Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1866-05-10
Mr.. Nasty Pleads the Cause of
n Friend.
CoNFEDRIT X ROADS, (wich
Is 10 the Stsit uvlKentucky,)
Maroh 10 I2G6

] IehtTuhy nappeueu 10 PICK up COPY
Nv ffiteiulIy deprsved Ablisbin paper,
and my horror stricken eyes wuz glued 10
the fullerin passage, wich read
am happy. to state to you that our free
negroes are doing finely. We have no
work manfuly. They give an impetus to
trade that we never before had. / have
sold John Gnttle's negroes, his year and last,
more goods than ever sold Cutie, and be
1 owned two hundred and fifty slaves. So you
see the tree negro system is working well
with us.
Ez peroozed them lines tears started in
| voluntarily from my beamin eyes, and
ceursed in torrents down my venerable
cheeks know John Cutie well, may
say intimately. He wuz dear friend, one
of the few wich call friend in the most
catholic and comprehensive sense Nv that
word. He holds my note for eighteen dol
! lars and 63 cents. and | hev sumwhsre
among my papers, wich hev alluz care
! fully preserved for reference, a memoran.
DUN Nv his address, that might oe shoor
not to forget to send it to him. / give him
the note becoz he furnisht the paper, and it
made him easy in his mind | put down
the memorandum becoz it looked business
like. Benevolence is prominent trait in
my character-when givin my note for bor-
rered money will do man good never be-
grudged the trouble NV writin it.
| But what wuz agoin to say wuz, that
the feendishnis NV that item passes belief
The writer puts it in print to show that the
Ablishn Nv slavery benefited sumbody.
grant that the merchant, who undoubtedly
wuz born in Massachusetts, wuz benefited
by the change, so are the greasy mechanics
who are now pollutin the soil NV Alabama.
and so probably are the $50 niggers, but in
the name NV Liberty. in the name Nv the
Constooshuu Nv the Yoonited States, and the
Flag NV our Common Country, | ask HOW
ABOUT JOHN GUTTLE.
John Cutie is robbed-John Cutie is
deprived Nv his property, the bread is taken
from John Guttle's mouth, his dependence
is gone, he is bereft.
Never shall forget John Cutie, or his
hospitable mansion ez knnwed it in the
happy years afore the crooel war. He vuz
gentleman NV the old skool-one Nv the
lew left US in these degenerate days. His
home wuz wan Nv unsloyed happiness. -
Situated just back Of Nobel, be had the
finest plantashun in that section, and he'd
on it $50 niggers All shades wuz repre-
sented. There wuz the coal black Cutfee
whose feechers denoted the pure Afrikn.
and whose awkward manners showed that
I've wuz not long from Afrika. There wuz
the civilized mulatto in whose veins the
whom the good old Cutie blood predomi
mated, and the octroon which wuz mostly
Cutie. The Guttleses wuz cminently a
Christian generatien-they wuz devoutly
pieus, and there never wuz wun NV the
name who Good not repeat without the book
all Nv the texts bearing on slavery. The
| passages in which Onesimus and Hagar
! 6eger WIZ favorites with EN-. but on 'cussid
be Canaan" they wuz strong. For genera
tions they had mourned over the hard fate
NV the sons Nv Ham, doomed to perpetooal
bondage becoz Nv the sin Nv their father,
and with missionary spirit ekalsd by few
and excelled by none, they did their part
towards redoosin that cuss by maxim ez
menny Nv EN- as possible half brothers to
the more favored race NV Japeth, 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 brte yel-
ler Under the old patriarkle system time
passed orf smoothly and pleasantly with tn e
Guttle family. Them $50 niggers wuz oblig-
ed Nv course to work. and their labor wuz
money. John bought each Nv the male sons
Nv Ham two SCOTS Nv close per annuin, and
each nv the female sons Nv Ham one SCOT.
1t wus considered healthy for the young
ones to 90 naked, wich they wuz religiously
allowed to do ez none Nv the Guttles Nv that
family wood do anything agin mater or her
laws The girls he'd pianos, and wuz edu
Gated at the North. the boys wuz celebrated
at horse racin and their skill at loosin money
at faro They wuz hospitable and gener-
Gus to fault. Their house wuz open house,
and their beverages wuz alluz the best
Money wuz no object to them, for when
they had severe attack Nv poker or faro or
hoss racin; had plenty Nv octroons and quad.
rooms. with the real Cutie nose. wich brand
wuz we'll known in Moo Orleans, and wood
alluz command the highest possible fGeer
that wuz paid in that market; or, if they
had no more than they wanted ut home Nv
that stvle, why few field hands would be
sold. and the remanin ones wood be per
suaded by the overseer to do the work Nv
the whole. John Guttle's son wuz in the
Confedrit army; his. daughters .willin to
sacrifice everything fur the cause, heroically
pledged themselves to whip the niggers
themselves doorin their absense.
Now all is changed. A shadder hez fal-
len across that peaceful home The niger
/
The broad plantashun is divided up into
SIN II farms, and half Wv it is owned by Aho
lishnsts from the North who work them
selves, and who hev a meetin house on one
corner NV it, aud the niegers skonl house
on the tother, The race track is plowed up
and in cotton-the whippin post and the
stocks is taken down and burHed-all, oil
the evidences NV civiizashun hez faded afora
the ruthless hand Nv the invader John
Gutte that generous old man, suhsists by
the labor Nv his own handsome Nv his sons
ekes out miserable existence runnin dray
in Mobeel; another, who is gifted with nc
ordinary intelleck earns Respectable liyiH
playin seven-up in a small way with his for
mer ngger,, and the two girls is ruunin a
sewin masheen. ....
Talk not to me Nv benefits. What is a
dozen tradesmen and two hundred and fifty
siggers to gellorious old Dimokratic John
Cutie? What is the interest Nv dozen
or 50 NV Moo England mechanics, and the
niggers aforesaid, when compared to that
glorious aristecracy wich kin never exist be-
side EN-? Kin go and borrer eighteen
dollars and sixty-three cents NV enc Nv themi
No. Becoz workin for their paltry Twins
they place q higher valyoo on money, and
will not spread it around ez proioosey a,
the noble race wich preceded EN-.