Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1845-04-25
Col. Pardon Jones's Letter.
SHADY GROVE, BAY STATE, }
March the 10Th, 1S45.
To the Editor of the Picauune. Eu-

Ter suh-uoWn. alter one OF the most perry
lns see VICES in the skinner that brought
up a load of melasses for my old tr;nd,
that ever you read on since Christofer CO.
IumbuS fust discovered the Falls of Mag
gary. The citizens of Dead Cow Brook
hid meetIn here, bout three munce ago.
III consider the state of the Union, and the
dangers that hung over it, and appinted
committee OF eleven, III write d letter til |
aud Gaping Potter, invilin on us til come
here by express mail; tn take command
OF my old egiment, and the Gaping I'll
give good advice. The same day we got
the letter we packed up. not s,oppin til
have our dirty shirts washed, and when
we got tu New Orleans, Capt. Sy Smith,
of the skinner SwlFlfoot, advised us III 90
with him, round III Boston, on his vessel.
tie said the express mail had got into SIGH
a habit of never failing tn fail, that we
might as likely as not be three munce on
the way; but he could take US round in
forty days. and wouldn't charge us but
halt price, seem that he had the Capring's
melasses abord; so we set sail from New
Orleans, jest sixty days ago, day afore
yesterday, and got into Boston yesterday
mornin! We wasn't in no danger of be-
in ShIpracked nor nothing Of that sort, bu,
we got out Cfprovisions, and had nothin
i'll stain life for the las, six days but the
cargo. which was sweet petaters and me.
lasses! The Pe,aters was good huff, but
The meIasses had jest got cleverIy tn ,Uork-
IN, when we begin tn eat ii, and US soon as
we got It down our stomacis, it worked
wuss then ever, and both on us is fallen
away good deal. Sy Smith made US
pay sixty dollars apiece, passage money,
Yesterday. arter we got into port! WHY
says |. didn't you promise tn take us for
half price,? Yes said he, but my full
price is hundred and twenty dollars a
piece. SO fork over the rino. old leIIers il
you don't Ill jest take You up afore i JUS
'ice!' We paid him, but i. was cussed
hard, | can tell you. Ineyer had my fee
ms hurt SO bad in my life.
We found The patriotic citizens of Dead
Cow Brook in dredGul commo,Ion. Simon
Spaldng has got one hundred and twenty
one sogers in artillery company, all on EN-
trained fust rate. There amt one on 'enl
but what dass to 60 right up within four
foot of the cannon and fetch it off with the
longs! They're the ra'aI stuff. You've
heerd. spec, that the old Bay State is &
going to try til SET up for herself, III behalf
of the niggers? Wall. this artillery com
pany (the same that saved Rhode Island
when she wanted tu commi. suicide) is de
tarmined III keep this State from goin of
and Ieavin the Union. All the rest of my
regiment has gone over til the enemy. we
don't know, yit, Which road the enem,
means tn take, III get out OF the Union
whether tn Candy, Burmudy, or til Eng
land, though we rnther guess twill b.
til England, for they've ben lookin tina
way mighty Iongin, now goin on sons
time. We shall keep keen eye on th
packet ships. and plenty of sogers on tn
railroads, so twill be putty hard for tn
old Bay State to get off without our know
III ont. When we got out OF the raIroa
. last night, in Dead Cow Brook, we foun
as much as three hundred people there. a
true hlooded Unionsts, holdin meelir
Sech hoIerin and pulling of of hats a
there was when they found out that In til
Gaping had arriy, guess you never see
started til get up on top OF railroad ca
e til make speech. bu. Gaping Potter g
hold of my coat tail and vanked me down
aud clambered up himself. ERASMUS gru'
: ter! how they holered when they see ii
old mans wig rise up over the car!
# don't wonder he felt like speakln. and |
$, did speak. III, inst rate. He begin to cI
{, a little, when he ftlst looked round al h
neighbors and frinds, but 'twasn't long
d fore he begun.
'e .Frinds and Teller cuntrymen!' said h
raising up both hands. God bless the hi
to bling on We! Here he had tn wait for e
til hurraw l and Curnel Pardon Jon
has come to save the good old Bay Sta
from disgracin herself and running off In
huff! The Bay State shan't 60. fell
n. cuntynen, and leave this gorions Unic
if she does GO. she shall walk over n
= dead corpse fus,! Here the old Capt.
put his fists on both sides of his hea
Il; Il puckered up his mouth, stuck his he
So forrard. and made his eyes stick out Ii
u two peaed onions in seIer-walI. "
lie orer my dead corpse" What! the land
up Bunker Hill-the land of lexington
in land of the Pilgrim Rock-the descende
nd Of them hero fathers that fit, bled and d
use the fnst and last, tn save, form and est
III lish this glorious Union-she the fust
run off and leave it! Jest let me kel
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