The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1868-02-06
From the Toledo Blade.
NASBY.
MIR. Nasby EBewatIs the Sad Eff
fecGs Of Emancipation.

NW4ch Is IN Inc state Nv AenGucky,)
.T.. January 19, 1868.
Inst mite the body NV nigger wua
found dead at the end Nv Boregard aven-
ue-the main street nv the Cross Roads,
The poor cuss wuz rolled up agin the
fence, lyin on his face, ez dead ez JoOlius
Ceeser. I diskivered him. At fust I thot
the feller wuz drunk, ez I didn't see his
face, it bein common occurrence to find
our citizens in that sitooashen, but on
turnin him over. and assertanin the color
Nv his complexion, I knowd that wuz
Otwhat allied him. He he'd died Nv star
vashen, and cold and SIGH
knowd that nigger. He wuz wunst
the property nv Elder Gavitt, now deceest,
and wuz altogether too sooperior a nigger
! to quietly take wot wuz his normel cOndi-
shen, to settle down to his fate. He re-
! semlled the Elder very much. His moth
er was mulattO woman, and ez her son
| developed, it wuz observed that he he'd the
GaviUt pekOOlyaIities Nv feecher in a strik-
I in degree. Mrs. Gavitt raised ruekshen
about it. but the Elder convinst her that
it wuz all right. He cited her to the
| physiological fact that the resemblance Ok
kured coz nv the mother seein the Deekin
50 often before the birth Of the child. Its
my opinion that that was the case. At all
events he he'd very much of the enterprise
NV the Gavitts. Wunst afore the war, he
run awayt to Injeanny, and wuz recap
chered only after a desprit chase, and that
chase by the entire Democratic marshals
Of that State. He wuz finally run down
and sent back in Triumph.
The mint the war broke out, this euss-
ed 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 EN-, and the Kernel
to whose regiment be made his way, sent
him back to the Elder under guard, with
his compliments, accompanied by note,
Stain that the Fedral armies wuz itin for
the Yoonyun ez it wuz, and that it wuZ
proposed not TO interfere with property in
any way. The Elder wuz 50 effected by
this generosity that that mite and the
next he only bushWacked three nv the
Fedral pickits, insdd- Nv lyin out all mite
for EN- rs he he'd bin accustomed to do.
But finally the Emancipashen Procla-
mashen come, and the nigger run agin.-
The Elder heer1 NV him frekently. He
jfned ihigger regiment, fought deorin
the war, wuz woundid in several spots,
and narrowly escaped the just retribooshen
inflicted onto EN- ut Fort Piller. AZ the
close NV the war he went to Ohio with his
W llC anu Two ClllluEGug Dul he ulQ uOL SLdl
there. II wuznt pleasant for him. There
WIZ asudden coolin towards the nigger,
aud he felt it. Ez they didn't need EN-
any more to fh'quotas and save EN- from
sthe drafts and sieh, the ucolured brother
was the same id niger he allUz WIZ
Somewhat disgustid, pertiklerly ez when
he enlistedj he WuEs credited to Ohioy he.
returned to Kentucky, determined 10 4ite.l
It out here. Tie Cross Roads received
him quietly He saved a little money out
nv the, servis, and bought some land up
toards GarretstOwn, and built onto it al
cabin. Somehow the world didn't 20
smooth with him.. One mite his fences
wuz torn down and his CROWN crop wuz
destroyed. JmmejitIy thereafter he wuz
arrested for havih no visible means nv
support, his crops Ibein all gone, but it took
his mule and part nv liis household fur
nitOor to git oUt NV that. Fdllowin this
misfOrchOOn came another. He wUZ at the
Corners one day, when Issaker Gavitt, in
a playful mood, shot at him with revol-
yer, wich the niger resented, chokinI
Issakeri verely. The. blood uYlGhe Borz'
ners riz. A nigger had raised his impious
hand agin white man! Iminejitly the
Corners became indignant, and the nigger
wuz kept under the .town-pump two hours.
A severe cold resultin, he wuz confined tol
his bed a month with fever, durin wichl
time he got into ether trouble. His out
bouses were burned to the ground, his n
hogs wuz killed, and even his chickens
wuz massacred. He wuZ skarsely TecOv-
cred from his fit Nv sicknis, when his wife
wUz met by TssaSer GaVitt at the Corners, |
where she had gone to get medicine for /
him. Issaker, smartin under the chokin
her husband had given him, organized
raid onto her, and must confess, she wuz
yoozed rather rough. The young men nv
the Corners are excentric. The woman
wuz found the next morning in a barn.
From the blow he never recovered. He |
he'd laid a long time, and heowed quite |
number NV bills at the Corners, wich he |
Good not pay. Attachments wuz got out (
agin his property, and itwuz sold from un-
der him, and,ez he wuz not able to work, |
wat wuz over wuz held by the trustees of |
the township ez bail agin his becOmin l
township charge Capt. McPelter bot the |
place, and ez it wuz hizzen, he wanted it. |
The nigger wuz turned out and he wan
dered about q few days saperiently, not in1
his right mind, and finally Wuz found ez
1 hey described. Dead be wuz, and wrap
pin him in bloc cote into wich we found |
him hole wuz dug, and he wiz hid from
mortal site. s-sa ClH . /
Sich is the froots of Emancipashen
When the nigger, wuz dug under, $500 of
worth nv 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 master, and
devotid his life to his servis, this would [
not hev happened. He'd he bin permitted
to bev continyood workin, wOrkin. work
in, quietly and comfortably, satisfied with
his two scots Nv clothes per annum, and I
the rashens. given EN-, he wood not hev
died misrably by the roadside For [
when the nigger wuz in his normal con-
dishen he wuz not the objick uv dislike he
now is. Thur wuz then no war NV races.
The feelin that inipelled the Caucashen /
Nv the Corners, to 60 thrO' his crops and
burn his house, and'sich, did not then exist,
Tor be 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 int
a rich swamp. Sich is the bitter froOts NV
rGisin EN- from his normal condishen. The
site NV that dead nigger satisfied me that
under no circumstances Good the race be
elevated to the pint Nv gOin OH without
tecshen nv a sooperior race. There is n
the proirrepressible confiick atween the
races, and the nigger must alluz be the
loozer. Sich is the will NV the Lord.
PETROLEUM V. NAsBY, P. NJ,
(Wich is Postmaster 1