Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1872-05-22

every day. \ o time was to be lost IN al
ranging furniture. There were plenty c
negroes to move the furniture anywher
we wanted it, but none Of them knew hos
TO set up wardrobes, etc. So | went to
/ neighboring village and hired likely mu
l lattO, named Ned llalsey, to help, US III
had a bad face, but knew his business
worked hard one day, got sick in the night
went cut Of doors and was never seen any
mere. With him went the only suit OIL
br9adcloth L ever expected to have 10 the
world tlt was ten years old, but not a break
10 ~, a nice new carpet bag. and a pail
OF patent leather slippers that | dotted on
l advertised him at the time, and now
advertise him again. His name, say. Is
Ned Halsey and he Is a mean-faced mu
atto. l have reason to believe that he
went to Philadelphia.
When dear good old Aunt Aggy left US
few months later, she was preceded by
her eldest son. who literally staggered out
Of the back yard, (the family were at
breakfast was dressing, and happened
to look out Of the window At the moment
under the weight Of one Of the handsomest
travelling trunks L ever saw. The trunk
was packed with things which dear Aunt
Aggy had appropriated and charged to
to the account OF Ned Halsey
Raised q slave. you know,
And, being NIrginians, none Of rs had
the sense on energy TO get out a search
warrant. visit her cabin with constable.
and recover our property. ] simply want
cd to Kill her that was the plan YOU re-
member. ID the days OF slavery but they
wouldn't let me-said the Radicals were
il power and AID that.
Miss Smith set up the furniture with
her own hands, while ] read TIE EederqZ-
lst to her-set it an up. with the exception
Of glorious old fashioned Virginia bed
stead, about twelve feet broad, which not
even the ueighborhood carpenters could
set uV. The consequence was that when
nv aunt came she had to lie on her big
" old tiuey bed on the floor. aud lay
there for six weeks. TINS illness OF my
aunt did not interrupt my political studies,
but added considerably 70 the duties OF my
cousin. / must DO her the Justice to say
that she worked harder than any negro
l ever owned, and If her mother had not
recovered before | fu saed reading TIE
FeaeraLst. ! should have felt II 10 be my
dury 10 neip her as soon Is I got through
with that most delightful a-d practical
book
My aunt got Well, and being. as Tyu-
dali says OF ms Alpine guide. an Z. organ
lzed mass of force, she soon hal things
10 pretty good trim That is to say. Sue
dad nearly every thing with her own hands
An energeucaud decidediy sensible woman,
She had made up her mind that negro
labor could no, BE depended on. and afrer
CHRISTMAS we were TO have no more Of il.
Meantime she had brought with her
treasure named D.cs a change Of hub.-
lauon Ot only twenty miles produced au en-
tire change Iu Up ca Is character lie be
c4me sulay, stupid and worthless. T14t
was not All. One day during Christmas
week he sIded into the dluIug room aud
sand 10 ny cousin, Et you please, Mss
Lucy. l wants TO borry dost o cauhre
Wy father done come, and be got a head
acne
The truth was, that d ck father had
Jumped Oft the tram while in fuI notion,
lad lighted on his head rolled twenty or
-hUty feet, was picked up and borne TO
Jur old kitchen, where be Jay inseuslble
and ioaming at the mouth. and so remained /
or many days D.ck objected to employ /
ug doctor, b. coz 1t COS money" There I
Je.ug no poorhOuse ia the country. we
being unused to tnat sort Of thing anyway I.
.cpt Dlck and his father for loug time. /
applying food and fuel free of cost.
We should have been lost indeed while T
Dick was nursing bis father had it not
Jeeu for a third treasure, named Henry
y Iay i-eury was the smartest. poIIteist,
JrisAest negro IN the country side, charged /
more for his labor than anybody else, and /
,ot % because he worked SO well and was
% polite. La truth he was very smart. /
jailed Us Narster and " NIstss." /
Vow, ii you want to tickle an ex-slave 7
lrlver TO death, call him " Marster" Ill
makes him weak in the knees with deli ght. /
jail him my marster, and he viii give /
Ou the last nifty cents Of fractional that
.e has got to his name. Henry Clay
marstered and mistissed us to
ur hearts content, and we paid him
evenly five cents a day for great many
lays tie stole our only gun, and is now
q the peniteutiary for violating : steD-
laughter | am not ioking. Henry Clay
nd that is his real name lis really in the
lie ought to have been
Jung. If he had been, ne would have
ddressed the huugman as NJ y marster .
haven't . doubt of It, And it would
ave done the haugman good
More than ever convinced Of the utter
-orthlessness Of free negro labor, we
2oked forward with fond impatience TO the
right day when Mr.. and Mrs. B4skins
-ould arrive and put an end to all our
-oes Mr.. b. was to DO general work on
le farm, while Mrs b. looked after the
airy matters Mr. b. had very high
as a young man OF energy
nd industry, and would put his hand to
ny kind OF farm work, and do it faithfully
nj intelligently. With Mr.. and Mrs.
'askIns, and my aunt's two sons, who were
ractical farmers, we expected to 60 right
head and astonish the neighbors, VINO still 1
cling 10 negroes.
| had my doubts.
Old Daniel Goss, the owner of the most {
-ojuctlve farm IN the country, and the
latest ever saw in Virginia, told me I
lat be had given white laber a fair trial, l
III had gwen it up as more worthless
zen than black labor. = The truth is
I'D the old gentleman, white folks IN {
Irglnia don't know how to work. They I
ave not been raised to it. Tley can I
-ersee negroes, aud that is about all they
~ do" Tnat was not the worst of old :
4nIel's experience. lie had gwen up {
lite labor, but white labor had not given .
N up. A large family of whites. {
lported from the Falles, refused
,s.tlvely to leave him, occupied his best
,use aud lived there ior couple OF years, l