The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1868-04-23
From the Toledo Blade.
Nasty.

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PosT OFFIs CoNFEDRrT X ROADS, !
witch is in the Stait NV Kentucky,
March 30, 1868.
On my return from the ornery and
cussid State Nv Michigan, fell into a
state Nv dependency from which l
found it difficult to recover. The hOr-
rors of stayin in community totally
unused to the exhiliration Nv the Aow-
ing bole, tOtelly impervious to the
soOthin infOOence NV the foods wich
we in Kentucky eggsist onto, and
where the Dimocrisy are in a hopelis
minority, made reason tOtter onto her
thrown, and intellect to reel in a high
| ly ridiculous manner. To dissipate
the impression, l bOrrered Bascom's
mule and Deekin Pograms saddle
bags, and tillin the first with oats, and
the latter with loaf of bread and a
gallon Nv whiskey, madly plunged
Orf into the interior of the State, that
/ | mite in rooral solitudes give full vent
to the melancholy that opprest me.
Two days travel up the mountains
brot me TO the most interiorest coun-
ty Nv the State. Remote from rail-
roads, off Nv the stage lines, and not
within several days journey. NV tele-
gratis, it wuz troOIy a Acajen spot.
| Here wuz the log cabin in its primi-
tive simplicity-here wuz streams
onto wich there Wuz no mills-here
wuz roads without no fences-here
wuz women without no hoops.
| Ridin along, musin onto the quiet
beauty Nv the landscape, L heered q
swingin, .swishen sound, a whislin
thro the air, dull heavy thud, and
then oh Joy a shreek / WIZ in a
lwood, but there wuz a cleerin beyond,
and from that cleerin the sound pro-
ceeded.
! Putting spurs to my steed, or ruth
er to get down from the egglencies Nv
descriptive writin to actoOal fact,
Ithumpin Bascom's mule over the head
with the club carried, l soon emerged
from the forest and beheld a scene
which made my heart leap for joy.
There wuz house, niger quarters, a
whippin-post, and, good hevins, that l
should be so blest, niger tied to it,
and a vigorous old man of sixty, with
a broad brimmed hat and a pious
look, a layin it to him good
Wuz l awake or wuz [ dreemin
Is these reel or wuz l the victim Nv
some pleasant hallucinashon Dis
mountin, 1 rushed up to him and fell
onto his neck. "Now," said l in ex-
ttacy, "let thy servant depart in
peace |"
Shalsin mo OFF and continyoon
coolly till he had reached thirty lash
es, the old gentleman bade two mig
gers standin by to unite him, take
him to his quarters apd rub his delito-
fully lasscrated back with salt and
water, and turnin he exclaimed, ''whO
in blazes are yoo?"
90 speek them words agin !" said
4 I, strilkin a attitOod, "Ive been in
Michigan, and them words is music to
me /"
"Well-who in thunder are yoo?"
ga Dimocrat-a ante-war Dimocrat
I-wieh owned niggors, (this was a
lie thrown in for effect), but they've
bin takin from me by crooel tyran-
ny. To see yoo, a troO Sutherner,
handlin Nv EN- in the troo Suthern
style, quite onmans me. Speek how
hev yOO managed it?'
Slowly rollin over his quid, in a
quiet and contemplative manner, he
asked me to the house. On the piaz-
zer witch fronted it we sat down and
he told me these:
His name wuz Rasper lie knowd
Nv the Emaneipashen Proclamashen,
but he he'd KEEP it keerfully from his
niggers, ez he'd all the planters in the
deestrick. Determined that solely for
! the good Nv the helplis niggers one
seckshun nv Kentucky shOOd be held
sakrid-that her old, time-honOred
institoOshens shood be maintained at
least in one place, he he'd held EN- all
in the same condishen ez before the
war. The nabors for ten miles square
he'd organized a leage, and he'd swOre
a solemn oath to keep the niggers
| Iikewise--to shoot at sight all Nv EN-
wich attempted to run away or even
to communicate with other niggers,
and that by, DRAWN a Gordon, as it
wuz, around EN-, they he'd bin kept in
state nv tollable subieel1shen. 1t
cost them ten or fifteen times ez much
to keep em ez the niggers made, but
what NV that2 kentucky wood never
give up her niggers or Democrisy (;
and in one spot, seklooded tho it w1z,
they were determined to hev troo
sample nv both.
At this pint the son Nv my host
rode up onto a gray geldin from, an
other plantashen which the old man
owned six miles away.
"Hai John," sed my venerable
friend, chow is things over the Run ?''
"All's well, dad, /" sed he.
"Hez Joolins got sufficiently over
bein chawd by the dOrgs to do his
regler WorkS''
"I thoFt so. He played OFF a little
while this nOrnin'; but we Gated him
till he wuz willin' TO give up his OBJ
stinacy and goat it. He's doin' his
average"
"Hez Ceezer got well nv that charge
nv buckshotP'
"Ceezer, no! he died. He TUX cold
in the leg and it mortified"
"Just my luck He wuz the best
hand [ he'd on the place. Oh! my
friend, observe the effeck NV a hasty
temper! He gives me too much Of
his lip, put a charge of shot into
him, and now he amt wuth the pow
der that druv the shot. Oh, how hev
1 wrastled with that ungovernable
temper NV mine! Hez that stranger
i up the run bin looked after y'
"Yes. Me and Tim Duggins, spect-
ed him NV bein a emissery, ez he took
a noosepaper and his wife he'd bin
seen combin her hair, and we inquisit-