Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1867-12-19

lnenSG maxim OlIerS tof the lanQ, Il
patches NV from ten to fifty akerf
and crooel necessity compelled m
to acceptit. The money | reserve,
| wuz compelled to live on, unit
lmy paternal akers was redoost to
scant hundred The produx NV
hundred allers wood support me
but it won't perdoose / hev NJ
labor-where kin git the labor 2
"Yes," exclaimed all NV the doz
en- young men, rollin over onto
tother elbow, "Guttle's case is oul
own. We all hev land, but where's
the labor"
was about to commiserate en-
when the bar keeper struck in. HI
wood sejest, he remarkt, that posi-
Ibly under the circumstances, it WOOD
be better if instid NV layin on thel
elbows, askin "wher's the labor p
they shood go and do a little of il
themselves. Troo, if they shood
do it, he woodent see ez much Nv
EN-, but they wood be able to pay
suthin for the ikker they con-
soomed.
John Cutie and ! wended our
way to the Hall intu wich the Con
venshun was a sittin. In the Hall
wat a site On the rite wuz a Mig
ger on the floor and maxim speech ;
on the left wuz a nigger Of majes-
tic presence, with his feet cockt up
ontu the desk in frunt NV him, alb
solootly readin a newspaper, and
another was just a comm in towards
his seat pickin his teeth with ez
much composure ez tho he he'd new
er did anything in his life but be
member Of constooshnel conven-
shuns. All about the hall in varius
attitoods sot niggers NV varius
shades, and all NV EN- well drest,
self pOssest, and without a particle
NV that healthy hoomility wich the
race alluz displayed when in the
presence Nv ther sooperiors.
"Good Godw sed to Cutie,
after l had recovered from my as
tonishment, sam awake, or am
dreamin ? Tell me, please, who are
these niggers
"Dost see thatnearly white nigger
on the floor offerin a resolution ?"
5ed Cutie, hoarse with emoshun.
The niger is my property. His
mother wuz sold to Orleans twenty
years ago on account NV a resem-
Olance wich my mother fancicd she
saw in him to my lamented father.
| KEEP him ez my servant, and the
1aller cuss somehow learned to
'ead. He owns a part NV a place |
he old man he'd in the north part
" the State. That one to the rite,
Who is bizzy writin, is another one
" mine, a blacksmith, wich the
I'D man bot on purpus to do his
epairin, coz the white blacksmith |
vich wuz located near us cost too |
much. He wuz cheap at $4,000,
'oz NV his bein a sooperiOr work
nan, and | am told the incapable
,ein hez a shop now NV his own,
nd hez a pile NV money in the
savings Bank, while I, his material
ooperior, hev to depend onto the
hance liberality NV a comparative
tranger, like yoo, for the very
rink wich / am now parched for
rant Nv"
And the unfortnit young man
usted intoo teers, wich we went
ut and assuaged. Returnin, he
esoomed:
"That mulatto on the left, by the
Ouble winder is a carpenter, and
unst my property. He bot nv me
fly akers of land for a mere song, t
nd when delegates wuz to be elect !
to this yere Convention, he run |
gin me, and beat me four to one, |
le ongrateful niggers wich we he'd {
orked all our lives absolootly pre- s
rrin him to me to legislate for EN-"
I'd he bustid into teers again. P
Findin the excitement was too P
eat for him, l gently led him out t,
: the hall. Il
"Wat," said 1, sis to be the end 0
, all this ?"
"God only knows" sed he, 81 Il
mt. There is nothin but room a
ead, and on each side NV u.s. c,
lese niggers and the crazy whites r.
league with EN-, hev now sole CT
ntrol Nv Alabama, and they are ii
nshin down the spectacle old C;
,rriers wich KEEP the races in their
ace. They are passin all sorts NV ct
dinances pervidin for skools do
ey have given themselves the bal b,
and have disfranchised us who p'
rved the Confederacy, so that the G
wer will be theirs for all time to in
me. The result is already fore sc
adered in wat they hev DONE
1T near my place, just west of Mo ST
Ell, they hev village and skool O
use in wich they are taught reed Il
ritin, arithmetic and all sorts NV
by a niger skoolman
ch is sent by the Freedman's a
in the North. They Sc
'ooze to work for any NV us, on ce
8 we pay in advance, and conse- ue
ntly, ez we can't git labor, our
ms is runnin to weeds. And to br
Ike matters wus, the Convenshun
a maxim labor a lien upon the bn
'ps, and so hamprin us that it Pi
es seem to me that they intend to nj,
thrifty room us. They are es-