Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1869-01-19

took the Latter alternative, and hired a
hundred NV EN-. | saw the contrax, and
more cleer documents | never saw. 1t
wuz stipulated that the niggers should la
Dor for six dollars per month, and should
forfeit one dollar per day for each days
abscnse, no matter wat the cause thereof.
Ez the niggers wuz starvin they acced-
ed to these terms, and all went peaceny.
They got, each wv em, so much corn
meal and so much bacon per day, and the
prospcck they had Nv gittin $72 each, at
the end NV the season stimulated EN- to
tolerable degree Nv activity.
The crop promised well, and the Major
and his family went to Saratogy in the
summer; it wuz harvested and resulted
well, and the family went to Noo Orleans
to spend the winter.
On Christmas Day the Major settled
with his hands, and hevin no further use
fur 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 seazon more
or less, and six days sickness balanced
months work when we'll. Nv course all
he'd drawd suthin all thro the yeer for
clothin. This class he treeted genrusly.
81 don't want the money wich you owe
me-" he remarkt. ed scorn to take it.
Yoo may wurk it out by chopin cord
wood, or buildin fences, Or any other wurk
yoo choose. | desire to be easy onto all
Nv yoo-nay, MORN genrus."
Those who he'd lost no time and who
he'd not drawd their pay in full, by losin
time, he wuz jest as generous with. He
he'd spent the heft Nv his money at Sara
togy and to git his girls their outfit for
Moo Orleans, and he hedn't dollar to pay
EN- with.
"But," sed he, "that shoodent interrupt
our friendly relashens. After the next
crop | probably shell hev enuff to liquidate
these little bills. AT all events wherther
| do or not, let us be peece. Let us be
friends cz before--let everything be pleas
lant. and lovely, and serene."
The niggers, singler ez it may seem,
/
didn't see it. KNOWN ez they did that the
Major hadn't any money the unreasonable
wretches inisted upon his payen NV EN-.
They swore that they coodent live thro
the winter without supplies, and that
money they must hev.
81 hsvn't got it !" remarkt the Major
smilin onto EN-.
"Sell yoor carriages and horses !" yell
ed they.
"But Mrs. Ruggles and Miss Ruggles
coodent ride next summer in that event I"
remarkt the Major.
AT this pint the unpleasantnis begun,
The infooriated niggers woodent listen to
reason. Their waz several bales NV cotton
yet on the place, and score, more or
less, Nv mules and hossess. The cotton
they seized, and Kitchen up the mules to
wagons they proceeded to load it, with
view Nv certin it off to the next markit
town and sellin it. The Major, his four
sons, and perhaps dozen Or twenty
neighbors who happened opportooneley to
be present and armed with fowlin pieces
and repeetin rifles, determined, unpre-
pared ez they wuz, to resist, and in the
melee perhaps dozen or more niggers
wuz shot, and fatally killed.
The niggers hev no regard for law and
no desires to keep within due counds. The
law wus open to em. Thirteen miles from
Major Ruggleses resides Jnstic NV the
Peece, and they could have sood the Ma
jor eff he owed cm anythin, pervidin they
Good get some white man to 60 their bail
for costs. One batch did this last winter.
The defendent confessin judgment like
man, execution wuz NV coarse staid for
nine munths, and before that time, the
plaintiffs heving all starved to death, the
matter wuz peacefully disposed Of Oh,
he'd Major Ruggleses niger dun this But
instead, they attempted to wrest frum
him the produx of his soil by force
From this crowd the trouble that affli-
cted this pertikeler neighborhood, and
doubtlis the circumstances are the same
everywhere.
know the Ablishnists NV the North
will assert that the niggcrs wuz justifable
IN wut they did, that ef the soil wuz the
Majors, the labor wM the nggers, but
that won't do. Law is law, and no Niger
hez right to appeal to anything else
IF the law don't happen to protect EN-,
; it's the fault NV the law, not NV the Ma
jor. Them niggers will stsrye this winter
: or subsist by violatin the sacred injunction
$ 'thou shalt not steel !" Oh, how much
better would it hey bin he'd they contin,
n yood ez the Almighty intended en-, tho
I property NV kind masters. Sich is III,
bitter froots NV Ablishnism Sich IL III,