The Union and journal. [volume] (Biddeford, Me.) 1858-1882, 1868-02-28
4 NASBY PAPER.
The Biography Of the Dead Nggr ,rho ,ous
Foolish enough 10 Insist rpon being Free
The Result Of His Folly.
Posr OEYicE, CoNTEDRIr X ROADS, }
witch is in the Stait NV Kentucky,)
January 10, 1868.

Posr OEYICE, CoNYEDRIr X ROADS,
witch is in the Stait NV Kentucky.)
January 10, 1868.
Last mite the body Nv niger WIZ found
ded at the end Nv Boregard avenue-the
main street NV tho Cross Roads. The poor
cus wuz rolled up ngin fence, lyin on
his face. ez ded CT Joollus Ceeser. l dis.
kivered him. At flst thot the fellow wuz
drunk, ez didn't see his face, it bein a
common occurrence to find our citizens in
that condishcn, but on turnin him over and
assertanin the cutler Nv his complexion, l
knowcd that wuz not what allied him. He
died NV starvashen, and cold, and sich.
Iknowed l that Niger. He wuz wunst
the property Nv Elder Gavin, now deceas-
ed, and wuz altogether too sooperor mig
ger to quietly take wa, wuz his normul con.
dishen, and settle down to his fate. He re-
scmbled the Elder very much. His moth
or wuz mullatto woman, and cz her son
developed it wuz observed that no he'd the
Gayitt pecoolyarities Nv feecher, in n strik.
in degree. Mrs. Gavitt raised ruckslen
about It, but tho Elder convinst her that it
WIZ all right. He cited her to the physio-
logiclo fact that the resemblance okkurrc'l
coz NV the mothers seein the Deekin so Of
ten before the birth Nv tho child. It's my
opinyun that that wuz tho case. At all
events he he'd very much Nv the enterprise
NV the Gavitts. Wunst aiore tho war he
run AWAY to Injeanny, and wuz rccapcher.
ed only after desprit chase, and that chase
by tho entire Democratic marshals Nv that
State. lie Yuz finally r'n, down and sent
back in triumph. The mint the war broke
out. this cussid onc.iourth niger run away
ngin. lie made tho camp near the Cross
Roads, but glory the Fedral usurpers he'd
ez yet little shame left into EN-, and the
Kernel, to whose regiment he made his
wuy, sent him back to tho Elder under
guard, with his compliments. accompanied
by note, statin that tho Fcdrnl armies wuz
a fitin for the Yoonyun ez il wuz. and that
Il wuz proposed not to interfere with prop.
crty in nny way. The Elder wuz so affect.
cd by this generosity that that mite and the
next he only bushwhucked three Nv the
Fedral pickcts, instid NV layin out all mite
for eln ez no he'd bin accustomed to do.
But finally the cmancipashen proclama.
shen come, and the niger rim ngin. The
Elder hcerl NV him frekently. He jined a
niger regiment, fought doorin the war.
wuz woundid in sevral spots, and narrowly
escaped the just retrinotion inflicted onto
cm ut Fort Piller. At the close Nv the war
he went to Ohio with his wife and also two
children, but he did not remain there. II
wuzn't pleasant for him. Their wuz sud.
den coolin toward the niger, and he felt It
Ez they didn't need cm any more to illthe
quotas and save them from the drafts and
sich, the colored brother wuz tho same
damned nlgger he allnz was. Somewhat
disgustid, pertickerIy ez when no enlisted
he wuz creditedI,o Ohio, he returned to
Kentucky, determined to fte il out there.
The Gross Roads reserved him quietly. tic
saved little money out Nv the servis and
bought some land up towards Garre,tstown
and built onto il cabin. Somehow the
world lid not 20 smooth with him. One
mite his fence wuz torn down and his grow
ing crops wuz destroyed. lmmejitly there
after, he wuz aresid for hevin no visible
means of support, his crops bein all gone,
and il took his mule and part NV his
fhrnituoor tn git out Nv that.
Followin this mistorchoon came another.
He wuz at the Corners one day, when lssa-
kcr Gayitt, in playful mood, shot at him
with n revolver, wich the niggcr resented,
chokin Issaker severely. The blood Of the
Corners riz. A nigger had raised his i'm.
pio,ls hand ngin white man lmmeji'ly
The Corners became indignated, and the
nigger wuz kept under the town pump two
|,ours. A severe cold rrsultin. lic wuI con.
fined 10 his he'd month with fever, doo-
ring wich time he got into other trouble.
His out.houses wuz burned to The ground,
his hogs WIZ killed, aud even his chickens
.yuz massakered. lie wuz scarsely recov.
cred iru,n this fit NV sickness, when his
wife wuz met by lssaker Gayiu at the Cor.
,ers, where she had gone TO get medicine
or him. lssaker, smstin under the cbokin
her husband had given him. organized
aid onto her, and must confess she w,ii
'oozed rrher rough. The young men Nv
he Corners are excentric. The woman
~uz found dym The next mon'in IN barn.
From ,hi, bIow he never recovered. He
,ad laid long time, and lie owed quite
,uu,l,er nv bills ut the Corners, wich he
.ood no, pay. Attnchuenis wuz got ons
,pin his properly. and il wuz sold from un-
lar him and ez no wuz not able to work,
VA, wus over wuz held Ivy the trustees Nv
he township ez bail nsin his becomin
own.hip charge. Capt. McPelter bot the
lace, and e, Il wuz him, he waniid H. Tho
,igrcr wus turned out and he wapderedi