The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1869-01-14

aud six days sickness balanced a
months work when welh Wv course
al he'd drawd suthin all thro the
year for clothin. This class he treet-
ed geurusly.
&" [ dou't want the money wich Soo
owe me, he romarkt. nd skorn to
take it. You may work it out chop
pin cord wood, or buildn fences, or
any other work you choose. desire
to be easy onto all Nv 700 nay,
more, generous"
Those who he'd lost no time and
who he'd not drawd their pay in full,
by losin time, he was jest as gener-
Gus with. He he'd spent the het Nv
his money at Saratogy and to git his
girls their outfit for Moo Orleans, and
he hcdu't a dollar to pay en- with.
"But, scd he, "that shoodu't in
terrupt our friendly relashcns. After
the next crop l probably shell hov
enuf to liquidate these little bills.
At all eveuce, whothet / do or not,
let us hov peece. Let us be trends
as before-lct everything bo pleas.
ant. and lovely, aud serene.
The niggcrs, siuglcr ez it may seem
didn't see it. KNOWN ez they did
that the Major hednt any money the
unreasonable insisted upon his poyin
NV EN-. They swore that they coodn't
live thro winter without supplies, and
that money they must heV.
~ hevu't got it ~ remarkt the
Maj jor smillin onto them.
"Sell Soor carriage and horses ~
yelled they.
"But Mrs. Rugglcs aud miss Rag
glcs coodn't ride next summer in that
event" remarkt the Major,
At this pint the uupleasautnts be-
gun. The infooriatcd niggers wood
ent listen to reason. Their wuz
sevral bales os cotton yet on the
place, and scores, more or less, NV
mules and hoses. The cotton they
seized, and hitchiu up the mules TO
wagons and proceeded to load it,
with a view NV cartin il of to the
next market town aud sellin it, The
Major, his four sons, and perhaps a
dozen or twenty neighborS, who
happened cpportoonely to be present
and armed with fowlin pieces aud
repsetin rifles, determined, uu-
prepared ez they wuz, to resist, and
in the melee perhaps dozen or more
niggers wuz shot and fatally killed.
From this CROWD the trouble that
afflicted this pertikeler neighborhood
and doubtlis the circumstances arc
the same everywhere.
The nisgers hev no regard for law
and no desire to keep within due
bounds. The law wuz open to them.
Thirteen miles from Major Ruggleses
place resides Justis NV the Peece
and they Good hev sood the Major ef
he owed EN- anythin, pervidin they
Good git some white man to 20 their
bail for costs. Ono batch did this
last winter. The defendant confess
in judgment like a man, execution
wuz NV course stayed for nino months,
and before that time, the plaintiffs
hevin all starved to death, the mat
ter wuz peacefully disposed NV. Oh,
he'd Major Rusgleses niggers done
this ! But instid they attempted to
wrest from him the produx NV his
soil, by force know the Ablishi-
nists NV the North will assert that
the niggors wuz justidable In wat
they did, that efthe soil wus the Ma
jor's the labor wuz the nigger's, but
that won't do. Law is law, and no
Ligger hez a rite to appeal to any
thing else. Ef the law don't happen
to perfect them, it's the fault nv the
law, not NV the Major. Them mig.
gers will starve this winter, or sub
sist by V'olatin the sacred injunction,
"thou shalt not steel !" Oh, how
much better wood it hev bin he'd they
continoood ez the A!mity intended
EN-, the property NV kind mas;ers.-
Sich is the bitter froots Of Ablishin.
ism Sich is the result Nv Ablishn
intermeddlin with the system onto
which the South wuz built. When
niggers wuz worth 81 500 per niger,
they we're neither shot n or turned
out to starvo. They reprCse ntid too
much money. But now-I shel con-
tinue these investigashcns.
PETROLEUM V. Nasty, p. NJ,
(Wich is Postmaster.)