Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1866-01-30
NAHBY
mr.. Nasty Sets Forth the Eject tho
PrOclnmation or Secretary Seward
Produced In Kentucky.

y ROADS,
(Which is in the State of Kentucky),3
December 20, 1865. -
At last The deed is dun The tran
ikle Government witch hez sway>at Wash
ington has FINELY extinguished the las,
glimmerin flicker of liberty, by abolishir
slavery The sun didn't 60 down in
gloom that mite, the stars didn't fade int
a sickly yaller, at witch obstinacy u,
nacher I was considerably astonished.
I got the news at the p~ostofice (neai
witch I am at present stayin, at the hous
Nv a venerable old planter, who accepts
my improvin conversation and q occa'
sional promise, witch is cheap, ez equiva.
lent for bord). Sadly / wendell my way
Q his peaceful hum, dreadin to fling ovel
that house the pail of despair. After sup.
per I broke to them, as gently as l Good,
| the intelligence that th~ree-fourths Nv the
States had ratified the constitutional
amendment, that Seward he'd issued his
proclamation. and that all niggers was
free.
Never did I see sch sorrer depicted on
human countenance, never was there de-
SPAR NV SIGH depth. All mite long the
bereayed inmates Nv that wunst happy
but now distracted home wept and walled
in agony witch was perfectly heart-rendin.
"Wo is me-" sobbed the old man,
wringin his hands.
John Browns karkis hangs a danglin
in the air, but his soul is marchin on.
1T took possession Of Seward, ana
,hro his ugly mouth it spoke the words /:
The niger is free.' and there is no more
a slave in all the land.
"Wunst I he'd a hundred niggers, and
the men was fat and healthy, and the
wenche wuz strong, and sum NV them
wuz fair to look upon.
They worked in my house and my
| fields from the risin Nv the sun TO the
| goin down Nv the same.
"Wuz they lazy / Gated them till
| they wa cured thereof, for 10 q! they wuz
ez a child under my care.
did they run From Kentucky they
run North, and 10 the Locofoco Mar
shals caught them for me, and brought
them back and delivered them into my
hand, without cost, sayin. 10! here Is thy
nigger-do with him ez thou wilt (Which l
allus did,, witch is cheeper than keepin
dogs, and jest ez good.
"Solomon wuz wise, for he he'd OF kon-
kubines a sufishensy, but we wuz wiser
in our day then him.
FOR he he'd to feed his children. and it
kost him shekels Nv gold and shekels Nv
silver. and much corn and oil.
We he'd u k~onkubines with ez great
a muchness ez Solomon, but we sold their
children for silver and gold, and red dog
paper"
And all night long the bereaved old pa
triarch, who had thus been a father TO his
servants land q grandfather to menny Nv
em) poured out his lamentations.
In the mornin the nigsers wuz called
up, and ez tina all he'd their kotes and he'd
bundles. I spect tina hev herd the neus.
The old gentleman explained the sisua.
shun to EN-.
"Yoo will" sed he, stay in yoor hap.
py homes-yoo will allus continer to live
here. and work here, as yoo hev ailus
dun"
The niggers, all in korus, with a re-
marksble uuanimity, remarkt that if tina
he'd ever been introdoost to themselves,
tina thot tha woodent. In fact, they he'd
kongrega,ed at that time for the purpose
NV startin life on their own hook.
A paroxysm NV pane and anguish shot
over the old mans face. Nearest to him
stood a oc,uruue who, he'd she not bin
tainted with the accurst blud NV Ham,
wood hev bin considered butiful. Fallen
on her nee. the old patriarch, with teers
streamin down his furrowd checks, ejaki-
lated:
Farewell. Looizer, my dotter, fare
well, l luved your muther ez never man
loved niger, She was the solace Nv mi
leisure hours the k%ompanion Nv mi
yooth! She I sold to pa orr q mortgage
on the plais-she and yoor older sisters
I he'd hoped to her sold 700 this Winter
flor 700 air still yung) and bought out
Jinkins, but wo IL ne Curses on the
,irant who thus sewers all the tender ties
NV nacher, Oh it is hard for father to
part with child. even when the markets
high, but Oh, God, TO part thus"
And the old gentleman, in a excess Nv
grief. swooned away genteelly.
His son Tom had been caressin her two
little children, who was a half whittier than
she wuz. Unable to restrain hisself, he
fell on her neck and bemoaned his fate
with tetchin pathos:
Farewell! farewell! mother Of my
children. Farewell faro. and HOSES, and
shampane, a long farewell /! Your increase
was my perquisites, and I sold 'em to
supply needs. He'd you died l Good hev
bin resined, for when ded you amt with
a copper, but TO see you torn away Twin,
and when wuth $4,000 in emmy market
its too much-it's too much
And he tainted, fallin across the old
mar.
Who'll do the work about the house J"
shreekt the old lady, faintin and fallin
across Tom. :
Who'll dress US and wash US and wait
on US ?" shreekt the three daughters,
swoondin away and fallin across the old
woman. -
Ny first impulse wuz to faint away my.
self and fall across the three daughters,
but I retained myself and wuz contented
with strikin a attitood and organizin a
taboo. Hustlin the niggers away with a
| burnin cuss for their ingrattitood, l spent
| the balance Nv the forenoon in bringin on
EN- too. Wun by wun they becum con-
shus, but they wuz moi themselves. Their
minds wuz evidently shattered-they wuz
carryin q hevvy heart in their buzzums.
Wood, oh wood, that Seward Good hev
seen that groop! Sech misery does Alb
lishinism bring in its trane-sech horrers
follers a departure from Dimikratic teech-
ms. When will reason to the peo-
pie Exc answers when:
PETROLEUM V. NAsBr.
Lait Faster Nv the Church Nv the Moo
Dispensashun.
The damsel who was accused Of break
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