev
Wuz agoln to hev the people pulled
away from their norishment on week
days. | succeeded in passifyin EN- and
went In at Wunst examinin the leadin |
eltizens Their testimony is ez fol- |
"A 4aa CAPTIN sKELPER aaA4att
Wuz niger owner afore the war
and durin the lat fratrisidle STRUGGLE !
Wuz captin in the confedrit serTis
Wuz with Ginral Forest at Fort phi,
low. Hez he'd much experience with I
nliggers. Bieeves EN- to be adapted tie |
tne cllmlt NV kentuck and much more /
ape 70 stand the hot sun than the i
whites rWhen they Wuz slaves never
KnoWd them to ref0oze to work-know
they alluz did work becoz he genner-
ally stood over EN- with Niger whin
Since they hev bin free hez notist q
change; not much NV a change. ontil
the Niger Burow wuz establisht
Before that they'd take such wages ez II
yoo chose to give em-since then the
ID heather will stand out b0ut o.
the white men do, and won't work at
all 0nless goo meet their views. wich
made heap NV trouble and materri-
ally retarted the development of,tba ,
country. The BuroW he'd corrunted !
the female niggers, ez they he'd aIf hin
legally married by the Chaplins fo the !
men.they'd livd with, and wuz So soft /
On yi9 ~ N stb en- P that az0 HIS
wife wus now dom degradin work at
home for want Nv help. Strongly S
urged the abrogashen Nv the Burow 5
and the removal Nv the Abolishun
Postmaster at the Corners. $
DEACON M GRATH d
Wuz eggsamined Wuz eonvfnst in 8
his own mind that the Afrikin wuz 3
now out Nv his normal speer, and that
the Internal Burow wus at the bottom
Nv it. The niger, afore the Burow
come around, Wuz doeile and con
trolled. His boy Joe wuz wunst
model niger. He'd get. up every
af4A. M! (wicI means in the .
mornin; and, worked every day after
dark Ez soon ez he wuz emancipated, :
e. they called it, and the Burow come,
| told him to get up one m0rnin, and
he told me impudently that he d con-
Guided he woodent / undertook to
chastise him with fence stake,
he sailed in and Whaled T
me, and the Burow to which / APP t
pealed larft in my face. He left, and
is now draggin out a mizerable exis-
tence in Ohio, on the beggarly pittancc ]
Nv two dollars day, and my farm is
runnin us to weeds He conclooded t
by giyin it ez his solemn opinion that :
he never Good be reconciled to the t
so long ez the BuroW J
wuz tolerated, and that Ablishnist 3
held the Post Orifs at the Corners. g
aINERAL DINoEs, +
Considered the Burow inkubus upon |
ter and servant Good git along bet
ter eff the niger wuz left the material ]
laws witch regulated capital and labor.
Tried to keep his niggers, and did I
keep EN- the past summer till after the \
crops wuz in, and then tried to settle
with EN- for four dollar a month, with d
SIGH deduction for food, sickness and
brakin tools ct settro, ez Wuz Just.
Brought the niggers all Nv of EN- in
my debt and generously proposed to
let EN- work it out chopin cord wood !
dooring the winter. Hauled me up
afore the Burow and was forst to pay '
EN- each SIS per month. Considers t
the Burow ez all that stands in the $
way Nv Reconstruction, though the q
Nv the Ablishun Postmaster t
at the Corners and the appointment |
NV sound constooshnel Dimekrat
wood grately assist in coneiliatin the
Kentucky mind. t
tried to get some niger testimony !
but Good elicit nothin worth while. Z
One niger who spends the heft Nv s
his time at the Corners wuz opposed
to the Burow becoz it stopt rations on !