Chapter IX

Campaign of 1860, more Exciting than the Hard Cider One of 1840.--Bob Toombs’ Declaration.--Split in the National Democratic Party at Charleston, S. C., April 23, 1860.--Cause and Results.--Lincoln Elected.--Missouri’s Vote for S. A. Douglass.--Higher Power than Man in Control.--All Classes Suffered by the War, but Neutrals Most.--Poor Illiterate Whites out as Patrols to Keep Slaves Quiet.--Fun with those Patrols who Could not Read Passes.--Lindsey Watts, and How He Fooled Them.--Who Set the Town on Fire?--No Judas Among Slaves.--They Believed the War was for their Freedom.--Best Blood Went South to Shoot and be Shot at While Cowards Remained as Bushwhackers.--James Long, the Original Lincoln Man.--His Misfortune a Blessing.--Slave Property a Dead Weight to Owners After 1862.--Business of Negro Traders at an End for Ever.--Master’s Slave his best Friend After All.--Master’s Property Stolen by White Thieves in Uncle Sam’s Uniform.--Young Master Returns after the War, Broken in Health, Cash and Disfranchised 93

CHAPTER X.

Enlistment of Colored Troops at Brunswick, Mo., from 1863 to the Close of the War and how Assigned.--Master gave his Slaves free Passes to Induce them to Remain with Him and out of the Army.--Contract to Remain with Him One Year Broken, and the Cause.--Elopement with the Girl I Loved.--Exciting Chase Thirty Miles on Horseback, Armed with a Pair of Colt’s Navies.--Pursued by the Girl’s Master and His Friends.--Laclede Reached in Safety and Pursuers Fooled.--Full History of Flight, Escape, Marriage by Rev. John Turner of Leavenworth, Kansas.--Visit to Old Master in January, 1865.--Found him Dejected.--Farm Rifled by Thieves Dressed as Soldiers, but They Left Him the Land 107

CHAPTER XI.

New Problem to Solve.--Self Sustenance and Economy.--All Bills to Pay and Furnish Necessaries.--Difference Between White Men in a Free State and Old Master Class in Dealing with Ex-Slaves.--Great Confidence in the Word of Old Master Class, Who Would Not Lie to Slaves.--Cheated by White Men in Kansas.--Has Old Master Class Degenerated?--Colored People set Free Without a Dollar or Next Meal and Told to “Root Hog or Die” by a Great Christian Nation.--Who Made this Country Tenable for the White Man and Whose Service Brought Millions of Dollars to it, which Benefited the North as well as the South?--Jealousy of Unskilled White Laborers caused Prejudice Against Colored People.--Poor White Trash and Foreign Laborers are the Colored People’s Enemies.--Irish Enmity and the Cause.--Similar past History Should have Made them Friends, Rather than Enemies.--Lynching not Done by Old Master Class.--Opening of the Eyes of the Old Master Class.--Is it Too Late? 112