The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1868-02-13
STANDARD.
Nasby.
From the Toledo Blade.

Last mite the body NV a nigger wuz
found dead at the end NV Boregard av-
enue--the main street NV the Cross
Roads The poor cass wnz rolled up
agn the fence, lyin on his face, ez
dead ez Joolius Ceeser. | diskivered
him. At fust | thot the tellcr wuz
drunk, ez didn't see bis face, it boin
a common occurrence to find our citi-
zens in that sitooashen, but on turnin
him over, and assertanin the color nv
his complexion, kuowd that wuz not
what allied him He he'd died Nv stary
ashen, aud cold, and sioh..
kuowd that nigger He wus wunst
the property NV Elder Gayitt, now de-
ceest, and wuz altogether too sooperor
nigger to quietly take wot wuz his
normel condishen, and settle down to
his fate. lie reScmbled the elder very
much. His mother wuz a mulattO wo-
man, and ez her son developed it wuz
observed that he he'd the Gavitt pekool-
yarities NV feecher in a strikin degree.
Mrs. Gavitt raised a ruckshen about it,
but the Elder convinst her that it wuz
all right. lie cited her to the physio-
logical fact that the resemblance Ok
kured coz Of the mothers seein the
Deekin so often before the birth NV her
child. It's my opinion that that was
the case. At all events he he'd very
much nv the enterprise NV the Gayitts.
Wunst afore the war he run away to
Inieanny, and wuz recapchered only
after a desprit chase, and that chase by
the entire Democratic marshals Of that
State. lie wuz finally run down and
sent back in triumph.
The mint the war broke out, this
cussed oue-fourth niger run away
agtn. He made the camp near the
Cross Roads, but glory! the Fedral
usurpers he'd ez yet little shame left
into EN-, and the Kernel to whose reg
iment he made his way sent him back
to the Elder under guard, with his COM
pliments, accompanied by a note, stain
that the Fcdral armies wuz ftin for
the Yoopyun ez it wuz, and that it wuz
proposed not to interfere in any way
The Elder wuz 50 effected by this gen
erosity that that mite and the next he
only bushwhacked three NV the Fedral
picEits, instid Nv lyin out all mite for
EN- ez he he'd been accustomed to do.
But finally the Emancipashen Proc
lamashen come, and then the nigger
run agin, The elder heerd ,uv him fire.
kently. Hejned niger regiment,
fought doorin the war, wuz woundid
in several spots, and narrowly escaped
the Just retribooshen inflicted onto EN-
at Fort Piller At the close NV the war
he went to Ohio with his wife an two
children, but he did not remain there,
Itwuznt pleasant for him. There wuz
a suddin cooin towards the nigger, and
he felt it, Ez they didn't need em any
more to fill quotas and save en- from
the drafts and sich, the colored brother
was the same id nigger he allu2
wuz. Somewhat disgustid, pertickler.
ly 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
q little money out NV the servis and
bought some land up toards Carrots
town, and built onto IL cabin. Some
how the world didn't go smooth with
him. One mite his fences wuz torn
down an his CROWN crops wuz destroy
cd, Immeiitly thereafter he wuz ar
rested for havin no yisable means Nv
support, his crops bein all gone, and
it took his mule and part Nv his house.
hold furnitoor to git out Nv that. Fol,
lowin this misioreh00n came another
He wuz at the Corners one day, when
Issaker Gavitt, in playful mood, shot
at him with q revolver, wich the niggei
resented, chokin Issaker severely, The
blood nv the Corners riz. a niggel
had raised his impious hand agin q
white man. Immejidy the Corners be.
came indigmted, ard tho nigger wu2
kept under the town pump two hours
A severe cold resultin, hewuz confined
to his bed month with fever, durir
wich time he got into other trouble
His outhouses were burned to tho
ground, his hogs wuz killed, and even
his chickens wuz massacred. lie WI,
skarsely recovered from his fit NV sick.
mis-, when his wife wuz met by lssakel
Gayitt at the Corners, where she had
gone to getmedicine for him. Issaker
martin under the ehokin her husbanC
had given him, organized q raid ontt
her, and | must confess sho was yooset
ruther rough, The young men Nv tn,
Corners are excentrio The woman
wuz found the next mornin in barn
From this blow he never recovered
lie he'd laid long time, and he owet
quite number of bills at tho Corners
wich he Good not pay. Attachment
wuzgot ont agln his property, and
sold from under him, and ez he WI
not able to work, wat wuz over wuz hell
by the trustees Of tho township, or bal
agin his becomin q township charge
Capt. McPeter bot the place, and ez
wuz hizzen, he wanted it. The niggC
wuz turned out, and ho wandered abou
few days aperiently not in his rigl
mind, and finally wuz found ez he
described, Dead he wuz, and wrappi
him in the bloc cote into wich we ioun
him, q hole wuz dug, and no wuz hi
from mortal site.
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