The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1866-04-21
Mr.. Nasty Pleads the Cause OF a Friend
CoNFEDRATE x ROADS,
(which ia in the Stsit of K.ntucku
March 10, 1856.

CoNFEDRATE K ROADS,
(Which is in the Staff OF K-ntucky
,-... March 10, 1856.
Yesterday happened to pick up py
Nv . frightfully depraved Ablishin pa per
and my horror stricken eyes wuz glued to
the fol-, Elm passage, which read:
II am happy to state to you that our fre'
negroes are doing finely. We have nc
trouble with them. They have sill gone to
work manfully. They givs az impetus to
ii ade that We never before had. baV'
sold John GutIle's negroes this yssr and
last more goods than ever sold Cutie, and
be owned two hundred and fifty slaves. so
you see the free negro system is working
well with U.S.
Ez peroozed them lines tears started in
voluntarily from my beamin eyes. and
coursed in torrents down my venerable
cheeks. know John Cutie well. l may
say intimitly. He wuz a dear friend, one
Nv the few which call TREND 10 the most
catholic and comprehensive sense Nv the
word. He holds my note for eigntsen dol
Ian and 50 cents, and l hev someWh here
among my papers, which | hev alluz care
fully preserved for reference, a memoran
dun Nv his address. that might be shoor
not to forget to send it to him. give linn
the note 6eooz he furnisht tie paper, nd
it made him easy in his mind. put down
the memorandum bscoz il looked business
like. BenevoleEce is prominent trait 10
my character--When glvin my note for Dor
rel ed money will do a man good, never
begrudge the trouble of writin it.
But what wuz agoin to say wuz. thai
the teeudishnis Nv that item passes belief.
| The writer put in print to show that the
ablishin Nv slavery beneftted somebody
grant HIM that tie merchant, who uBdoubt
edly wuz born in Massachusetts, wuz ben
efiIted by the change, so are the & reasy me
chanics who are now pOlutin the soil W.
| Alabama, and go probably are the $50 mig
gers, but in the name Nv Liberty, in the
name NV Justice. in the name Nv the Con
stoOsbun Nv tie Yoonited States. and thC
Flag Nv our Common Country, I ask HOW
ABB Ut JOHN CUTIE. -
John Cutie is robbed-John Cutie il
de prived Nv bis property, the bread is t.
ken from John Guides mouth, his staff il
broken, his dependence is gone, be is be
reft.
| Never shall I forget John Cutie, or hil
hospital mansion ez knowed it In the hap
py years aiors the erOoel war. He WuZ 1
gentleman Nv the old school-Wuu Nv th'
few left as in these degenerate days. Hit
home Wuz wun NJ unhalloysd happiness
Situated Just back nv Nobel, he he'd tb'
aliasst plsntashun IN that section. and heC
on il ESQ niggsrs. All shades Wuz repre-
senGsd. There Wux the coal black CutfeS
whose feechsrs denoted the pure African
and whose awkward manners showed tina
be Wuz not long from A'rika. There W.
the civilized mulatto 10 whose veins the Gut
tle blood showed. the quadrOOn in whom
the good old Cutie blood predominated
and the octcroon wtich Wuz mostly Cutie
Tie Guttlessss Wuz eminsntly q ChistiaI
i geueration-they wuz devotely pious. ant
|, there never wuE wun ~ the name who COOS
not repeat without the book all uV the text
bearin on slavery. The passages in which
J, 0nesimus and Hagar hgger WnE favorIt
With EN-. but on the ''cnssid be Canaan
they ais strong. For generations the.
Ihsd zoCarned 0ysR The hard fsss nv the son