The Union and journal. [volume] (Biddeford, Me.) 1858-1882, 1866-04-27
Miseellaaeulls.
THE PATRIARCHAL SYSTEM.
Mr.. Nnsby Pleads the Cn.e Of n Friend.

CoxrEpEarr y ROADS (Which is in the
Stiit Nv Kentucky. March 10, 1866.
Yesterday happened to pick up u kopy Nv
fritsful dcpravcd Ablishin paper. and my
horror-strckcn eyes wuz glued to the follerin
passage, which read:
81 am happy to state 10 You that our free
negroes are doing finely. We have no trouble
with them. They have all gone to work man.
fully. They give an impetus to trade that we
never before had. have sold John Guttlc's
negroes, this year and last, more goods than |
ever sold Cutie, and ho owned two hundred
and fifty slaves. So you sec the free negro sys.
tenn is working well with u.s."
Es peroOzcd them lines, tears started invol-
UNFAIRLY from my bcamin eyes, and coursed in
torrents down my venerable cheeks. know
John Cutie well, | may say intimately. lie
wuz dear friend, enc Nv the few wch kali
friend in the most catholic and comprehensive
sense NV the word. lie holds my note fur
eighteen dollars aud G3 cents, and hev sum.
where among my papers, wich hev alluz care
fully preserved for reference, n memorandum
NV his address, that might he shoor not to for.
get IN send it to him. give him the note be-
coz he furnished the paper, and it made him
easy in his mind. lput down tho mcmoran-
dun bckuz it looked business-like. Bencvo-
lencc IL prominent trait in my karacter,--
when givin my note for borrcrcd money will do
n man good, never bcgrudgc the trouble Nv
writin it.
But wat wuz goin to say wuz, that tho
fccndishnis NV that Item passes belief. The
writer puts it in print to show that the Ablishn
NV slayry benefited sumbOdy. grant him
that the merchant. who undoubtedly wuz born
in Massachusetts, wuz benefited by the changes;
40 are the grcesy mechanics who arc now pol
lutin the soil NV Alabama, and no probably are
the $50 niggers; but in the name Nv Liberty,
in the name Nv Justice, in the name NV tho
Constcrtooshun NV the Yoonited States, and
the lag NV our Common Country, ask, HOW
ABOUT JouN CUTIE?
John Cutie is robbed, john Cutie is de-
prived Nv his property, the bred is taken from
John Guttle's mouth, his stall is broken, his
dependence is gone, he is bcreft.
Never shall forget John Guttlc or his hos
} pitable mansion ez knowed it in the happy
year aforc the crooel war. lie wuz A gentle.
man NV the old skool, ,-One NV the few left US
in these degenerate days. Ills home wuz wun
NV unalloyed happiness. Situated just back NV
Nobel. he had the finest plantashun in that
section, aud he'd ON it $50 nigCers. All shades
wuz represented. There wuz tho cOal-black
cuflec whose fccchers denoted the pure Airikin,
and whose awkward manners showed that he
wuz not long from Afriky. There wuz the civ
ilized mulatto in whose veins tho Cutie blood
showd, the quadrOon in whom tho good old
Cutie blood predominated, and the octoroon
which wuz mostly Cutie. The Guttleses wuz
eminently n Christian gcnoration,-- they wuz
devoutly pious, and there never wuz one NV the
name who Good not repeat without the book
all Nv tho texts barring on slavery. The pas.
sages in which Onesimus and llagcr 6gger wuz
iavorites with EN-, but, on "cussid be Canaan"
they wuz strong, For generations they had
mourncd over tie hard fate Nv the sons Nv
Ham. doomed to perpetual bondage bccoz NV
the sin NV their father. and with missionary
spirit ekaled by few and excelled by none, they
did their part towards redoosin that cuss by
maxim ez many NV em ez possible, halfbruthers
to the more favored race Nv Japheth, and thus
bringing NV em out Nv the cuss, and they had
mellered the color Nv their charges down from
the hideous black to bright yeller. Under
the old patrmrkle system, time passed orr
smoothly and pleasantly with the Cutie fami.
IT, Them go nicsers was Obliged Nv course to
work. and their labor wuz money. John bot
each NV the male SONS Nv Ham too SCOTS NV
close per annum. and each NV the female sons
NV Hau, one soot Ii wuz considered healthy
for the ynun. ones to go naked, which they
wuz rcligiousy allowed to do, ez none NV the
Guttles NV that family wood do anything agin
mater or her laws. The girls he'd pianos, and
wuz educated at the North: the boys wuz Gel
ebrated for horse racing and their skill ut losin
money ut faro. They wuz hospitable and gen
erous to a fault. Their house wuz open house,
and their beverages wui alnz the best. Money
wuz no obiick to them, for when they had q
severe attack OF poker or faro or hoss racln,
they had plenty Nv octoroons and quadroons.
with tho real Cutie nose, wich brand wuz well
known in New Orleans, and wood alluz com.
mand the highest possible iiggcr that wuz paid
in that market; or, eff they had no more than
they wanted at home nv that style, why few
field hands wood be sold, and the remainin ones
wood be persuaded by the oversecr To do the
work NV the whole. John Guttle's sons wuz
oil in the Confcdert army his daughters, will
lin to sacrifice every thing fur the cause, hero
ically pledged theirselvcs to whip the niggers
theirselvcs doOrin their absence.
Now all is changed. A shaddcr hcz fallen
across that peaceful home. The niger quar-.
ters is there, but the nigGcrs is not The broad
plantashun is divided up into small farms, and
half NV it is owned by Ablishnists from tho
North, who work themselves, and who hcv
meetin house on one corner NV it, and the mig
gers a skool house or the tother. The race
track is powed up and in cotton, tho whippin
post and tho stocks il taken down, and burned;
all, all the evidences Nv civilizashun hez fad
ell aforc tho ruthless hand OF the invader.
John -Guttle, that generous old man, subsists
by the labor of his own hands, one Nv his sons
ekes out miserable existence running dray
in Nobel. another, who is gifted with no or.
dinary intelleck. earns q respectable livin play.
in seven.up in small way with his former mig
gers. and the two girls is running sewing
masheen.
Talk not to me NV benefits. What Is doz.
en- tradesmcn and two hundred and 6lty mig.
gers to the galorious old Dmocratic John
Cutie? What is the interest NV dozen or
SO Nv Moo England mechanics, and the n'gccrs
aforesaid. when compared to that glorious ar,s'
tocracy which. can never exist beside EN-! Mn
go and borrer eighteen dollarsand sixty'three
cents NV one NV them2 No. Becoz working
for their paltry Twins they place higher VAL
700 on money, and will not spread it around eI
profooscly ez the noble race which preceded
em.
Another great wrong is done in this settin
free NV John Guttlo's ngsers. John Cutie
hex Nv course no further interest in the Dino.
cratic party. Slavery wuI the umbilikle cord
which united the Southern stakeholder and the
Northern Dimocrat, and that cord cut, why