The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1866-06-16
Miscellany.
MIR. Nasty on the Freedmen's Bureau.
MIR. NAsBY, THOUGH NOT TWO MAJoR-GEN-
ERALS, REPORTS TO THE PRESIDENT.


MIR. NAsBY, THOUGH NOT TWO MAJoR-GEN-
ERALS, REPORTS TO THE PRESIDENT.
lFrom the Toronto Globe.l
CoNFEDRrT x ROADS, (which
is in the Stait Nv Kentucky,
May ~, 1866.
To His Erceuency the Dispenser 40 Post ORR
fees, ANDREW JOHNSON, President ao
the United States:
In akordanee with your esteemed request,
dated the 25th and received this morning,
to wunst proceeded to make doc inquiry ez 10
the workin of the Treatments Durrow anu
the condishun NV the Afrikin citizens Nv
Amerikn descent in this vicinity. Inc TACT
that Ablishinst still holds the fost Orlhce at
the Corners which place, by the way, have
been solicited to accept,) interiered materially
with the biZnis / had in hand. 10 wunst
footed the horn, ez is the custom When we Aev
religious seryis. and called my congregashm
together They KUN runnin from the differ
ent groceries and here another difficulty en-
sood. The grocery-keepers wanted to know
what we wuz goin to hev meetin on week
days for? They wuz willin to shut up doorin
meetin time on Sundays, ez they respected
the Church, and it give EN- time to sweep out
the terbacker, et-settery, but they'd be Id
il they was agoin to hev the people pulled
away HUH Unelr uOurlSHlHcut ou WCch uoyo.
succeeded in pasisfying EN-, and went IN at
wunst examinin the leadin citizens. Their
testimony is ez follows:
CAPTIN sKELPER
wuz niger owner afore the war, and dur
ing the late fratriside struggle wuz captain
in the Crntedrit servis. Wuz with General
Forest at Fort Pillow. Hez he'd much expe-
rience with niggers. Bleeves EN- to be adapt
ed TO the climit NV Kentucky, and much more
able to stand the hot sun than the whites.
When they wuz slaves never knowed EN- to
refooze to work-know they alluz did work
becoz he generally stood over EN- with mig
ger whip. Since they hev bin free hev notist
change; not much Nv a change, ontil the
Niger Burow wuz establish. Before that
they'd take stitch wages ez you chose to give
en- since then the ID heather will stand
out bout ez the white men do, and won't
work at all onlest 700 meet their views, which
made heap of trouble and materially retard-
ed the development NV the country. The Bur-
row he'd corrupted the female. niggers, ez they
he'd all bin legally married by the chaplains to
the men they'd lived with, and wuz so sot on
Twin with EN- that there's no yoose NV trying
to get house wench unless 700 took her nus
band also. His wife wuz now dom degradin
work at home for want NV help. Strongly
urged the abrogashen Nv the Durrow and the
removal NV the Ablishun Postmaster at the
Corners.
DEACON M'GRATH
waz eggsamined. Wuz convinst in his own
mind that the Affrikin wuz now out Nv his
normal speer, and that the internal Burow
wuz at the bottom Nv it. The Niger, until
the BurOw come around, wuZ dOcile and east
ly controlled. His boy Joe wuz wuIlst a mod
Ell niger. He'd get up every mornin at a.
m. (Which means in the mornin), and work
every day till after dark. Ez soon ez he wuz
emancipated ez they called it, and the Burow
come, told him to get up ore mornin, and he
told me impudently that he'd woodent.
1 undertook to chastise him with fence stake,
whereupon he sailed in and whaled me, and
the Burow to which applied for redress larft
in my face. He left, and is now draggin out
a miserable existence in Ohio on the beggarly
pittance Nv 81 day, and my farm is runnin
to weeds. He conclooled by givin it ez his
solemn opinion that he never Good be recon-
ciled to the Government so long ez the the
Burow wuz tolerated, and that Ablishnist
held the Post Orfis at the Corners.
GEN. DINGEs
considered the Burow inkubus upon the
State. 1t interfered between master and ser
want Good git along better efthe Niger wuz
left to the material laws which regulates capital
and labor. Tried to keep his niggers, and did
keep 'em the past Summer till after the crop
was in, and then tried to settle with 'em for
four dollars month, with SIGH Deductions for
food, sickness and brakin tools ct settry, ez
wuz just. Brought the niggers all Nv 'em in
debt, and generously proposed to let EN- work
it out chopin cord wood doorin the Winter.
Hauled me up afore the Burow, and wuz forst
to pay EN- each SIS per month. Consider the
Burow ez all that STAINS in the way Nv rekon-
struction, thow the removal NV the Ablishin
Postmaster at the Corners and the appoint