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and carried rae up North with them. My tather ran away before the slaves were freed. I never found out what became o~ hua.

	“i: 8tayed in Illinois from the time I was five or six years old up until I was twenty—one. I left there in 1880. That is about the time when Garfleld~ ran for President. I was in Ohio, seen him before he was assas~ sinated in 1882. Garfield and Arthur ran against Hancock and ~ng1ish. They beat ‘em too.


Little Rock

	ni used to go from place to place working first one place and then another-—going down the Mississippi on beats. Monmouth, Illinois, where I was raised-~--they ain‘t nothing to that place. J‘ust a dry little ~own~


Opinions

	“The young people nowadays are all right. There ta not so much ignorance now as there was in those days. There was ignorance all over then. The Peckerwoods wasn‘t much wise either. They know nowadays though, Our race has done well in refinement.

	“I find that the Negro is more appreciated in politics in the North and West than in the south. I don‘t know whether it will grow better or not,

	“I‘ll tell you something else. The best of these white people down here don ‚ t feel so friendly toward the North.“