Rensselaer Union, Volume 1, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 June 1869 — Jeff. Davls’ Successor. [ARTICLE]

Jeff. Davls’ Successor.

Tint negroes on Jeff Davis’ plantation seem’to tie getting along very Well with out tho “ kind care" and paternal regard of old teassy?’ A Correspondent who ncentty 'visited the plantatie® telle us whjtt he suW:* 1 - “ ThdWiMfrrgli all ternate Mthey were when J< ff left, except a few negro quarters , list Have been torn down. An old negro that used’to l>e one of Jiff’s slaves now l leaee|!jie for toil thousand dollar* a year, and hire* a hundred and fifty hand* to:workft; Not a Whttd 'mfcn’ls to be teen Jbout the place. Stringe as it ImaX-jnto Mr,.Dart< hi. dlifsltvel. making pjouey fast, ahd feels as proud ci several thousand acres (.planted to cotton,

"produced to run a miJUia Lowell- for several Jkteks. *We jw lets ole Massa Jeff make political speeches; an, we’ll see dat de bnjton grows,’ said Aha, darkey who »bowedjK<sut, and wiiHlad a queer babit«rah<ering the whites';of*hfa eyes whenever Jyffyrson Davis wunMintianed "Golly, who*a sposed’dAt dis Cflfle woujd ben free and'libln on' dis yfef plantation wid my Dolly dar? Yah ! yah I yah ! ole Jeff ’sf cun> to grief; shualv He’d be hoppin’ toad, dough, to see dis yer nigger here. Yah! yah! yah!’ We left him laughing on the shore, and moved off to tbe boat, moralizing upon the mutability of human event*.” v k I.ig . . -r- _