Nebraska advertiser., 1869-01-21

POST OFFS, COM EDIlIr - ROADS. j
(Wich Is In the State Nv Kentucky)
December 81. 1853.
The condishun nv affairs r. the
States wich Wuz engaged in the late
unpleasantness With 8 pfejOodis in fa-
vOr nv the COnfederacy ismost terrible.
The country Is unsafe for any mar 10
live into. BrootaI nigrers, armed
with implements uv war, 20 rOarnin
through the country, in bands, bum-
min, KILN, robbin and destrOyin I;
terryfyin the peaceful planters who
are llyin 10 the cities for protection. i
saw more than twenty Nv these strick-
en- men in faro bank IN Louisville,
one mite.
Feelin that q statement w the facts
nv the case mite possibly result Ia sof-
TENN the rigger Nv Radical roOi, and
indoOee the incomin admiuistratiOn on TO
remedy our evils By putin the power
where it legitimitly belongs, VIZ in-
to the hands NV the white Cauca shen
citizens nv the South, Irrespective Nv
their preiudises in the matter uv gov
ernment, indulged IN a small tourof
inspecshun, extending my reser ches
ez far South ez Arkansas.
Ny first stOppin place was in Geor-
gia. Here i found a most friteful state
of anarky existin. The niggers were
in I'm a state NV complete insubordina-
shen. An old friend nv mine, whose
/ hospitality j he'd accepted, was Hvin
with his house barricaded, im hourly
expectashun wv an attaok from the IN
4 fOOriated demons who vas ragiu with
/ out. II very soon asceFtained the sit-
ooashen. MAJ. Ruggles wuz stripped
by the war Of all his possessions IN
/ niggers. He wuz bereaved. he had
2000 akers Of land and nary hand 20
WOrkit, and WGz c0nsekently distresst.
The unfeelin BurrOW OfIisers insult-
inly Temarkt, that the Ruggieses
/ theirseiYes mite possibly work enun
Nv this land 10 make q subsistence,
but the Major Withsred EN-. He VIZ
compelled 10 either stain his hands
/ with labor, or hire niggers. he took
| the latter alternative, and hired
hundred nv EN-. saw the eOntraX,
/ and more cleer documents i never
saw. 1t was stipulated that the mig
/ gers 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
/ the niggers Wuz q starvin they aceedid
TO these terms, and all Wynt p8aCafly.
They got, each Nv EN-, 50 much corn
meal and so much bacon per day, and
the prospect they had uv gittin So
each, at the end nv the season stimu-
/ lated EN- 20 a tOlerable degree Nv ac-
/ tivity. The crop prOmi8t well, and
/ the Major and his family went 20 Sar-
at0gy in the summer; it Wuz harTes-
ted and resulted well, and the family
went to Moo Orieens to spend the win-
ter. On Christmasd day the Major set-
tied with his hands, and hevin no
/ further yOOss for EN- till spring, he
/ discharged EN-. The most nv EN- he
Hbrot in debt TO him largely, ez they
1 he'd bin sick dOOrin the season more
or less, and six days sickness balanced
/ a month'swork when well. Nv course
all he'd drawed suthing all through
the year for clothing. This. class he
treated generously.
"I don't want the money Wieh 700
owe me" /" he remarkt. f'I'd skOrn 10
take it. You may work &c out chopin
cord wood, or buildin fences, or any
other work you choose. / desire 20 be
easy onto all Nv you-nay, more, ge1i-
erOus.n
Those who he'd lost no time and
who he'd not drawd their pay in fall,
Eby lOsin time, he Wuz Jest ez generous
with. he he'd spent the heft Of bis
/ money at Sarat0gy and 70 git his girls
their outfit for Moo OFleens, and be
/ hedn't q dollar to pay EN- with.
'tBut," sed he, ''that shoOdent In
! teFrupt our friendly relashens. After
the next crop ] probably shei bev
! enuff to liquidate these little bills. At
all evence, whether / do or not, letu US
hev peece. Let as be friends ez before
let everything be pleasant, and
| lovely, and serene.n
The niggers, singler ez it may seem
didn't see it. KNOWN ez they did
that the Major hedn't any money, the
unreasonable Wretches insistid upon
his payin NV EN-. They swOre that
they cOOdent live thr0 the winter
without supplies, and that money they
must hev,
81 hevn't got itIn remarked the
Major, smilin onto EN-.
"Sell your carriage and h0rsesl'
yelled they.
"But Mrs. Ruggles and the Miss
Rugglesses cOOdent ride next summer,
in that event u remarkt the Major.
At this pint the unpleasantnis be-
gun. The infOoriated niggers WOOdnlt
listen to reason. Ther WuZ several
bales Of cotton yet on the place, and
score, more or less, Of mules and hos
ses. The cotton they seized, and
hitchiD up the mules to wagons, they
proceeded to load it, with view Of
cartin it off to the next market town
and sellin it. The Major, his four sons,
and perhaps a dozen or twenty neigh
bOrs, who happened OppOrtoOnely to
be present and armed with fOWlin
pieces and repeatin rifles, determined,
unprepared ez they wuz, 70 resist
and, in the melee, perhaps a dOZen or
more higgeTs Wuz shot, and fatally
| killed.
From this crowd the trouble that
afflicted this pertikeler neighbOrhOOd,
and dOubtlis the circumstances are the
same everywhere.
The niggers hev no regard for law
and no desire to keep within bounds.
The law Wuz open to EN-. Thirteen
miles from Major Ruggleses place re-
sides a Justis nv the Peeee, and they
/ Good hev sOOd the Major ef he, owed
EN- anything, prOvidin they Good git
some white man 70 90 their bail for
4 cost. One batch did this last winter.
/ The defendant eOnfessin Judgment
! like q man, eXecutin Wuz Nv course
/ stayed for nine months, and Before
that time, the plaintiffs hevih all
starved tOdeath, the matter Wuz peace
/ fully disposed Nv. Oh, he'd Major
Ruggieses niggers done this! But In
std they attempted to wrest from him
the prOdux uv his soil, by f0rcel 1
know the Ablishinists nv the North
/ will assert that the uiCgers WIZ iusfi-
/ fable in wat they did, that ef the soil
wuz the Majors the labor Wuz the
niggers, but that won't DO. Law is
law, and no nigger hez a rite to appeal
I to anything else. Ef the law dOnit
happen to perfect EN-, it's the fault Nv
the law, not uv the Major. Them mig
/ gers viii starye this winter, or subsist
4 by viOlatin the sacred Injunction,
''thOu shalt not steel ." On, how
much better wood it hev bin, he'd they
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