The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1869-01-15
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Correspondence Fremont Journal.I
WAsHrNGToN, D. G., Jan. 4, 1863,

/ r.e.r WAsHINGToN, D. c., jap. 4, 1869,
FRESH FROM REBELDoM
Major Frank A. Belts, one of th,
< Attorneys ofthe Union Pacific Railroad
who resides in this city, has Just return
ed from professional trip South, and
/ Southwest, as far ss Texas. The Msjol
is arfayorabls specimen of the Western
| lman-intelligent energetic, direct,
sharp sighted, q judge Of human nature,
and q Radical Republican. During the
war. he marched, aud joulneyed on
lgoyernment business, through great
4 portion of the South. The South is
therefore no new field of observation
with him. 1 was very glad Of an op,
1pOrtupity of talking with him, feeling
much reliance upon his impression.
Judging from his observations, espec-
4 1iaIly in Mississippi, he would say the re-
bsllion was still going on in the South.
He saw several military. companies dres,
sed in rebel uniform, who, il was well
understood, operated as Ku-KIux at
night Stopping at a hotel on the: line
Of the n. d G. r R. when be happen
ed to be the only guest, he talked plain
ly With some loafers in the bar.room,
who made ssset at hin as a Northern
man The mildest of the talk be
thought of such ashsraeter as might be
heard between parties to flag of truce
in time of war. Concerning the negro,
they we're all cel tain that he woulii 90
with the Southern man in everything.
and shared his hatred for the Yankee.
At the table the Major and a negro
waiter being alone together, the latter,
who it appeared, had been a listener to
the bar-room talk, burst out in the full
ness of his heart, with IS lssl
"GOlly, msssa Ipever heard anybody
talk to dose rebel fellers as you done.
/ gollB ! tole de eullud people how you
glib it to 'em. Don't you b'lieye 'em
bout de cullud folks. Dase wild you
dss for you; and da shan't nobody hurt
you in dis shere town. De cullud folks
ia PErte1d dat day don't ike de Yam
KEGS, because de Ku-Klux comes to dere
house ebery few night dressed Ike dead |
folks aud says da haint bad no water to |
drink since the battle of Shiloh; but l |
golly if dats SO Ise mighty sorry fore
dere whiskey barrel p DC.
3 Two things Reys shogn here on the
psgFo's testimony; the intimidation of
Union whites, and the hypocritizing of
the blacks as 10 slavery, is,sq
The Major fell in with an army se-
quaintance, living in little town in the
interior of Mississippi, who in reply to
inquiries, stated that he was allowed to
live there, notwithstanding he was a
Northern man, "because. l. I have all
Southern wife, and her relatives are
'ope protection, 9. l am a macbinist
spd they can hardly get along without
ne, 8. ! hold my tongue. And with {
III l am annoyed to death. All l havels
q the world is land here. 1t is really s
worth $50 an acre, and 1 hope to sell It h
or SO soon and leave. God grant that [
may get away from this Internal peo- e
lle." ID
Walking in the outskirts of a little II
own in Northern Alabama, one day, II
where he had been stationed at one III
ime in the last years of the war, be
Tas hailed from a corn crib with an in
itation to come over and husk corn for q
lis dinner. Glad Of so good a chance s.
0 see something of the natures at home, d
e accepted, and husked but few ears t;
efore It came dinner time. "Before I e
o in" he said to the planter, sit is 81
ight that you should know that claim S
D be q little the worst Radical in Amer h
"a. y The planter looked a moment I'll
nd grasped the Majors hand with tre- u
lendOus energy, saying; "Well, yo'n 81
o to beton. You ant afraid. l knew e,
ou was a Yankee by your tall hat, and tc
called you over to sell you my farm. Y,
ONE in and get some Wbiskey and he
oney.." b,
They went in aud had a frank con- st
srsation over hearty dinner, to the 81
f-ct, on the part of the planter, that IP
. had served in the rebel army, was or
that be would like to fight co
10 Yanks another year or so; but he'd DC
, dod darned if he didn't like a feller he
at waFn't afraid of rets. At a late be
)ur the planter escorted our friend to so
e station two miles off, in time to take SCI
g train and they parted, the host de- an
aring that he would fight Yanks as M;
ne as he lived, and the Major declar- hi.
2 that we of the North had our heel lha
the Southern politician, and intend AL
to- keep it there until he had learned boz
tier behavior. s. the
Major Bettis attributes bis own escape pal
m violence throughout his journey ii,
4 hisnumerous avowals of his senti- ha,
nts to his being on the great lines of we