The Hazlehurst signal., 1885-11-12
NO MANS SLAVE.
Tho True Story of How Titus Be-
came n "Dr."

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MrthinkS can see some brilliant aud
aspiring satirist look idiotically ironio
and sarcastic, and hear him rc.nark,
with withcring pasqrihadc: Ut seems
TO me tina; t.aNe heard that before"
Thu story which am going 10 tell
YOU is US true rs 1.-The minutes Of the
preceding meeting" add stranger than
a Chinese play. but not near so long or
~ dull as either. Some Of the names
only are fictitious.
Along in the cightccn-iiftic-, and
before, Colonel Carter, oi Kentucky.
was n tobacco planter. wealthy. cdu.
Gated and eccentric. Until 1852 he was
also the professor of languages in a
Kentucky college, being ling',ist Of
rare aitainments,
Among tho negroes who belonged on
Colonel Carriers plantation was u boy
whom he had chosen Us a sort of body
servant, and whom he had vailed
Titus All of his do,kits were given
classic names nnd Cato. Caesar, Cicero,
Pompcy. Mars, Neptune. Bacchus, Cleo
patra, Pandora. Iris, Venus, Juno. OF
al, wormcd Colonel Carriers tohacce,
hocd AMI huskcd his crrt, and were,
altogether, his humble and obcdicnt
servants. Being, rs have said, &C.
Contric, Colonel Carter taught Titus
Latin and Greek, and adjunctivcly, 0i
course. the boy learned Something of
geography e"d arithmetic, and unayoid-
ably good English. He became
AN omni,crouS reader, and hay-
ing unusual intelligence with good
features. he grew - bo anc.looking
man what would have been termed by
u npgro-trader - likely fellow" More
over. Titus was full-bloodcd negro,
and therefore better natured and more
tractablc than those of his race whose
blood is tainted by that of the Cau-
casan. For il is fact that negroes in
fused with white blood generally ac-
quirc with 1t the worst traits of the
whit5 character and none of the better,
while il does not seem 10 enhance the
standard ot Intelligence. Twas brought
up surrounded by negroes, and associ-
ated with them, as white children used
to be in the South, and have made n
close study all my life of tho negro
character. The conclusions here given
have resulted.
In 1860 Colonel Carter died, and in
his will Titus was specially bequeathed
to Frank Bcrklcy. a favoritc grandson.
who had been Titus playmate. When
the war came on, a year later. Titus
knew all about its causes, and could SEQ
as far into what its results would be
as most men of his age.
He had read the newspapers regular
ly. and everything that he could posi-
bly, get hold Of. bearing upon the ques-
tions OF the day. He was, naturally.
deeply interested. The war had been
raging in Virginia several months, be-
fore it had been fully realized in the in
terror OF Kentucky, and the disastrous
battle-to the Union army-of Manas-
sas, or Bull Run. had been fought be-
fore single soldier had been recruited
in Kentucky for either army, and most
people thought the trouble would only
continue u few weeks. But when the
recruiting did commence, 1t almost
dccimated ,he able.bodied male popula-
ton of that State. and. rs some one has
since said: God bless old Kentucky,
she kept her quota full. on both sides,
the whole time"
Frank and Titus were about ten years
old, when one day Titus approached his
Young master and said Marse Frank,
| wish YOU would sell me-" Frank was
astonishcd. but replied: "Why, Titus,
] don't want to sell YOU. 1t has always
been my intention to give YOU your
free papers as soon became of age. y"
NO" returned Titus, 81 don'twant
you to do that. Iwant you to sell me
to Marse Tom Sampson. I'm worth
$500 and don't want you to lose
that much money. You can't afford it."
Tom Sampson was a neighboring far.
mer who had an unsavory fame among
the negroes OF that section as having
made great deal Of his wealth in buy
Ing and selling their kind. Once, in q