The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-04-30
Mr.. aHasby Pleads the Cause OF a
Friend.


CoNFEDRTT x ROADS, (wich.
is in the Stait Nv Kentucky
.sIo. sss l3.e March 10, 1866:
Yesterday I happened to pick up a
copy NV a fritefully deprayed Ablishin
paper, and my horror stricken eyes wuz
glued to the follerin passage, wich 1
read: Is s,.I.,a,sl.--
I am happy to state to you that our
free negroes are doing finely. Il We have
no trouble with them. They have all
gone to work manfully. They give an
impetus TO trade that we never before
had. Ihave sold John Guttle's negroes
this year and last, more goods than
ever sold Cutie, and he owned two
hundred and fifty slaves. So you see
the free negro system is working well
with us. sgi,s % -, .7s.a .isp I9=zz.
involuntarily- from my beamin eyes,
and eonrsel In torrents down my ven
erable cheeks. know. John Cutie
we'll, may say ultimately. He wuz
dear friend, one of the few which
call friend in the most catholic and
comprehensive sense Nv that word. he
holds my note for eighteen dollars and
63 CENTS and hev sumwhere. among
my papers. wich 1 he1'allnz carefully
preserved for reference, n amemoEaudum
nv his address, that / might beshoor
not to forget to send it to him. give
him the note becoz he ful nisht the pa
per, and 1t made him easy IN his mind.
put downthe ememorandum becoz II
looked business-like. Beneyolence is
prominent triitin my ycharacterZwhen
givin my note for borrered money VIII
do man good, / never begrudged the
trouble NV writin 1t.
But what wuz aooin to say wlz,
that the feendishnis uy that item passes
'Nha tUrifE1F in fNFint tn
sh wv that tue Ablishn uyslavery bene-
fitted sumbody.I1 i grant that the mer-
chant, who undoubtedly WIZ born In
massachusetts, wuz benefited by the
change, so are the, greasy. mechanics
who are now 4poliutiH the soil Nv Ala
bama, and SO probably are the 25O mig
gers, butin the name nv Liberty, in the
name uv'Justice, in the name NV the
Constooshn NV the Yoonited States, and
the Flag Nv our Common Country, l
ask HOW ABOUT JOHN GUrTLE.
John Cutie is robbed-JOhn Cutie
is deprived nv his property, the brehd
is taken from John GuItle's mouth, his
dependence is gone, he is berett.lIC1a
Never shall / forget John Guttle, or
his hospitable mansion Ell knowed 1t
in the happy years afore the crooeI war.
He wuZ Il gentleman NV the old skool-
one NV the few LEFT us in these degener-
ate days. His home wuz wun NV un-
of Nobel, he had the finest plantashun
in that section, and he'd on'it-250 nig-
gers. All shadesr wuz represented.
There wuz the coal black Cutfee whose
feechers denoted the pure Afrikin, and
whose awkward manners showed that
no wuz not long from lAtrikn. There
wus the civilized InulAtto in whose
veinsthe uttIe blood showed, the quad
room in whom the good old Cutie blood
predominated, and :he OctrOOn which
wuz mostly Cutie. The Guttleses wuz
eminently a Christian ngeneration-they
wuZ devoutly piouss and there never
wuz wun uvlthe name who coOd not re-
peat without the book all NV the texts
bearin on slavery. The passages in
which Onesinus and Hagnr fgger wuz
favOriteS with en-, but on .'cussid
be Canaan" they wuz strong. Forgen-
erations they had nourned over the
hard fate NV the sons NV Ham, doomed
to perpetooal bondage becoz Nv the sin
uvItheir tlther, and with u missionary
spirit ekaled by few and excelletl by
none, they did their part towards re-
dOosin tnnt cuSS by maxim ez menny
NV EN- us possible half brothers to the
more favored race NV Japeth, and thus
bringin NV em out NV the cuss, and they
he'd dInellered the color Nv their char
ges down from the hideous black to
brite yeller. Under the old patriarkle
system time passed orf smoothly and
pleasantly with the Cutie family.
Them $50 niggerS wuZ obliged Nv course
10 woril,5and their labor wuz money.
John bought each NV the male sons Nv
Ham two SCOTS Nv close 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
wooddoanythingag agtn mater orher laws:
The girls he'd pianos, and wuz ed ducated
at the North, the boys wuz celebrated
at,horse racin and their skill at 7loosin
money at faro. They wuz hospttabIe
and generous to a fault. Their house
wuZ open house, and their beverages
.wuz atluzthe best. Money lwuz no OBJ
ject to them, for when they had severe
attack NV, poker or faro or hos rncin;
had plenty NV octroons and quadroons,
with the real Guttle- nose, wtch brand
| wuz we'll known in Moo Orleans, and
wood alluz command the highest pos
sible figger that wuz paid in that mar
| ket; or, if they had no more than they
| wanted at home NV that Style1 why
few field hands would be sold, and the
renainin ones wood be persuaded by
the, overseer7t to ttheTwori Nv the
whole. JoI1nIGuttleis sonswuz in the
Confedrit army; his daughters, willtn
to sacrifice everything fur tho cause,
heEoically pledged themselves to whip
the niggefS themselves doorin their ab-
sense.
Now all is changed. A shadder hez
fallen across that peaccful5 home. The
nigger quarters s,there, butthe niggers
Is not. The broad pIantasllun is dlvi-
| ded up.into small farms. and half NV
it Is owned by, Abolishnists from the
North, who work themselves, and who
hev meetin house on one corner Nv i,
and the niggerS u skool-house' on the
totlier. The race track is 4plowedh up
and in coIton4the whippin post and
the stocks Is taken,down and burned
all, all the evidences Nv civilizashun
Lhez faded afore- the ruthless hand NV
the invade John Guttle, that generous
old man, subsistsi by the labor Nv hls
own handsome nv his SONS ekes ont a
miserable existence runnin a dray IN
Mobeel; another, who Is. gifted with no
ordinary intelleCk earns a respectable
livin playin seven-up in small way
with his former ntggers, and the two
girls Is a runnin aisewtn masheen.
Talk not to me Nv benefits. What is
a dozen. .itfadesmen and two hundred
and fifty nfgEers to gellorious old Dim
| okratic John Guttlef What Is the IN
terest NV a dozen or 50 NV Moo England
mechanics, and the niggeES aforesaid,
when compared to thar glorious artsZ
t0cracy wIGh kin never exist beside emT
Kin / go and borreE eighteen dollars
and sixty-three cents Nv one ny them =
| No. Beco1 workin for their pHltfy hv-
ins they place a higher valyoo on
money, and will not spread ttaround ez
prOfooSlay ez the noble race @ich pre-
ceeded EN-.
Another great wrong is done in this
settin free'uv John Guttle'S- ntgge
| John Cutie hes NV course no further
interest in the DImocratic party. slave;
\ rywuz the umbfllikle cord wich united
/ tf,a a S50uthePu ElayehoIGlgr and : the