Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1868-02-05
THE CHRONICLE.
Written for the Toledo Blade
NASBY.
The biography OF n Dead Niger who
was foolish enough TO insist upon
being Free---rhe result OF HIS folly,
Posi- OFFICE, CONFEDRIT Y RoADs, I
(Which Is in the Staff NV Ky.,) !
January 10, 1865.

Posi- OFFICE, CONFEDRIT X ROADS,
(Which Is in the Staff NV Ky.,)
January 10, 1865.
Last mite the body Nv a Niger wuz
found dead at tho eend Nv Boregard AVE.
nue-the main street Nv the Gross Roads.
The poor cuss was rolled up agin a fence,
a lyin on his face, ez dead ez Joolius Gee
sar. l diskivered him. At fust 1 thot
the fellow wuz drunk, ez 1 didn't see his
face, it bein a commun occurrence to find
our citizens in that sitooashen, but on turn
in him over, and a%ssertainin the culor Nv
his complexion, 1 knowd that wuz not
what allied him. BE he'd died Nv starvs-
shen, and cold, and sch
knOwd that niger. He wuz once the
property Nv Elder Gavitt, now deeeest, and
wuz altogether too sooperior a niger to
quietly take wat WIS his normal condition,
and settle down to his fate. He resembled
the Elder very much. His mother wuz q
mulRtto woman, and ez her son developed,
it wuz observed that he he'd he Gavitt
pekooliarihes Nv feecher, in q strikin de-
gree. Mrs. Gavitt raised a ruckshen
about it, but the Elder convinst her that
it wuz all right. He cited her to the ply
Biological fact that the resemblance okkur-
red coz NV the mothers seein the Deekin
so often before the birth Nv the child. It's
my opinion that that wuz the case. At
all events he he'd very much NV the enter
prise NV the Gavitts. Wunst, afore the
war, he run away to Injeeany, and wuz
recapehured only after a desprit chase, and
that chase by the entire Democratic mar
shals NV that State. He wuz finally run
down and sent back in triumph.
The mint the war b-oke out, this cussid
o~ne-fourth niger run away agin. He
made the camp near the Cross Roads, but
glory! the Fedral usurpers he'd ez vet a
little shame left into EN-, and the Kernel,
10 whose regiment he made his way, sent
him back to the Elder under guard, with
his compliments, accompanied by q note
stating that the Fedral armies Wuz a itia
for tho Yoonyun ez it Wuz, and that it
wuz proposed not to interfere with private
property in any way. The Elder wuz so
effectid by this generosity that that mite
and the next day he only bushwhacked
three " the Fedral pickits, instid NV layin
out all mite for en- ez he he'd been accus-
toned to do.
But finally the Emancipation PrOcla-
mashen come, and the Niger run agin.
The Elder heerd Nv him frekently. He
jined a nigger regiment, fought dooriu the
war, WIZ WOundid in seTral spots, and
narrowly escaped the Just r~etribushen in
fiic;ed onto an at Fort Piller. At the
close Nv the wal he went to Ohio with his
wife and two children, but he did net re-
main there. 1t wuzn't pleasant for him.
There Wuz a suddin coolin' toward the
niger, and he felt it. cEz thew didn't
need EN- any more to I'll quotas and save
EN- from the draft and SIGH, the colored
brother wuz the same id niger heallus
was. Somewhat disgustid, peril kerly ez
when he enlisted he5wuz creditid to Ohio,
he returned to Kentucky, determined to
fife 1t out here. The Cross Roads received
him quietly. He saved a little money out
Nv the serYis and bought some land up
toards Garrettstown, and built onto it a
cabin. Somehow the world didn't 90
smooth with him. One mite his fences
WI torn down and ms CROWN crops WIZ
destroyed. Immejitly thereafter he wuz
arrested for haYin no visible means NV
support, his CROPS bein all gone, and It
took his mule and a part Nv his household
furnitoor to get out uY that. Followin
this misforchoOn came another. He wuz
at the Corners n day when Issaker Cav
lit, in a playful mood, shot at him with q
revolver, wich the Niger resented, chok-
in Issaker severely. The blood NV the
Corners riz. A Niger he'd raised his i'm
plous hand agin a white man Immeiitly
the Corners became indignated, and the
niger WIZ kept under the town pump
two hours. A severe cold r~esultn, he wuz
confined a monthto his bed, a month with
fever, doorin wich time he got into other
trouble. His out houses were burned to
the ground, his hogs wuz killed, and even
MS -Ho wuz
skarsely recovered from his fit nv sicknis,
when his wife WIZ met. by Issaker Gavitt
at the Corners, where she had gone 10 get
medicine for him. Issaker, smartin IN
der the ehokin her husband had given
him, organized q raid onto her, and 1
must confess she wuz yoosed ruther rough.
The young men Nv the Corners T exeen-
trio. The woman Wuz found dyln the
next mornin in q barn.
From this blow he never recovered. He
he'd laid a long time, and he owed quite q
number Nv bills at the Corners, witch he
Good not pay. Attachments wuz got out
agin his property, and it wuz sold 2 1
under him, and ez be wuz not abb r..
work, wat wuz over wuz held BY the trus.
tees Nv the township ez bail agin his be-
comm a township charge. Capt. McPel-
ter bot the place, and ez it-wuz hizzen, he
wantid 1t. The Niger wuz turned out,
and he wandered about . few DAYS aperi-
emily not in his right mind, and finally
wuz found ez 1 hev described. Dead he
wuz, and Wrappin him in the bloc cote
into wich we found him, a hole wuz dug
and he wuz hid from mortal site,
Sieh is the froots nv Emaneipsshen !
When that Niger WIZ dug under, 81, 500.
worth NV Elder Gavitts estate wuz put
out Nv the way. His death lies at the door
NV a. Linkin He'd that Niger bin per-
mitted to hev stayed with his kind master,
and devotid his life to his servis-this wood
not hey happened. He'd he bin permitted
to hev ~continyood workin, workin, work
in, quietly and comfortably, satisfied with
his two scots Nv clothes per annum, and
the rashens given EN-, be wood not hev
died misrably by the road side. For when
the Niger wuz in his normal eondishen
he wuz not the objick nv dislike he now is.
Their wuz then no war Nv races. The
feelin that impelled the Ca~ucashens Nv the
Corners to go thru his crops and burn his
houses, and SIGH, did MT then exist, for he
he'd no crops nor houses. He wood hsv
bin worked till old age overlook him, ez
it docs all Nv us, and then he wood hev
bin sold South, to end his days quietly in
a rice swamp. Sieh is the bitter froots NV
raIsin EN- from Their normal condishen.
The site Nv that dead Niger satisfied me
that under no circumstances Good the race
be elevated to the pint Nv goin on without
the protecshen nv 8 sOoperior race. There
is a irrepressibh confiek atween the races,
and the niger must slluz be the loser.
Sich is the will Nv the Lord.
PETROLEUM V. NAsBY, P. NJ,
Which is Post Mastery
WHAT THE PEACE OF EUROPE CosTs.-
The London Economist sets forth some
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