The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1866-04-26
Mr.. Nasty Pleads the Cause of a
Friend.
CoxFEDHT X ROADS, (wich !
Is in'the Stait Nv Kentucky,)
March 10 1866

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read:
I am happy TO state to you that our
free negroes are doing finely. We have
no trouble with them They have all
gone 10 work manfully They give an 8
impetus to trade that we never before
had. have sold John Guttles negroes
this year and last, more goods than l
ever sold Cutie, and he owned two
hundred and fifty slaves. So you see
the free negroe system is working well
with US.
Ell peroozed them lines tears started
involuntarily from my Deamin eyes, and
coursed in torrents down my venerable
cheeks. I know John Cutie well,
may say intimitly. He wuz dear
friend, one Nv The few which call friend
in the most catholic and comprehen- ,
siye sense Nv that word, He holds my
note for eighteen dollars and 63 cents,
and l hev sumwheFe among my papers,
Wich heV alluz carefully preserved fof
reference, q memorandum Nv his adj
dress, that I might be shoor net to for
get TO send il to him. ] give him the
| note becoz he furnisht the paper, and
it made him easy in his mind. | put
down the memorandum becoz it looked
I DuElnNEa-llkEs /
inent trait in my character-when givin
my note for borrered money viii do q
man good l never begrudge the trouble
Nv wrltln 1t.
But what wuz agcin to say wuz, that
the feendishnis Nv that item passes be
lief The writer puts it in print to show
that the Ablishn Nv slavery benefited
sumbody. | grant that the merchant,
who undoubtedly Wuz born in Masss-
chussetts, wuz benefited by the change, |
30 are the greasy mechanics who are now
pollutin the soil NV Alabama, and so
probably are the $50 niggers, out in the
name Nv Liberty, in the name Nv JUS
tice, in the name uv the COnstOoshn Nv |
the Yoonited States, and the Flag Nv |
our Common Country, 1 ask HOW ABOUT
JOIN CUTIE.
John Cutie is robbed-John Cutie is
deprived NV his property, the bread IS
taken from John Guttle's mouth, his
staff is broken, his dependence is gone,
he is bereft.
Never shall forget John Cutie, or
+ his hospitable mansion ez l1noWed il
, in the happy years efore the croOel war.
lie wuz gentleman Nv the old skOol-
one NV the few leiS US in these degehe-
d rate days His home Wuz wun NV IN
! alleged happines. Situated just back Of
Nobel, he had the finest plantashun
| | in that section, and he'd on il $50 niggers
1 All shades wuz represented. There
G wuz the coal black Cutfee whose fee
. chers denoted the pure Afrikin, and
e whose awkward manners showed that
: he wuz rot long from Afrika. There
i wus the civilized mulstto in whose veins
; the Cutie blood shoWd, the quadroon
E in whom the good old Cutie blood pre-
S dominated, and the octroOn which wuz
j. mostly Cutie. The Guttleses wuz emf
!, nently a Christian geneTatiOn-they
a wuz devoullv pious, and there never
4 WIZ uun NV the name who Good not re-
T. neat without the book all nv the texts
e bearin on Slavery Tho passages in
n which On5simus and HageT tigger wuz
y favorites with EN-, but on "cussid be
, Canaan they wuz strong For genera
i lions they had mourned over the hard
"a fate NV the sons NV Ham, doomed to
re perpetooal bondage becOz NV the sin
IT nv their father, and with a missionary
h spirit ekaled by few and excelled by
- noue they did their part towards re-
!, doosin shat cuss by maxim ez menny
!. nv en- ez possible half brothers TO the
~ more favored race NV Japheth, and thus
re brinpip NV EN- out NV the cusB, and they
\ he'd mellered the color Nv their char
Q ees down from the hideous black TO a
- brite weller. Under the old patriarkle
Of system time passed orr smoothly and
pleasantly with the Cutie family
Them 80 ringers wuz obliged NV course
TO work, and their labor wuE money.
of John bought each Nv the male sons NV
ok Ham two scots Of close per annum
! and each Of the female sons OF Han
IN one SCOT. Ii wuz considered heal
Ter thy for the young ones to 60 naked
wich they wuz religiously allowed to do
"a e. none NV the Guttles NV that family
ger wood do anything sgin mater or her laws
.eS The girls he'd pianos, and WIZ educated
at the North, the boys wus celebrated
an at horse racin and their skill at losiT
ing money at faro. They Wuz hospiiablo
ia and generous 10 fault Their hous,
ost wuz open house. and their beverages
or wuz alluz the best Money wuz no oh
o. iick TO them, for when they had A severe
- attack Nv poker OF faro or hos racin
IN had plenty NV octroOns and quadroons
{ # with the real Cutie nose, wich brant
ien wuz well known in Moo Orleans, an,
], It wood alluz command the highest pos
las sible figger that wuz paid in that mar
90. ket. or, ef they had no more than the
ms | wanted at home Nv that style, why
ucs few field hands wood be sold, and tn
and remauiu ones wood be persuaded by tn
overscer TO do the work az the whole
tail John Guttles sons wuz in the Coniedri
10 army; his daughters, willin TO sacrfie
-. everything tar the cause, hefeicaily PIED
ual ged themselves TO whip the Niger
ugh iheirselyes doorin their absence
a.c Now all ia changed A shadder he
at fallen across that peaceful home. Tn
jung niger quarters Is there, but the Niger
is not The broad plantashun is dyi
ded up into small farms. and half NV
i. 20 4 owned by Ablishnists frUGl the nortl
tcet who work themselves, and who hev
ircd meetin house on one corner NV il, an
G o. the niggers a skOol-house on the tothe
e,s The race track is plowsd up and ]
+. !. cotton-the wbippin post and th
M stocks is taken down and burned-al
~ ct all the evidences Nv ciyilzlshun be
'ash faded afore the ruthless hand NV the il
ION. vadcr. John Cutie, that generous ol
,ue man, subsists by the labor Nv his ow
!, ~ Handsome NV his sons elles out mi
nc cradle existence runnin a dray in NJ.
nth beel; another, who is gifted with no o
seed binary intelleck earns respectab'
no liyin playin seven-up in q small wa
man with his former niegers, and the tw
~ girls is a runnin q SEWN mAsheen.
acr- Talk not 10 me Nv benefits. What
rket dosen trsdesmen and two hundre
ana and fifty niggers 20 gellorious old Dim
kratic John Cutie Whist is the il
tercst NV dozen or so nv Moo Englan
t.st mechanics, aud the niggers aforesai,
can when compared TO that glorious arr
tocracy wich kin never exist beside en-
Dry Kin ! so and borrer eighteen dollar
- 70 and sixty-three cents uF one NV them
No Becos workin for their paltr
IS, Twins they place higher valyoo o.
less money, aud will not spred IL around {
str, profoosley e the noble race wich prt
Tho ceeded EN-
80, Another great wrong is done in tn
,r.ct fettiu free NV John Guulss niger
cs- John Cutie hes NV COURSE no furthe
interest IN the Dimocra;ic party Sit
, but very wuE the umbiilikle cord wich IN
me ted the Southern Shareholder and In
ere Northern Dimocrat and that cord Gu
nora why hez John Cutie any more interes
a al in Dimucracy2 We stood e. Chimes
I'd % wall between them and she rushin foo
urus NV Ablishn fsnaticism snd We made In,
No. wall biEnis pay They furnished none,
10y add We did the work, and there ben
~. but lev Nv US the crisis wus easily Iii
~ rlded. Alas our okkepsshins gone
! Of The South is forever lost 10 US, for she
has no dirty work for us TO DO
for / appeal 10 the Yoonited States uu
America
'a'- In behalf nv John Cutie I say give