Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1869-01-23
POsT OrFIs, COHFEDRTT X RoIDs,
(Wich ie In the Start NV Kentucky)
December u. iSa,s

POsT OrFis, CONFEDRTT X Ro1Ds
(Wich iH In the start Nv Kentucky
December rs, iey5. J
The condishen NV affairs in the States wicL
wuh engaged In the late unpeasantness with
preoodis in favor Nv the COnfedcracy, ts most
terrible. The country is unsafe for any man
to live into Brootal nggars armed with i'm
Elements NV war, 20 roaming through the
country in bands, burnin, KILN, robbin, and
destroyin; terrifyin tie pctcsiul planters who
are fyin TO tho cilies for perfection ] saw
more than twenty NV these stricken men in
faro bank in Louisville one night
Fcelin that n statement Nv the facts NV the
case mite probably result in softenin the riggcr
NV radical rool, and indoose the incomin ad-
ministrstion TO remedy eur evils by putin the
power where IL lcgitimately belongs, viz: Into
the hands NV the white Caucashen citizens NV
the South, irrespective Nv their prejoodisses in
tile matter nv Government, indulged into
tour NV inspccslen, cxtcndin my researches cz
far South ez Arkansas.
My first stoppin place wuz in Georgia. Here
found most fritcful state NV anarky existn.
The niggars were in state NV complete insub-
ordinashen. An old friend NV mine, whose
hospitality / had acccptid, WIZ a hyin with
hiz house barricaded, in hourly expectashen
w an attack from the intOoriatcd demons who
wuZ ragin wit iout. very soon assertained
the sitooasllen. Major Ruggles wuz stripped
by the war NV all his possessions in niggars.
lie wuz bereaved. He he'd 1000 akcrs NV
land and nary hand to work it, and wuz con.
sekently distresst. The unfeen Burrow Off
GERS insultinly remarkt thatth Ruggleses their
selves mite possibly work enuff NV this land to
make a subsistence, but the Major withered
en-. He wuz compelled to either slanc his
hands with labor or hire niggars. He took the
latter alternative and hired hundred NV en-
| saw the contraX, and more clear documents
| never saw, 1t wuz stipulated that the mig
gars shood labor for six dollars per month, and
| E..f..e I'LL. 4
absence, no matter what the cause thereof. EZ
the niggars wuZ starvin thay acccdid to these
! terms and all went peacctiy. They got each
NV EN-, so much corn meal and so much bacon
per day, and the prospock they he'd NV gettin
$I2 each ut the end NV The season, stimulated
en- TO tolerable degree NV activity. The
crop promised we'll, and the Major and his
family went TO Saratogy in the summer; it wuz
harvested and resulted well, and the family
| went to New Orleans to spend the winter. On
Christmas day the Major settled with his
hands, and hevin no further yooSe for EN- till
spring, he discharged em. The most NV EN-
| he brOt i'm debt TO him largely, ez they he'd bin
| sick doorin the season more or less, and six
days sickness balanced months work when
| well Wv course all he'd drawd suthin all thro
the yeer for clothin. This class he treated gen
/ erously.
81 don't want the money wich 700 owe me-"
| he remarkt. I'd skOrn to take it, You may
|
/ ccs, or any other work yoo choose. | deserve
to be easy unto all NV yoo-nay more, gener
| GUS" H.t
Those who he'd lost no time and who he'd
not drawd their pay in full, by losn time, he
wuZ just eZ generous with. He he'd spent the
heft NV his money at Saratogy and and to git
his girls their outfit for Moo Orleans, and he
hed'nta dollar to pay EN- with. 't...
| But" sed he, that shoodcnt interrupt our
friendly relashcns. After the next crop
probably shel hay enuif to lidiquate these little
bills. AT all evence whether do Or not let
us hev peece. Let us be trends ez before-let
everything be pleasant, and serene.
Tie niggars singler ez it may seem didn't see
it. Known ez they did that the Major hedn't
any money, the unreasonable wretchcs insstid
upon his payinuv en-. They sw0ro they Good
not live thro the winter without supplies, and
that money they must hev. ID"
Il heyent got it,! remakt the Major smiling
onto en-.
''Sell yoor carriage and horses" yelled the
| niggars. .g .i..r.... -..
But. Mrs. Ruggles and the Miss Rugglcsses
coodnt ride next summer at that event." re-
markt the Major 90. s.. .'.
At this pint the unpleasantnis begun. The
infooriated niggars woodent listen to reason.
There wuz several bales Nv cotton yet on the
place, and "A score, more or less NV mules and
horses. The cotton they seized and hitching
| up the mules to wagins they proceeded to
load it, and with a view NV cartn il off to the
next market town and selin it. The Major
his four sons and perhaps dozen or twenty
neighbors, who happened opportunely to be
present and armed with fowlin peeces and re-
peatin rifles, determined unpreparcd ez they
wuz, to resist, and in the melee perhaps doz-
en- or more niggars wuz shot and fatally killd.
From this crowd the trouble that afflicted
this peticular neighbOrhood, and doubtlis the
circumstances are the same everywhere.
Ili,F hnxy ran ard fnt lnty- and M
desire to Keep within due bounds. The law
wuz open to en- Thirteen miles from Major
| Ruggleses place resides Justis NV the Poece,
and they Good hev sood the Major eff he owd
EN- anythin, perydin they Good git some white
man to go their bail for costs One batch did
this last winter. The defendent confessin
judgment like man, execution wuz NV coarse
stayed for nine menths, and before thai time
the, plaintiffs hevin all starved to death, the
matter wuz peacefully disposed NV. Oh, he'd
Major Ruggleses niggars done this. But in
Std they attempted to wrest from him the pro-
dux NV his soil by force know the Ablish-
nists NV the North will assert that the niggars
wuz justifiabe in wat they did, that ef the soil
wuz the Majors the labor wuz the niggars,
| hut that won't do. Law is law, and no niggar
hez rite to appeal to anything else. Ell the
law don't happen to perfect en- it's the fault
Nv the law, not NV the Major. Them niggars
will starve this winter, or subsist by violating
the sacred injunction, 'Thou shalt not steal I"
Oh. how much better wood il hev bin, he'd they
continyeod sz the Almity intended en- the pro-
perty NV kind masters Sich is the bitter fruit
NV ablishnism Sich is the result NV ablishn in
termeddlin with the system onto wieh the
South wuz bit. When niggars wuz wurth
81 800 per niggar, they were neither shot nor
turned out to starve. They representa- too
much money. But now-I shcl continyoo
these investigations. -. $50 o. .
| .. PETROLEUM " NAsBY, p. NJ.
'.r tr". (Wich is POstmaster)