The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1868-02-01
NAsBY.
The Biography OF Dead Niger,
who was Foolish EnOugh to Insist
Upon Being Free-The Result OF
his Folly

BIS Folly.
From the Toledo Blade.l
Posr-oFFIs, goNFEDR Y RoADs,)
(Which is in the staff NV Kent1eky.)
Last mite the body NV a niger wuz
found dead at the eend Nv Boregard
Avenue-the main street Nv the Cross
Roads. The poor cuss wuZrolled up
agin the fence, allyn on his face, ez
dead ez Joolius Ceeser. | diskivered
him. At fust Ithot the fellow wuz
drunk, ez I didn't see his face, it bein
common occurrence to find our cltl-
zens in that sitooashen, but on turDin
him over, and ascertainin the color Nv
his complexion, I knowd that wuz
not what allied him. He he'd died Nv
starvashen, and cold, and SIGH.
Iknowd that niger He was wunst
the property Nv Elder Gavitt, now de-
ceest, and wuz altogether too scope
rior niger to quietly take wot wuz
his normal condishen, and settle down
to his fate s He resembled the Elder
very much. His mother wuz a mu-
latto woman. andlez her son develop
ed it was observed that he he'd the
Gavitt pekooliarities ov feecher, in a
striking degree. Mrs. Gavitt raised a
ruckshen about it, but the Elder con-
vinct her that it wuz all right. He
cited her tothe physiologicle fact that
the resemblance okkurred coz Nv the
mothers seein the Deekin so often
before the birth of the child. It's
my opinion that that Ruz the case.
At all events he he'd very much Nv
| the enterprise of the Gavitts.s Wunst
afore the war be run away to IDjean-
| any, and was recapchered only after a
| desprit chase, and that chase by the
entire Democratic Marshals nv that
State. He was fnallyr run down and
sent back in triumph.
The mint the war broke cut, this
cussid one-fOurth niger run away
agin. He made the camp near the
Cross Roads, but gloryl the Fedral
usurpers he'd ez yet little shame left
into EN-, and the Kernel to whose
back to the Elder under gard, with
his compliments, accompanied by
note stain that the FedraP armies
wuz ftin for the Yoonyun ez it wuz,
and that it WIZ proposed not to inter
4fere with property in any way. The
Elder wuz so effectid by this gene
resity that that mite and the next he
only bushwhacked three Nv the Fed
] raj pickits, instid Nv layin out all mite
for EN- ez he he'd bin accustomed
to do.
But finallythe Emaneipasheu Proc
/ lamashen come, and the niger run
agin. The Elder heerd Nv him FREE
kently. He5ined a niger regiment,
fought doorfn the war; wuz Woundfd
i In sevral spots, and narrowly escaped
the just retfibooshen inflicted onto
EN- at Fort sPiller At the .closesof
the war he went to Ohio with his wife
! and two children, but he did not re-
!. main there 1t wuznt plesent. for him.
| There wuz 4 suddin coolin towards
= the niger, and he felt it. -Ez they
Z didn't need EN- any more to fill quo
tas and save en- from the drafts and
SIGH, the colored brother Ruz the
same id niger he always wuz
Somewhat disgustid, pertiklerly sez
4 when he enlisted he Wuz -oreditid
to Ohio, he returned TO Kentucky,
determined to fife it out here. The
ECFoss Roads received him quietly. He
saved little money outAuv the ser
4 Wis, and bought some land up toards
Garrettstown, and built onto It cab
III. Somehow the world didn't go
smooth with him. One mite his
fences wuz torn down and growth
crops wuz Z destroyed. Immejitly
: thereafter, he wuz arrested for heE-
IN no visible3means of support, his
crops bein all gone, and it took his
mule and a part NV his household
furnitoor to git out NV that. Fol-
lowin this misforchoon came anoth
err. He wuze at the Corners one
day, when Issaker Gavitt, in "a Play
full mood, shot at him with a revoE
YER wich thesnigger resented@ chok-
in Issaker severely. The blood Nv
the Corners riz. A niger had raised
his impious hand agin a white mani
| 1mmejetly the Corners became in
dignated, and the niger wuz kept
under the town pump for two
hours. A severe cold resultin, he
was confined To his bed a month with
fever. doorin-wich time he got into
other troubles 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-fi NV sicknis, when his
wife wuz met'by Issaker Gavitt at the
: Corners, where she had goneto get
medicine for him. Issaker, smartin
under the ch0kin her husband had
given him, organized raid onto her,
and [ must confess she was yoosed
rather rough. The young men Nv the
Corners are eccentric. The woman