P.S. I forgot to menshun that at Chicago we laid the corner-stone uv a
monument to Douglas. The occurence hed entirely slipped my memory.
P.V.N.
XXXIII.
At Home again.--A detailed Account of Soul-harrowing Outrages inflicted
upon the People of Confederate x Roads by a Party of Freedmen, and how
the Insult was wiped out.
POST OFFIS, CONFEDRIT x ROADS
(wich is in the Stait uv Kentucky),
September 16, 1866.
I found my flock in a terrible state uv depression, at which, when I wuz
told the cause, I didn't wonder at. There wuz, back of the Corners on
the side hill, over towards Garrettstown, about three quarters uv a mile
this side of Abbott's grocery (we estimate distance here from one
grocery to another), five or six families uv niggers. The males of this
settlement had all been in the Federal army ez soljers, and hed saved
their pay, and bounty, and sich, and hed bought uv a disgustid
Confederate, who proposed to find in Mexico that freedom which was
denied him here, and who, bein determined to leave the country, didn't
care who he sold his plantashen to, so ez he got greenbax, three hundred
acres, wich they hed divided up, and built cabins onto em, and wuz a
cultivatin it.
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