. The South : a tour of its battlefields and ruined cities, a journey through the desolated states, and talks with the people: being a decription of the present state of the country - its agriculture - railroads -business and . e work he did. A man owes me money for wood. Ifhe dont pay me soon, I 11 take a stick and beat it out on him. That 11 be to work for it twict, and not git it then, ob-served a negro, very wisely; and I trust Wade was persuadednot to try the stick. Ought to have such laws yer as dey has up in Tennessee,said another negro. Dar you d git yer money! Laws isstrick
. The South : a tour of its battlefields and ruined cities, a journey through the desolated states, and talks with the people: being a decription of the present state of the country - its agriculture - railroads -business and . e work he did. A man owes me money for wood. Ifhe dont pay me soon, I 11 take a stick and beat it out on him. That 11 be to work for it twict, and not git it then, ob-served a negro, very wisely; and I trust Wade was persuadednot to try the stick. Ought to have such laws yer as dey has up in Tennessee,said another negro. Dar you d git yer money! Laws isstrick in Tennessee ! Ebery man chalks a line up dar. A manowes you money, de probo marshal make him toe de line. Isbeen round, since de wa busted, and I hant seen no wharlaws like dey got up dar in Tennessee. By this time a large number of negroes had assembled onthe spot, dressed in their Sunday clothes; and such an ani-mated discussion of their political rights ensued, that, con-cluding I had strayed by mistake into an out-door conventionof the freed people, I quietly withdrew, — followed by myfriend Wade, who wished to know if I could accommodatehim to a chaw of tobacker. Atlanta is the centre of a perfect crows-foot of railroads,. RAILROADS AND BANKS. 459 ■which have 2;iven it its business and military importance. TheWestern and Atlantic Road, connecting it with Chattanooga,forms a main trunk, with tributaries running into it from allparts of the North and West, and ^\;ith branches from Atlantarunnino- to all parts of the South. This road was constructedbj the State, which in past years derived from it a large rev-enue. The war left it in a bad condition, with a dilapidatedtrack, and merely temporary bridges in place of those whichhad been destroyed; — without machine-shops, or materialsfor the repair of Avhat little remained of the old, worn-outrolling-stock. A purchase of four hundred thousand dollarsworth of indispensable stock from the government, had sufficedto put it
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