Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1868-04-10

THE GOOD OLD TIMEs-How A PLANTATION
I MANAGED AFTER THE STYLE OF 1861
LOOKS IN 1868 MIR. MASSEY FINDS SUCH
AN ONE, AND REPORTS THEREON. :.
Posr OFFrs, CoNFEDRIT x ROADS, III
2ai Sl2tu8tS March 30, 1863 .
= On nv return from the ornery and
cussid State Nv Michigan, I fell into o
state Nv despondency from WITCH found it
difficult to recover The horrors Nv stayin
| in a community totelly unused to the ex-
| hilerasnun Nv the iowin bole, totellv inn
pervious to the soothin indooence Nv the
| foods WITCH we in Kentucky eggist onto,
| and where the Dimocrisy are In a hopelis
minority, made reason totter onto her
| throne and intelleck to reel in q highly
| Ridiculous manner. To dissipate the i'm,
preston, borrered Bascom's mule and
Deekin Pogram's saddle bags, and film
| the first with oats, and the latter with a
| loaf Nv bread and q gallon Nv whisky,
madly plunged OFF into the interior NV
| the State, thatI might in rooral sollto0oes
give full vent to the melancholy that OPP
/ Two days travel up the mountins brot
me to the most interiorest county Nv the
State. Remote from railroads, off NV the
stage lines, and not within several days
journey Nv the telegrahs, it wuz trooly a
Arcajen spot. Here wuz the log cabin in
its primitive simplicity-here wuz streems
onto witch there wuz no mills-here wuz
roads without no fences-here wuz women
without no hoops. 3.
! Ridin along, musin onto the quiet beauty
NV the landscape, I heered a swingin,
swishin sound whistlin thro the air.; a
dull heavy thud, and thenl oh joyl a
shrek / wuz in the wood, but there wuz
a cleerin beyond, and from that cleerin
the sound perceeded. ri
Putin spurs to my steed, or ruther, to
get down from the elegancies Nv descrip-
| tive writin to actooal fact, thumpin Bas1
CONS mule over the head with the club i
garfield soon emerged from the forest
and beheld a sceen wich made my heart
leep for joy. There wnz house Niger;
| QUARTERS whlppin.post-and Good
tied to, it and a vigorous old man Nv sixty,
with broad brimmed hat and a pious
look, layin it to him good .a91elG6b co.
| 7 Wuz L. awake or wuz / dreamini Is
| these reel or wuz the victim Nv some
pleasant hallucinasheni Dismountin, Il
rushed up to him and fell onto his neck.
"Now," sed in extacy, let thy ser
want depart in peece ~. ia
! Shakin me OFF and continyooin coolly
till he he'd reeched thirty lashes, the old
| gentleman babe two niggers standin
| by to unite him, take him to his quarters
and rub his delitefully lasseratea back with
salt and water, and turnin he exclaimed,
"who in blazes are yooYpa Isl q r'.f Y
/ 90 speek them words agin p ssd I,
strikin attitood, "Pveo bin in Michigan,
| and them words is music to me Pr act
| "Well-who In thunder are yoo?" .,,3.!
ga Dimoorat-a ante-war Dimocrat--
| witch owned niggers, (this wuz lie thrown
in for effeck) but they've bin taken from
me by a. crooei tyranny. To see 700, a
| troo Sutherner,, handlin Nv EN- in the troo
| Suthern style, quite onmas me, Speek
how hev 700 managed it 2" eaot.i y r 2'f3
Slowly rollin. over his quid in a quiet
and contemplative manner, he asked me
| to the house. On5athe PLAYER witch
fronted it, we sat down, and he told me
| these: ;Jib al al stsr.i -4aaAsf.fyft 4dt
His name wuz Rasper. He knowed NV
| the Emancipashen Proclamashen, but he
/ he'd kept it keerfully from his niggers, ez
he'd all the planters in the deestrik. De-
! termined that solely for the good NV the
/ helpless niggers one sekshun Nv Kentucky
/ honered institushens shood be maintained
at least in one place, he he'd held EN- all
jim the same condishen ez before theewar.
! The Majors for ten miles square he'd organ
lied q league, and he'd swore a sollem oath
to keep their, niggers likewise Ito shoot at
| sight all NV EN- WITCH attempted to run
away or even to communicate with other
| niggers, and that by DRAWN Gordon, as it
| wuz, around EN-, they he'd been kept in a
| state NV tollable subjeckshen.. 1t cost EN-
| ten or. fifteen times ez much to keep EN- ez
the niggers made, but wat Nv that? Ken
lucky wood never give UP her niggers or
her Democrisy, and in one spot, seklooded
tho it wuz, they were determined to hev
troo sample Nv both. 'it '9 1'.'+2'.ii : y
I, at this pint the son NV my host rode
up onto gray geldin from another plan
tashen wich the old man owned six miles
away 10 gr,94 3sf gdf-esai~ .siaa,f4t z
"Hal John" sed my. venerable friend,
chow is things over the Run?" 5z,fs BIC
ALPS well, dad" sed he. ~ gg,.1
u Hez Joolius got sufficiently over bein.
chawd by the dorgs to do his regler work ?"
lg Z" I thot so. He played OFF little while
this mornin; but we GATED him till he wuz
willin to give up his obstinacy and go at it.
He's done his average" i.2...l2 PISS 'A4h
Be- Hez Ceezer got well of that charge Nv
buckshot Pin e;a1 T59 9ai bee eg5da
h " Ceezer, no he died. He tux cold in
the leg and it mortified" aei adt ~ qs5aat
Jest my luck :, He wus the best hand
he'd on the place. O my friend observe
the effeck in a hasty temper He civ me
too much Nv his lip, put charge Nv
shot into him, and now he amt wuth the
powder that druv the shot, Oh, how hev
wrastled with that ungovernable temper
Nv mine Hez that stranger up the run
bin looked after ?"A asD g fit'9ai e. 3Sfl
SIS" Yes. Me and Tim Duggins spected
him Nv bein q emissery ,ez he took anoose-.
paper and his wife he'd been seen combini
her hair and we inquisited him. He took
the Moo York Iribooa, and party NV US
gave him ten minits to git out. Ez he
didn't git out we shot him. His family is
still on the place, but they will probably
leeve soon, ez we shell burn the cabin down
to-morrer."
80 How is Kitty2" a
-" / coodn'f do much with her. Sence
her baby wuz born she hez never bin with
much, and to get shet Nv her, traded her
off to Simpson, on the East Branch, for a
bay mare Nv hiZzen and bull pup. He
stumped me to play seven-up, best three in
five, for the LOT, and lost. The baby hez
strong, healthy look, and give lit over to
big Lie to bring up By hand. Simpson
sold Kitty to Ambrose, OF on the West
Branch, and she wuz carried over ther
yesterday" 9 .atsE 81 "
"Well, come in. Its well nigh mite.
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