Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1869-01-15
NASBY.



TuR condishun NV affairs in the States
witch wuz engaged in the late unpleasant.
ness with preioodis In favor NV the Con.
federacy, is most terrible. The country is
unsafe for any man 10 live into. Brooial
niggers armed with implements NV war 90
rosmin thro the country in bands, burnin,
KILN, robbin and destroyin; tcrrifyin the
peecefnl planters who are ilyin TO the
cities for perfection. saw more than
twenty NV these stricken men In faro
bank In Louisville, one mite
Feelin that statement NV the facts NV
the case mite possibly result in sOitenin
the rigger NV radikal rool, and indOoce
the incOmin administration to remedy
our evils by pdttin the power where Il
legitimitly belongs, viz into the hands
NV the white Caucashen citizens NV the
South, irrespective NV their prcludisses In
the matter NV Government, INDUCED
into a small tour NV inspecshen extendin
my researches ez far South 0z Arkansas.
My first stoppin place wuz in Georgia
Here I found most frltCful state NV anar
ky existin The niggers were in state
NV complete insubordinashen An old
friend nv mine, whose hospitality | he'd
acceptid, wuz a livin with his house barri.
caded, in hourly expectashen Nv an attack
ITOm lnN ltllOOIlhltl uNlluub WIN hhN
ragin without. very soon assertained
the sitooashen. Major Ruggles wuz strip
ned by the war NV all his possessions in
niegers Hewuz bereaved Hehed 1000
akers NV land and nary hand to work It
and wuz consekently distresst. The un
feelin Burrow offlsers insultlnly remarkt
that the Ruggleses themselves mite posi-
blv.work enufruv this land TO make sub
sistence, but the Major withered EN-. He
wuz compelled TO either stane his hands
with labor, or hire niggers. He took the
latter alternative, and hired n hundred NV
EN-. / saw the contraX, and more cleer
documents never saw. 1t wuZ stipulated
that the niggers shood labor for six dol
lars per month, and shood forfeit ono dol
lar per day for each days absence, no
matter wat the cause thereof. Ez the mig
gers wuz a starvin they accedid To these
terms and all went peaceily. They got,
each nv en-, SO much corn meal and so
much bacon per day, and the prospeck
they he'd nv gittin $12 each at the end nv
the season stimulated EN- to n tolcrablc de-
gree NV activity. The crop promist well,
and the Major and his family went to Sar-
atogy in the summer; it wu2 harvested
and resulted we'll and the family went TO
Moo Orleeus to spend the winter On
Christmas Day the Major settled with his
hands, and hevin no further yoose for EN-
TIL spring, he discharged EN-. Tho most
NV EN- he brot in debt to him largely, c2
they he'd bin sick doorin the season more
OF less, and six days sickness balanced a
months work when well. Wv course all
he'd drawd suthin all thro the yeer for
clothin. This class he treeted genrusly.
"I don't want the money wiCh yoO owe
~ rpv,,arlf - Iil oh N tAHp II
Yoo may work it out chopin cord-wood,
or buildin fences, or any other work yoo
choose. desire to be easy onto all NV
yoo-nay, more, generous"
Those who had lost no time and who
he'd not drawd their pay in full, by losin
time, he wuz Jest cz generous with. He
he'd spent the heft NV his money at Sara
togy end to git his girls their outfit for
Moo Oreens, and he hedn'ta dollar to pay
EN- with.
"But," sed he "that shoodent interrupt
our friendly relashens After the next
crop probably shell hev enuil to
liQuidate these little bills At all evenCe,
whether | do or not, let us hey peece.
Let us be friends ez before-let every
thing be pleasant and lovely, and serene"
The niggers, singler ez IL may seem,
didn't see it. KNOWN ez they did that the
Major hedn't any money, the unreasOna-
BILE wrctches insistd upon his pawn NV
en- They swore that they coodnt live
thro the winter without supplies, and that
money they must hev.
81 hevn't got itn remarkt the Major
smilin onto en-.
sell yoor carriages aud horses !" yelled
they.
"But Mrs, Ruggles and the Miss Rug.
gleses CoOdent ride next summer in that
event' remarkt the Major.
AT this pint the unpleasantnis begun
The intooriated niggers woodent listen to
reason. Their wuz sevral bales NV cotton
yet on the place, and u score, more or less,
NV mules and hnsses. The cotton they
seized, and hitchinup the mules TO wagons
they proceeded to load it, with view NV
startin in OIL to the next markit town and
sellin it, The Major, has four sons and
perhaps dozen or twenty ncighbOrs, who
happened opportoonely to be present and
armed with fowliu pieces and repeatin
rifles, determined, unprepared c2 they
wuz, TO resist and in the melee perhaps n
dozen or more niggers wuz shot, and fatal
iy killed
From this crowd the trouble that aiilict.
ed this pertikelor neighborhood, and
doubtlis the circumstances are the same
everywhere.
The niggers hey no regard for law and
no desire to keep within due bounds
The law wuz open 10 EN-. Thirtocr
miles from Major Ruggleses place resides
Justis NV the PeeCc, and they coco
hev sood the Major eff he owed
en- anythin, pervidin they Good gil
some white man To go their bail for costs
One batch did this last winter The de.
fendant confessin judgment like man,
execution wu2 NV course stayed for nine
months, and before that time, the plaintiffs
hevin all starved to death, the matter wu2
peacefully disposed NV. Oh, he'd Major
Rugglcses piggers done this. But insiid
they attempted TO wrest from him the pro
duX NV his soil, by force l know the
Ablishnists NV the North will assert thai
the niggers wuz justifable in wat they did
that ct the soil wuz the Majors the labor
wuz the niggers, but that won't do. Law
is law, and no niger hez q rite 10 appea
TO anything else. Ef the law don't happer
TO perfect EN-, it's the fault NV the law, not
nv the Major. Them niggers will starvt
this winter, or subsist by violatin the 81
cred Injunction, " thou shalt not steel :
Oh, how much better wood it hev bin he'd
they cOntiny God ez the Almity intended
EN-, the property NV kind masters. Sich
is the bitter froots of Ablshnism Sich il
the result NV Ablishn intermcddlin with
tie system onto which the South Wu2
built. When niggers wuz worth $1,000
per niger, they were neither shot nor
turned out TO starve They representa-
too much money. But now-I shell con,
tinue these investigasheus
PETROLEUM V. Nasty, p. NJ,
(Wich is postmasterl
Gen. Spinner and the Lady Clerks.