Republican vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1857, 1857-04-04
For the J indicator.
HIGHLAND COUNTY, I
Nil 0S 1L.-
March %, 1S5,

all about the talk nabor .jinbins and me had
fother night, about some of the doins here
lately. | writ TO Sammy Yost wonce-he's
a clever fellow and be didn't get mad
at all, and [ reckon you won't neither.
Well, you see, had bin away trom home
for some time, and didn't know what was
goin on till got back, few days 20
The fust thing | knowed, after the old wo-
man get my supper, nabor Jinkins, he
stepped IN, and, says he, Uncle Toby--ev-
cry body here calls me Uncle Toby--did
you see what your nephy, Samivcl, has bin
dom sence you VIC biz gonc2 Says |, no,
nabor Jinkins, what's that? Why, says lie,
he's bin written agin for the papers, and
tryin to kick up a rulhpus in the dmocratic
camp. No, says / nabor, you must be mis-
taken. What has that boy, samivel, to do
with the dimocrats Z Hes llnow-nothiag,
and has no bisness in our camp. Well, says
he, bisness or no bisncss he's at the bottom
Of the hole of it; for he writ tic peace, and
no mistake, and lie got tarnation disap-
pinted office-seeker Of dimoerat to sine it
and serd it to the printer; ami here it is.
says he, holdin up the Vindicater, and
showin' me the peaeesined ~ Jackson De-
moerat" Well, ! told salls--that's my
witc-to hand me M specbs, and | read it
clean through; and when | got through,
says |, nabor Jinkins, You must be mista-
ken; Samivel-that's nav neplly-didn't
write that, certain, although | thought all
the time it looked mighty Like him, but
didn't say 50. Yes, says he, he did for
have it from the best authority. Well, SAYS
[, nabor Jinkius. who :Ae deyil-for my
aander began to riso---who the devil, says
|, in the dimocratic party, was mean enough
to sine it and send ii to the printer Says
[, whoever done that Is Waree tEan that old
traitor, Arnold and he ought % be eibbet-
ed. Says he, Uncle Toby, SAYS he, don't
like to tell 1t might git CIT, AID if he heard
it conduit git my cid Bride nlended thar
no more. Oh, well, says !, naighbor, n9f
sea. \ wink 5 as good rs sod to a blind
boss. Ioa dent never sit 10 letters thar,
do You? Ma. says he Well, [ iist knowed
thar wasn't but one other place besides the
post-olhee-you see, our poSt-ofiiee is kept
IN saadlershop, here-ahar man could
git an old bride mendel, and then Lkpowed
Who it was shat sined that written Of Saini-
vels. Well, | couldn't hay expected any
thing else from him, senec he had tried a
long time to git the dimocrats to run him
for office, and when he found they wouldn't
do it, he thought he would try the know
nothings, and 50 come out last spring agin
the reg lar nominee Of the dmocrat party.
Well, say |, nabor, what the frc--for my
dander was still risen-kin he do? Do you
think be can split the great dimocrat ranks
in Highland? No, says he, No; the dino
Gratis will stand as firm as the rocks o Cub
ralter agn the storms and tempests of big
guns, let alone sich little p,p-gan as that,
that erery body knows can't hurt nobody.
Well, says |, all right then, and my dander
begin to fall. But, says I, nabor, what
about this boy, Samivel- that's my nephy
what ought to be done with him! Well,
says he, Uncle Toby, says he, don't like
to hurt your fcelins, as he s your nephy
Hurt the devil says for my dander be-
gin to rise agin-ge on, say what YOU please,
for am done with that boy, now although
praised him nightly about that letter he
writ to Mister Moppin, bout two years ago,
and tried to help him all could Wei,
says he, Uncle Toby, | doat Ike to hurt
your fcolins, but, says he, il You will have
it, | do think he is the most impulentest
eonccatiest darned cri,ter ever seed and
think, instid Of teachiu' he ought to be
larnt something himself, and tina; s how
to behave himself and mind his own bisness.
Well, says |, nabor, I'm about your way of
thinking That boy Saafivel, is no fool,
yit think he is maxim bad use Of his tai
ents, pokin' his nese Into every bOdy's bis
ness but his own. Hell have to he took
down notch or two-as my old dad used
to say when | was gitten too big for my
breeches--and the sooner the better.
The next thing nabor Jnlllins showed me-
was Mr.. Joseph Laynes letter, nominating
himself for some Office or other / took the
paper and read, and ] read, and the more
| read the wuss it got. Says | good gra-
clous, Sally-that's my wiie-good gracious,
says /, something S wrong with my specks,
or else I'm goin' stone blind for I've read
this .etter over aud over agin and can't
make no sense out Of it. Says !, give me
your specks. Well, Sally, She handed me
her specks, and read agin, and il wasn't
no better. Well says |, nabor ,linkins,
ioi Nou s'eNe-lof L Degin TO De sHeefcd--
read that letter, and let me see whether my
eyc-sight has failed me or not Nabor jim
kins, he then took it, and read, and there it
was agln, word for word iist n had read
1t, and then knowod wasn't blind. Wen
now, says | Major, what do you make o
that? Says |, don't he that's Mr. Joseph
l'ayne--say. that he win he candidate,
Notwithstanding any equitable means or
regulations that may be adapted to the ext
gencies Of the cam pagn now about COM
mencinga! Yes says he, he does. Wen,
says !, what in the name OF goodness docs
that mean? Says he, thar you've got mo,
Uncle Toby. Eve bin tlyin' says he to
figure that ont for week. and I'm list whar
| began don't know nothn' about it. We'll.
says |, Major, if it means any thing at all
it's more than this Oh pate can sitcr out
And jist then, fer the fust time, Sally
that's my wife--raisod her old head from
her nitten, and says she, no wonder, lobe
she always calls me lobe, for short no
wonder. says She, you cant understand