, 1860-10-24
Letter from Zepla Handy, E.q.

Doa Tooru GzsD. A'exsndfr Co L., oet. =.
Mr. Edd:ter Of The Psessla THbSooa
Ire bseu thinkin about ritea Jou a letter now
about well outu 12ontli, just to giv ~ pees
Of my mind on the wsJ matters an things Il
goin about pallaticks.
wus born in the old Stale uv Moth kurliny.
never oned Amy riggurs Eor neethur did ary7
Nv my folkes. kun TO 1llinoJ with my Old
wuman nye outer good mza3 years ego.
There IVES ipiuus rouud here occasionally then
sum. au after the irjans left they was Wus than
them, nothin but hoss. s.thieoves an hes steehn
an an 5 6sqntF sso dss sspe s3 d1 .s ssss
in rigzurs in K.in.ucky. an sellin UNI
in Mhzur5, a. il q stranger wss foe!
enuff to KUN into Esgupt, they'd eethur win al
hc had play in poker, or take him waero be
was shrre to git egur and sinken ch:lls, ard
git a doktur that I'D gir him tn mulch kp,2!t"
nine. and thea they d adminissur Oh hin estais.'
call this Eegupt bekars il is the land Of letters
an r!enty. / Wouldn't say whether 1:s true
now or not, but in them ticcs the oa!y letters
I ever hesrd on Eas letters Of a4miulstEashun,
when sum stranger would ken IN huntin' hos
ses, or sum sach fool bieEus; ard is tar plenty,
ther wasn't plenty Of anything but hoss
theers and ornurJ kr,Ees that had eeGn fszea
amung the niggrrs in ka'ntueky, ano s aensss, .ks
AID tbnut it was more resrsiobut TO steel than
to wnrk.
Eurl;nr. hut don't think he could a bin Pres
idunt aftur got 10 Ecgupt, or he'd hung
sum ov them devils as high IS q hnJ noW, as
Jack Kykendall says when he makes fleetca
acin the Abol,shuners. s'posc !sck met as
h1rh 81 M a hsy stack; but yu no that Jack has
sin to The Legistachur, and expect ho hutd
sura Of them high-iaroed lellers eay ebay
NOV" aud ,u no Jack likes to SgIed hin.sl.: sn.
Well, Ime An old man Dow. When l knm
from North Ke.liny l couldn't reed nor rite,
but about sicks yee1s ago teller gum aiong
from MassJ Jchusets and tux up skac, ana ny
boy Zsph tux poshun to glt larnln. and s1u1e
epuf. Zeph larued to reed In no tlaae, and Re
was 10 s;uk NJ about it, fer he wRs the first
nv the family that node ta:t ever kood reed.
he was ali the time 1eedi0 Doospapnrs ana
poa.ry, and maxim tpee:ches asa pTee!cain
surmoue. and Shakspeer and susch, until the
girls got 60 tauch infatuated with bis larGen
that ihay had tn 70 tu skule tuu, an they snne
got tn reedin,, sn fyna!fy ncshin wood Go but !
muat larn rxedin along with tho balans. At
fust the old wu1un an me both kik't up shout
il. taxe IVES ia old. but after all kids Of
tou6bb,n and ]axiu and fuss, inss TO kev pees
| agreed thu: Zeph and / should 60 into tho
barn every day and take lessura 80 that The
ncbors shouldn't no anything shou: it
And now blr Eddi:tur yu kant have no idea
how tiekled Was when just found ! kood spell
"Bafup." but MES SO a1kahus to get TO retd.
IN that / didn't stand mulch on spc1lin, and
Zsph Sc sint good spc1ler to this day, if l
hAy Termed IitiD, but het= alRhse BLOWN hek.z -
he thinks heez grady waited, Is be ST..
But my cd wnman was always opposed 70
la;ain 10 reed, hekaze she scd it ~us no use,
that it xas u9thiu but drafted fuu'erJ, and that
Zeph and the gxls had a}l bin ruinated b. it,
anf 1hat Zeph was all The time re3!a that Gus
sed Ablenkina' speechis about Free Tur:J-
torrY, and SIZE sed If we didn't lock ont when
DuFpies gets tn BE- Pr;zadtut he'l hav us all
hu1E for abolishuners, and that I'll them Ab!sr-
Kin men ore in farer Nv "Giegur qua.stg," scd
that they want to make quality, cut OF the mig
guys, and make the white fofes ail Eotk Ior
Them, ipstad of 1uakin The niggu1s work for the
sbite foxes, and msae the white gals marry
pi0curs; and al1 the white men 1natrS nig1uz
wentchcs. and that's what that clio kus Ablin-
Kin weu,s ard il h. gifts elected Ecle turn all tie
niopurs 1use and make u.1 murder all the Ehi!e
fofe sad thatshe no.eits alltrne ,b.fase she herd
<JoAn Lo1pn say 70, snd:then she gsFes three
i:s fact that purity much es! the ole vimmin
down here in Etjopt from, Tenysea and North
kuriiny hurr2w Tor pugglis-
The buR4lis ,aen here have been trJirg 10
rtze pnls. Tha had it maid in three peeses, 50
~ tn make it reach, they ran th< Dtg3iss fna IL
fhe gro,r1, ard about the time they got It rp
the splices broke tF srd down they sll kun,
ground By itself. Hut they maid q new spllso
80 finally 60: it up, aad they think it i'll atsnd
about tn weak8.
suppcz yer no Guverrur Ailin maid spsach
here yesterday. After the Bras Band had plaid
The Iarstlz Him, and Volts Sumberone, the
fellers begin to stther round, and the mectiu
wa organized. GuEerrur Allin, Judge Ai!in
and AtIurny Genurss Broozks made speeches I'll
afternoon: bat Jest as Gineral lIroorks was
Qoiu to pruye that the 1rdte p tnfs1F:& u Pup
pytar Suyernty wus EoETectk, q dtst;aguished d
feIIur siIzin steped up on this platform Edtold
the Atturray Ginersl that they wonted 10 rsz=
= UrRplts pole, and they headed all theT IVES in
the svience TO men and5 bo!s} to hsi1 rsza the
pole, end that he'd bettar dry up. So ths Gin.
e1A hoped tnAs ihey would exkuse him from
any further remarkrt which F&s unsnimusly =
s1reed Oh. Than all hands vent Down to tie
leyey and tho Brass Daud plaid Na.sss Lin
| h,gsted; aud then u Tourg gentleman of
| Cairo usdo a fu meet and approbsiss remarks,
| md eloQucutly scd " Tint just three tenchuries
| ago shst nobuia haEuer had been fust throne to
| the bresz, and that ut that usly daT it had bin
fust kousekrated to the grdit prin:ttpu Of Pup
| pylar Currently, and closed his abse address, By
ss1in that he hoped that pu the S,a day UT Nov.
| that the pepul wood prtzsrve the Stars en-
! SHINES from bein torn akuudcr, by gotin
| hoped shey give THAR votes fer sum wun Of the
| national and uAp4a candidates, Steven 4. Dug
| Oils Of Illinois or John Dell af Tenas.e. aud
/ then as It had kummenssd raiclu, the Band
didn't pleT REY more, but they gar three chsnrs
| far Uupc{if, si1a, which nfFare DBtx run hyo on
| DpRRlis and Bell, aud The Dugs:;s nen are saJ.
| iny tbat what Bstx they mako COW tk<y sconI
b4st ppt cf. 10 l suna gotia my o:e wun ho4s
wagun and drore'holos: urss TIooly,