Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1868-04-09

TEE GOOD OLD T1IEs-How A PLANTATION
MANAGED AFTER THE STYLE OF 1850
LOOKS IN 1868 Mr. NAsBY FINDS SUCH
AN ONE, AND REPORTS THEREON.
PosT OFrIs, CoSFEDBIT X ROADS,
(Which Is in the State NV Kentucky, ,
March 30, 1865. J
On my return from the ornery and
cussid State Nv Michigan, 1 fell into a
state NV dependency from witch found it
difficult to recover. The horrors Nv stayin
in community totelly unused to the ex-
hilerssnun Nv the flown bole. totellv, i'm
pervlous TO the soothin infooence Nv the
foods witch we in Kentucky eggist onto,
and where the DimOcrisy are in a hopelis
minority, made reason totter onto her
throne, and intelleck to reel in highly
reciculous manner. To dissipate the inn
preston, | bOrrered Bascom's mule and
Deekin Pogram's saddle bags, and film
the first with oats, and the latter with a
loaf Nv bread and a gallon NV whisky,
madly plunged OFF into the interior Nv
the State, that might in rooral solltoodes
give full vent 10 the melancholy that op-
prest me.
Two days travel up the mountips brot
me TO the most interiorest county Nv the
State Remote from railroads, off Nv the
stage lines, and not within several days'
journey Nv the telegrafs, it wuz trooly a
Arcsjen spot. Here wuz the log cabin in
its primitive simplicity-here wuz streems
onto witch there wuz no mills-here wuz
roads without no fences-here wuz women
without no hoops.
Ridin along, muslin onto the quiet beauty
Nv the landscape, l heered swingin,
swishin sound a whistlin thro the air a
dull, heavy thud, and theni oh Joy q
shrek wuz in the wood, but there wuz
q cleerin beyond, and from that cleerin
the sound perceeded.
Putin spurs TO my steed, or ruLher, to
get down from the elegancies Nv descrip-
tive writin 10 actoosl fact, thumpin Bas
CONS mule over the head with the club
carried, soon emerged from the forest
and beheld sceen wich made my heart
leep for joy. There wuz house-nigger-
quarters-a wbippin. pOst-and, Good
HeyiDs, that sbood be so blest-a niger
tied TO II and vigOrus old man Nv sixty,
with broad brlmmed hat and pious
look, layin it TO him good!
Wuz | awake or wuz / dreaminl Is
these reel or wuz / the victim Nv some
pleasant hallucinashen Dismountin, |
rushed up TO him and fell onto his neck.
want depart in peeceT 7lu
Shskin me OFF and contipyooin coolly
till he he'd reeched thirty lashes, the old
gentleman babe two niggers standin
by to unite him, take him 10 his quarters
and rub his delitefuly lssseratea back with
salt and water, aud turnin he exclaimed,
"who in blszes are yoos"
20 speek them words agin r. sed /,
strikin a attitood, "rve bin in Michigan,
and them words is music to mer
Well-who in thunder are yoo?"
GA Dimocrat-a ante-war DimOcrat-
witch owned nigsers, (thls wuz lie thrown
in for eff.ck) but they've bin taken from
me By cr0oei tyranny. To see 700, q
roo Sutherner, handlin Nv EN- in the troo
Suthern style, quite oDmas Inc. Speek I
how hevy 700 managed it?"
Slowly rollin over his quid in quiet
and contemplative manner, he asked me
10 the house. On the PLAYER witch
fronted it, we sat down, and he told me
these:
HIS name wuz Rasper. He knowed Nv
the Emsncipashen Proclamashen, but ne
he'd kept it keeriully from bis niggers, e.
he'd all the planters in the deestrlk. De-
termined that solely for the good Nv the
helpless Higgers one sekshun Nv Kentucky
shOOd be held sakrld-that her old, time
honered institushens shood be maintained
at least in one place, he he'd held EN- all
in the same cOndishen tZ before the war;
The Majors for ten miles square he'd organ
lied league, and he'd swore sollem oath
10 keep their niggers likewise-to shoot at
sight all Nv en- witch attempted to run
away or even to communicate with other
niggers, and that by DRAWN a Gordon, as it
wuz, around em, they he'd been kept in a
state Nv tollable subjeckshen. 1t cost EN-
ten or fifteen times eZ much to keep EN- eZ
the niggers made, but wat Nv that? Ken.
lucky wood never give up. her niggers or
her Democrisy, and in one spot, seklOoded
tho it wuz, they were determined to hev a
troo sample Nv both. -
at this pint the son Nv my host rode
up onto q gray geldin from another plan
tashen wich the old man owned six miles
away.
ala! john" sed my venerable friend,
show is things over the Run?"
"AlPs we'll, dad" sed he.
"Hez Joolius got sufficiently over bein
chawd by the dorgs to do his regler work ?"
al thot so. He played OFF little while
this mornin; but we Gated him till he wuz
willin to give up his obstinacy and go at it.
He's done his average"
"Hez Ceezer got well Of that charge Nv
buckshot?"
"Ceezer, no ! he died. He TUX cold in
the leg and it mortified"
"Jt ST my luck He wus the best hand
l he'd on the place o my friend observe
the effeck in hasty temperi He Civ me
too much Nv his lip, put charge NV
shot into him, and now he amt with the
powder that druv the shot. Oh, how hev
[ wrastled with that ungovernable temper
nv minel Hsz that stranger up the run
bin looked after 2"
"Yes. Me and Tim Duggins spected
him Nv bein aemissery, ez he took a moose
paper and his wife he'd been seen combin
her hair. and we inquisited him. He took
the Moo York Tri6oon, and party nv us
gave him ten minits to git out. Ez he
didn't git out we shot him. His family is
still on the place, but they will probably
leeve soon, "a we shell burn the cabin down
tc-morrer."
How is Kittyf"
81 coodn'I do much with her. Sence
her baby wuz born she bez never lin wuth