Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-06-16

gregashun together. They kun runnin in
from the different groceries, and here an
other difficulty ensood. The grosery
keepers wanted TO know what we wuz a
going 10 hey meeting on week days for?
They wuz willin to shut up doorin m ct
in time Sundays, ez they respected the
church and it give EN- time to sweep out
the terbacker, ct settery, but they'd be
id eff they wuz agoin to hev the
people pulled away from their nourish-
ment on week days. 1 succeeded in pas
sifyin em and went in at wunst examinin
the leadin citizens. Their testimony is ez
follows;
CAPTIN SKELPER
Wuz a niger owner afore the war, and
durin the late fratrisidle struggle wuz a
captin in the confedrit servis. Wuz with
Ginral Forrest at Fort Pillow. Hez he'd
much experience with niggers. Bleeves
EN- to be adopted to the climit NV Ken
lucky, and much more able to stand the
hot sun than the whites. When they
wuz slaves never kAOwd en- TO refooze to
Work-knOw they alluz did work becoz
ne generally stood over EN- with q niger
whip. Since they heY bin free hez nOtist
a change not much Nv a change until the
Niger Burow was establish. Before
that they'd take sich wages ez yoo chose
to give em-since then the id heather
will stand out bout ez the white men do,
and wont work at all onless VOC meet
their views, which made a heap NV trouble
and materially retarded the development
w the country. The Burow he'd corrupt
ed the female niggers, ez they he'd all bin
legally married by the chaplins to the
men they'd liyd with, and wuz so sot on
livin with them that there's no DOSE NV
yoOr tryin to get a house wench unless
700 took her husband also. His wife wuz
nov dOip degradin work at home for
want nv help. Strongly urged the abro-
gashen nv the BurOw and the removal nv
the Abolishun postmaster at the Corners.
DEACON MoGRATH
NuZ eggsamined. Wuz convinst in
his own mind that tue AfriEin WI. nov
out NV his normal speer, and that the in
fernal Burow wuz at the bottom NV it.
The niger, afore the Burow come around,
wuz docile and easily controlled. His boy
Joe wuz wunst a model Niger. He'd get
up every mornin at 4 A. N. witch means
in the IaOTRinr end work every day till
after dark. Ez 0 o ez he WuE em6ne,-
pated, ez they called it, and the Burow
come, l told him to get up one mornin,
and he told me impudently that he'd con-
cluded he WOodent. | undertook to chas-
tise him with a fence stake, whereupon he
sailed in and whaled me, and the Burow
to which l applied for redress larft in M
iGce. tie left, and Is now draggin out .
mizerable existence in Chic, en- the beg-
carly pittance nv two dollars a day, and
my farm Is ruEnin to weeds. He cOncloo-
ded by given it ez his solemn opinion that
he never Good be reconciled to the Gov
eminent so long ez the Burow wuz toler-
sted, and mat A%blishnist held the Post
Gzifs ct tie Corners.
GISRRAL gT5GES.
Considered the EuroW Il inkugus upon
the State. 1t interfered between master
and servant. Good git along better eff the
niger wuz left to the material laws witch
regulates capital and laber. Tried to keep
his uigGeTS, and did keep EN- the past
summer til after the crop wuz in, and
then tried to settle with Ell, for four dol
lars q month, which SIGH deductions for
food, sickness and brakin tools ct settry,
e. wuz Just. Brought the niggers all NV
EN- in my debt and generously proposed
to let EN- work it out chopin cord wood
doorin the winter. Hauled me up afore
the Burow and wuZ fOrst TO pay EN- each
So per month. Consider the BuroW ez
all that stGnGs in the way NV rekonstruc-
ton, though the removal Nv tho 6blishun
Postmaster at the Corners and the ap-
| Pcintment nv a sound c~onstooshnel Dim
ekrat wood ssstely assist in conciliatin
the Kentucky mind.
tried to get some nigger testimony
but Good elicit nOthin worth while. Gne
niger who spends the heft nv his time
at the Corners wuz opposed to the Burow
becoZ it stopt rations on him, and Lucy, a
OctoroGn, Vha forEerly belonged to and
still resides with Elder Gavitt, who j.
now absent ez a delegate to a southern
religious convention at Louisville) testi-
fed that the huroR "wuE no crate shakes
becoz bein ez the Elder wuZ a yidower
and the father NV all her children, and
bein she's q free woman, she askt the agent
to make the Elder marry her, and he
wOod'nt do it. But sich evidence is ire
l~evant, and l didn't consider it worth
while bOtherin yoor Eggslency with it.
Both, hOEeyeE strongly insisted on the
removal ny the hhlishqn Postmaster al
the Corners.
ABSLUM PETTIs
Wuz conVinst the Burow wuz agin the
prosperity NV the State and wuz under
mining the moral and physikle welfare Nv
the Niger. 1t made him impudent. He'd
sum Nv EN- workin for him, and notist at
/ moons snd mites he'd find EN- with a
| spellin boot and 9 reader. Didn't bleeve
in readin. Coodent read Aissslf but he'd
1 a ,1rr-Sr ,-,,-1N - 1.a--AI L. - -
ez he Good read he moved off to Inieanny,
quit the Dimocrisy and becum q loathsum
Ablishnist. Herd he wuz killed in the
war, and served him rite. Wanted to
know what We wood az when tie nisgers
Good all read. Sposed wed hey to lect
EN- TO otis, e. the people alluz selected
SIGH when they Good find m Didn't
bleeve in Niger equality and wuz in ia
vor Nv a mediate change in the postor1ce
st the Corners.
Captin McSlather thought things he'd
cum 70 q sweet old pass when a man
coedent lather a niger without balm
hauled up afore a Burow.
Kurnel Pelter thought eff yoor Eggso-
lency Good witness the corrupsun that
eggisted in the BurOw yood make short
work Nv it. Why he whipped a niger
hand more than he ought perhaps, and
he died Nv the injuries. 1t wuz a aggra-
vatin case. The niger wuz sassy, and it
cost three hundred ana sixteen dollars TO
peryide for his family. That infamous
Burow made me pay for their rashens all
winter. He asked Indignantly eff this
wgz or wuz not Q free kuntry into which
such things wuz permitted. And the
Ablishen postmaster at the Corners ap-
proved the tyrsnnikle action. He de-
mande1 his removal.
conceive is to be onnessary to submit
further testimony. ! know not what luck
yoor other commissioners may hev met
with in takin testimony on this subjick,
but in this vicinity there PANT be no doubt
thst there can't be that love for the Gov
eminent without wich free instooshens
won't flourish TO any alsrmin extent ontil
this monster is squelehed. The testimony