The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1869-10-28
NEW ATHENS COLLEGE, !
GRGENsBund, GREEN Co., Ky.

Oct. 10, 1ouo.
rom Our Regular Correspo naen.
EDIToR JoURNAL.--If 1 were man
+ leisure, I should Ike to write often.
With nc, writing often brings Its own G
eward. 1t is sometimes pleasant task {
0 write out, on tho smooth surface Of a !
emptingly white sheet Of paper, what
'ou have seen or heard, when what you
rave just seen or heard is not what you {.
lave seen or heard before. And,
hough there is something,!yet there be-
ng not 30 much in the manner in what
you have to say as in tho things said,
writing becomes moro pastime than
IN employment.
This, however, am sorry TO say does
not help my case. have tho misfor-
tune to belong to that marvellous few,
in this fruitful land Of negroes, who
work every day. I am ore OF that
small number to whom every day brings
its busy hours, which must b. met
faithfully or not met at all. The labors
Of Sambo can't be appropriated. For
anything that I have to do he is totally
unavailable. I see him everywhere
meet him going out and coming in
hear him whistling on the fence corner,
Or jumping Jim Grow for the edifcation |
Of his late master; he is perpetual
witness before my eyes Of how much
more other people get out Of the disci-
pies ofSam Key than they arc entitled to,
aud Of how little I must expect. They
gather tho apples; they thrcsh the
wheat; they 60 to the mill they drive
the team; they cut and draw the wood;
they sweep the stores and build the
fires, and bring the water, and ring the
bells. They stand on the corner, in
s'ble groupes, waiting in patience for
calls to do something. I wish you had
about one hundred of them that live
about town, in St. Cloud, to help you
and my friend. Henry Wait, (who
never learned to love work, and would
appreciate these willing workers in
some Of the Geld days Of Minnesota
winter.) An even one hundred of
them could be spared as well as not.
Greensburg would never know it. At
least three hundred Of them would be
left. don't see why they should not
be divided out. Greensburg has no
right, that I can see, to monopolize four
hundred, when other towns are full of
lazy people who would be glad to have
somebody to help them. As it is here,
Sam Keys friends do all the work, and
the white folks stand still and look on.
I know how much they enjoy it and I
would not do anything to in tho least
disturb their present happy state Of
worldly existence. But, since they
have got an even hundred more than
they need, I am in favor of permitting
my friends, who have long been expect
ing the day Of rest, to divide this sur.
plus among them, that they may hence
forward live as the old masters do here
in tasteful case and dignifad retire
mcnt.
Autumn has come, with its brown
leaves and golden sunsets. The morn
ings are beautiful and the evenings glo
rious. But l look round me in vain 70,
the hazclnut bushes and silver poplar!
that acorn the bluffs and valleys O.
Minnesota. The prairie, the lake, thu
shining stream are not here. Insteai
of the hazclnut bush is the cane brake
instead Of the silver poplar are th<
beech and the sassafrass tree; instcac
Of the prairie are the rugged cliff ani
the lowland ; instead of the lake are
the dark forests that have stood un
touched since the hunters OF Kentucky
camped there; instead Of the shining
streams are the sluggish rivers whose
waters move placidly over their rocky
beds. But if Kentucky has not thu
clear skies or the broad prairles Or the
shining lakes of Minnesota she has t!,t
advantage Of rich soil, abundant fruit
and mild climate. IF she has not the
active aud enterprisiog population o.
! her Northern sister, she holds within
her limits people coatented and hap
py, who would not exchange tho name
or fame of their State for that Of any
other in the wide world. On the au
thority of our venerable friend Esop
wo are informed that the peacock ouct
} previously complained to Juno, becaus'
a sweet voice was denied to him, Will,
the nightingale, the ugliest of birds
excelled IN song. You remember
f Juno's reply: Eft m'erito, cnins non on
MA bona IN unu,r conJeryi oportuit
And truly it is not fit that all goot
should be conferred upon one.
} The one exciting topic among thu
good people Of Greensburg and Green
county is the grand fair that common
ces at the fair grounds, half mile
from town, next Tuesday, 1t is grca
week in all the counties. Sam has 9
colt, one year old, for which he refused
FIVE hundred dollars yesterday. San
will enter him aad expects to take three
silver pitchers AMI one hundred dollars
in greenbacks on his various good quail.