Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1868-01-03
Nasty.
MIR. Massey HAVING BEEN SENT SOUTH TO
REPORT UPON THE CONDITION OF THINGS
: IN THE FIFTH DEPARTMENT, DOES SO
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4 REPORT UPON THE CONDITION OF THINGS
IN THE FIFTH DEPARTMENT, DOES sc
REPORT. r
i Moo ORLEENs, Dec. 16, 1867.
To his Eqg8Zency A. johnson, President uU
the Yo0nited States
hev the honor to report that arrived
in this city safely, and am ez comfortable
ez may be. 1t wuz most disagreeable
task yu impozed on me, but took it, 1t is
a matter Nv no small moment to one Nv
my yeers, who hez bin drinkin one brand
Nv whisky for yeers, to shift sudden and
take his chances along the road, and rale-
rode travelin amt safe, but to serve 700
wat woodent l undergo? BY the way,
coodent the salery Nv my Z. o. be raised?
On my way down | saw nothin Nv Pc
koolyerly alarming nacher. / trembled
for the Republic somewat at one pint in
Tennessee, when / saw niger enter the
car into WITCH l set and pull out moose
paper and go to reedin, but L Gained
myself Wen we hev a Dimokratic Presi-
dent, and Dimokratic Congris, a reor-
| ganizashen NV the Court kin be had, and
the laws under witch SIGH things is permit
ted kin be desided unconstoOshnal, and
theze people robust to their normal spere.
One Nv EN-, a woman, he'd the lmpudense
| TO set In frunt Nv me for ten miles.
We found Moo Orleens in tremor NV ioy.
| The principal biznis Nv the citizins liz goin
about the streets clappin their hands and
hollerin "Hallelujer" The order Nv the
CRATE and good Hancock he'd restored con-
| fidence in the buZzums Nv our friends, and
eonsternashen in the breasts Nv our ene-
miles, Juries, thank God, are no more
pulluted with niger onto EN-. They are
now drawd from the old citizens, many NV
| witch served under BOregard in the late
| onpleasantnis. Biznis, therefore, in the
Courts goes on without delay. Ez sam
| pie Nv how much biznis is facilitated, 1
may menshun that in one Court there wuz
| forty four cases in wich niggers wuz plain
| tiffs, and forty-five in witch niggers wuz
| defendants. The tryin Nv all these cases
wuz accomplished in three hours and
nineteen mnits: the verdcks In the forty
| four fust cases bein invariably for the
| defendants, and in the forty-five other
cases for the plaintiffs. Nv the time
| specified, two hours and twenty-three min
its wuz consumed by the niggers in payin
the costs. It's singler thing how wrong
the niggers alluz are. ...... .
In addition to this boon, the citizens Nv
Louisiana hev, | am happy to state, got
back their hd6js c0,palsses Genral Han
cock, with courage witch cant too high
ly commend, ashoored the people that so
| long ez he he'd power here, they shood
never agin be deprived NV EN-.
In Texas affairs is goIn on es we'll ez
Good be expected. The Generals order
| for holdin the elecshen gives general salts
| facshen to our friends. The elecshens are
| to be held only at county seets, which
owing to the size Nv the counties, will
| probably pervent q great many Nv the
| niggers from attending. Then wher a
| Judge of elecshen can't sit, the civil au.
| thorities appoint another in his sted, insted
| Nv the Military commander, witch our
friends think will give us majority Nv
the elecshen boards, and finally, that
witch partikelerly binds Gen. Hancock to
us is that part NV his order witch perhbits
the military from bein at the polls. 1t is
eggstrenely probable that the Etheopians
NV Amerikin descent will be very gener
ally perswaaded not to vote at all. The
citizens Nv Texas hev way NV perswadin
| the niggers, when they amt unconstitoOsh-
nally interfered with, that will, think,
enshoor the triumph NV correct prinsiples
in that State A native Texan, a gentle
man who is now in Moo Orleens a pur
chasin cartridges for Z inch revolvers to be
yoozed in reconstructin the State, gave
me such information ez preclooded the
necessity Nv my goin personally to inspect.
The land owners NV Texas, with an ardent
desire to avoid distress in the State next
| winter, both for themselves and the
colored populashen, hev wisely deter
mined that the niggers shell work whether
or no, and in SIGH way ez to
make their work profitable. They hev
desided to form labor leagues, the obieck
NV witch is to extract from the niger the
labor that is layin dormant into him, at
about $12 per month. They hev mutoo-
ally pledged themselves to pay no more
than $12 per month for able bodied Mig
gers doorin the workin season, deductin
board and so forth tor their families and
further, that no one will employ nlgger
from another naborhood onless he kin
show permission from his last employer.
They hey other roofs for the proper
regelashun Nv this perverse people witch
is hardly worth menshunin, but probably
it wood be as well. One is, that eff the
wages is more than eat up by the family
expenses the niger shell work it out next
season, and that the supplies upon witch
they live, shell be furnished by the en-
ployer upon SIGH terms ez committee NV
employers in each deestrick shell agree.
To prevent mismanagementu Nv the soil
| by these undeveloped intellecks, and to en-
shoor their acceptance Nv these laws, 1t is
also part Nv the league that no Ian be
leased or sold to any one Nv Afrikin blood,
and that ez much NV the wages ez the en-
ployer considers proper be retained in his
hands.
They accept the situashen and acknowl-
edge the bindin force Nv emaDcipashen,
but they must reglate labor themselves.
1t is thot that by Twin faithfully to these
| regulashens cheep cotton kin be agin per
| doost in Texas. Eff the Legislator electid
| is ez we hope it will be, this code will be
made a law, and thank the Lord emanci-
pashen wont mean nothin in Texas cept a
change Nv name.
| | wood suggest that 700, t0wunst take
| the last order of Generil Hancock's and
make it the subjeck NV message to Con-
girls. Detale in full the Generil's talk
here, and add to it as only 700 kin. Tell
CSngris that the Generil is agOin to make
the law the rool Nv his conduck, and that
he perposes to uphold the courts and civil
authorities, and will only yoose his militia
ry to these ends. Sling in here suthin to
the effect that American liberty (Which, in
this country is pekoolyer variety Nv the
artikle,) is still an inheritance Nv the peO-
pie, and shell alluz be. Tell EN- that when
a S0!jer hez Unlimited power IN his hands,
and refooses to yoose it for the purpose Nv
gratifyin selfish ambishun, he presents
betty sample Nv virtoO under diftikilties.
1t wood be well, at this pint, to compare
Hancock with Washington, maxim the dit