Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1866-07-13
NAsBY.

NASBY. sasa a.Ha (
Mr.. Nasby, Though not two Major Gener.
ais, Reports to the President on the
Workings OF the Frccdmcn's
Bureau.
From tho Toledo Blade. a
CoNrEDERArE RoAps, (whicho
is In the Stait NV KentuckyJ
#s#. rrsa .a mn May q, 1866,
To His Eggslency the Dispenser uv Post
Orifccs, Androo johnson, President
up the United States:
In akordance with your esteemed re-
quest, dated the 25th, and received this
l to wunst proceeded to make
doc enquiry ez to the workin NV the
Burow and the coadishun
NV the Afrikin citizens NV Amerikin
descent in this vicinity. The fact that
n Ablishinist still holds the Post Orifice
Mt the Corners (Which place by the wey
l hev bin solicited to accepp interfered
with the bizness had In
hand. / to wunst footed the horn ez Is
the custom when we hev religious servis
and called my congregashun together.
They kun runnin In from the different
groceries, and here another difiikulty
eusooo' AHo SioSeiy AeePeis W"h'ou
to know what we wuZ goin to hev mee-
tin on week days for? They wuz will
lin to shut up doorin meetin time on
Sundays, ez thay respected the church,
and II give em time to sweep out tho
terbacker, ct settcry, but they'd he id
eff they wuz goin to hev the people pull
led away from their nurisfment on
week days. / succeeded in passifyin
EN- and went in Mt wunst examinin the
leadin citizens. Their testimony Is ez
follers: ..a .#... .naE. .. .l#
CAPTAIN sKELpER a".
Wuz nigger owner nfOre the war, and
durin the late fratrisidle struggle was
captin in tho confedrit servis. WuZ
with General Forrest Mt Fort Pillow
Hes he'd much experience with niggers.
Bleeves en- to be adapted to the ciimit
NV kentucky and much more able to
stand the hot sun t, an the Whites
When they wuz slaves never knowd
EN- to refooze to work--know they alluz
did work becoz he generally stood over
en- with a nigger whip. Since thay
hev been free hez notist chpnge; not
much NV change, ontil the nigger Bu-
row was establisht. Before that they'd
take such wages ez yoo chose to give
em-since then the id heather will
stand out bout ez the white mob do,
and won't work at all onless yoo meet
their views, which made heap OF
trouble and materially retarded tho de.
velopment NV the country. The Burow
he'd corrupted the female niggers, ca
they had all bin legally married by the
Chaplins to the men they'd lived with
and was SO sot on livin with EN- thai
/ 4 tl,nr vol fYxvt IN IN ,rxt q
house wench onless 700 took her hus
band also. His wife was now doin de
gradin work at home for want NV help
Strongly urged the abrogashen NV tht
| Burow and the removal NV the Abolish
un Postmaster Mt the Corners.
DEACON MUGRATu.
Wuz eggsamined. Wuz convinst II
his own mind that the Afrikin WI;
now out of his normal speer, and tha
the internal Burow wuz at the bottom
NV it. The niger, afore the Burov
came around, wuz docile aud easy con
trolled. His boy Joe wuz onst mode
niger. He'd get up every mornin u
4 A. NJ, (which means In the mornin)
and work every day till after dark =
Ez soon ez he wuz emancipated, ez the.
called 1t, and the Burow come, ] tol,
him to get up one nlornin, and he toll
me impudentiy that he'd concluded h
woodent. undertook to chastisc hin
with ience-stake whereupon he saile
in and walled me, and the Burow I
which applied for redress larft in M
face. He left and is now dragging on
a miserable cxistauce in Ohio, on tn
beggarly pittance Of two dollars day
and my farm is running to weeds
He concluded by giving it ez his sol
emn opinion that he never Good be rec
oncilcd to the Government so long G
! the Burow wtlz tolerated, and that All
| Corners. --.. .. .-.. r..
| ..... GENERAL DINaES.
! Considered the Burow all inkubu
upon the State. Ii interfered betwee
master and servant. Good get alon
better eff the nigger wuz left to natera
laws which regulates capital and labor
Tried to keep his niggefs, and did kee
EN- the past summer til after the Gro
wuz in, and then tried to settle wit
EN- for four dollars n month, with sic
deductions for food, sickness and bral,
In tools, ct settry ez wuz just. Brough
the niggers all NV EN- in my debt, an
generously proposed to let en- work
out chopin cord wood doorin the win
ter. Hauled me up afore the Burow
and was forst to pay EN- each Sl5 pc
month. Consider the Burow ez all tina
stands in the way NV Reconstruction
though the removal NV the Abilishu
Postmaster at the Corners and the NJ
pointment Nv sound constitO0shnt
Dimekrat wood greatly assist in conci
latin the Kentucky mind.
tried to get some Niger testimon
but Good elicit nothin worth while. On
! niger who spends the heft NV his tim
at the Corners wuz opposed to the Blu
! ow becoz it stopt rations on him, an
!, Lucy, Octoroon, who formerly b'
, longed to and still resides with Eide
Gavett (who is now absent ez delegat
to a Southern Religious Convention ,
Louisville,) testified that the Bur0
".wuz no CRATE shakes" bccoz bein
the Elder wuz u widower and the faith.
NV all her children, and bein she's
free woman, she askt the agent 10 maxi
the Elder marry her, and he woOdn
do 1t. But such evidence Is irrelcvan
and didn't consider it worth whi
botherin your Eggslency with 1t. Botl
: however, strongly insisted on the r
moval OF the Abilishun Postmaster
} the Corners.
ABsLUM PETTUs.
Wuz convinst the Burow wuz agi
the prospect yuv the State and wuz vi
derminin the moral physiklc welfl
, NV the nigger, it made him impuden
| He'd sum Nv EN- workin for him, al
r notist Mt Moons and mites he'd find e
with spcllin book and reader. Didn
bleeve in readin. Coodn't read hisse
0 but had cousin wunst who learne
Z but ez soon eZ he Good read he NOV,
off to Injeanny, quit the Democris
and becum loathsum Ablishnist.
| Herd he was killed in the war, al
: served him rite. Wanted to kno
= what he wood do when the nigge
i Good all read Sposed wed hev to le
Q em to offs, ez the people alluz select
\ sich when they Good find EN-. Didn
: bleeve in Niger equality, and wuz
favor Nv q immediate change in Il
Postofis at the Corners.
g Captain McSlather thought thin
q he'd come to sweet pass, when mi
coOdn't latller a niger without be