The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1866-07-12
From the Toledo Blade.
NASBY.

From the Toledo Blade
NASBY.
Mr. Nasby though not two MA afOr-
Generals, Reports TO the Presi.
dent on IIIe Workings of Ihe
Freedmen's Bureau, &c.
CoNFEDRr X ROADS, (wich is
in the Stait Nv Kentucky
May FL, 1866.
To His EggSlency tie Dispenser Of Post Of
fees, AnoroO johnson, President av tie
United States:
In akordance with yoor esteemed re-
quest, dated the 25th and received this
morning, l to wunst proceeded TO make
doc inquiry ez to the workin Nv the
Freedmen's Burow and the condishun
Nv the Afrikin citizens Nv Amerikin de-
scent in this vicinity. The fact that a
Aboishnist still holds the Post Orfce at
the Corners (Which place by the way
hay been solicited to accept interfered
materially with the bizines | had in hand.
| to wunst footed the horn, ez is the
custom when we hev religious servi5,
and called my congregashun together.
They KUN runnin in from the different
groceries, and here another difficulty
ensood. The groSery keepers wanted
to know what we wuz gOin TO hey
meetin on week days for? They wuz
wilIin to shut up door in meetin time on
Sundays, ez they respected the church
and it Civ em time to sweep out the ter
hacker, ct settrey, but the'd be Id
ef they wuz. agoin to have the people
pulled away from their nourishment on
week days. / succeeded in passifyin
EN- and went in at wunst examinin the
leadin citizens. Their testimony Is ez
follows:
CAPTAIN sKELPER.
Wuz 4 nigger owner afore the war,
and durin the late fratrisidle struggle
wuz captin in the confedrit servis
Wuz with Ginral Forest at Fort Pillow
Hez had much experience with niggers
Bleeyes EN- to be adapted to the climit
NV Kentucky and much more able tC
stand the hot sun than the whites
When they wuz slaves never knowd en-
to refoose to work-know they alluz
did work becoz he generally stood over
them with niger whip. Since they
hev bin free hez notist change, ontl
the Niger Burow wuz establish. Be
fore that they'd take sich wages ez yor
chose to give em-since then the Dc
hethen will stand out bout ez the white
men do, and won't at all unless yoC
meet their view, which made heap Il,
trouble and materially retarded the de
velopment OF the country. The BuroV
had corrupted the female niggers, e.
they he'd all bin legally married by tht
Chaplnes to the men they'd lived with
and wuz so sot on livin with em tha
there's no yoose Nv yoor tryin to get
house wench unless yoo took her hus
band also. His wife was now doin de
gradin work at home for want of help
Strongly urged the abrogashen Nv tn
Burow and the removal Nv the Abolish
un Postmaster at the Corners.
DEACON MC'GRATH.
Wuz eggsamind. Wuz convinSt il
his own mind that the Atrikin wuz nov
put of his normal sphere, and that tn
Internal Burow wuz at the bottom ov it
Ehe nigger, afore the Burow COM
Sround wuz docile and easily controlled
His boy Joe wuz wunst model niger
He'd get up every mornin at a A. NJ
which means in the mornin) and worl
every day till after dark. Ez soon ei
ne wuz emancipated, eE they called it
md Burow come, | told him to get VI
Dne mornin, aud he told me impudently
that he'd concluded he woodn't. l un
hertook to chastise him with fenc,
ttake, whereupon he sailed and whalet
ne, and the Burow to which | applied
br redress larft in my face lie left
Ind is now draggin ont mizerabIe ex
stence in Ohio, on the beggarly pittanc,
" two dollars a day, and my farm il
unnin to weeds. He conclooded BY
given it ez his solemn opinion that h
lever Good be reconciled to the Govern
Nent SO long ez the Burow wuz tolera
led and the Ablishnist held the Pos
Drfs at the Corners.
GNERAL DIYGEs.
4 Considered the Burow a inkubus up
In the State. 1t interfered between
raster and servant Good git along
letter eft the niger wuz left in the nat
1ral laws which regulates capital ant
Aborers. Tried to keep his niggers, an(
Tlid keep em the past summer till aite
HE crop wuz in, and then tried to settle
tbSith EN- for four dollars a month, will
stdch deductions for food, sickness anC
nHraken tools ct settery, ez wuz just
Brought the niggers all of EN- in my
9cbt and generously proposed to let en-
YORK it out chopping cord wood dooriI
yvle winter. Hauled me up before the
Burow and wuz forced to pay EN- eacf
Calls per month. Consider the Burov
q all that stands in the way Nv rekon
truction, though the removal Nv the
Ablishun Postmaster at the Corners an(
iLnsle appointment NV sound constooshne
wood greately assist in con
priliaten the Kentucky mind.
Itried to get some nigger testimony