The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1868-04-10
NASBY.
The Good Old Times--How a Planta-
ton Managed after the Style of
1850 Looks in 1S6S--Mr. Nasby
finds such an one ard Reports
thereon.
Posi- OFFS, CoNFEpEIr Y ROADs.)
(Which is in the State NV Ky, y
March 50, 1865.

Posi- OFFS, CoNFEpEIrN Y ROADs,)
(Which is in the State NV Ky.,)
March SO. 1868.
On my return from the ornery and
cussid State NV Michigan, fell into
a state NV despondency from wich |
found it difficult to recover. The
horrors NV stayin in 4 community
| totelly unused TO the eXhilerashun
NV the flowin bole, totelly impervious
to the soothin inflooence NV the iloo
! ids wich We in Kentucky eggist onto,
and where the DImocrisy are in n
hopelis minority, made reason totter
onto her throne, and intelleck to reel
in highly ridiculous manner, To
dissipate the impression, l borrered
Bascom's mule and Deekin Pogram's
saddle bags, and fillin the first with
oats, and the latter with loaf NV
bread and gallon NV whiskey, mad
ly plunged OFF into the interior NV
the State, that l mite in rooral soil
toodes give full vent to the melan-
colly that opprest me.
Two days travel up the monntins
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 trooly Arcajen spot.
Here wuz the log cabin in its primi-
tive simplicity-here wuz streems
onto wich there WIZ 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
swingin, swishin sound q whislin thro
the air; dull, heavy thud. and then
oh joy! shreek l wuz in a wood,
but there wuz cleerin beyond, and
from that cleerin the sound perceed-
ed.
Putin spurs to my steed, or ruth
er, to get down from the elegancies
NV descriptive writin to actooal fact,
thumpin Bascom's mule over the head
with the club carried, soon emerg-
ed from the forest and beheld sceen
wich made my heart leep for joy
There wuz house-nigger- quarters
"a whippin post-and, good Hevins,
that l shood be so blest-a niger
tied to it and a vigorus old man NV
sixty, with a broad brimmed hat and
a pious look, layin it to him good (!
Wuz / awake or wuZ dreamin
Is these reel or wuz l the victim NV
some pleasant hallucinashen. Dis
mountin, l rushed up to him and fell
onto his neck. "Now," sed in ex-
tacy, ''let thy servant depart in
peece !"
Shakin me orr and continyooin
coolly till he he'd reeched thirty lash
es, the old gentleman babe two mig
gers standin by to unite him, take
him to his quarters and rub his de-
litefully lasserated back with salt and
water, and turnin he exclaimed, "whol
in blazes are yoo?"
go speek them words agin ?" sed
1, strikin a attitood, "I've bin in
Michigan, and them words is music
to mer'
"Well-who in thunder are yoo?"
"A Dimocrat-a ante Dimocrat
witch owned niggers, (this wuz a
lie thrown in for effeck) but they've
bin taken from me by crooel tyran-
ny. To see you, a troo Southerner,
Ho,,l1.,, ~, tho Snfhnrn
style, quite onmans me. Speek! how
hev 700 managed it 2
Slowly rollin over his quid, in a
quiet and eontemplativ manner, he
asked me to the house. On the
piazzer wich fronted it, we sat down,
and he told me these:
His name wus Rasper. He knowd
Nv the Emancipashen Proclamashen,
but he he'd KEEP it keerfully from his
niggers, ez he'd all the planters in the
deestrik. Determined that solely for
the good NV the helplis niggers one
sekshun NV Kentucky shood be held
sakrid--that her old, time-honered
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 league, and he'd
swore a sollem oath to keep their
niggers likewise--to shoot at sight ,
all NV EN- wich attempted to run away s
or even to communicate with other
niggers, and that by drawin cordcn,
as it were, around EN-, they he'd been
kept in state NV tollable subjeck
shen. 1t cost EN- ten or fifteen times
ez much to keep em es the niggers
made, but wat NV that? Kentucky
wood never give up her niggers or
her Democrisy; and in one spot,
seklooded tho it wuz. they were de-
termined to hev a trOo sample nv i
both.
At this pint the son NV nv host
rode up onto a gray geldin from an
other plantashen wich the old man I
owned six miles away.
'Hai john, sed my venerable !
friend, how is things over the Run Z 4
'Alrs well, dad,' sed he. !,
.Hez Joolius got sufiishently over
bein chawd by the dorgs to do his
regler work ?
Il thot SO. He played orf little
while this mornin but we Gated him
till he wuz willin to give up his OBJ
stinacy and go at it. He's doin his
average
.Hes Ceezer got well Nv that charge
NV buckshotr
sCeezer, no he died. He lux cold
in the leg and it mortified
Jest my luck He wnz the best
hand / he'd en- the place o! my
friend, observe the etieck NV hasty
He give me too much nv
bis lip, put a charge NV shot into
him, and now he aint worth the pow I
der that druv the shot. Oh, how ,
hev wrastled with that nngovern ,
able temper NV mine! Hez that I
stranger up the run bin looked after = I
Yes. l and Tim Duqgins spect- {
ed him NV bein a emissery, ez he took t
a noosepaper and his wife he'd bin !
seen combin her hair, and we inquis ,
tied him. He took the Moo York :
Triboon, and party NV us gave him $
ten minits to git out. Ez he didn't ,
git out we shot him. His family is 8
still on the place, but they will prob
II ri. Il xl ! .