The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1858-08-19
WASHINGTON D. C, THURSDAY AUGUST 49, 1855 -

befcse tho Judgment seat. Why, how many
sNew Eng snders, ont of godly Sabbath-keepine
farnl les, DO you suppose, sir, carries the Sab
BATH viii 'em, when they get for instance,
s.auloag tbs French, who, it's stated, haven't
got Sore Of their own? Why, judging from
fthe For versation of party of 'em, that ap
Fpeared q Ute respectable and consequential
people, Slo'd just come over in the steamship,
vheS ~Gs a-stopping at the Bromfeld House,
sb' cd t2iRk none too many, sir. Why, even
1.-THE ouDi ladies-and very 6ne young ladies
Ethey seen I'D to be, to, and conducted With
amuc pre- Hriety-had been, understood from
Frem' ks beard the young gentlemen make,
rs-loo ing n and laughing at places of enter
rtainf 'ent % Paris, that no decent pretty.be.
have ye>ng female had ought to know so
Emucs as the name on, sir Nov, if the salt
I.is a. oipt to lose its SAVIOUR, every time it
cont in t,ntact With anything that isn't salt
swhet 9s tss use of having it at all, as I say
land cw u the whole earth. ever going to get
salte if stem them tina, are Christians at home
Fare sigoh i to be Tsrks in Turkey2 They
may conc get becomingly enough to Boston,
sand Sews York City, and Cincinnater, under
The 6 oserwttion of their folks but, as like as
not, Che r,oment they git out alone on the
.purrt Yrs, 9th only the great blue eye of God,
81 f'Ay s'sr sc without irreverence, over them,
-hey'l lie to the Indian, and cheat him, or
steal his ,trn or squashes, if they have good
chause, o, kill his pig or his COW, and leave
-.heirScons ;tences to home with their best vests
ind fapts, and take em out again, all as good
as new, shen they git back there. Then,
-where the indian finds out what they've been
ZIP rs be-, indignant naturally, sir; and not
aeinf sbl,'to get redress any other way, the
,iext ime he sees a white man come prowling
Abou pc Ayaps he shoots him; and then we
-sall iu saDguinary tribe, and exterminate
him. Fetr likely. Wants we a sanguinary
Tribe ~ s.Aenteen seventy.fve, and shouldn't
sSe b. sg' IA, with the like provocation, sir
Why haw young gentleman, who come
gut fran te States, while ago, with the ex.
Tress-, ago' I'D purpose, to kill an Indian, sir"
: "I1famt Is |" cried Herman I" but he could
cot h We BAN in earnest 1t must have been
here 5rav iol"
: M, it Sas not, sir. beg your pardon.
He pptpos.e it, and he did it, too. Now, am far
rom takinf it upon me to say that it mayn't
Sc necessarJ to shoot the Indian, once in
while in q, + defence, OF after judicial inquiry
into ne OF heir outrages; but if the latter, it
Iadn's nev,r ought to be done only after very
.ispass'onsts examination. Justice has got two
kands, rs I SAY, and had ought to keep one for
lie white lcan-he wants it enough-and not
Sl!y ETA botl on the red man and then she
ouldnt h'se so much trouble to keep him in
'der. They're like chidern-not 'halfwitted
tNildesn' you observed, sir, but smart chill
Germ, reat .:e easy put out and knows when
.ley'f imF sed upon, and don's look on things
sast a we -, and has to be checked once in
& viii 9, WI they git too obstreperou,, but
ad eaght 20 be very patiently taught, ard
Llndly and t,rbsaringly treated, generally, and
~ wekprh sipled compassionate individuals"
The stea s,boat was just then coasting along
Che o. the ;wo unfathomable, gloomy, track
SO, fe ests that walled the river on each side,
s%ith tosir ,;aight stalks almost branchless to
Lie tots fl want of elbow-room, and hung
'Aout With gray moss, dropping and trailing
IKE thf dui ~ ancient cobwebs of the lethargic
s1idera stu pbering out their century in the un-
disturbed pods around the palace of the
sleepirS B. nuty. Five minutes before, tall
s-ad shfggy gentleman had dropped on board
f'om a. ov hanging cotton-tree. He wore
Goat Of buff slo-skn, with pistols peeping from
tie bresst, I'D knife in the belt; and with the
sfectio, ate grippe ola grizzly bear, he Rugged
de. sis head was matched with q great
sOunds,ce # straw-colored hair; and very
Little yellow 3D. brown flesh padded the large raw
Zones Of lis gsunt face. His loose joints
Sacked as % walked, as if he was accompany.
j. e hinself 9Th castanets; and all his move.
u-ents appe red to be accomplished by means
q partisl d slocations. He had, with the easy
liability Of one who knows that he can COM
T. and vel ,ome, Joined our travellers at once,
sr the bene it of listening to their conversation.
re had SIM occupied his time pro6tably in
Fisureay ru, Ainstion upon their words and his
o-sn qpids, end in freeing his utterance from the
sores of tubacco which obstructed it. This
lrst he accomplished satisfactorily by ejecting
9 portion, ard packing away the rest in his
p.,uches like monkey. The deck of his
$ eech being thus cleared for action, he began:
"Gosh, strangers, yer don't mean ter say
ysr sps any a,out sh9otin them thar dog-goned
Wild Iu;uns, 20 yer2' Just wait till yer've seen
SINE . their cussed ways, an yer'll think no
ryore . that aor O. shootin any other kind O.
vrmint, 'xce pt they amt 80 nice to eat"
S"I beg yotr pardon, sir" said Mr.. Grubbe,
With awful tolemnity 81 am acquainted by
p-rsonsl observation with more of their ways
tEan s6oult. expect 10 learn from you or any
b. dy eso, sir and should hope and pray, sir,
e be We spoony, indeed, as you were pleased
tf deno,oinase it, sir, about taking away the
Ia or tae rights of any of Gods creatures,
stzl"
"Parsan, strannger?"
@"No, am not, sir but that is no reason
WY should not feel as Christian man, sri I"
=" No harm in that, Stranger, sartin an, if
tisat's I'll, don't see as there's anything to
hiader az brsngin yer round to take common.
sS lse rev o. the subject. Life sa rights O.
Gad's critters says you. Amt buffalo and
c. On Gods critters, too; and can't you kill
u I'm wen they've got what you're in need on
te@ eat az TO wvari"
80 Indisns age Gods immortal creatures, SIR"
s"Be teyf How dyer know"
AIs if poaable you are 30 benighted, sir
I icy As~s soals, SIR"
S" Yes, I'm benighted, reckon. How dyer