Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1869-01-29

i wuz jest ez generous with. He he'd spent
the heft Nv his money at Saratogy and to
git his girls their outfit for Moo Orleans,
and he hedn' dollar to pay EN- with.
But sed he, that shoodn't interrupt
our friendly relashuns. After the next crop
probably shel hev enuff to liquidate these
little bills. At all eyenee, whether do or
not le; Us hev peece. Let us be friends ez
before-let everything be pleasant, and love
ly, aud serene
The higgers, singler ez it may seem, didn' t
see il Known ez they did that the Major
hednst any money, the unrezonabIe wretch
es insisted upon his payin NV en-. They
swoFe that they cooin't t live thro the winter
without supplies, and that money they must
hev
Il hewitt gotitl' remarkt the major,
snilin onto EN-.
Sell your carriages aud horses sl' yelled
they.
"l3at Mrs. Ruggles aud the Miss Rug
giles coodent ride next summer in that
event remarkt the major
At this pint the unpleasantnis began.
The infooriated niggers woodent listen to
reason, Their wuz several bales Nv cotton
yet on the place, aud score, more or less,
Nv mules and horses. The Gotten they seiz-
ed. and Kitchen up the mules to wagons they
proceeded to load it, with view NV cartin it
off to the next markit town and sellin IT,
The major, his four sons, and perhaps a
dozen or twenty neighbors, who happened
opportunely to be present and armed with
fowlin pieces and repetin rifles determined,
unprepared ez they wuz, to resist, and in
the melee perhaps dozen or more niggers
Wuz shot aud 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 due bounds. The
law wuz open to EN-. Thirteen miles from
Major Ruggleses place resides Justice of
the Peece, and they Good hey sood the Ma
jor eff he owed EN- enythlng pervidin they
Good git some white man to go their bail for
costs One batch did this last winter. The
defendant confessin judgment like man,
execution wuz Nv course stayed for nine
months, and before that time, the plaintiffs
bev all starved to death, the matter wuz
peacefully disposed Nv. Oh, he'd Major
Ruggleses niggers done this But instid
they attempted to wrench from him the
produx Nv bis soil, by force know the
Ablishinists Nv the North will assert that
the niggers was iustifabIe in wat they did,
that ef the soil wuz the Majors the labor
wuz the uiggers' but that wont DO. Law
is law, and no niger hez a rite to appeal to
anything else. Eff the law don't happen to
perfect EN-, it's the fault Nv the law, not NV
the Major Them niggers viii starve this
winter, or subsist by yiolatin the sacred in
junction, thou shalt not steel! Oh, how
much better wood it hev bin, he'd they con
tinyOod ez the Almity intended em, the
property Nv kind masters. Sich is the bit
ter froots NV Ablishinism Sich is the re-
suit Nv Ablishin intermeddlin with the sys-
tenn onto which the South wuz built. When
niggers wuz worth 81 800 per niger, they
were neither shot nor turned out to starve.
They representa- too much money But
now-I shell continue these investigashens
PETROLEUM Y. Massey, P. NJ
(Wich is Postmaster)