Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1867-08-07
Interesting Letter from freeman TO
his Old Master.
RAYMOND PLANTATION FLORIDA,
nj Il ri.Ia

RAYMOND PLANTATION FLORIDA,
Pilatka, Florida.
Nv Non Kind and Fo.tering Mater: 1t is
with diihdcnce that bring myself to your notice,
to ask few short moments Of your time to hear
from and talk with your boy Henry. Master, it
produces very pleasing sensation to feel that l
am speaking with you again MS of old; and J.
assure you it is one of tho pleasures OF my lie
tocarry my thoughts back to the home OF my
childhood and youth, and to the days, to me the
happisst ever knew, or ever will know again. L
knew not What it MAS to want for tho least that
it was not granted me. Food, clothes, fruit, fan'
frolic, JOY and gayety, all were mine; and the
switch, with good strong hand to use it, (and 1t
never came too oflen,) for to it and your own
good judgment, am indebted for what good
there is in me. + fear mono of those good old
days aro by the wayaide for me,-gone, forever
gone!
They tell mo am FREQ Yes, Sir, am free to
work as hard as any negro on your plantation
over did and my psy (and I am in County
where labor brings the very highest price, leaves
mt not as much money in my pocket as your ne
procs used to carry in theirs. And have the
pleasant, or should say unpleasant rejection to
bring to my mind that if nm s'ck' your kind
and protecting hand is not by me, with your
money, doctor and medicine, to relieve me; and
in my old days mono to lay nc away In masters
grave yard. But this is the fruits of freedom.
sunpose am to eat it with or against mywill.
know many poor negro is suffering for tic help
Of master, hand.
Master, want to tell you where l am and
what am doing. I am away down in DIX
in q land they call Florida; where the cot'n
crows out of reach, and fruits beautifully; COZ
grows we'll, but not equal to the best land' o.
Georgia and South Carolina. Sugar cane grows
to perfection rye and Data very we'll. Sweet po-
tatoes. casayn, compta and arrow root, plants
that grow like potatoes, and nro used Tor oreao
By tho Indians, and now by all classes, are indi-
c.nous tn the soil. Lemons, LINES, tamarlnos
oranges eua-.., pine apples, bananas, anu oil
trotic..l fruits, grow almost spontaneously; many
of thcrn in wild groves. The oranges gro" ik'
the oak forrest of Carolina. Innumoraole flsn'-
red bass, drum, founder, trout, pike, jack muo
brim, all varieties, sizes, shapes and coiorS, 'na
any other waters Hoat, are found hero Decr
turkeys, partridgcs, bears, panthers, WHO 'a's
and some wild Indians sre lett in the Everglades
Cattle roam over the pine woods and prairies iih'
the locusts of Egypt; some stock owners owning
as many as $4,000 head.
Is
The plantation ! nm on is said to DO ono Oh 'n
best in Florida. I assure you, Sir, it is ono
the finest ever SAW. have every prospect
helping to gather very largo crop OF cotton
corn, &c.
Master, please toll me how uncle George aun
Lucy Maria and Georgiann, aunt Elscy, unci
Jake, my sister Maria, and Stephen and Elvir
are Gcorgianas husband (Griifn) is in Middi
Florida. Also, please tell me how uncle Steve
is, and all my acquaintanoss.
Master, please remember me to old mistr0''.
Young nistross, master Jim, and mistress Julia.
I am, master, yaur Obedcnt and dutiful se'
want. HENRY MORSE.
To Col. VIZ. H. Moss, EdgcGsll, 8. O.