Vermont daily transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1868-1870, 1869-01-14
from the Toledo BladcD
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NUSOT.
THE TERRIBLE CONDITION or AFFAIRS
IN THE SOUTH, OF WHICH WE READ
IN THE TELEGRAPH DISPATCHES
Mr.. MASSEY INVESTIGATES.
PosT OFFS, CONFEDERATE X ROADS. |
witch is in the Stait NV Kentucky 7 |
Dec. 81, 1868. } |
The condishun NV affairs in the Stats |
wilh WIZ ingaged in the lait unpleas-
antness with prejOdis in favor NV the
Con lederacy, is most terrible. The
countr is unsafe for any man to live
into. Brootal niggers armed with i'm
plemen,s NV war; go roamin thro the
country in bands, burnin, KILN, Robin,
and destroyin /; tc rifyin the peaceful
planters who are flying to the cities foi
perfection. saw more tnaa ,wenty NV
these stricken men in faro bank In
Louisville, one mite.
Feelin that statement NV the facts
NV the case mite possibly result in soft
enin the rigor NV radilal rool, and in
GOoce the incOmin administrator to
remedy our evils by putin tn power
where it legitimatelv belongs, viz: into
the hands NV the white Caucashen citi-
zens NV the South, irrespective NV their
preiudisses in the matteruv Government
| INDUCED into small tour NV inspec
ehun, eXtendin my researches ez far
South ez Arkansas.
My first stoppin place wuz in Georgia.
Here found a most friteiul stateuv an
arky eXistin. The niggers were III
staff NV complete insubordinashen. An
old friend NV mine, whose hospitality |
! Il nI alvin with his house
barri .aded, in hourly expectasnen NV
an attack from tie infooriated demons
who wuz ragin without. l very soon
assertaineA the sitoo lshen. Maj. Rug
giles wuX stripped by the war NV all
his possessions in Triggers. He wuz be-
reaved. He he'd 1000 alers NV land
and nary hand tn work 1T, and Wuz
consistently distrest. The unfeelin
Rurrow officers insuitiLgly remarkt that
the Rugglesses therselves mite possibly
work enuffuv this land to make sub
sistence, but the Major withered en-,
He wus compelled either to stane his
hands with abor, or hire niggers. lie
took the latter alternative, and hired a
hundred NV EN-. | saw the cOntraX, and
mole cleer documents I never saw. 1T
wuz stipulated that the niggers shood
labor for six dollars per month, ana
shood forfeit one dollar per day for each
DAVIS absence, no matter wat the cause
thereof. Ez the niger wuZ starVln
they accedid to these terms and all went
peacetly. They got, each of EN- so much
corn meal and so much bacon per day.
ana the prospeck they had NV gittin ~
each, at the end of the season stlpulatlo
EN- to tolerable degree NV activity.
The crop promist we'll, aud the Major
and his family went to Saratogy III the
: summers it wuz harvested and resulted
well, and the family went to New VI
leans to spend the winter. On Christ
, mas Day the Major settled with his
) hands, and hevin no further yoose iol
EN- till spring, he discf arged EN-. Tht
, most of. EN- he brOt in debt to him large
ly, ez they he'd bin sick doorin the sea
, son more or less, and six days sickness
balanced a months work when well
Wv course all he'd drawd suthin all thrt
the wear for clOthin. This class he treetet
genrusly.
, 81 don't want the money which VOC
owe me-" he rema:kt. ia sKorn u
: take it. You may work it out out chop
= pin cord-wood or building fences, OF
o ony work 700 choose. desire to be cas-;
onto all NV yoo-nay, more generous.
4 Those who he'd lost no time and VIII
he'd not drawd their pay in full, by losll
!. time, he wuz jest eZ generous with. III
k he'd spent the hett NV his money a
Sara ogy and to git his girls their outfit
:. for Moo Orleens, and he hcdn't dolla
u to pay EN- with,
It "But," sed he, "that shoodent inter
!. rupt our friendly relashens. After tn
next crop pro ably shell have enutf
liauidate these little bills. AT all evence
|. whether / do or not, let us hev peece
:. lie. us be friends ez before-let every
. thing be leasant, and lovely an
serene"
u The niggers, singler ez it may seem
e didn't see it. KNOWN ez they did tina
- they di that the Major hadn't an
- money The unreasonable wretches in
10 sisted upon his payen NV EN-, The
IS swore that they coodent live thro tn
IS winter without supplies, ana tha
money they mu t hev.
~ havn't got it !" remarkt the Majo
lie smillin ontoem.
). 'Sell yoor carriages and horses !!
al yelled they,
~ "But Mrs. Ruggles and Miss Ruggle
~ coodnt ride next summerin that event!
n remarkt the major.
8, At this plat the unpleasantis begun
W he l. 10 riat nil gers woodent listen
reason. Their wuz ,Vcral bales NV co
ON vet on the place,a and score, m u
or le s. NV mules and hoses. The cotto
ii they seized, and Kitchen up the mule
lad ~