The Portland daily press., 1869-01-20

Ns"S ON the southern ToubIes.
lFrom the Toledo Blade.l
POST OFFS, CoNFEDRIr X RoAns
(WIeh is in the State NV Kentucky.1
-r Dec. 81, 1868.
The kondishun of affairs in the States wicb
Wuz lngaged In the late onplesantnis with pre-
loodis in favor Nv the konfedrasy, is most ter.
nble. The country is unsafe for any man to
'llve into. Brootal niggers, armed with i'm
PIGMENTS OF war, go roamin thru the country
in Dands, hurnin, KILN, robbin & destroyin;
terriiyin the peasful planters who are flyin to
the city IOr protokshnn. saw more than 20
ny s19Se striken men in faro bank in Ilnis-
Feelin that statement Nv the la..s ,,v tho
kase mite possibly result in soffenin the s:r
ger Nv radikal rool, and induse the incomin
administrator remedy our evils by putin
the power whar it legitimately belongs, viz:-
in2 the bans Ov the white Caucashen citizsus
Of the South, irrespective of their prejudisses
in the matter Nv government, l in
dulged into a small tour of insLekshun, ex-
tendm my researches ez far South as Arkan-
sas.
My first stoppin plase was in Georgia.
Here l found most fIitsful state of snarky
existin. The niggers were in state of COM
plete insubordinashun. An old friend ov
mine, whose hospitality he'd accepted, vuz
livin with the house barricadid, in hourly
expectashun Nv an attak from the infooriated
demons who was ragin without, very soon
aseertained the situashon. Major Kuggles
wuz stripped by the war of all biz posseshuns
in niggers. he was bereavid. He he'd 1000
akers Of land 81 nary hand 2 work it, and
was consequently distrest The onfealIn
Burrow offisers insultinly remarked that the
Ruggleses themselves mite possibly work
enuf Nv this land make subsistence, but
the Major withered them. He was compell-
to either stane his hands with labor, or hire
niggers. He took the latter alternative, and
hired hundred of them. / saw the contrax
and more cleer documents / never saw. 1t
was stipulated the niggers shoOd labor for six
dollers per munth, and shood forft doller
per day for each days absense, no matter
wat the cause thereof.
Ez the nigeroes wuz starvin they axcedd
to these TURNS and Orl went peacefully. They
got, each of um, so much corn meal and so
much bacon per day, and the prospeckt they
had Nv gittin $72 each at the end Nv the sea-
son stimulated um to talerible degree Nv
activity. The crop promist well, and the
Major and his phamily went to Saritogy in
the summer; it wuz harvested and resultid
well, and the family went to Moo Orleans to
spend the winter. On Christmas day the
Major settled with his hands, and hevin no
phurther yoose for um till spring, he dis
charged um. The most NV um he brot in
debt to him largely, ez they he'd bin sick dur
in the seeson more or less, and six daiz sick
ness balanced a months work when well.
Nv coorse orl he'd drawd sunthin in orl thro
the year for klothin. This klass he treetid
genrusly. y
81 don't warnt the mummy which yoo owe
me-" he remarkt. "Ide skorn to talk it. Yoo
ma work it out chopin cord wood or bildin
ienciz, or emmy uther work yoo chuze. de-
zire to be ezy onto orl of yoo-nay, more,
geDrus" 7sa- a...I. ss.s..r. I..-
4 Those who he'd lost no time and who he'd
not drord thare pay in full, by loozin time, he
wuz jest as genrus with. He he'd spent the
heft Nv hiz mummy at Saritogy, and to git his
gurls thare outfit for Moo Orleens, and hedn't
a dollar to pa um with.
"But, sed he, "that shoodent interrupt our
friendly relashuns. Arter the next crop /
prOberbly shel hev enuff to liquidait these
little bills. At orl evence, rether du or knot,
let us hev peese. Let us be frens ez befour
let everything be plezant, and luvly, and
serene" o' I.-
The niggeroze, singler ez it ma seam, didn't
see it. Noin ez thay did that the Major he'd
MT emmy mummy, the Unreasonable rechiz in
sistid upon his payin Nv um. Thay swoar
thay coodent live thro the winter without
suplyze, and that mummy thay must hev.
81 hevent got it," remarkt the Major smilin
onto um. Crra 0.s.
"Sell yer kerriges and hossesw skreeched
they. A
"But Mrs. Rugles and the Miss Rugleses
coodent ride next summer in that eventF re-
markt the Major.
AT this pint the onpleasantniss began. The
infuriatid niggers woodent listen to reeson.
There wuz several bales of cotton yet on the
place, and a score, more or less, OF mules and
hosses. The cotton they seezed, and hitchin
up the mules to wagans they proceeded to
load it with view of cartin it off to the
t--4----sse-Su- Ery TnC M
Jor, his four sons, and perhaps a Gozen or
twenty neighbors, who happened opportune-
| ly to be present and armed with fowlin
peeces and repeetin riphles, determined, un-
| prepared ez they was, to resist, and in the
| melee perhaps dozen or more niggers was
shot and fatally killed.
From this growed the trouble that afflicted
| this pertickler neighborhOod, and doubtless
| the circumstances are the same everywhere.
The niggers have no regard for law and no
desire to keep within due bounds. The law
was open to em. Thirteen miles from Ma
l0r Ruggleses place resides a Justis of the
Peece, and they could have sood the Major if
ne owed them anything, providin they Good
| git some white man to go their bail for costs.
| One batch did this thing last winter. The
| defendant confessin judgment like a man,
execution was of koarse stayed for nine
! months, and before that time, the plaintiffs
| having all starved to death, the matter was
peacefully disposed Of OIL he'd Majo r
| Ruggleses's niggers done this! But instid
| they attempted to rest from him the produx
| of his soil by force!
know the Ablishnists Nv the North will
assurt that the niggurs wuz justifyable in wat
| thay did. that eff the sile wuz the Majors the
labor wHz the niggurs, but that wont doc.
Law iz law, and know niggur has rite to
| appele to enything els. Ell the law doan't
happen to perfeckt EN-, it's the falt NV the
law not Nv the Major. Them niggurs will
starse this winter, or subsist by violatin the
sacred injunkshun, "tEow shalt knot steel!"
Oh, how mutch bettur wood it hev bin, he'd
thay continnyood az the Orlmitey intended
um, the propperti OF kinde massturs. Stitch il
the bittur frutes Nv Abbylisshun'suml Stitch
is the bitter rezults NV Abbylisshun inter-
medlin with the sissteam ontu which the
South wuz bilt. Wen niggurs wuz wurth
$500 per niggur, thay were neither shot nor
turned out to starve. Thay reprezentid two
mutch mOnney. Butt now-I shall kontinu
theze investigashuns. .r1l -41-a1 L ~
PETROLEUM V, NAsBY, p. NJ,
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