Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1869-01-29
NASBY.

The Terrible Condition of Affairs in
the South, of Which We Read in the
Telegraph Dispatches-Mr. Nasby In
vestigates.
PosT OFFIs, CoNFEDERT \ ROADS
,Wich is in the State Nv Kentutky), Dec.
81, 1865
The condishun Nv affairs in the States
wich wuz engaged IN the late unpleasant.
ness with a prejoodis in favor nv the Con-
federacy, is most terrible, The country is
unsafe for any man to live into Brootal
niggers armed with implements Nv war 90
roamin thro the country in bands, burnin,
KILN, robbin and destroyin; terrifyin the
peeceful planters who are fyin to the cities
for protection. I saw more than twenty nv
these striken men in faro bank in Loois-
vile, one mite
Feelin that statement NV the facts w
the case mite possibly result in softenin the
rigger NV radical rool, and indooce the in
eomiu administration to remedy our evils
by putin the power where it ligitimitly be.
longs viz into the hands Nv the white
/ Caucashen citizens NV the South, irrespect-
i've Wv their prejudisses in the matter Nv
government, INDUCED into a small tour of
iuspecshen, extendin my researches ez far
South ez Arkansas
Ny first storpin place wuz in Georgia.
I Here | found most fritelul state Nv anar-
Ky existin. The niggers were in state Nv
complete insubordinashen. An old friend
nv mine, whose hospitality I he'd excepted,
wuz a livin with his house barridaded, in
hourly cxpectashen Nv au attack from the
infooriat6d demons who wuz ragin without.
l very soon asceTtained the sitooashen. Ma
jor Ruggles wuz stripped by the war Nv all
his possessions in niggers He wuz be-
reaved. He he'd 1000 akers Nv land and
nary hand to work it, and wuz CONSISTENTLY
distresst. The unfeeing Burrow officers
1 insultinIy remarks that the Ruseleeses
themselves mite possibly work enuff Nv this
land to make subsistence, but the Major
withered em. He wuz compelled to either
stane his hands with labor or hire niggers.
He took the other alternative, and hired a
/ hundred Nv en- | saw the contrax, and
more cleer documents never saw. Tt wuz
stipulated that the niggers shood labor for
/ six dollars per month"; and shood forfeit one
/ dollar per day for each days absence, no
matter wat the cause thereof Ez the mig
1 gers wuz a stnrgin they acceeded to these
terus and all went peacefy They got,
each NV en-, so much corn meal and so much
bacon per day aud the prospeck they he'd
NV gettin S72 each, at the end Of the season
stimulated EN- to a tolerable degree NV ac-
tivty The crop promist well and the Ma
jor and his family went to Saratogy in the
summer; it wuz harvested and resulted well.
and the family went to Moo Orleens to srend
the winter On Christmas Day the Major
settled with his hands, aud hevin no furth-
er yoose for EN- till spring, he discharged
EN-. The mos, Of en- be brot ia debt to him
largely, ez they he'd bin sick doorin the sea
son more or less, and six days sickness bal
anced months work when well. .Uv
course all he'd drawd suthin all thro the
yeer for clothiu This class he treated gen
rusty.
Il don't want the money wich 700 owe
me, he remarkt I'D skorn to take it
Yoo may work it out chopin cord wood, or
buildin fences, or any other work 700 chose
| desire to be easy onto all Nv yoo-nay,
more, generous
Those who he'd lost no time, and who had
not drawd their pay in full, by losin time, he