Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1868-02-21
Nasby's Last.

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/ Nasby's last letter, which we print be-
low, is one of his best. Notwithstanding
its comic form it is a most truthful and
pathetic sketch of the fate to which at
this moment, millions of native Ameri-
cans are liable at the hands of party
impudently calling itself democratic, and
in the midst of people protesting to be
Christians.
PosT OFFS, CoNFEDRIT X ROADS, J
! (Which is in the State NV Kentucky,) !
| Jan. 10, 1868. }
Last mite the body NV nigger wuz
found dead at the end of Boregard avenue
the main street NV the Cross Roads.
The poor cuss wuz rolled up agin fence,
a lyin on his face. ez dead ez Joolius
Ceeser. l diskviered him. At fust /
thot the fellow wuz drunk, ez l didn't
see his face, it bein a common occurrence
to find our citizens in that sitooashen, but
on turnin him over, and ascertainin the
color of his complexion, knowed that
was not what allied him. He he'd died
Nv starvashen, and cold, and sich.
/ knowed that nigger. He wuz wunst
the property Nv Elder Gavitt, now decest,
and wuz altogether too sooperior nigger
to quietly take wot wuz his normal con-
dishen, and settle down to his fate. He
resembled the Elder very much. His
mother wez a mullato woman, and ez her
son developed it wuz observed that he
he'd the Gavitt pekoolyarities NV feecher,
in strikin degree. Mrs. Gavitt raised
a ruckshen about it, but the Elder con-
vinst her that it wuz all right.
He cited her to the physiologicle fact
that the resemblance okkurred coz NV
the mothers seein the Deekin so often
before the birth of the child. It's my
opinion this wuz the case. AT all events
he he'd very mnch NV the enterprise NV
the Gavitts. Wunst afore the war he
run away to Injeanny, and wuz recap
chered only after a desprit chase, and
that chase by the entire Democratic mar
shals NV that stat. He wuz finally run
down and sent back in triumph.
| The mint the war broke out, this
cussid one-fourth nigger run away agin.
He made the camp near the Cross Roads,
but glory! the Federal usurpers he'd ez
yet little shame left into EN-, and the
Kernel, to whose regiment he made his
way, sent him back to- the Elder under
guard, with his compliment, accompanied
by note Stain that the Federal armies
wuz fitin for the Yoonyun ez it wuz
proposed not to interfere with property
in any way. The Elder wuz so effected
by this generosity that that mite and the
next day he only bushwhacked three Nv
the Fedral pickits, instid Wv layin out at
mite for EN- ez he he'd bin accustomed to
do.
But finally the Emansipashen Procla-
mashen come, and the nigger ran agin.
The Elder heerd NV him frekently. He
jined niger regiment, fought during
the war, wuz woundid in several spots,
and narrowly escaped the just retriboo-
shen inflicted onto EN- at Fort Piller. At
the close Nv the war he went to Ohio with
his wife and two children, but he did not
remain there. 1t wuz mt pleasant for
him. There wuz sudden coo in toward
the nigger and he felt it. Ez they didn't
need EN- any more to fill the quota and
save EN- from the drafts and sich, the col
ored brother wuz the same id nigger
he alluz wuz. Somewhat disgusted, par
tikerly ez when he enlisted he wuz cred
tied to Ohio, he returned to Kentucky,
determined 10 fte it out here. The Cross
Roads received him quietly. He saved
a little money out NV the servis and
bought some land up towards CARROTS
town, and built onto it cabin. Some
how the world did not 60 smooth with
him. One mite his fences wuz torn down
and his growing crops wuz destroyed.
Immejitly thereafter he wuz arrested for
having no visable means of support, his
crops bein all gone, and it took his mule
and part of his household furnitoor to
get out NV that Followin this misfor-
,hoon came another. He wuz at the
Corners one day when Isaker Gavitt, in
a playful mood, shot at him with re-
volver which the niger resented, choking
Issaker severely The blood NV the Cor
ners riz. A nigger he'd raised his impi-
GUS hand agin white man Immejitly
the Corners became indignated, and the
niger wuz kept under the town pump
two hours. A severe cold resultin, he
wuz confined to his bed month with fe-
yer, doorin wich time he got into trouble.
His out-houses wuz burned to the ground,
his hogs wuz killed, and even his chick
ems wuz massacred. He wuz skarsely
recovered from this fit NV sickness, when
his wife wuz met by Issaker Gavitt at the
Corners, where she had gone to get med