Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1867-12-06

ana whose necessities KEPT MIN ElEGu
/ on the subject Of slavery not to men
I ton the influence Of the new and nat
teTing sensation of having saddle
horse to ride, and a servant to wait up
on him. This however, was not always
the case. once knew an intensely
conservative Yankee teacher, near An.
gusta, Georgia, who saw that was
struck by the shortn6ss of his hair and
the fact that he always wore gloves
Taking me aside one day, he told me
confdentiaIly that he had recently been
'se0nVertedn in the PiCkens District
South Car0lina-that tar stuck closer
than his principles.
One Of these planters who had also
been 8 slaye-tFader, when asked if he
nRntly replied, mo, sir, I'm gentle
man. In n1y daV I've owned a thou
sand different nigEers- = New Or
leans merchant having occasion to
write to one Of th6m ia the ttup coun-
Try" for information, enclosed q three
cent stamp for the answer. The plant
er replied and in a postscript thanked
his correspondent for that little pic
tUre Of Washington.H q famous hotel
keeper IN Jackson, Miss, used to 'Seall
OF, at the head Of the dinner table, the
names Of the dishes in the place Of a
printed Dill of fare. WAen asked why
he did so, he replied that formerly q
great many members Of the Legislatur0
had boarded with him, a1d as but few
Of them could read, he had from neces-
sity introduced the fashion, and after
ward kept It up as a mater of habit
At crowded hotel IN Mississippi, II once
saw two of these planters almost fight
over sleeping together, one of them
swearing that he would. the Other. pro
testing with equal "cussin' +" that he
should not. just as they were getting
out their revOlvers, the quarrel was
suddenly ended by one of them acci-
dentaIlY saying that he was q feTexau
Ranger" and knew how to use irons
The other was a backslidden Baptist
minister, who had not yet acquired a
liking for the smell Of uunpoWder. A
storekeeper a few miles from Mobile,
was sued for an account which, it ap-
peared in the evidence, he had sent the
money to pay, but which the dishonest
agent had failed to deliver. The Jury
brought in the verdict, 1--WE agree, Mr..
k---donyt owe nobody nothing a
sweeping o5iteg dictlknB, relieving him
not only from the debt in question, but
from all other peeuniary obligations.
A legal gentleman Of my acQuain-
tanoe in New Orleans, travelling in the
backwOOds of Louisiana, was Obliged
to put up at one of the Wretehed tav-
erns. Being a man Of very fastidious
habits, when making his toilet at the
common ffboWl and toWe1'' IN the bar
room, he used some highly-perfume
soap from his travelling bag. The
landlord happening to come in and wash
a few minutes afterWard, detected the
delicate perfume as be wiped on the
same piece Of cloth, and snuf1ng q few
times in order to make sure as to its
origin, 1nd1gnatly called up the black
woman and gave her a Jogging
for using the public towel ssWheu they
had company"
During the Summer Of 1866 / visited
the old city Of 0pelousas in tbs Parish Of
st. Landry, In many respects the finest
agricultural portion Of Louisiana
The Freedman's Bureau agent at Opel
Ousas informed me that in two hundred
and fifty contracts ont Of about six
hundred approved by him between
planters and freedmen, the former were
unable to sign their nRma except by
mark. A short time preVions to my
arrival, a very respectable young lady
had been sent up from New Orleans 10
teach the freedman's school, and was
boarding at the hotel where I stopped.
The proprietor Of the hoRse, q loyal lady
was promptly waited upon by the chief
ladies of the city and urHed To send
away this Objectionable person if she
wished to keep her own place in society.
Many freedmen and loyal whites had
been foully murdered in this parish
riding oyer the magnificent prairie of
Opelousas, I saw people, many miles
from the steamboat landing, hauling
hay which had been shipped ali the way
from Maine to New Orleans, purchased
there at fOTty-fiVe dollars per ton, and
then transported between three and
four hundred miles, when an enter
prising Yankee, with the aid of NOW
er, hOrse-rake and patent fork, could
have made money by curing hay any
where on the prairie at five dollars per
ton. / have repeatedly seen planters
make hay by having their freedmen
Chop Off the grass with hoes and gather
it intheir arms. And when Isaid to them
that in the North we not only. sow the
seed, but cut, spread, rake, load and
unload hay with machinery, and tread
it down in the NOW with a horse, the
statement was laughed at as incredible,
The cotton gin is, in fact, the only real
lY modern implement adopted by the
cotton planters. With that. exception,
they have preferred the brute labor OF
barbarism. just as the old Webster's
spelling-book, which went out of date
in the Northern schools forty years ago
is st i'll the fay0rite spelling-bOok in the
South, so the implements, tools, pro-
cesses of agriculture, manners of life,
habits of thought, prejudices and pro
vincial hatreds of the people, remain
very much as they were half a century
ago.
i once stepped eff the train at some
fCOnfedrit Cross-ROads'' in West Ten
nessee, for dinner, and on returning
found my seat occupied by a stalwari
backwOOdsman, entirely at ease, his
feet projecting from the car window
To my suggestion that a person Occu-
pying so much space, should charter 9
Mississippi steamboat, he replied with
the nOnchalance of a Morse god stI've
-re% f,-s -=wrr
The Southern planter had the same
idea of political economy. Napoleon
said that 'tpOlitical economy would
grind France to atoms though she were
adamant," but the average SOuthernel
| regarded its laws with cOntem Dt, anC
scoffed at the idea Of so great country
being subject to them. The planter
whether he made ten bales of cotton o.
a thousand, could never realize that tht
1 hay crop of the North was worth more
I than all the cotton, sugar and rice pro
duced in the South. The colton ap
/ peared in foreign exchanges, q c hay
/ did not. That was a satisfactory reason
/ Although it actually cost the planter
/ five thousand five hundred dollars Il
raise a crop of cotton, which, finally
t brought him but i've Thousand dollars
/ he was very apt to boast Of an incOmt
/ Of the latter amount-at least the re
sult was not misery" as in Micaw
/ Der 3 case SO AoBE ds any ldCbOE- GOuIl
/ be found willing to make him a new
/ loan, and take fresh mortgage on hi
plantation and negroes Though th
I five thousand five hundred dollars hai
I really been advanced by Northern cap
! italists before a seed was put into ti1
/ ground, the planter was always read
/ TO swear, at the end of the year, Uha
4 the North had been enriched and tn
South impoverished 10 the amount o
five thousand dollars, for tie sinp
reason that bis crop Of cotton, in obedi
ence to the laws of II ade, then found il
way to the New York market. To rails
a crop Of cotton, the first step usual.
was not to buy the land, 10 procur
mules and negroes, to plough tn
ground, but to come down 10 New Or
leans, and, by mortgaging the comin
crop, or the plantation and negrof
borrow the money wherewith to do on
or all of these thiBgm,
When you sit upon stone some laz
afternoon in the country, listening {
the chirp of a cricket and the subdue
hum of insects in the air, everythin
seems quiet and beautiful and the sense
are sOOthed into harmony with the re