Cooper's Clarksburg register. [volume] (Clarksburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1851-1861, 1855-05-23

kansas song as follows
We leave the Rsarth4stons Of our youth,
With, this devoted band,
And Tx the Israelites of old,
We seek, foreign strand.
Asland fpromise TO the brave,
Whose hearts are firm and true;
And quaiIpot, though familiar things
Are passing from their view.a
He then proceeds to inform the aston.
ished Mrs. Belcher that they must be
ready to go in fortnight.
Mr.. Belcher, will you have the good
ness to inform me whether you are crazy
or not? If not. you've certainly been
taking something strong. Bic upon you.
Belcher, for church~member aud teeto-
taller, as you pretend to be. Pretty do.
ings. these. What do,you suppose dea-
con Smith will say. when he learns how
| you have been led astray?
Deacon SIN tn may go to
Don't swear, Belcher,
Who's going to swear say again,
Deacon Smith may gosto grass for all me.
1 hav'nt been drinking any more than
you have, nor half so much.
Mr.. Belcher. do you dare to insinuate
that [, the wife of your bosom, am guilty
ofdrinking?
Just wait till get through. said
havn't drunk SO much as you, and as /
havn't had anything to drink since dinner,
| suppose it is true enough. But as l
was saying, we shall have TO be as busy
as bees to get ready for Kansas in fort
night.
Are you in earnest, Belcher?
Never more SO.
And you have fully decided to go?
Certainly.
And to take me-and the children,
OF course.
Very well-very peU, Mr.. Belcher.
Allow me to inform you that not q step
do either or the children bulge, and Il
you take us at all, you take us by main
force.
Pooh. that's all nonsense. Don't you
know that when we once get there we
can make our fortune in no time. Every>
body says that it's laud flowing with
milk and honey.
Milk and honey, torsooth ! You might
as we'll say that it's land flowing with
rattlesnakes and anacondas, and hit near
er the ttuth.
All travellers in that region unite in
asserting
beg you won't interrupt me. Belcher,
1t doesn't make any difference to me
what they assert. Then besides. if we
should escape the rattlesnakes and ana.
condas, which isn't very probable. there's
the savage Indians thatll be breaking in
upol US, and shooting US down dead with
their bows and arrows, and maybe scalp
US with their tomahawks. How should
you like to come home some night and
find the children weltering in their gore
with their seal ps hanging to some Indians
war-belt. l don't say anything of my
self, for Heaven knows, Belcher, il don't
make much difference to you what be-
comes of me.
thought you knew that Indians didn't
trouble US in that way now.
To-be-sure not when we stay where we
belong. But when we take it into our
heads to go to such place, it would only
serve us right. l should like to know.
Mr.. Belcber, what possible inducemcnt
you can have to go there.
1t ought 10 be sufficient that we shall
there be able to do our part towards res.
cuing the beautiful region from the blight
Of sla-
Slavery 6ddlesticksl Ialways thought
you was fool, Belcher. and now lsknow
What made you marry me then?
1t was sheer pity, Belcher. and not
love. You needn't tatter yourself
You might add that when a woman is
twenty~nine, she isn't very particular.
Belcher You are brute You know
perfectly well that was only twenty four
when you married me. Whistling, are
you should like to know what you
mean by that.
Only to ask how many years you had
been twenty~four, and how it happened
that your next youngest brother had at
that time been voter for six years.
That has nothing to do with what we
are talking about, BelCher. 1t seems as
that you think more of niggers than you
do of your own children. What advan.
tage do You think they could have there? !?
And what kind Of style do you think we
could support in the woods. And il
wanted to go shopping some day, should
like 10 know how I'm going TO do iG !!
And my poor dear mother! How do you
/ suppose she can get along without me?
PerhapSit would be better for you to
stay here with her, and let me take the
children.
Yes. that's remarkable fne plan, isn'l
lit, Mr.. Belcher A mighty fne plan fol
getting rid Of me, upon my word. No,
Belcher, you needn't astter yourself III
do any such thing. Wonder how long
i yon'd be in finding a new mother to The
children. Poor things it's we'll they ye
got tone parent with heart enough to care
for them.
! Very we'll. Children and 90 in 3
fortnight. If you choose to go, ] should
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