The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1868-04-16

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How = Plantation Managed after the
Style OF 1860 looks In 1S6S.-Mr.
Nasty finds such an one, and
Reports Thereon.

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On my return from the ornery and Gus
sid state Nv Michigan, [ fell into a state
Nv dependency, from which | found 1t
difficult to recover. The horrors Nv stay
In in community totelly unused to the
exhilerashun NV the flown bole, totelly
impervious TO the soothin infooence NV
the floods witch we in Kentucky ~eggsist
onto, and where the Dimocrisy are III
hopeless minority, made reason totter
onto her throne, and intelleck to reel IN
highly ridiculous manner To dlssipate
the impression. borrered Bascom mule
and Deekin Pogram's saddle bags, and
film the first with oats, and the latter
with a loaf of bread and gallon Nv whls-
Ky, madly plunged OFF into the interior
Nv the state. that [ mite in rooral soil
TODD give full vent to the melancholy that
opprest me.
Two days travel up the mountins brot
me to the most interlorest county Nv the
state. Remote from railroads, off Nv
the stage lines, and not within several
days journey Nv telegraffs, 1t wuz trooly
Arcaien spot. Here wuz the log cabin
in its primitive simplicity-here wuz
streems onto wich there wuz no mills
here wuz roads without no fences-here
wuz women without no hoops.
Ridin along, musin onto the quiet
beauty Nv the lanscape,I heered a swing
in, swishin sound whislin thro the air !;
dull. heave thud, and then, oh joy; a
shrek! [ wuz in wood, but there wuz
cleerin beyond, and from that cleerln
the sound proceeded.
Putin spurs to my steed. or ruther, to
get down from the elegancies of descrip-
tive writin to actooal fact, thumpin Bas-
com S mule over the head with the club
/ carried, soon emerged from the forest
and beheld sceen which made my heart
leep for joy. There wuz house nigger
quarters whippin post-and Good
Hevins, that | shood be so blest-a mig
ger tied to it and a vigorous old man Nv
sixty, with broad brimmed hat and a
pious look, a layin it to him good!
Wuz [ awake or wuz | dreemlnl Is
these reel or wuz | the victim Nv some
pleasant hallucinashun Dismountln, L
rushed up to him and fell on his neck.
Now" sed in extacy, 'letthy servant
depart in peace
Shakin me orr and continyooin cody
till he had reeched thirty lashes, the old
gentleman hade two nlggers standln by to
unite him, take him to his quarters and
rub his delitefully lasserated back with
salt and water, tufnin he exclaimed, who
In blezes are 700?
90 speek them words agin ~ sed |,
strikin an attitood, Eve bin in Michigan
and them words is music to me I"
''Well-who In thunder are yoo?'
"a Democrat ante-war Dimocrat-
wich owned niggers, this wuz lie
thrown in for effeck) but they've bin tax
ay, from, mo NV crnoa1 tyrappv To 600
you, a true Sutherner, handlln Ov elm
In the troo Suthern style, quite onmans
me- Speak! how hev 700 managed
it?'' ....
Slowly rollin over his quid, in a quiet
and contemplativ manner, he asked me
to the house On the piazza which
fronted it, we sat down, ard he told me
these:
His name wuz Rasper He knowd Nv
the Emancipashen Proclamashen, but he
he'd KEEP it kcertully from his niggers ez
he'd all the planters in the deestrick.
Determined that solely for the good Nv
the helpless niggers, one seckshun Nv
Kentucky shood be held sakrId-that her
old, time honored institushenS should be
maintained at least In one place, he he'd
held EN- all in the same condlShen eZ be-
fore the war The nabors for ten miles
square he'd organized league, and he'd
swore solemn oath to keep their nlggers
lkeWise---to shoot at site all Nv EN- Wlch
attempted TO run away or even to COM
municate with other nlggers, and that by
DRAWN Il Gordon, as 1t wuz around EN-,
they he'd bin kept In state Nv tOllable
subsection. 1t cost EN- ten or fifteen
times as much to keep EN- eZ the niggers
made, but wat Wv that? kentucky wood
never give up her nIggers or her Dlmoc-
risy. and in one spot, sekloOded tho 1t
Wuz, they were determined to hev troO
sample Nv both.
At this point the sun Nv my host rode
up onto a gray geldln from another plan
tashen wich the old man owned, six miles
away.
''Ha! John,' sed my venerable friend,
chow is things over the run ?''
All WE'LL dad, 3" sed he.
-liez Joolius got sufficiently over bein
chawd by the dorgs to do his reglar work?
Il thot So He played orr a little while
this mornin but we Gated him until he
uuz wilin to give up his obstinacy anC
go at it. He's dom his average.
Hez Ccezer got well Nv that charge
NV buckshot?''
'.Ceezer, no. he died. He TUX colo
in the leg, and it mortified. I"
'sJest my luck? He wuz- the bes
hand | he'd on the place. o! my friend
observe the eheck NV hasty temper
He Civ me too much NV his lip, put
charge Nv shot into him, and now h
ain t wuth the powder that druv tn
shot Oh, how hev / wrastled with tina
unrovernable temper of minel Hez tina
stranger up the run bin looked after?''
les. Me and Tim Duggins species
him NV ben "a emissary, ez he took
,nooscpaper, and his wife he'd bin seel
combin her hair, and we inquisited him
He took the Moo Yorb Triboon, and
party NV us gave him ten minutes to 81
out. E,z he didn't get out we shot him
His family is still on the place but the.
will probably leave soon, ez we shell bur-
the Goblin down to-morrer.
How is kitty?'
Il cooden do much with her. Senc
hersbaby wuz born she hez never bl
with much and to git shet Nv her,
traded her off to Simpson, on the Eas
Branch, for bay mare OF hizzen and
bull pup. He stumped me to play sew
en-up, best three in FIVE, for the lot, an
| lost. The baby has strong, health
look. and | give it over to big IAize
bring up by hand Simpson sold kitt
to Ambrose, off on the West Branch, an
she was carried over there yesterday"
''W ell, come in. 1t is well nigh mite
Come in to supper.
We he'd supper, and afterwards pray
srs, and after that cut throat loo for do
lar stakes.
The next day was Sundy, and a mos
happy Sundy it wuz for me. The preach
ser supported by the happy flock wuz u