Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1867-09-08
THE aims We LIVE Will.

From the Cincinnati Gazette.
q will never have another colored SER
want in my house, never pisaid Mrs. Cook,
most emphatically. / always detested
slavery-that was natural 10 me-and re-
ioioe in emancipation, but | am in favor Of
colonization from this time on"
What is the matter nowp asked her
friend, Miss Brown. Gust this. ] have
had enough Of freed aoomeH. There is no
suiting them. OF all the girls l have ever
lived with, they are the most difficult to
please If they have been petted family
servants, they have a love Of ease and dis
play, which units them for any style Of
living in the North and, infected with the
arrogance Of their late masters they de-
spise the economies of the rich and the
poverty of the laboring classes, Work,
work, all the time work y they grumble,
"and never a gold dollar or silk dress
given u.s."
'Tv MT njoyed myself so" said one of
them, preparing dinner for a large party,
"sinoe / was in old Kaintuck. Thar we'd
dinner parties most every day"
To handle the rich china and plate was
a positive pleasure TO her. This is the
spirit of favored freedwomen and the most
abused field hands, who are worse than the
children Of Israel, for they are out Of the
wilderness, and yet sigh for the feshpots of
Egypt-they never had. Their only idea
Of heaven is power, and il they were in
Africa they would prove il by having ma
tive slaves at once. The question is, How
many generations will il take to educate
them up to the standard of selfgovern-
ment 2 Freedom is their right, and am
i. r. III IL 4
privileges, but with reservation, 50 far as
my girl Phillis is concerned. She was a
good worker-washed, ironed and cooked
well-but she had disagreeable habit of
bringing up "What her former mistress had
done, and she did not have particle Of
respect for my husband, as a military
man"
Him Co'nel in the army, he he he
Ought 70 see Miss Harriet's Co'nel him
oeniCiRs lire Co'Hel two body servants, XII .
kip
But these impertinencies (which were
generally in an audible aside 20 the cat) I
could have borne, had l not gone into the
kitchen one day and found her leaning
over the stove curling her locks with the
steel In ten minutes more she would
have been waiting on the table OF course
l discharged her, and she delivered herself
Of a last remark to me, instead Of the
cat:
" Mss Harriet never 'hUdsd hersep into
the kitchen, XII p
tried a mulstto girl next, whose hair
was sfraiqht. She informed me that she
never did nothing Bat cook in the South
and she did cook splendidly, but il took all
of her time. Unable 10 de the other work
myself, thought would take her in hand
and give her the benefit Of my system
of housekeeping. The poor thing got com
pletelv bewildered she turned round and
round, and accomplished nothing excepting
to break things generally.
"You doesn't suit me 10 live with, she
said at length &" / must have my swing"
"Let her swing, Mary, said my husband,
who had been an amused spectator Of the
scene.
Accordingly we beat hasiy retreat from
the kitchen, followed by such word missiles
as these Bless the Lord, cold bloods
spects cook 10 be house gal-sculluOa-cook
all in one-groOm the horse next - this
last was a fling at Mr.. Cook, who took care
Of his horse himself l looked hack and
saw her balancing stick Of wood over her
head with one hand, while she patted
siuba" with the other, singing in a low.
sweet voice plantation melody, her feet
shutting, and her body swaying to and fro.
with a rocking kind Of motion. This mood
took her every Eve minutes, as she was
peeling the potatoes, and il was mystery
to me how, at the proper time, dinner came
tn the table, smoking hot, and savory "a
the taste. Husband enjoyed her cooking
vastly, and II be had been Jay Cooke, in
stead of ex-Col Cook, with q small salary
l should have kept Der. AZ it was, ah'
showed 80 much real distress 81 she wen
away, that have asked myself since II
did my whole duty BY her. l know molhe
spent the greater part Of her life trainini
raw recruits from the old country, and thi
poor Creature was Just AZ new 30 our Ways
am paying the penalty, at any rate, 70
no white girl win live with me since havl
employed colored ones. I try in vain q
conceal the fact they answer. invariably
81 won't sleep AFTER niger
At this point in her story the door opened
and there stood the freedWoman a bundl
on her head, q smile on her lips. and IN
great tears rolling down her cheeks.