Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 July 1889 — A Hold-Over Slaveholder. [ARTICLE]

A Hold-Over Slaveholder.

Jacksonville Timea-Cnion. At Miami Messrs. Jones and Robert Wylie, who recently finished their trip from Tarpon Springs in the little steamer Margaret tj# point un Indian River, had the pleasure of meeting the only genuine slaveholder in the land of the free, namely, the Hon. Cypress Tiger, of the Everglade Beminolea. When crops are good and there is a scarcity of labor in Mr. Tiger’s dominion, he is believed to sally forth into the neighboring set tied country and lasso a few negroes, who are taken into the glades and consigned to unlawful servitude. ‘‘lnjun's niggers no free,” says Tiger when it is intimated to him that slavery has been abolished. Some flfteeCL year* ago the country laughed over the story, given in lengthy detail, of the old cracker from somewhere near the j umping off place, who drove his cart into 8L Augustine and offered s fine, big, sleek looking negro for sale, as ha needed a little extra money, and it will probably receive the story of Tiger’s practices in the safe* way. Bat it is all the same to Tiger. The successful physician is the me who knows bow to get a', the iostu* huts. i—**- T. 1. ’ «