Gustavus L Foster

Uncle Johnson Gustavus L Foster

UNCLE JOHNSON" had at last gone home. Since his departure, we have thought of many things concerning that venerable relic of a former generation, things of so much interest to us that we are constrained to tell them to others. He was one of our most intimate neighbors for years, living in a humble cabin upon a lot, which joined the back end of our own. From our study-window, we could look down upon his garden, and in the summer season, we had no difficulty in being familiar with the tenor of his life. Before "Uncle Johnson" came to dwell in the cabin it changed its occupants frequently, and at each change, we were glad and hopeful. Hearing that the place had now been purchased by a colored man, though free from any special prejudice against his race, our hopes on the score of good neighborhood were not raised high.