Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1868-02-07
Massey.
THE BIOGRAPHY OF A DEAD NIGGER, WHO
WAS FOOLISH ENOUGH TO INSIST UPON
BE1Na FREE-THE RESULT OF HIS FOLLY.

THE BIOGRAPHY OF A DEAD NIGER, WHO
WAS FOOLISH ENOUGH TO INSIST UPON
BEING FREE-THE RESULT OF HIS FOLLY.
Posi- OFF1s CoNFEDRIT ROADS.
- ~ = (Wlch is in the Staff ny Kentucky,1
4 tf# m Z a JANUARY ~, 1868. y .
Last mite the body Nv a niger wuz
found dead at the eend Nv Boregard avenue
the main street Nv the Gross Roads. The
Door cuss wuz rolled up agin the fence, a
iyin on his face, ez dead ez Joolius Ceeser.
1 diskivered him. At fust thot the fell
low wuz drunk, ez didn't see his face it
helm common occurrence to find our citi-
zens in that stooashen. but on turnin him
over, and assertainin the color Nv his COM
plexion, I knowd that wuz not what allied
him. He he'd died Nv starvashen, and cold,
and SIGH. e...-.@ u-0 4
knowd that niger. He wuz wunst the
property Nv Elder Gavitt now deoeest,
and wuz altogether too sooperior niger
to quietly take wot wuz his normal condi-
shen, and settle down to his fate. He re-
sembled the Elder very much, His moth
er wuz mulatto woman, and ez her son
developed it wuz observed that he he'd the
Gavitt1 pekoolyarities Nv feecher,, in a
strikin degree Mrs. Gavitt raised ruck-
shen about it, but the Elder convinst her
that it wuz all right. He cited her to the
physiologicle fact that the resemblance
okkurred coz Nv the mothers seein the
Deekin SO often before the birth Nv the
child. It's my opinion that that wuz the
case. at all events he he'd very much Nv
the enterprise NV the Gavltts. Wunst
afore the war he run away to Injeanny,
and wuz recapchered only after q desprit
chase, and that chase by the entire Demo
cratic marshals Nv that State. He wuz
finally 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 a
little shame left into 'em, and the Kernel, to
whose regiment he made his way, sent him
back to the Elder under guard, with his
compliments, accompanied by a note Stain
that the Fedral armies wuz fltin for the
Yoonyun ez it wuz, and that it wuz pro-
posed not to interfere with property in
any way. The Elder wuz SO effectid by
this generosity that that mite and the next
he only bushwhacked three Nv the Fedral
pickits, instid Nv layin out all mite for EN-
ez he he'd bin accustomed to do.
But finally the Emancipashen Prolama-
shen come, and the niger run agin. The
Elder heerd Nv him frekent'y. He jined a
niger regiment, fought doorin the war,
wuz woundid in sevral spots, and narrow
ly escaped the just re.ribooshen inflicted
onto EN- at Fort Piller. At the close Nv
the war he went to Ohio with his wife
and two children, but he did not remain
there Itwuzent pleasant for him. There
wuz suddin coOlin towards the niger,
and he felt it. Ez they didn't need EN-
any more to fill quotas and save EN- from
the drafts and SIGH, the colored brother
wuz the same id niger he alluz WIZ.
Somewhat disgustid, pertiklerly ez when he
turned to Kentucky, determined to fife it
quietly. He saved q little money out Nv
the servis and bought some land up toards
Garrettstown, and built onto it cabin.
Somehow the world didn't go smooth
with him. One mite his fences wuz
torn down and his CROWN crops wuz de-
stroyed. Immejitly thereafter he wuz
arrested for hevin no visable means NV
support, his crops bein all gone, and it
took his mule and part Nv his household
furnitoor to get out NV that. Followin this
misforchoon came another. He wuz at
the Corners one day when Issaker Gavitt,
in playful mood, shot at him with re-
volver, witch the niger resented, chokin
Issaker severely. The blood of the Cor
ners riz A niger had raised his impious
hand agin white man! Immejitly the
Corners became indignated, and the niger
wuz kept under the town pump two
hours. A severe cold resultin, he wuz
confined to his bed a month with fever,
durin witch time he got into other trouble.
His out-houses wuz burned to the ground,
his hogs wuz killed, and even his chickens
wuZ massacreed. He wuZ skarsely recov-
cred from this fit of sicknis, when his wife
wuz met by Issaker Gavitt at the Corners,
where she had gone to get medicine for
him. Issaker, smartin under the chokin.
her husband had given him, organized a
raid onto her, and / must confess she was
yoosed ruther rough. The young men of
the Corners are eXcenGric The woman
was found dyin the next mornin in barn.
From this blow he never recovered.
He he'd laid long time, and he owed quite
number of bills at the Corners, which he
Good not pay. Attachments wuz got out
agin his property, and it wuz sold from
under him, and ez he wuz not able to work,
wat wuz over wuz held by the trustees Nv
the township ez bail sgin his becomin a
township charge. Capt. McPelter bot the
place, and ez il was hlzzen, he wanted it.
The niger wuz turned out, and he wan
dered about a few days aperiently not in
his right mind, and finally wuz found ez |
hev described. Dead he wr1z, and wrappin
him in the bloc cote into witch we found
him, hole wuz dug and he wuz hid from
mortal site.
SIGH is the froots NV Emancipashen
When that niger wuz dug under, 81, 500
worth Nv Elder Gavitt's estate wuZ put
out Nv the way. His death lies at the
door Nv A. LinkinI He'd that nigger bin
permitted to hev stayed with his kind mas
ter, and devotid his life to his serVis-this
would not hev happened. He'd he bin
permitted to hev continyood workin,
vorkin, workin, quietly and comfortably,
satisfied with his two scots NV clothes per
annum, and the rashens given EN-, he wood
not hey died misrably by the road side
For when the Niger wuz in his normal
condishen he wuz not the objick Nv dis
like he now is. Their WIZ then no war Nv
races. The feelin that impelled the eau
cashens NV the Corners to go thrO his crops
and bum his houses, and SIGH, did not then
exist, for he he'd no crops nor houses. He
wood hev bin worked till old age overlook
him, ez it does all Nv us, and then he wood
hev bin sold South, to end his days quietly
in rice swamp. Sich is the bitter froots
Nv raisin EN- from their normal condishen.
The site Nv that dead niger satisfied me
that under no circumstances Good the race
be elevated to the pint nv goin on without
the protecshen Nv sooperior race. There
is irrepressible confick atween the races,
and the niger must alluz be the loser.