The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1868-04-16
[From the Toledo Blade.
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Plantation Managed after the
STYLE of 1860 TooIIs in IsGs..NIr.
Nasby Finds such am one, and
Reports Thereon.
PosT OFFIs, CoNFEDRIT x ROADS, !
(Which is in the Stait Nv Kentucky }
March 80, 1868.
On my return from the ornery and
cussid State nv Michigan, fell into a
state Nv dependency from which
found it difficult to recover. The hor-
rors of stayin in a community totally
unused to the exhileration of the flown
bole, totelly impervious to the soothin
infooence NV the floods wich we in
Kentucky eggsist onto, and where the
Democrisy are in a hopelis minority,
made reason totter on her throne, and
lntelleck to reel in highly rediculous
manner. To dissipate the impression
| borrered Bascom's mule and Deekin
Pogram's saddle bags, and film the first
with oats, and the latter with loaf Of
bread and gallon NV whisky, madly
plunged orf into the interier ofthe state,
that l mite in rooral solitOodes give full
vent to the melancholy that opprest
me.
Two days travel up the mountains
brot ME to the most interiorest county
NV the State.
Remote from railroads, off Nv the
stage lines, and not within several days
| journey Nv telegrsffs, it wuz trooly a
arcajen spot Here wuz the log cabin
in its primitive simplicity-here wul
streems onto wich there wuz no mills
here wuz roads without no fences
here wuz women without no hoops.
Ridin along, musin onto the beauty
NV the landscape, l heered a swingir
swishin sound a whistlin thro the air
a dull, heavy thud, and them oh joy! {
shreek! | wuz in wood, but there
was cleerin beyond, and from that
cleerin the sound proceeded.
Putin spurs TO my stesd, or ruther
to get down from the elegancies NV de.
scriptive writin to actooal fact, thumpir
Bascom's mule over the head with the
club l carried, soon emerged from thu
forest and beheld scene which made
my heart leep for joy. There wuz 1
house, nigger quarters, whippin post,
and, good hevins that l should be SC
blest, a niger tied to it, and vigorous
old man Nv sixty, with broad brimmeG
hat, and pious look, layin it to hin
good!
Wuz awake or wuz l dreamin! Il
these reel or wuz / the victim of some
pleasant hallucinashen! Dismountin
| rushed up to him and fell onto hi'
neck. "Now," said in extacy, "le
thy servant depart in peece!"
Shakin me orf and continyoOin cooly
till he had reached thirty lashes, thu
old gentleman babe two niggers stand
in by to unite him, take him to his quar-,
tiers and rub his delitefully lasseTatet
back with salt and water, and turnin ht
exclaimed, "whoin the blazes are yoo7'
80 speek them words agin!" sed l
strikin a attitood, '1've bin in Michi
gan, and them words is music to mel
"Well-who in thunder are yoo?"
IA Dimocrat-a ante war Dimocra
-wich owned niggers, (this was lii
thrown in for effect,) but they've BIZ
taken from me by a crooel tyranny
| To see you, a troo Sutherner handliI
Nv em in the troo Suthern style, quit
onmaus me- Speek! how hev yo'
managed it,"
Slowly rollin over his quid, in quie
and cotemplativ manner, he asked m
to the house On the piazzer wicl
fronted it we sat down, and he told m
these:
His name wus Rasper. Hs know
Nv the Emancipashen Proclamashen
but he'd KEEP it keerfully from his mig
gers, ez he'd all the planters in the des'
strik. Determined that for the goot
NV the helplis niggers one secshun o.
Kentucky shood be held sakrid-tha
her old, time-honored institooshsn
shood be maintained at least in on
place, he hed>held EN- all in the sam
condishsn ez before the war. The ma
bors for ten miles square he'd organize,
a league, and he'd swore a sollem oat
to keep their niggers likewise-to shoe
at sight all NV em wich attempted t
run away or even to communicate wit
. other niggers, and that by DRAWN
Gordon, as it wuz, around EN-, they he
T been kept in state Nv tollable subjet
shen. 1t cost them ten or fifteen time
as much to keep them ez the niggel
; ; made, but what Nv thati Kentuek
/ wood never give up her niggers Or HI
! Democrisy; and in one spot, sekloods