Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1879-05-01
NASBY.
Mr. Nasty Details the Troubles His
Friends are Having With the
Everlasting BothersOme
Negro


in the State Nv Kentucky, April
Il, 1879.-We are havin trouble
with the niggers here, wich will end
the Lord above only knows where.
The bother kin be stated in a few
words.
Sich wv the niggers in the vicin-
ity Nv the Corners ez don't own
land (too many NV them do) have to
leese land Nv the white citizens,
wich is the material proprietor Nv the
soil. Every Kentuckian hez con-
soomin desire for the welfare NV the
niger, and that the niger lessor
may be happy and contentid. He
lets him hev land for, say, $40 an
akre, a year, the said land bein
wuth about that in fee simple.
This may be considered exorbi-
tant by the unthinkin, but it will be
redily seen that a gentleman can't
live and play draw poker, and bet
on races on anything less. And
then i must be taken into account
that the niger wuz the sustenancc
NV the proud Cawcashun aforc the
war, and we see no reason why he
shoOd not be the same now.
And to the end that he shell not
get too rich it is alIuz iuclooded in
the leese that the niger shell buy
everything that he eats, drinks and
wears NV the owner, and that his
crops shell be held by him until al
these advances are paid.
1t il tr0o that the niger gineral-
Iy comes cut in debt to the propri-
etor several hundred dollars; but we
have never bin hard onto EN-. We
hey alluz give EN- the privilege NV
workin out what they owed by cut
tin cord wood or gittin out ralerode
ties in the winter, wich, considerin
we,cood demand cash, is 4 conceshun.
They are an ongrateful people.
Deekin Pogram let one NV EN- hey
20 akers Nv his farm, and the mig
ger worked it well. He made good
crops NV corn and potatoes and SIGH,
AID congratulated hisself on the
prospeck NV Twin comfortable doorin
the winter. When the time for set
Element come, in the fall, the Deekin
took the crop, and demonstrated to
The ongrateful man that he wuz in
lebt to him eggsackly 5000. The
niger coodent understand it, but
the lease another yeer,
1ayin off 500 NV his debt gittin
tut railrode ties in the winter.
This second yeer wuz a tuff one
IN the Deekin, ez he lost a power
Nv money at the louisville races,
md Consistently in the fall the mig
ger wuz brot in debt $500. Mirandy
Pogram kept the accounts.
Now, wat does this cussed, on
grateful niger do? Remarkin that
I struck him that eff he kept on
Rorkin the Deekin's land, and |
worked hard and faithfully enuf, he
wood, in time, owe more than the |
Nashnel debt, he undertook to leeYe |
or Kansas.
This wuz an attempt at repudia-
hen, and while white State may
repoodiate its indebtednis,
.igger midwife kin never be per-
nitted to do it. We nipt this at
empt at swindlin the Deekin in the
nd. That niger wuz notified that
re must hev his labor, to the end of
evelopin the resources NV the ken
~, and that he must stay and la
or, ez he alluz had done, and be
ontent, ez he shood be.
Despite this warnin, he did git
way to the river and was waitin
,r a down,bound boat, when he
uz mysteriously shot. Who did
.e richeous act will never be known,
1T it wax sed that Issaker Gavitt
w in that neighbOrhood, and that
st after the report smoke wuz seen
issue from the muzzle Nv his
usty double-barrelled shotgun.
Ez Their amt only one way that
e kin do biznis with this people,
I'd ez the case I hev citid is about