The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1867-02-20

town In Obtaining Possession OF His
PrOperty---HOW they Ctrcumvented
Four White women and so Niger
Babies.
PosT OFFS, CoNFEDRIT x ROADS,
. (Which is in the Stait nv Kentucky,)
February =, 1867.
hev jist returned from campaign
wich hez proved eminenuy successful,
and for my services in witch, eff / he'd
my just doose, His Eggslency, the
President, wood raise the salary nv the
otis wich now hold. The circum-
stances is suthin like these:
Their WIZ in Washinton a young
gentleman Nv the old skool, whose
name his innate modesty forbids me to
menshun. It wuz his modesty, his re-
trim disposition wich :procoord fur me
the proud distinkShun NV assistin at
the biznis. Ez he remarked to me when
arrived in Washinton in response to
his invitation, "Nasby, I've a id
mean thing to do and .I'm Virginian.
must hev Northern Democrat to
take the heft ont OFF my shoulders.
They've alluz done it and they'r used to
ii. This friend, for sich am proud to
call him, wuz originally clerk in the
PaymaSter's Department under the
Sainted BOokanan, and he held on, for
reasons Nv his own, under the gorilla
Linkin, ontil the proper time arrived,
when he throwd OF all disgise and flew
to Lee at Richmond and served the bal
ance NV the war ez major onto his staff.
My friend he'd farm near Washinton,
wich, OWN to the facilities for money
maxim under the rain of Bookanan, he
he'd saved out NV two years salary.
This property the Linkin government,
with the disgusItn coopidity carakter-
lstlc Nv EN-, declared abandoned, becoz
a unconstooshnelly raised army wus
between it and its owner; and seezed
it for. Government yoose and 10 add
insult to injury turned it over to a par
Gel NV wimiD, mostly the wives NV
Senators NV the unconstoochnel Con-
gress, who he'd organized therselves in
TO n AsSoSlaShun to reverse the DEGREES
of nacher, and eddicate the materially
degraded children Nv the accused sons
OF Ham, wich is and must be alluz ser
vance unto ther brethren. Senator
Trumbull's wife and the wife of that
hory-heded skotfer at our instooshuns,
Ben Wade, wuz the leadin sperits NV
this impious movement, and they he'd
abslootly gathered together suthin like
50 ortans, eZ they calld EN-, NV niggers
who died at Arlinton Hites, and put
EN- onto the farm Nv, my friend, and
employed teachers and Sich, and wus
actilly tryin to ram learnin into elm
Wuz ther ever sich nonsense? Learnin
for niggers How many Democrats is
ther who hev good appetites without a
particle NV it? Time rolled on, Ia biz
mis- Time hez follered with distinguish
ed success for a great many years, J and
the war ended. The stars and bars
went down, and our COZ wuz lost coz.
My friend surrendered with Lee, and
cum back to Washinton. He wus
reconstructed, and wuz in an
gelik and lam-like temper. He
he'd failed, but he forgive them
ez he'd bin the coz NV his failyOor. He
cherished no hard feelins agin anybody,
he wuz in Washinton on the mite NV
the I'D NV Febrooary, 1866, and wuz
the loudest applauder NV the Presi-
dents speech. The next morniu he
went to the President ''Let us" sez
he bury the hatchet. Let the era of
good teelin be usherd in. 1 wuz a
Confedrit- 1 am yit, but we failed. 1
am willin to be pacificated. Let by
cones be by-gones. / forgive yoo.-
Give me back my position in the PAY
masters Department wich l used to
hold, and let things be normal agin.''
PRESIDENT johnson graspt his hands
and burst into teers. He Good not give
him back his posishen becoz, and he
wept, becoz it wuz SO, it was okkepied
by Northern supporter Nv his policy
winch he'd just returned from q pro-
traktid residence in Kanady. "Wash-
inton," sed Johnson, sis the true gold
en- mean. Here extremes meet. hev
oAPECAN NCAS WIZ W AIT OulSlS lnG
extreme North and the extreme South.
Wood, oh wood could git em from the
middle. Is ther anything else kin do
for yoo." = -.-.----- II
"Sothin," sed he, .tnothin," and he
turnd sadly away
Time cOntinyood to role. Recon-
strucShen by means NV consilliashen
wuz Progressin. President ] ohnson wuz
pardnin the supporters Nv the lost coz,
and wher that woodent consulate he
wuz givin back ther confistikated
property, and 'casionally, in extreme
cases, umboddy else's. My friend herd
NV this and come up from Richmond.
Sed he to Johnson:
My property" sed this friend NV
mine, who wuz reconstrucktid, sis in
the hands nv a Association nv wimmin,
who permit its sacred soil to be contain
mated by free nigger babies. There is
so or a 100 Nv em, from the tender pick
aniny who hez jest entered the vale Nv
teers, up to the girl ny Il, who in two
years more, wood, eff things was nor
NAL, be old enuf for market. Good
hey that property agin, l."
fYoo shell" sed Johnson, "you shell.
Here is a pardon, and here is a order
for the restorashen NV your property.
Shel so or a 100 niggers stan in the way
nv reconslliatin a erin brother? Hea-
ven forbid" And my friend went out
with lite hart. .-,.. II .'-'-,t
But alas he wuZ sumwat tronbled to
git possession, so he sent for me, and
come. Their was difficulties in our path.
The wimmin he'd possession NV the
place and wood not go. They wuz OBJ
stinet. They KEEP the doors locked, but
wuZ excl to the emergency. Gettin
in n stable 1 hollered ''tireE NY friend
wuZ at the door, and when the affrited
teechers, not comprehendin strategy,
rushed out, he slipt in, and dared em to
assault him. immejitly jined him,
and possession wuz sekoored.
Still they refused to vacate, but my
friend displayed CRATE presence NV
mind.
ITS coldr' sed he.
"You betl" sez 1. -.
"Dost think ef we shood take the
winders out and the doors orr their him
ges, that these wimmin wood care about
stayin, with the mercury in the ther-
mometer cokettin with ZerO.U .-.s- -.a..
my dear sir - sed 1, struck with the
boldnis Nv the concepshen, Nyoo he'd a
nasty job on hand, but RELY wat need
he'd VOC for me ~ - -
"Grate need. The very presence nv a
Northern DimOcrat inspires me- But,
to bisnis." ,- 81. 80.
And We did it, and shoor enuff, the
wimen after stickin it out two nites,-
moved ther traps and the niger child
ern TO quarters peryided for em by that
man NV Belief, General Howard, and
We he'd won. The property wuz ourn,
and another step wuz taken in the crate
work nv consultation.
But my friend Tuz not satisfied. He
remembered that for months his
property he'd bin defiIed by the pres
e0Oe nv these uiopars tboT I,iu Ilnnsa