Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1868-02-20
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posr0Fris, CoSFfpRIT \ RoADs,
witch is in the Staituy Kentucky,
January 10Th, 1868.


Cross Roads. The poor cuss was
rolled up agin the fence, a lyin on
his face, ez dead ez Joolius Ceeser.
/ diskivered him. AT fust | thot
the Teller wuz drunk, ez l didn't see
his face, it bein a common occur
renee to find our citizens in that
sitooashen, but on turnin him over,
and ascertainin the color nv his
complexion, l knowd that was not
what allied him. He had died nv
starvashen and cold and sich.
l knowd that Niger He wus
wmst the property NV Elder Cav
lit, now deceest, and wuz altogether
too superior a niger to take wot
wuz his normal condishen, and set
tie down to his fate. He resembled
the Elder very much. His mother
was mullatto woman, and ez her
son developed it wuz observed that
he he'd the Gavitt pekooliarlties NV
feecher in a striking degree. Mrs.
Gayitt raised a ruckshen about it,
but the Elder convinst her that it
wuz all right. He cited her to the
physiological fact that the resem-
blanco okkurred coz Of the mothers
seein the Deekin so often before the
birth nv the child. It's my opinion
that that wus the case At all
events he he'd very much Of the ell
terprise NV the Gavitts. Wunst
afore the war he run away to Inje-
amy, and was recapchered only af-
ter a desprit chase, and that chase
by the entire Democratic marshals
Of that State. He wuz finally run
down and sent back in triumph.
The mint the war broke out, this
cussid one, fourth niger run away
agin. He made the camp near the
Cross Roads, but glory the Fedral
Usurpers he'd ez yet u 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 compliments, ac-
companied by note, Stain that
the Fedral armies wuz a htin for the
Yoonyun as It wuz, and that 1t wuz
proposed not to interfere with prop
erty in any way. The Elder was
80 affected by this generosity that
that mite and the next he only bush
whacked three Of the Fedral pickits,
insterd NV lyin out all mite as he he'd
been accustomed to do.
But finally the Emancipashen
Proclamashen come, and then the
nigger run agin. lie jined a mig
ger regiment, fought doorin the
war, wuz woundid in several spots,
and narrowly escaped the just retri
button inflicted onto EN- at Fort Pil.
Ter. At the close NV the war he
went to Ohio with his wife and two
children, but he did not remain
there 1t wuzn't pleasant for him.
There was sudden coolin towards
the nigger and he felt it. Ez they
didn't need en- any more to fill
quotas and save EN- from the drafts
and sich, the colored brother was
the same id nigger he alluz wuz.
Somewhat disgusted, pertikerly ez
when he enlisted he wuz credited to
Ohio, he returned to Kentucky, de-
termined to fte it out here. The
Gross Roads received him quietly, !
He saved a little money ont NV the
serYis and bought some land up |
towards Garretstown, and built on
to It cabin. Somehow the world |
didn't 60 smt 9th with him. One
mite his fences was torn down and
his CROWN crops destroyed
Immejitly thereafter he was arrested
for havin no visible means Of sup
port, his crops hein all gone, and
It took his mule and part Nv his
household fnrnitoor to git out NV
that. Followin this misforchoon
came another lie wuz at the Cor
ners one day, when Issaker Gayitt,
in a playful mood, shot at him with
a revolver, which the nigger resent
ed, choking Issaker severely. The
blood Of the Corners riz. A nigger
had raised his impious hand agin a
white mani Immejitly the Corners
became indignated, and the niger
wuz kept under the town pump two
hours. A severe cold resultin, he
wnz confined to his bed a month
with fever, durin which time he got
into other trouble. His outhouses
were burned to the ground, his
hogs WIZ killed and even his chick
ems was massacrcd. He wuz skarse-
ly recovered from his fit NV sickness,
when his wife wuz met by Issaker
Gayitt at the Corners, where she
had gone to get medicine for him.
Issaker, smartin under the chokin
her husband had given him, organ
lied a raid onto her, and must
confess she wuz used ruther rough.
The young men nv the Corners are
exentric. The woman was found
the next morning in a barn,
From this blow he never recover
ed. He he'd lald a long time, and
he owed quite n number Nv bills at
the Corners, which he could not
pay. Attachments wuz got out
agin his property, and it wuz sold
from under him, aud ez he wuz not
able to work, wat wuz over wuz
held by the trustees nv the town
ship, ez bail agin his becomin a
township charge Capt McPelter
bot the place, and ez it wuz hizen,