Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1868-02-15

/ From the Toledo Blade.
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THE BIOGRAPHY OF DEAD NIGGER, WHO
WAS Foolish ENOUGH TO INSIST UPON BE-
ING FREE-TnE RESULT OF HIS Folly
Posi- OFFIs, CoNFEDRIT y ROADS, (Wich
is in the Stait Nv Kentucky) January 10,
lSHS. Last mite the body Nv nigger was
luund dead al the cend Nv Boregard avenue
the main street of the Cross Roads. The
poor cuss wuz rolled up agin the fence,
Yin on his face, eZ dead ez JoOlius Ceeser.
| diskivered him. At fust th0t the fellow
wuz drunk, ez didn't see his face, it bein
common occurrence to find our citizens in
that sitooashen, but IN turnin him over, and
asscrtanin the color Nv his complexion, l
knuwd that was not what allied him. He
had died of staryashen, and cold, and sich.
knOwd that niggcr. Ne WIZ wuGst the
property Nv Elder Gavitt, now deceest, aud
wul altogether ton sOoperiOr nigger to
quietly take wot wuz his normal cUnGishen.
aud settle down to his fate. He resembled
the Elder very much. His mother was
mu.uttO woman, and eZ her SOP developed it
wuA observed that be had the Gavitt pekoo
yarities Nv teccher, in strikin degree. Mrs.
Gavitt raised rackshen about it, hut the
Elder cOnvinst her that it was all right. At
{ all events he he'd very much Nv the enter
! prise Nv the Gavtts. Wunst afore the war
/ he run away to Injeanany, and wuz recap
chered only after desprt chase by the entire
Democratic marshals Nv that State. He was
nnally 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 n little shame
left into en-, and the Kernel to whose regi-
ment he made his way, sent him back to the
Elder under guard, with his compliments,
accompanied by note Stain that the Fedral
J armies wuz iitin for the Yoonyun eZ it wuz,
and that it wuz proposed not to interfere
| with property in any way. The Elder was
so affected by this generosity that that mite
and the next he only bushwacked three of
the Fedral pickits, instid Nv laying ont all
mite for en- ez he he'd bin accustomed to do.
| But finally the Emancipation Proclama-
tion come and the nigger run agin. The
Elder heerd Nv him frekently. He lined a
Niger regiment, fought doorin the war, wuz
wounded in several spots, and narrowly es-
capped the just retribooshen inflicted onto
EN- at Fort Pller. At the close of the war
he went to Ohio with his wife and two chill
dren, but he did not remain there. 1t wuznt
pleasant for him. There wuZ a sudden cOolin
towards the niger, and he felt it, Ez they
didn't need EN- any more to fill quotas and
| save cUl lEOln slCi, tuS tolpiSN'
brother was the same id niger he alluz
wuz. Somewhat disgustid, pertiklerly ez
| when he enlistid he wuZ credited to Ohio,
he returned to Kentucky, determined to fite
1t out here. The Cross Roads received him
quietly. He saved little money out Nv the
servis and bought some land up towards
Garrettstown, and built onto it cabin
! Somehow the world didn't go smooth with
him. One mite his fences wuz torn down
and his GROWN crops wuz destroyed. I'm
medately thereafter he was arrested for
hevin no visible means Nv support, his crops
bein all gone and it took his mule and part
of his household furnitoor to get out Nv that
Follown this misiorchoon came another
He wuz at the Corners one day when Issakel
Gavitt, in playful mood, shot at him will
u revolver, which the Niger resented, chokir
Gssaker seyerly. The blood Nv the Corners
riz. A Niger had raised his impious hant
agin white man Immejity the Corner
became indignated, and the niger wuz KEEP
under the town pump two hours. severe
cold resultin, he wuz confined to his bed
month With fever, doorin wich time he 60
into other trouble. His out houses wa
burned to the ground, his hogs WIZ killed
and even his chickens was massacreed. IL
was skarsely recovered from his TT Nv sickni'
when his wife wuz met By Issaker Gavitt q
the Corners, where she he'd gone 10 get m'