Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1868-04-18

VII iSbtih liOiLl hbC OliSll abA Nuo-
sid State of Mishagan, fell into state
nv dependency from which l found
it diffikult to recover. The horrors NV
stayin in a community totelly unused
to the exileration Nv the fowin bole, to-
| telly impervious to the soothin influence
NV the floods wich we hev i'll Kentucky
cggist onto, and where the Dimocracy
are in hopelis minority, made reason tot
ter onto her throne, and intellect reel in
a highly Ridiculous manner. To dis
sipate the impression, l borrered Bas-
CONS mule and Deekin Pogram's saddle
bags, and film the first with oats and
the latter with loaf Of bread and a gal
Ion ov whisky, madIy plunged orf into
the interior nv the State, that l might
in rooral solitudes give full vent to the
melancholy that opprest me.
Two days travel up the mountins brot
me to the amcst interiC rest county NV
the State. Remote from railroads, off
nv the stage lines and not within several
days journey NV telegraffs, it wuz trooly
a Arcaien spot. Here WIZ the log cabin
in its primitive simplicity here wuz
Streems 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, 1 heered a
swinging swashing sound whistlin throo
the air; dull, heavy thud, and then! oh
Joy! shreek! l WIZ in wood, but
there wuz cleerin beyond, and from
that cleerin the sound perceeded.
Putin spurs to my steed, or ruther,
to get down from the elegancies of dis
criptive writin to actooal fact, thumpin
Bascom's mule over the head with the
club | carried, soon emerged from the
forest and behold scene which made
my heart leap for joy. There wuz a
hcuse-nigger quarters whippin post
and, Good Heavens, that [ shood be
so blcst-a nigger tied to it, and a vigo-
rous old man NV 20, with broad brim-
med hat and pious look, layin it to
him good!
Wuz | awake or WIZ a dreamin Is
these reele or wuz | the victim NV some
pleasant hallucinashun Dismountin, |
rushed up to him and fell onto lis neck.
"Now," sed in extacy, "Let thy serv-
ant depart i'll peace" .. -....
Shaking me orr aud continyooin cody
till he had reached thirty lashes, the old
gentleman bade two niggers~ standin by
TO unite him, take him to his quarters
and rub his delitefully lacerated back
with salt and water, and turnin he ex-
claimed, "who in blazes are yoo?'
go spelle them words agin," sed !,
strikin attitood. give been in Mishi
gan and them words is music to me-"
''Nell-who IN thunder are 700 :"
"a Dimocrat-a anti-war Dimocrat
which owned niggers," (this wuz lie
thrown in. for effeckt, "but they've been
taken from me by crooel tyranny
To see Yoo, troo Southerner handlin NV
EN- i'll the troo Southern style, quite on
mans me. Speek! how hev 700 man
aged ?"
Slowly rollin over his quid, in quiet
contemplative manner, he asked me to
house On the piazzer wich frunted it
we sot down and be told me these:
His name was Rasper. lie knowd Nv
the Emancipation Proclamation but he
he'd kept it keerfully from his niggers, ez
he'd all the planters in the deestrict.-
Determined that solely for the benefit of
the helplis niggers one sekshun NV Ken
lucky shood be held sacred-that her
old, time hoRored institutions shood be
maintained at least in one place, he he'd
held EN- all in the same condishen ez be-
fore the war. The nabors for ten miles
square he'd organized league and he'd
sworn a solleln oath to keep Their
niggers likewise-to shoot at sight all
NV EN- wieh attempted to run away or
even to communicate with other nlggers
and that by DRAWN cordan, as it wu4s
around EN-, they had been kept i'll state
OF tolable subjeckshen. 1t cost en- ten
or fifteen times ez much to keep EN- ez
the niggers made, but wat NV that >
Kentucky wood never give up her Mig
gers or her Dimocracy, and in one spot
seclooded tho it wuz, they were deter
mined to have troo sample Nv both.
At this pint the son Nv my host rode
up onto a gray geldin from another plan
tashen wich the old man owned six miles
away. -
ola! John," sed my vederable frend
chow is things over the Run?''
''AlPs well, dad" sed he.
"TIez Joolius got sufficiently over be-