Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1868-09-25

WRITE A LETTER TO THE PEOPLE OF THE
NORTH, GIVING THEIR IDEA on WHAT
TuR SOUTH OUGHT To HAVE.
PosT orrls, CoNrHpRir Y RoAps,
(Wieh IL In the state Nv kentnekyl
Sept. I, io6S.
Yesterday afternoon at precisely p. m,
= stranger NV prepossessin appearance
hove in site NV the Post Oils Wat
mean by prepossessin appearance Is he
he'd on paper collar wich he'd only bin
turned wunst
do ask so stoopid a question: Heven't
suflishent knowledge NV human nacher
to read humanity ez its set forth In the
human face divine, and don't know that
there amt but one NasbyS Kin mistake
itY Doth any other man carry that Web
sterian front3 Hath any other man that
eagle noseY That eagle lipsY Hath"
"Thatll do" remarkt !, In alarm, for he
wuz n persimmon above me. DRAW IL
mild, my gushin friend, for l can't lend
you dollar ef IL wuz To save VOC"
"Hoor mistaken" he did reply, "I don't
want TO borrer. | amt on that lay at
present want inCormashen. come to
yoo sir, ez the Periesser of Biblikle Litera.
toor in the Southern Military and Classi.
kle Institoot--eZ one who seeks, in classic
groves, that peece not to be found in the
busslin world outsidc--for infornashen ez to
the condishen NV the South, her wants and
eXpcctashens, wich perposo to spred be-
fore my fellow citizens nv Injeany. |
come, sir, NV my own accord. My mishun
is privit one and undertaken solely for
the public good. | wuz Commissary in
the Fedral servis, and hev brother who
wuz not altogether unconnected with the
do rf,t,oVt That ~ 10 In,
for Sheriff on the Democratic ticket; the
Ablishn Candidate for the came oils bein
the Kernel NV his regiment, who pro-
koored our dismissal for tritlin Irregular.
ties in accounts and also for wat he wuz
pleased to term swindlin the solicrs. Wat
| want Is sich statement nv the
feelins Nv the South ez will set at
rest the ISLANDERS the Ablishinists Is circu-
latin regardin 700, wich | will publish on
my return. | am actooated, ez 700 see,
by no personal motives Speek |"
MY dear sir" returned l. al approve
of yoor mlshun, and permit me to say
you have come to the rite shop. But
will put my anser in ritin and hev il
signed by the leedin citizens here that its
authenticity may not be doubted"
l, therefore, sOt down and wrote, and
when l he'd finished, sent out and got
signatoors TO the follerin document
"CAPTN We perpose in this, to give
you candid statement Nv wat we believe
to be the pervalin sentiments NV the
Southern people on various suhjix,
Watever opinions may hev prevailed in
the past, on the matter NV Alrikin slavery
or TIE rite NV State to secede from the
Yoonyun, we bleeve we express the judg-
ment of the Corners when we declare
hot inf har I'm truF
we intend to abide by that decision,
When we he'd been licked out NV our
boots, and our arms wuZ twisted out NV
| our hands, and when yoo laid en- down,
we cheerlully give over our efforts at
! secession, and sought to resume our for.
mer posishen in the Government In the
| sperit of magnanimity we permitted the
abolishen Nv slavery by Legislachers in
the eleckshen NV wich we he'd no part, c.
well ez sevral other games NV that sort
not worth while TO enoomerate. He'd our
ackshen bin met in sperit Nv coriality al
wood hev bin lovely. The people of tn,
South entertain no feelins NV hostilt,
toward the Government, but they com
plain that their rites under the Constoosl
en-, which they alluz loved eXceptil
doorin the time they wuz a tryin to bus
it, haV bin withheld from EN-.
1.-THE idea that the Southern people ar
hostile to the niggers and wood oppres
EN- ef they he'd the power is absurd. They
hev crowd up in our midst, and we he'
bin accustomed from our childhood Il
look upon EN- with kindness. Trot
we imported cat o'nine tales and heC
stocks and niger dorgs which made i
lively for 'em, but these were incidenta
to a patriarkle system. They were blooC
! nd NJ
Southerner ever sold his own mulattt
children ceptin when he was short u
means, or had more niggers than h
wanted. We still feel the same toward
EN-. Ez no troo Southern gentlemen
will ever work with his own hands, with
out their labor the lands Nv the Soutl
wouldn't perdoose To any alarmin extent
The races are highly necessary to eacl
other, pertikelerly to u.s. There must b
sWeatin ez well ez eatin in this world, an,
so long eZ we do the eatin we are Wilt
they shel do the sweatin. In this way W
kin adjust the relashens OF the two race
on basis NV mutual advantage. K
given wat we he'd before, sOopreme con
troll and assendency, we shel treet tn
niggers with kindniG, forbearancc and jus
! tis Here in Kentucky we hev never bi
disfranchised, and the nigger hez neve
he'd vote, and here the Niger hez ths
degree NV kindnis wich-"
At this pint NV readin the document, a
interTupshen Okkurrd. Their wuZ ye
on the street, and we all rushed to I'll
door to see what it wuz about. 1t wuz
mere nothin. "Sit down." sed /, ait
nothin. A niger and load NV waite
melons. He probably refused to Civ
credit for his melons, and-thunder, he
down, and the indignant populis Is goi
for him Here comes his wife with ha
the Corners after her! Down she goes
that stun Wuz we'll throwd Ha the mig
ger strikes the man wat throWd the roc
, wich knOckt his wife down. That seel
his fate! Goodbye, nigger See ho'
genteelly they rig the rope and how eli
gantly he swings His body'n lie a
mouldy in the ground, but his sole (ef tn
prognathous races heV soles,) will 6
marchin on"
"But," asked the IDjianian, "nOw tbs
the mothers brains is knockt out, and th
fathers hung, wat'll the children do vic
see cryin over the corpseY"
"Thats nothin TO us. They are in a
abnormal condishen, and they must suffe
for the sins NV ther father Ham wich lool
at Nosr when he wuz drunk. He'd tha
nigger bin content to hev lived as Go
I and Nacher intended him to heV lived, a
wood hev bin well. But he must be FIRE,
forsooth, and this is the result. He mui
try to control his own ackshens, fOrgetti
that there is material antagonism atwee
the Caucashen and Afrkin races, witch XII
| only result in sich conflicks ez you he
witnist. You heY seen specimen Nv th
feelin that pervales, wher the niger
free-wat must it be further south wheI
the black cusses vSte? But to resoom:
"The southern people in our opinio
regard the questions Nv slavery and sece
! sion ez settled by the war, and they he
no inclinashen TO try EN- over agin. Sla'
cry is dead ez Joolus Ceeser--the niggt
is free man and he'll be so forever A
I the whites ask is that they shall contr'
/ EN-. They insist, and justly so, that the
| shell hey the right to manage the inferiC
race. They want, and win hev, the ri
: 10 fix ther wages, ther hours Nv labO
, ther out COINS and in. .eomins. Uv cOuri