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Updated: July 20, 2025
'You'll find you have a different person to deal with than the late Captain Brierly. 'I've found it, says I, very glum, but pretending to be mighty busy with my steak. 'You are an old ruffian, Mister aw Jones; and what's more, you are known for an old ruffian in the employ, he squeaks at me. The damned bottle-washers stood about listening with their mouths stretched from ear to ear.
General Clanton of Alabama further explained that "there is not a respectable white woman in the Negro Belt of Alabama who will trust herself outside of her house without some protector.... So far as our State Government is concerned, we are in the hands of camp-followers, horse-holders, cooks, bottle-washers, and thieves.. .. We have passed out from the hands of the brave soldiers who overcame us, and are turned over to the tender mercies of squaws for torture.... I see Negro police great black fellows leading white girls around the streets of Montgomery, and locking them up in jails."
They were, in fact, the inevitable hangers-on of an army, the more in number, as the escaped slaves were welcomed by the soldiers, as they made them do their dirty work. The commanding general explained that they were "the cooks, the bottle-washers, and the nigger waiters." They had come out to see the President.
He found many amusing advertisements that served him as pegs on which to hang witty comment, but nothing to be taken seriously. I ventured to suggest that he should advertise. He received the idea with little warmth. "No, my dear boy, I can't join the long procession of scullions, cooks, butlers, valets, and bottle-washers which seem to make up so large a part of your population.
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