The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1869-01-14
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INVESTIGATES.
Posr OFFS, CoNFEDRIr Y ROADS, !
(Which is in the State NV Kentucky
December 81, 1868. } ~
THE condishun NV affairs in the States
witch wuz engaged in the late unpleasant
ness with prejoodis in favor NV the Con-
federacy, is most terrible. The country is
unsafe for any man to live into Brootal
niggers armed with implements Nv war go
roamin thro the country in bands, burnin,
KILN, Robin and destroyin; terrifyin the
peaceful planters who are flynn to the
cities for perfection. I saw more than
twenty Nv these stricken men In a faro
bank in Louisville, one mite.
Feelin that statement Nv the facts Nv
the case mite possibly result in softenin
the rigger Nv radikal rool, and indooce
the incomin administration to remedy
our evils by putin the power where it
legitimitly belongs, viz: into the hands
Nv the white Caucashen citizens Nv the
South, irrespective Nv their prejudisses in
the matter Nv Government. INDUCED
into small tour Nv inspecshen extendin
my researches ez far South ez Arkansas.
My first stoppin place wuz in Georgia.
Here found most friteful state Nv anar-
ky existin. The niggers were in state
Nv complete insubordinashen. An old
friend NV mine, whose hospitality he'd
accepted, wuz livin with his house barri-
caded, in hourly expectashen Nv an attack
from the infooriated demons who wuz
ragin without. / very soon assertained
the sitooashen Major Ruggles wuz strip
ped by the war Nv all his possessions in
niggers. HeWuz bereaved. He he'd 1000
akers Nv land and nary hand to work it,
and wuz CONSISTENTLY distresst. The un-
feelin Burrow offisers insultinly remarkt
that the Ruggleses themselves mite posi-
bly, work enuff Nv this land to make sub
sistenee, 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 hundred Nv
EN-. | saw the contrax, and more cleer
documents I never saw. It wuz stipulated
that the niggers shood labor for six dol
lars per month, and shood forfeit one dol.
lar per day for each days absence, no
matter wat the cause thereof Ez the Mig
gers wuz starvin they accedid to these
terms and all went peacef1y. They got,
each Nv EN-, so much corn meal and so
much bacon per day, aud the prospeck
they he'd Nv gittin S12 each at the end Nv
the season stimulated EN- to a tolerable de-
gree Nv activity. The crop promist well,
and the Major and his family went to Sar-
atogy in the summer; it wuz harvested
and resulted well, and the family went to
Moo Orleens TO spend the winter. On
Christmas Day the Major settled with his
hands, and hevin no further yoose for EN-
till spring, he discharged EN-. The most
Nv EN- he brot in debt to him largely, ez
they he'd bin sick doorin the season more
or less, and six days sickness balanced a
months work when we'll Wv course all
he'd drawd suthin all thro the yeer for
clothin. This class he treeted genrusly.
81 don't want the money witch 700 owe
= Il -. "a
700 may work it out chopin cord-wood,
or buildin fences, or any other work 700
choose. I 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 ez generous with. He
he'd spent the heft Nv his money at Sara
togy end to git his girls their outfit for
Moo Orleens, and he hedn'ta dollar to pay
EN- with.
"But," sed he, "that shoodent interrupt
our friendly relashens. After the next
crop I probably shell hev enuff tc
iquidate these little bills. At all evence,
whether l do or not, let US hev peece.
Let us be friends ez before-let every
thing be pleasant and lovely, and serenen
The niggers, singler ez it may seem,
didn't see it. KNOWN ez they did that the
Major hednt any money, the unreasona-
BILE wretches insistid upon his pawn Nv
EN-. They swore that they coodn't live
thro the winter without supplies, and that
money they must hev.
az hewitt got it" remarkt the Major
smilin onto EN-.
"Sell yoor carriages and horses !" yelled
they.
"But Mrs. Ruggles and the Miss Rug
gleses ceodent ride next summer in that
r ,nM OF
At this pint the unpleasantnis begun.
The infooriated niggers woodent listen to
reason. Their wuz sevral bales Nv cotton
yet on the place, and a score, more or less,
Nv mules and bosses. The cotton they
seized, and hitchin up the mules to wagons
they proceeded to load it, with view Nv
startin in off to the next markit town and
sellin it. The Major, has four sons, and
perhaps a dozen or twenty neighbors, who
happened opportoonely to be present and
armed with fowliu pieces and repeatin
rifles, determined, unprepared ez they
WIZ to resist, and in the melee perhaps
dozen or more niggers wuz shot, and fatal
iy killed.
From this crowd the trouble that atflict-
ed 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
Justis Nv the Peece, and they Good
hev sood the Major eff he owed
EN- anythin, pervidin they Good git
some white man to go their bail for costs
One batch did this last winter. The de-
PENDANT confessin judgment like a man,
execution wuz NV course stayed for nine
months and before that time the nlaintiffs
hevin all starved to death, the matter wuz
peacefully disposed Nv. Oh, he'd Major
Ruggleses niggers done this! But instid
they attempted to wrest from him the pro-
dux Nv his soil, bv forcei [ know the
Ablishnists Nv the North will assert that
the niggers wuz justifable in wat they did,
that eff the soil wuz the Majors the labor
wuZ the niggers, but that won't do. Law
is law, and no niger hez 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 will starve
this winter, or subsist by violatin the sa-
cred injunction, thou shalt not steel"
Oh, how much better wood it hev bin he'd
they continyood ez the Almity intended
EN-. the property Nv kind masters. Sich
is the bitter froots of Ablishnismi SIGH is
the result Nv Ablishn intermeddlin with
the system 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 con-
tinue these inyestigashens.
PETROLEUM Y. NAsBY, 2. NJ,
(Which is PostInaster.)
Gen. Spinner and the Lady Clerks.
AS AN illustration of the severe ordealS