The Portland daily press., 1879-04-24
Nasby.
Mr.. Nabsy Details the Troubles his Friends
arc Having with the Everlasting Roth.
crsOme Negro.

Mr.. Nasty has got back to "Confedrit K
Roads" and writes the following to the Toledo
Biade
We are hevin trouble with the niggers here,
wich will end, the Lord above only knows
where. The bother kin be stated In a few
words.
SicA Nv the niggers in the vicinity nv the
Corners ez don't own their own land-{too
meny Nv em do)-hev to leese land oy the
white citizens which is the material proprietor
nv the soil. Every Kentuckian hez consoom-
in desire for the welfare of the Niger, and
that the nigger lessee may be happy and con-
tented, he let's him hev the land for, say, $40
an akre year, the sed land bein wuth about
that in fee simple.
This may be considered exhorbitant 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 it
must be taken into account that the nigger was
the sustenance Nv the proud Cawcashun afore
the war, and we see no reason why he should
not be the same now.
And to the end thet he shell not giJ too rich
it is allus incloodid 10 the leese tibet the pigger
shell by evrything thet he eats, drinks, and
war IS Nv the owner, and thet his crops shell be
held by him till all these advances is paid.
1t is troo thet the nigger ginrally comes out
in debt to the proprietor several hundred dol
lers; but we hev never ben hard onto EN-. We
hev allus Civ EN- the privilege nv workin on
what they owed by cuttin cord wood or gittin
out raleroad ties in the winter, wicb, considerin
we Good demand cash, is q conseshun.
They are an uDgrateful people. Deekin Po.
gram let one Nv EN- hev 20 akers nv his farm.
and the Niger worked it well. He made good
crops nv corn and potatoes and sich and cor.
graduated hsself on the prospeck Nv living
comfortable doorin the winter. Wen the time
her settlement come, in the fall, the deekin took
the entire crop, and demonstrated TO the Oh
grateful man tibet he wuz in debt to him eggs
but renewed the leese for another year, psyin
off $l00 Nv his debt gittin ont raleroad ties in
the winter.
This second year wuz a tuff one on the deck
ip, ez ne lost power nv mummy ct the Loois-
vile races, and consekently in the fall the mig
ger wuz brot in debt four hundred dollers. Mi
randa Pogram kep the accounts.
Now wat docs this cuSsid orgrateful Niger
do? Remarkin thet it struck him thet eff be
KEEP on workin the deekiD's land and worked
udIu duu ldituluilV 6uuuy u6 WOUus I0 Time,
owe more than the Nashnel debt, he undertook
to leeve for Kansas.
This wuz an attempt at Repudiashen; and
vile white State may properly repoodiate its
inde dehtidness, niger indivijjle kin never be
permitted to do it. We pipt this attempt at
swindlln the deekin in the bud. That nigger
wuz notified thet we must hev his labor to the
end nv developin the resources Nv the kentry,
and thet he must stay and labor ez he allus he'd
dup, and be contept, ez be shOod be.
Despite this warnin he did git away to the
river and woz waiting for d0wn-bound boat
when he wuz mysteri0usy shot, Who did the
richeOus act will never be known, but il wuz
sed tibet Iss ,ker Gsvtt wuz in tibet ueighbo
hood, and thet jist alter the report smoke wuz
seen 10 issue from the muzzle Nv his trusty
double. oarreled shotgun.
Ez ther amt only one way that we kin do
bizuis with this peple, and ez the case L hev
cited is about the reglar thing, the niegers are
discOntentid ginerally, aud are sll desirous nv
gittin away. They murmur. They say they
amt allowed to vote, that they kant bev eny
aud lhet ther amt no redress for em, for the
courts and sich are agin EN-. They can't uD-
dsrstand that they are morally our property
anyhOw-that we WIZ originally robbed nv EN-
By that feend LlnkiD, and that we are entitled
to ther labor Wat kin they want nv skools,
when the whites nv this sekshun hev got along
without EN-? Ez for votin, that is absurd.
They hevn't the intelligence
The entire colored populsshun hev ben noti-
fed that they can't go and must live with us
and enjoy here the bessins nv freedom. But
they keep slippin off all the time and there is
the doleful prospeck Nv the Corners beconmin
q desert for want Nv labor.
spose the radikels nv the North will raise a
howl agin this, but we don't keer. We hev
got possesshun Nv the capital, the Northern
Dimocrasy hev resoomed ther old possshuu,
and we kin smile at the protestashuns. Eff we
let the niggers off this easy, they may consider
it lucky.