Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1866-04-20
M3. aAssY PLEADS THE CAUSE 0F-k Fa,raD
CONFEDRIT X ROADS.
(Which is in the Stait NV KentuckvD
March 19 1Qf6

copy NV q TrtCtuIiy depraved A hlishn
paper, and my horror stricken eyes wu2
glued to the fOllerin passage, which /
read
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 10 trade that we never before
had. / have sold John Guttle's negroes
this year and last, more goods than I ever
sold GUtrle, and he owned two hundred
and fifty slaves. So you see the free ne
gro system is working we'll with us
EZ [ per0OZed them lines tears started
involuatarily from my beamin eyes. and
cOursed in torrents down my venerable
cheeks. L know John Cutie we'll
may say intimtly. He wuz "a dear friend
one NV lhe few which I call FREUD in the
most catholic and comprehensive sense
Nv that word He holds my note. for
eighteen dollars and 68 cents, and [ hev
9umwhere among my papers, Wich | hev
aliuz carefully preserved for reference,
/ a memorandum Nv his address, that i
might be shoor not to forget to send it to
him. ] give him the note becOz he furn-
isht the paper and it made him easy in
-his mind. put down the memorandum
becoz 1t looked busina slike Benevo-
fence Is prominent trait in my charac-
ter-when givin my note for bOrrared
ulbuEg WAL Ab 81 ltdu EBDAs a. never Dc
grudge the trouble nv writin it.
But wat | Waz agOin to say wuz, that
the fceudishnis of that item passes belief.
The writer puts it In print to show that
the Ablishn Nv slavery benefited sum-
body. grant him that the merchant,
who ondOubtedfuly wuz horn in Massa-
chussetts, waz benefited by the change,
so are the greasy mechanics who are now
pOllutin the sol NV Alabama, aud so
. J, Z.
/ name NV Liberty, In the name Nv Justice
in the nv the Constooshn us the oonited
States, and the Flag uV our Common
/ Country. ask HOW ABOUT JOHN GUT
/ TIE.
John Cutie is robbed-John Guttle
/ is deprived Nv his prOvertv, the bread is
/ taken from j John Guttle's mouth, his
staff is broken, his dependence is gone. he
is bereft.
Never shall I forget John Cutie, or
/ his hospital mansion ez / knowed it in
the happy years ai0re the croOel war.
/ one of the few left US in these degenerate
days His home wuz one NV unalloyed
/ happiness. Situated just back Nv Nobel
/ he had the finest plantashun in that sec
/ lion and had on it go niggers. All
shades wnz represented. There wuz the
coal black Cufice whose feechers denoted
/ The pure Afrikin, and whose awkward
/ manners showed that he Wuz not long
/ from Africa. There wuz the civilized
mulatto in whose veins the GUttle blood
! showed, the quardroOn in whom the good
old Cutie blood predOminated, aud the
! octOroon which wuz mostly Guttle. The
! Guttieses wuZ eminently a Christian gen
/ eratiOn-they wuZ devoutly piOus, and
J there never Wuz Wuu NV the name who
Good not repeat without the book all uV
/ the texts bearin on slavery. The ,passa-
/ ges in which Oneslmus and Hager fgger
WuZ taVOrites with EN-, but on cussid
/ be Canaan" they Wuz strong. For Rener-
\ ations they had mOurued over the hard
| fate Nv the sons Of Ham, doomed to per-
peto0al bondage becOz NV the sin NV
| their father, and with a missionary spirit
ekaled By few and exceled by none, they
1 lid their part towards TedoOsin that cUss
\ by maxim ez menny Nv EN- ez possible
/ half brothers to the more favored race
/ Nv Japheth, and thus bringin nv EN- out
NV the cuss and they he'd melered the
color Nv their charges down from the
/ hideOus black to the brite yeller. Under
I the old patriarEle system time passed oTf
/ smoothly and pleasantly with the Guttle
| family. Them 2jO nIggers wuz obliged
ny course to work, and their labor Wuz
meney. John bought each NV the
male sons Nv Ham two scots OV close per
auuuH, and each Nv the female sons NV
/ Ham one SCOT. It Wuz considered heal
I thy fOE the young ones to 90 naked,
which they Wuz relligiOusly allowed to
/ do, ez none uv the Guttle nv that family
I wood do anything agin mater or the laws.
/ The Girl he'd pianos and Wuz educated at
I the North, the boys Wuz celebrated for
/ hOrce racin and their skill atl0sin money
[ al faro. They WuZ hOspitable and gener-
rous to a fault Their house Wuz open
! house, and their beverages wuz always
/ the best. Money Wuz no 0bjict to them,
/ for when they had q severe attack NV
I poker or hoss racin. they he'd plenty NV
octoroons and quardroOns, with the real
/ Cutie nose. wich brand wuz well known
! in Moo Orleans, and wood aliuz command
the highest possible hgger that wuz paid
IN thar market; or, ef they he'd no more
( than they wanted at home nv that style,
/ shy o few field hands wood be sold aud
the remainin ones wood be persuaded by
the 0norseor to do the work NV che whole.
John GHtrles sons Wuz all in the Confed-
rit army bis daughters, Wiliin to sacri-
/ fee everything for the cause, heroically
( pledged themselves to whip the niggers
I theirselVes dOOFiH their absence.
! Now all this is change ,. A shadder hez
| fallen across that peaceful home The
nigger quarters Is there, but the niggers
is not TIE broad plantashun is divided
up into small farms, and half NV it Is
owned by Alishnsts from the north, who
house on one corner NV IL, and the mig
/ gers. q skool house on the tother. The
track is plOwed mp and lin cOtton-tbe
whippin post and the stocks is taken
down burned-all. all the evidences NV
/ civilization hez aded afOre the ruthless
{ hand nv the invader. John Cutie that
| generous old man. subsists BY the labor
Nv his own bands--0ne NV his sons ekes
out q miserable existence runnio a dray
in Nobel; another, who IS gifted with no
ordinary intellect earns a respectable liv-
( IN playin seven-Up in a small way with
his former uiggers; and two girls is a rum
nln a SEWN masLeeU- H.
/ Talk not to me NV benefits. What is
dozen tradesmen aud two bundled and
! Fifty niggers to gailoTiOus old Dimokratic
John Cutie Whot is the interests nv
dozen or so nv Nao England meohan-
+ les, and the uiggers aforesaid, when
compared To that glorious aristOcracy
I which kln never exist beside em Kin
( l go and borrer sighteen dollars and six
/ tv-three cents NV one uze them No.
I Beeoz workiR for their paitry Twins they
! place a higher vaiyeo OB money, and viii
cot spend it ez prOfooseiy ez the noble
race which preceded It,.
Another great wrong is done IN this
settin free uv John Guttles nigFers
j ohm Cutie hez of course no further in
| terest ia the Dimocratic party. Slavery
wuz the umbillikle cord which united the
Southern Slave holder and the Northern
( Dimocrat and that cord cut whv he's
J ohm Guttle any more interest in Dimoc-
racy We stood as Chinese wall be-
tween them and the rushin food of AbOl-