CHAPTER X.

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