The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1879-05-02
Massey
Mr.. Nasty Details the Trouble HIS
Friends are Having with the EverlaSt.
Ing Troublesome Negro.
CoSPEDRlr Y ROAps,
witch Is In the State uy Kentucky

CoSPEDRIr Y ROADs, !
witch Is In the State Nv Kentucky,)
April IL, 1870.
We are hayin trouble with the niger
here, witch will end, the Lord above onl,
knows when. The bother kin bestatiti II
a few words.
sich of the niggers In tho vicinity Nv the
Corners-ez don't own their own land
(too many Nv EN- do)-hev to lcese land
Nv the white citizens witch is the natural
proprietors Nv the soil. Every Kentuck,
ian haz consoomin desire for the welfare
Nv the niger Lessor may be happy and
contentid. He lets him hav land for, say,
$40 an akre a year, the sed land being wuih
about that In fee simple.
This may be considered exorbitant by
the unthinkin, but II will be redIlyseen
that a gentleman can't live and plaw draw
poker, and bet on races or on anything
less. And then 1t must 10 taken into &C.
count that the niger wuz the sustenance
Of the proud Cawcashun afOre the war,
and then we see no reason why he should
not be the same now.
And to the end that he shell not cit too
rich 1t Is alluz incloodid 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 till all
these advances are paid.
1t is troo that the niger ginerally comes
out in debt to the proprietor several hun.
dred dollars: but we have never bin hard
onto EN-. We have alluzgive EN- the priv.
ilege Nv workin out what they owed BY
cuttin cord wood or gittin out raleroad
ties, in the winter, witch, considerin we
Good demand cash, is conseshun.
They are an ongrateful people. Deekin
Pogram let one Nv EN- hev 90 akers NV his
farm, and the Niger worked It we'll. He
made good crops Nv corn and potatoes and
SIGH, and congratulated hisself on the pros.
peck Nv livin comfortable doorin the win.
ter. When the time for settlement come,
in the fall, the Deekin took the entire
crop and demonstrated to the ongratelul
man that he wuz in debt to him eggsackly
$500. The Niger coodent understand IT,
but renewed the leese another yeer, pay.
in of 500 uv his debt gittin out ralerode
ties in the winter
This second yeer wuz o tuf one on the
Deekin ez he lost o power lvmonoy ut the
Louisville races, and konsekently in the
fall the Niger wuz brot in debt, four
hundred dollars. AIirandy Pogram kept
the accounts.
Now watdoes this cussid ongrateful Mig
ger do? Remarkin that il struck him that
et he kept on workin the Deekin's land,
and worked hard and faithfully enuF he
wood, in time, owe more than the Nash
mel debt, he undertook to leeve for Kansas
This wuZ an attempt at repudiashen, and
while white State may properly repoodi-
ate its indebtednls, Niger indiviijile kin
never be permitted to do 1t. Wenipt this
attempt at swindlin the Deekin in the bud.
That niger wuz notified that wemust hev
his labor, to the end OF developin the re-
sources OF the kentry, and that he must
stay and labor, ez he alluE he'd dun, and be
content, ez no shood be.
Despite this warnin he did git away to
the river and wuz waitinlfor down-bound
boat when he wuz mysteriously shot. Who
did the richous act will never be known,
but it wuz sed that Issaker Gavitt wuz in
that neighborhood, and that jist after the
report, smoke was seen TO issue from the
muzzle Nv his tTusty double barrelled shot
gun.
Ez Their amt only one way that We kin
do biznis with this people, and ez the case
l hev cited is about the regler thing, the
niggers are discontentid ginerally, and are
all DESTROYS of gittin away. They murmur.
They say that they amt allowed to vote,
and they can't hev any skools, and that
they are robbed OF their laborrand that
Their amt no redress for EN-, for the courts
are agin en-. They can't understand that
they are morally our property anyhow
that we wuz originally robbed Nv en- by
the feend Linkin, and that we are entitled
to their labor. Wat kin they want Nv
skools, when the whites Nv this secksher
hev got along without EN-? Ez for votin
that is absurd. They hewitt the intelli
genee.
The entire colored populashun hev bir
notified that they can't go and must live
with us, and enjoy here the blessing ~
freedom. But they keep slippin OF all the
time, and there is the doleful prospect
Nv the Corners becoming desert for wan
/ spoSe the redikels Nv the North viii
raise howl agIn this, but We don't keer
We hev got poseshun Nv the Capitol, TIT
Northern Dimocrisy hev resoomed thelI
old posishun, and we can smile at thei
protestashens. Ell We let the nigGers Of
this easy they may consider it lucky.
PETROLEUM V. Nasty,
WIch WIZ Postmaster, and hopes to b.
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