The Union and journal. [volume] (Biddeford, Me.) 1858-1882, 1869-01-29
Nasty on tie Southern TroSstes.
From ths Toledo Bisde.l
Posr 0yris, CoNrKpRIr x ROADS,
(Which Is In the state Nv Kentucky,) I
Dec. 81. 1868. r }

~. (Prom ths Tcseio Bisde.l
Posr Oyrn, CoxrkpRIr x RoAps,)
H (Which Is in the state Nv kcntucky,)f
Dec. 81, 1868. } %
The kondlshun Of affairs In the States
wich wuz ingagcd In the late unpleasant.
mis- with prejoodls In favor nv the konfed.
racy, Is most terrible. The country Is
unsafe for any man to live into. BroOtal
niggers, armed with Implements Of war,
20 roamin thru the country, In bands,
burnin, killen, robbln & dcstroyin: ter
riyin the peasful planters who are hyln
to the city for protekshun. / saw more
than 20 NV these striken men In faro
bank In Luisville. mite.
Feelln that statement NV the facts NV
the kasc mite possibly result In soffenln
the rigger NV radikal rool, and induse
the incomln adm:nlstrashun 2 remedy
our evils by putin the power whar It leg,
itimatcly belongs, viz;-in2 the hans ov
the white Caucashen citizens Of the South,
irrespective Of their prcjudisses In the
matter NV government, lndulged Into a
small tour Of inspekshun, extcndin my
researches ez far South as Aakansas.
My first stoppin plase was In Georgia.
HrreI found most friteful state Of anar.
Ky cxistin. The niggcrs were In state
OF complete insubordnashun. An old
friend ov mine, whose hospitality he'd
acceptid, wuz a livin with the house bar
ricadid, In hourly expcctashun NV MI ut.
tax from the infooriatcd demons who was
ragin without, very soon assertained
the situashsn. Major Ruggles wuz strip.
ped by the war of all hiz posseshuns IN
niggers. He was bercavid. He he'd
1900 akers Of land & nary hand 2 work
II, and was consequently dlstrcst. The
onfealln Burrow ofiisers insultinly remark.
cd that the Ruggleses themselves mite
possibly work enuff Nv this land make
subsistence, but the major withered them.
H .&as compelled to either stane his
handy, or hire nlggers. He took the tat
ter alternative, and hired a hundred OF
them. l saw the contrax and moro clecr
documents never saw. 1t was stipulated
tho nlggcrs shood labor for six dollars per
munth, and sllood forflt dollar per day
for each days absense, no matter wat the
cause thereof. .......
Ez the nigerOes wuz starvin they AK
ccdid to these turns and orl went peace
fully. They got, each Of um, so much
corn meal and SO much bacon per day,
and the prospcckt they had Nv gittln s72
each at the end Nv the seassn stimulated
um to a tolleriblc degree NV acktivity'
The crop promist well, and the major and
his phamily went to SaritOgy In the sum
mcr; 1t wuz harvested and resulted Well,
and the family went to Moo Orleans to
spend the winter. On Christmas day the
major settled with his hands, and hevlr
no phurther yOose for um till spring, he
discharged um. The most NV um he bro'
In debt to him largely, cz they he'd bir
sick durin the secson more or lesa, and
six daiz sickness balanced months work
when well. Nv cOorse orl he'd drawd
sunthin In orl thro the year for klothln
This klass he treetid genrusly.
III don't warnt the mummy which voc
owe me-" he rcmarkt. "Idc skOrn so talk
1t. Yoo ma work It out chopin cord
wood or bildin ienciz, or emmy uther work
700 chuzc. dezire to be ezy onto orl ol
yoo--nay, more, genrus."
Those who he'd lost no time and who
he'd not drord thare pay In ful, by loozir
time, he wuz Jest rs genrus with. lie
he'd spent the hcft NV hiz mummy at Sari
toyy, and to git his gurls thare outfit FOL
Moo Orleens, and hednt dollar to pa
um with.
But, scd he, ''that shoodcnt Interrupt
our friendly relashuns. Arftcr the mex
crop l proberbly shel hcv enuff to iiqui
dait these little bills. At orl cyence, wetll
or do or knot, let us hev peese. Let Us
be frcns ez befour-let everything be plez'
ant, and luyly, and serene"
The niggeroze. singler ez It ma seam'
dsin't see It. Noin ez thay did that the
major hednt emmy mummy, the unreeson
able rechiz inslstid upon his payln NV um
Thay swoar thay coodent live thro thu
winter without surplyze, and that mummy
thay must hev.
III hevcnt got It," remarkt the maJol
smllln onto um.
''Scllycr kcrriges and hosses!" skreecl''
cd they.
"But Mrs. Ruglcs and the Miss Rugles
es coodent ride next summer In thai
EVENT." rcmarkt the major.
At this pint the onplcasantnls began
The infooriatid niggers woodent listen tf
recson. There wuz sevral bales Of cotton
yet on the place, and score, moro OF
less, Of mules and hosses. The cotton
they seized, and hitchin up the mules "a
wagans they proceeded TO load It with
view Of cartin Il or to the next market
town, and scllin II. The major, his fou'
sors, and perhaps dozen or twenty
nelghbors, who happened opportuncly te
be present, and armed with fowlln peece'
and rcpeetin rphlcs, determined, unpre'
pared CT they was, to resist, and In tho
melee perhaps dozen or more nigSer'
was shot and totally killed.
From this growed the trouble that nj
fiicted this pertickler neighborhood, and
doubtless the circumstances are the same
everywhere. 49,. \, r.
The niggcrs have no regard for law and
no desire to keep within duo bounds. The
law was open to en-. Thirteen miles from
Major Ruggioses place resides Justis Of
the Peecc, and they could have sood Tho
major n he owed them ANYTHING, prQYidlg