The Arkansaw traveler., 1885-12-05

made him stay in the woods nntil Ae waa properly humbled and begged to stay al home. ] never thought that should have runaway niggeF. But did Cor colored household were. as thought de- voted to us. and knew that we were de- voted to them. Our maid.servant, Mary, had nuTsed all our first children, and they loved her. A neishboring gentleman m owned her husband, and as he eas high strung darkey they did not get along har. moniously One night he took to the woods or somewhere else unknown, and he stayed there. In course of time his master got tired oi this and offered a re- ward, but the reward did not seem to catch him. The police freqnented my premises by night. tor they suspected that Ma y harbored him, and so did 1, but still Anderson could not be found. didn't like the dalkey. but Mary was faithful and kind, and she begged me with tears to buy Anderson. So inter. viewed his master and bought him bought him in the woods; and that night when l went home and told Mary that Anderson was mine she clapped her hands for joy, and went out hurriedly and in ten minutes ,me back with An derson, who was smiling and fat with his long rest under the fodder in my stable loft.
 It was about two months after this that the foul invaders run us out of Rome. It was about midnight when l aroused the servants and told them that l was going, aLd their mistress was going, and the children were going, and they could all do as they pleased. With one accord they declared they would follow us to the end of the earth, and so we fled together and camped out together, and Mary had our baby in her arms, and when we reached Atlanta our tea ms and servants camped in the suburbs, while we went into the city to more friendly quarters Next morning Mary and Anderson were gone. They had run away in the night, and returned to Rome. We'll, couldn't blame them, for Anderson was not at- tached to me, and he longed for freedom, and he persuaded Mary to go. That was all of it-no, not all for when we got back to Rome, in 1865, they were there, and Mary was repentAnt, and came to us for prote ection again. Her husband had joined the army, aud when the army Jeff he ran away from them. aud lost his pen- sion and his bounty, and later on he ran away from Mary, and don't know where he is now. But Tip, the faithful Tippe- canoe, would not leave me. did no, own his family, but he left them on that dark. unhappy night and followed us to Atlanta and in few days l made him go back to take care of things and see after the welfare of his wife and children To keep from being suspected as spy he, too, joined the co ored regiment as a cook, aud stayed few days, and one dark night he swam the Odssanaula river and went down the western b ank oi the Coosa about ten miles and swan that river, and by circuil ous route reached Atlanta in safety and followed our fortunes until the war was over. We'll. those were the only runaways l ever had. Two ran away from me to get to the Yankees and one ran away from the Yankees to get to me Mir Lincoln's proclamation was nothing to Tip. Tip was with me in Virginia Tio was always faithful and affectionate. Tip deserves d pension t.c:: somebody and l wish ] was able to give him one But Tip kno Es there is home for hum at my house whe ever he is homeless There are thousands of white men whose chances for heaven are not as good as Tips.
 RuH. nigger, run, de patroller catch you;
 Kun, nigger, run, you better get away.
 They used to sing that song and pick the music on the banjo They used to dodge and flank the patrol like the snug glers or the moonshiners dodge the revenue laws. They enjoyed the peril of it, and sometimes would go on a night excursion without pass rather than ask for one. # they planned to rob hem roost, or an orchard, or a watermelon patch. it was better to have no pass, so as to prove an alibi Let Dick pass to his wites house at Jim Dunlap's and stay till Monday morning" That vas Dicks passport and protection, but Dick must keep in the road, and not go skylarking over the settlement. Nevertheless, the petty stealing would happen and so law was passed making 1t crime for white man to buy chickens or produce from negro without an order from his master. My uncle bought ten chickens from darkey one Saturday night and they happened to be stolen, and the fel. lo~ who lost them reported it to the grand jury, aud those chickens cost my uncle S25 If they had not been stolen it woulo nave been all right and no harm done The negroes stole little things then just like they do now. They en- joyed it. It was their nature They were not hungry have known them to rob an orchard and give the fruit away Ths best negro would carry something s- l c
 night if he could get it. Bat the clever, iDdustrious negroes had no fear of the patrol The patrol knew ali in their beat and never asked good negio for his pass The patrol was made up of the best citizens in the neighborhood - and they took it time about in doing night duty in their own vicinity thieving got bad they went out frequently and raised big racket and the mean darkies caught it bad. But when every thing was uoief thev wouId mt Oo ot,t