Liberty advocate. [volume] (Liberty, Miss.) 1835-1866, 1839-12-26
LEE IN ILLINOIS.
To the Editors of the Baltimore Clipper
DpAR CREEK, Illinois, Sept. ], 1889.

Feelin about these times sorter Sewed up
with the blues, I've come 10 putty much Oh
mathematical conclusion TO give you raIe sen
Iiimental dee about matters and things out III
these dggns and if | du happener sprau' out
Inter sortcr fdrce a(ore Pm done, you neeu III
; think wonderfully strange ont cause my ad"'
der is riz and when steem is up, and safety
valves off, the least eete motion sets me q
Ibiln ril over, and faint the natnr OF this chlld
to pulverize the matter, caus if undertook 10
soft SOAP it over with bObiogick you'd calcur-
ate was in for long sand guess you've
always got enufof them down east 10 du you
i Now when these New highland lellGrs GIT Out
here, the ust thing they du is 10 kinder squot
down into a log cabin, and the kind OF pluhuer
they hev here, puts me IN mind oil OCCUR
IFranklin's Grafton about New lngIand white
washns, only faint quite as extensive. lhelr
bake kettle saryes for all sorts oil bakln roas-
tin and stewin conrvances, and their mllken
stuIes du putty generally for cheers.-Whe
they arc short ont for Cardles, leedn troll Is
| Jest The capor and the kind ofgoards they raise
here, make SIGH porrlngers for the chlIdren@o
mummel poan out on, as hal'nt ben beat Tor
some time poker sarves for shovel and
tongs, andis curer for squallin children. Men,
women aG children, eat drink and snooz in
one crib; and if an old croney pays a visit, he
gets toated up a ladder on to 4 scantIin flour,
what's allowed for transient customers The
kind of eatin. they have here, PII venture won't
give a man the dyspepsia; flour duns and chick
en- fxens for breakfast; corn dulns and pork
for dinner, and common duns and capital fix
ems for supper.-Wal, now, the way they git
along in these digginS guess amt to be sneez-
led at. They are always contrIven and con-
nermzen, and never come out al the leetIeI
eend OF the horn, and then comes the emmer-
graniers to sQuott onthe land and them what's
bought fust are the best feIers. For when
they get land for a doIer and a quotter an acur,
and them ere same ieIerS are peddin ont for
eighty dollers a foot, It's gougin, and arter all
they'll scrale to see who'll git the most on't;I
and keep kinder transmogriien ont over, and
swoPpn and peddlin round, so't the way some
on 'em feather their nests, is putty considera.
BILE, and then you'll see 'em beginter build logI
houses, aCcordln to the newest and most fash
lonabIest tiXens, and when they hev got one orI
tn thousand acurs of that are prairie, you'll sci
EN- beginier raize hogs and critters, and eat
os much pork tiXens, that they scratch their
selves almost to death with the Illinois Itch
Then to put on the prink, they'll bown with the
COW CRIBS and hen roosts and chicken coops,
and lay out towns and cities, and plant multi
cauIls nurseries, and build steam mills and
wind mills, and set the steamboats, a floating up
and down the Mississippi to SIGH a tarnal rate,
that they'll leave blue streaks behind um sab.
dady's journey, and finally they'll git to mer-
chandZen and speCuatln and inventin, and the
lust thing you'll see, they'll come rite out of
the kinks Jst like unravlin stockins. Now, |
guess you think I'm jokin, but if you du. you
are as llst as much mistaken, as if you'd scorch't
your shirt flaps caus, I'll tell you jist how It's,
you see the land is so amazin rich, and as far
tile that emmy thing that's planted shutes rite
up liza Teller drops emmy thing and looses it,
IL sProutes rite out. You'd orter list see um
raise sucker puakiAS-sich unaccountable guam
tItles--some on UNI so mortal big, that they iist
lamb door on one side on UNI and sorter walk
an OK rite in and crib him up and when they
lake him out, he's caution for a mgaagerie.-
You'd look sorter wamble cropt, if should tell
you the vines run with sch perfect IOoSeneSS,
that takes one teer the hull inGWrin time list
to stand with an axe and grub EN- off to keep
um from runnln acrost the Mississippi; and
then there's the cat fish gentry what grows in
The MassssppI; so nation big that them are
steamboat ieIlers sOrter tackle 'em on to toa,
EN- oil the sand bars, and they come it with
sch pertness, that steem power amt cir S
wanter say one word about
these New IngIand IelIers, that are counted SIGH {
mortal critters when they are to hum. They ..
heV lately contrIyed out notion what's puzzled
'neSe supernatural gentry SO much; and that's
motion They've jist got one a goin,
ana 1t goes so like a raven distracted. rooster, I
That 1t tares every thing all to smash. THEY'VE
pen trlen git NOODLE to send to Washington.
ouI they cant siopit long enuf to see how its
put together. Its ben goin now for few
weeks comes Friday, the hull indurin time;
ana 1t goes faster, soft there's no noin when the
'razy thing will ever stop. Its as much as thew
'ah du TO keep 1t from runnin away; and Il
guess when 1t does 80, it will kick up SIGH duins
IS won't be any body's business no how. One I
hng lkter forgot This country is so anna. I
I'm lartlIe, that enymost emmy thing grows in
'haccounlabIe quantities, and ar,er ali, there's I
scarcity Ito be grammaticaD in what's termed
ne feminine gandor, and what few there is I
loFe' keep dyln oifat SIGH distracted rate,
NAT nearly all the married gentry are gttin to '
DC "!dderers, and if there amt somethin did to
put stop to 1t, house keepin will all 90 to
'InaSh, and we shall be undd forever. We've
req brandreth's Pills and Houck's Panacer.
'teFeS steam doctors enuf here to row me up salt
river, and arter aI's said and did, faint no nc
count at all, and Fam putty cons iderabIy dis.
'ofrasod' II you come out here, fetch along
~ TIE gals you can muster. Old maids will
Iu, or grass wlderers either. Any thinp to-