The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1881-05-12

is a cursed Yankee. We don't want
that kind here but want our native
men," Says Mr.. Heath: :" had been
for some time trying to effect q sale and
get out of the country as easy rs possi-
Bile. While the neighbors showed no
enmity to my face, always treating mo
with the greatest apparent respect and
friendship, they were at the same time
exhibiting the greatest enmity behind
my back. ! bad had interviews with
one or two parties about selling out,
and I would have sold : out At .
very great sacrifice If 1 could have seen
. chance to, get my money, L could
have sold out fast enough by letting
them take my property, taking back Q
mortgage, and letting them pay for II
from the proceeds as fast as they could
earn it. l was holding off and trying
to find somebody that had some money,
When they burned me out / had no
place to stay, and had toget out then.
We had about 81. 200 insurance have
nothing left there but half dozen pair
of mules and the land. The whole
place, with improvements, was worth
$25, 900. They burned up my tools,
wagons, grist-mill, mill, blacksmith
shop, repair-shop, everything clean. ]
got out about $400 or $500 worth Of
goods in about twenty minutes We he'd
to work in, and we came within an saoe
of being burned up alive. The only
thing that saved us was that the wind
blew the flames away from the building
in which we were sleeping. X 4 .s-h
Mr.. Heath claims that he had been q
public benefactor rather than an enemy
to the parish where his property was,
and can only explain his persecution BY
his desire to elevate the negro. He do
tails many petty acts of cruelty. and
concludes by saying: 1.-The trouble il
that the native Southerners are envious
toward anybody that comes into theis
neighborhood, particularly . Northern
man who is opposed TO the Solid South
They know what my, politics were. al.
though I never have talked politics
there or advised the negroes, beyond
telling them what / thought was fol-
their interest. never advised them
who to vote for, and tried to keep alool
from politics altogether. A few
days before came away q th<
District-Attorney of Caldwell Par
ish was in New Orleans, and I tool
the trouble to hunt him up, and had q
long talk with him. said to him
MIR. Ware. you cannot afford to have
me burned out and driven out Of YOU
parish without taking some notice o
Il. .Well,' he said, II think likely
our folks will notice it, This was {
month after the fire and moro. and
nothing has been done. L said to him
i have got a letter that received las
summer from the post-office just above
me, Hogan's Landing, telling me III 4
returned to the parish they would pay
me visit. am going to mail thai
letter, and you may. make such use q
it as you think proper.' / told him !
he would advise the parish to Offers
reward of 800, $200, or $500, that J
would offer as much more to thorough
ly investigate this thing. / have made
no secret of those matters in New Or
leans, but have told them openly NJ
allusion has been made to the fire u
any Southern newspaper that I've seen
Whenever Q negro is murdered u
there in my parish they take no NOR
notice of il than though it was a ldos
shot. They don't even hold an in
quest. They don't give publicity Z
anything of this kind. When a pubii'
man like Judge Crawford is shot every
body finds that out. "-Spccial TO CAica
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