The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1868-06-19
LETTER FROM LOUISIANA.
bETT6H FROM LOUISIANA.
Gel. Crowell's Farming Operations
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Dear Brother-I am alone tonight anC
will write you line just to put in time
will talk crops first: Well, 1 have corn al
high as my shoulder, in silk and tassel
pumpkin vines rod long. To-day finished
tplantiDg sweet potato sprouts. Have had tt
eat lettuce, peas, radishes, snap beans, new
potatoes and onions too long to talk sbout
My cucumber, water and mush melons ART
in bloom, oats in head. AL of this / have
on less than one acre Of ground. I have .
small gray pony that is slow, but improves
with proper persuasion. plow him and in
fact do everything with him. Planters are,
as general thing, getting on fine with theil
work. Cotton is looking well, l,corn first rate
Almost every one is planting more corn than
usual. The old style was one-fourth or at
most one-third corn; now at least half of the
crop is corn. Our river is, now bank full
and still rising. We had a partial overflow
weeks since-as much water now will set
things back bad, to late to plant over. There
is no sickness in the land now.
| Political: On the 18th and 18th of April
there was an election. A new Constitution
was submitted and it was adopted by re-
spectacle majority in the State This par
ish went about 400 democratic ESQ called
msjority. There was any amount of skull
dugery" played, Here We have Parishes and
Wards-in7 Ohio you have Counties and
Townships ran for Justice of the Peace
in this ward--four Of us were up--I beat the
whole lot l67. The Radicals elected me. 1
had thought that l was democrat or conser-
vative but when heard the manner their
principles we're expounded, they we're entire
ly too rebel for me. Plenty of them talk
war. war to the knife. am; not in with any
party against the United. States; don't think
that bit popular. Our. reconstructed folks
are not so meek as they out to be--not near.
Too many of them are living that should
have been hung. .,..
| You know that the government is estab-
fishing National Cemeteries One of them
is located at Alexandra, in this State. A
party of workmen had been taking up our
killed at Mansfield and Pleasant Hill that
fell during Banks failure in 1864. While at
work lot of chivelry came upon them and
insisted upon making corpse of the FORE
man and putting him in one of the empty
cofins. He told them, he was not armed
but he would go to camp and get his pistol
and shoot while for past-time. They let
him off, but took the skull Of one of our
men that was in a box, put it up on stump
and shot at it. When they quit they had
put thirteen holes through Il. The working
party quit until party of soldiers came to
protect them and the remains of our fallen
soldiers. Mansfield is the county seat of
Desota Parish. Said parish lies just south
of this and Mansfield is but twenty-five
miles from here. Some of said chivalrous
party have been arrested and they cry and
beg and say they were drunk at the time.
l do not think there are many such brutes
in this county, but many viii smile at and
endorse them, few would denounce them
and none, no not one, would interfere and
try to prevent such acts. would rather be
governed BY negroes than such brutes.
This country is not half civilized. There
are few law abiding men in it. Yet for the
sake of office some things that were in our
army side with them. I would sooner loose
the good leg than do so. If it were not for
- :. r. s., I.
ern man would last just as long as a worm
gut in the reach of hound pup. They
hate all of us. Poor sinners, so many of
them are getting seedy, it does me good to
see them They are all Andy johnson
men and they at the surrender hated him as
the Devil does holy water; but as soon as he
put his traitor side in sight they fell down
and worshiped the beast.
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