The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1866-01-21

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TENNESSEE LADY MAKES "HER MARX.
Over S20o00O0 worth Of property il
Tennessee has been returned 10 its peo
pie BY the Government upon their CON
/ plisnce with the conditions laid dow
for those once in rebellion. There arr
10000 people in that State who car
neither read nor write yet their hOstil
( ity aud bitterness toward the negroe.
who are learning, is beyond description
unrelenting and intense "a few weeks
ago, said General Fisk, "there came
into my headquarters st Nashville, s
Tennessee lady, elegantly attired in
silk and velvet, to talk with me, as she
said. ] gave her a seat She took it
with "an air, and told me she wanted
to recover her property seized by the
Government She abused il heartily,
and read me 8 lecture on Yankees and
AbolitiOnists, and execrated them for
killing her husband in battle, for he
hsd only gone with the South to fight
for its rights. gave her the circular
to read which contains the conditions
Of the Government for claimants to
comply with. She asked me to read il
for her told her hsd no time that
she had better read for herself, and
then fill up the blanks provided to
prove the legitimacy of her claim She
then admitted that she could neither
read nor write
] own that while pitied her, felt
a Httle mischieEous; so pointed 10 that
young Ohio clerk, and told her he would
write out the document for her. She
was horri6ed, and asked me with sharp
ness and ssperity, 'can that niger
writer Yes, madam, ! said, and he will
attend TO the business for you. With
some reluctance, she went to his desk
de arose, bowed, and gave her seat,
and made out in fine round hand the
necessary statement, and then real it
for her. It was then offered ior her
signature, but when she drew IF b sr
glove, and l saw q splendid diamond
sparkle on her finger as she made her
marx pitied her from my heart, for !
the superiority, the real superiority, of !
the negro was seen in the simple trans |
action.
The poor woman perhaps felt it then
herself, for she Wept, came TO her senses.
regretted her harsh remarks about the |
"nlgger,' and went away with ideas
more becoming a reconstructed woman /
than when she came.
EESTUCKY KICKING AGAINST THE PRIcEs.
When the Freedmen's Bureau was
moved into Kentucky, the furniture
was very repugnant 10 the taste of
those good old hOusekeepers, but it
can't be helped. If they can't like it,
they Will tolerate it, for have travelled
TOR month among them in citizens
attire, they not suspecting my business,
and ! find that although they dislike,
they won't resist, the authority of the
Freedmen's Bureau A majority of
the large, old planters, have already
fallen in with the new condition, but
you would be astonished at the cruelty
practiced on the freedmen by their old
masters In a county hardly out of
sight of Cincinnati, county meeting,
of returned rebel soldiers,
was held, and resolutions were passed
that no one in the county should or
would be allowed to employ freedmen;
and by way Of making good their word
they burned n mans property to the
ground who had employed that class Of
laborers.
Only the day before yesterday, in
Lexington, thirteen discharged Oolored
stood in the streets, in full sight
of Henry Clsy's monument, with their
bodies lacerated, their backs bleeding
from the cruel lash, their heads cut to
the scalp, and one or two of them with
their eyes put out, and what for do
you suppose2 Simply for going to
their former masters and asking for
their wives and childrenl l appealed
to the civil authorities in their behalf, !
but was told that there was no law in
Kentucky to help them / heard
there of a slave to be sold on q certain
day; / made an arrangement with the
Master Commissioner TO buy him my
self as the last SlaBs to be sold IN hca.
tl,ckv
| am here to protect Just such men
as those from the cruelty and barbar-
ism Ct the "blue grass region" and do
you think ] will see men who have |
been in the war three years with my
self naltreated and butcheredf No,
not by any means Two women were
shot dead by their former master for
asking and trying to get their children
back, in Kentucky, and ] fear her
Legislature will not do justice to the
negro. They are good men enough in
every thing but the negro, and that
stirs up every thing that is bad and
bitter in their nature.
] saw a little white egg the other
day, called the egg of Rharosh's ser
pents. You touch 1t with spark Of fire
and out comes q flame and serpent
that coils around and Kisses in your
face. The people Of Kentucky oppos-
ed to freedmen sre deal like those
fair to look at, but when
you touch them with spark Of liberty
out comes the flame Of anger and the
kissing serpent of SANDER.
In Frankfort the other day, & veal
thy lady sat at the same table with me
at the hotel, and oyeFhearing my re-
marks on this subject, asked who l
was. She then remarked that I was
negro man, and should go to the kitch-
en- and est with the piggers, and then
she got Up and left the room with s
flourish and air that was pitifuL
nov NrssIssIRFIAg WRITES
As I said before, have been among
the people, and am satisfied OF their
bitterness and hostility Of spirit / see