Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1866-04-04

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| Written for the Toledo Blade
MI. Nasty Pleads the Cause of a Friend
CoNFEDRIT K ROADS, (wich
is in the Stait Nv Kentucky.
March l9, 1866.
Yesterday 1 happened to pick up a
copy Nv a fritefully depraved Ablishn
paper, and my horror stricken eyes Wus
glued to the follerin passage, wich | read:
| l am happy to state to you that our
free negroes are doing finely. We have
no trouble with them. They have all
gone to work manfully. They give an
| impetus to trade that we never before
had. l have sold John Guttle's negroes
this year and last, more goods than ev-
er sold Cutie, and he owned two hun
dred and fifty slaves. So you see the free
negro system is working well with US.
Ex peroozed them lines tears started
involuntarily from my beamin eyes, and
coursed in torrents down my venerable
cheeks. l know John Cutie well, | may
say Intimitly. He was dear friend, one
Nv the few which / call friend in the
most catholic and comprehensive sense
of that word. He holds nv note for
eighteen dollars and 63 cents, and l heV
sumwhere among my papers, wich L heV
alluz carefully preserved for reference, a
memorandum nv his address, that
might be shoor not to forget to send it to
him. l give him the note because he
furnisht the paper, and it made him easy
| put down the memorandum becoZ it
looked business-like. Benevolence is a
prominent trait Nv my character-when
giyin my note for borrered money will do
man good, never begrudge the trouble
Nv writin it.
But wat wuz agoin to say Wuz, that
the feendishnes Nv that item passes be-
lief. The writer puts it in print to show
that the Ablishn Nv slavery benefited
sombo6y. l grant him that the mer
chant, who undoubtedly Wuz born in
Massachusetts,, wuz benefited by the
change, so are the greasy mechanics who
are poIutin the soil Nv Alabama, and so
probably are the $50 niggers, but in the
name Nv Liberty, in the name Nv Justice,
in the name Nv the Constooshun Nv the
Yoonited Stats, and the Flag Nv our
Common Country, l ask now ABOUT JOHN
GUTTLE.
John Cutie is robbed-John Guttle is
deprived Nv his property, the bread IS
taken from John Guttles mouth, his staff
is broken, his dependence is gone, he is
bereft.
Never shall l forget John Cutie, OF
his hospitable mansion ez | knowed it in
the happy years afore the crooel war
He wuz a gentleman Nv the old skool-
one Nv the few left US in these degen-
crate days. His home wuz wun Nv un-
allowed happiness. Situated just back
Nv Nobel, be had the finest plantashun
in that section, and he'd on it $50 niggers.
All shades wuz represented. There wuz
the coal black Cuffse whose feeehers de
noted the pure Afrikin, and whose awk
ward manners showed that he wuz not
long from Africa. There wuz the civiliz
ed mulatto in whose veins the Cutie
blood showed, the quadroon in whom the
good old Cutie blood predominated, and
the octoroon Wich wuz mostly Guttle.-
The Guttles wuz mostly Christian gen.
eration-they Wuz devoutly pious, and
there never wuz one Nv the name who
Good not repeat without the book all Nv
the texts bearin on slavery. The pass
engers in which 0nesimuS and Hagar hg
ger wuz favorites with EN-, but on ''cussld
be Canaap" they wuz strong. For gen.
erations they he'd mourned over the fate
Nv the sons Nv Ham, doomed to perpet-
GOAL bondage because Nv the sin Nv their
father, and with a missionary spirit ekal-
ed by few and excelled by none, they did
their part towards Tedoosin that cuss 6y
maxim ca many Nv en- ez possible hall
brothers to the more favored race Nv
Japheth, and thus brlngin Nv en- out Nv
the cuss, and they he'd mellered the color
Nv their charges down from the hideous
black to a bright yeller. Under the old |
patriarkle system time passed orr smooth !
Iy and pleasantly with the Guttle family. !
Them $50 niggers wuz obliged Nv course |
to work, and their labor wuz mony.-
John bought each Nv EN- the male sons
NV Ham two SCOT Nv clothes per annum,
and each Nv the female sons Nv Ham
one SCOT. 1t wuz considered healthy for
the young ones to go naked, wich they wuz
religiously allowed to do, ez none Nv the
Guttles Nv that family wood do any thing
agin mater or her laws. The girls hHd
pianos, and wuz educated at the North, |
the boys wuz celebrated for horse racln 1
and their skill at losin money at faro
They wuz hospitable and generous to a
fault. Theirs wuz a open house, and their
beverages Wuz allus the best. Money /
wuz no objick to them, for when they I
he'd a severe attack Nv poker or faro or
hoss Facin; they he'd plenty Nv octaroons /
and auadIoons, with the real Guttle nose /
which brand wuz well known in Moo Or
leans, and wood alluz command the high
est possible 6ggeF that wuz paid in that
market: or If they he'd no more than i
they wanted at home Nv that style, why 4
a new field hand wood be sold, and the /
remainin ones wood be pursuaded by the
oyerseer to do the work NV the whole
John Guttle's sons wuz all in the Confed- ]
rit army; his daughters willin to sacFi-
fee everything for the cause, heroically /
pledged themselves to whip the niggers
theirselVes doorin their absence.
Now all is changed. A shadder has
fallen across that peaceful home. The
niger quarters is there, but the niger IS
not. the broad plantashun IS divided
up into small farms. and half Nv 1t IS
owned by Ablishnists from the North,
who work themselves, and who heE
meetin house on one corner Nv 1t, and
the niggers a skool house on the tOther. |
The race track is plowed up and IN cot /
ton the whippin post and the stocks Is
broken down and burned-all, all the
evidences Nv civilization hez faded afore
the ruthless hand Nv the invader. John |
Guttle, that generous old man, subsists I
by the labors NV his own hands-wun Nv /
his sopS ekes out a miserable existence
runnin dray in Nobel, another who Is
gifted with no ordinary intelleok earns a |
respectable liyin playin seyen-up IN
small way with the former niggers, and
the two girls is q runnin sewln ma
sheen.