Weekly Trinity journal., 1866-05-05
MIR. Nasty Pleads the c.u.. of a Friend.
CONFEDERATE ROADS, (wich is in the Staff |
Of Kentucky. March 10. 1865.

Mr' NasDy Pleads the Cause OF FRIEND
CONFEDERATE ROADS, (~ch in the stait !
Of Kentucky, March 10, 1866
Yesterday happened to pick up copy NV
fritefully depraved Ablshin paper, and my hor-
ror stricken eyes wuz glued to the follerin pas
sage, which read
90 am happy to state to you that our free ne
groes 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 Guttle's $
negroes this year and last more goods than
ever sold Cutie, and he owned wohundred and
fifty slaves so you see the free negro system IS
working well with us.''
Ez | peroozed them lines tears started invol-
UNFAIRLY from my beamin eyes, and coursed in
torrents down my venerable cheeks. | know
John Cutie well, | may say intmitly. He wuz
dear friend, one Nv the few which call friend
in the most catholic and comprehensive sense
NV the word. He holds my note for eighteen
dollars and So cents, and | hav somewhere
among my papers, which hav alluz carefully
preserved for reference, memorandum Nv his
address, that | might be shoor not to forget to
send it to him. | give him the note becoz he
furnsht the paper, and it made him easy in his
mind. l put down the memorandum becoz it
looked business-like. Benevoence is promi-
nent trait in my character-when givin my note
for borrered money will do man good, never
begrudge the trouble wv writin it.
But what wuz agoin to say wuz, that the
feendishnis that item passes belief. The
writer put it in print tn show that the abolishn
NV slavery benefited somebody. | grant him
that the merchant who undoubtedly wuz born
in Massachusetts, waz benefited by the change,
are the greasy mechanics who are now pol
lutin the soil NV Alabama and probably
the $50 niggers, but in the name liberty, in
the name NV justice, in the name the Con-
stooshun Nv the Yoonited States, and the flag
NV our common country, ask how about John
Cutie?
John Gnttle is robbed-John Cutie is de-
prived NV his property the bread taken from
John Cutie mouth, his staff is broken, his de-
pendence is gone, he is bereft.
Never shall forget John Cutie or his hos
pital mansion ez | knowed it in the happy years
afore the crooel war. He wuz gentleman NV
the old skool-wun NV the few left us in these
degenerate days. His home unal-
loyed happiness Situated just back Nobel,
he he'd the finest plantashun in that section and
he'd on it two hundred and fifty niggers. All
shades wuz represented. There wuz the coal
black Cuffee, whose feechers denoted the pure
Afrikin, and whose awkward manners showed
that he not long from Afrka There WIZ
the civilized mnlatto in whose veins the Cutie
blood showd; the quadroon, in whom the good
old Cutie blood predomnated and the octoroon,
which mostly Cutie. The Guttleses WIZ
eminently Christian generation-they WIZ
devoutly pious, and there never wuz wun NV the
name who Good not repeat without the book all
NV the texts bearin on slavery. The passages
in which Onesimus and Hagar fgger wuz favori-
tes with EN-, but q cussid be Canaan they
wuz strong. For generations they had mourued
over the hard fate NV the sons Nv Ham, doomed
to perpetooal bondage, becoz Nv the sin NV their
father, and with missionary spirit ekaled by
few and exceled by none they did their part
toward redoosin that cuss by maxim menny
NV EN- ez possible half-brothers to the more
favored race Nv Japheth, and thus bringin Nv
EN- out NV the cuss, and they he'd mellered the
color their charges down from the hdeous
black to a brite yeler. Under the old patriarkle
system time passed orf smoothly and pleasantly
with the Cutie family. Them $50 niggers wuz
obliged NV course to work. and their labor wuz
money John bought each Nv the male sons of
Ham two scots close per annum, and each of
the female sons of Ham soot 1t con-
sidered healthy for the young ones to 60 naked.
wich they religiously allowed to do, ez none of
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
celebrated for horse racn and their skill for
losin money at faro. They wuz hosptabe and
generous to a fault. Their house wuz open
house, and their beverages wuz alluz the best.
Money wuz objick to them, for when they had
n severe attack NV poker, or faro, or hoss racin,
they had plenty NV octoroons and quadroons,
with the real Cutie nose, which brand wuZ well
known in Moo Orleans and wood alluz command
the highest possible fgger 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
would be persuaded by the overseer to do the
work NV the whole. John Guttle's sons wuz all
in the Confedrt army his daughters, willin to
sacrifice everything for the cause, heroically
pledged themselves to whip the niggers their
selves doorin their absence
Now all is changed A shadder hez fallen
across that peaceful home. The niger quar-
tiers is there, but the nggers is not. The broad
plantashun is divided up into small farms, and
half of it is owned by Abishnists from the
North, who work themselves, and who hev
meetiu house on one corner it, and the mig
gers skool house tother. The race track
is powed up and in cotton-the whippin post
and the stocks is taken down and burned-all,
all the evidence NV civilizashun hcz faded afore
the ruthless hand of the invader John Cutie,
that generous old man, subssts by the labor NV
his own handsome his sons ekes out a mis-
erable existence runnin dray in Nobel; an
other. who is gifted with no ordinary intelleck,
earns respectable livn playin seven-up In
small way with his former niggers, and the two
girls is runnin sowin masheen.
Talk not to me NV benefits. what is dozeh
tradesmen and two hundred and fifty niggers TO
pe-iOrlOuS
e the interest nv dozen or so NV Moo England
mechanics, and the niggers aforesaid, when COM
pared with glorious aristocracy which kin never
exist beside EN-? Kin | go and borrer eighteen
dollars and sixty-three cents Nv one OF EN- W.
Becoz workin for their paltry Twins they place
higher valyoo on money, end will not spread II
around ez profoosey ez the noble race which
preceded EN-.
Another great wrong is done in this settin iree
of Iohn Epttla'S uiruprs John Cutie 0eZ, Nv
course, no further interest in the Dimocratic
party. Slavery the umbllikle chord which
united the Southern STAKEHOLDER and the North
ern Dimocrat, and that chord cut, why hez John
Cutie any more in Dimocracy? We stood as a
Chinese wall between them and the rushin flood
of Abolishun fanaticism, and we made the wall
hznis pay. They furnished money and we did
the work, and there ben but few Nv US the or
fees wuz easily divided. Alas, our okkepashin S
gone. The South is forever lost to us, for she
has no dirty ork for US to do.
appeal to the Yoonited States NV America.
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