Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1860-05-01
Fu7. the Spectator.

For the Spectator
| Messrs Editors The inclosed communica
tion from my friend Oooney affords melancholy
this judicial election, whose position should
make them more retiring. But | rejoice to hear
from all quarters of the Circuit that the people
have judged this thing wisely, and that the Grips
family will, without a peradventure, have tC
wear the string around their legs for at least
eight years longer-Judge L. P. Thompson pre-
siding. z.
Mister Izzard II was friendly to Tomson,
but now tell you / have changed my mind and
will 90 for Fults, and you must not think that
my nabor, Major Grips, is the occasion of my
turning round, for it's all of my own free will
and accord, and tole the Major I would tell
you so, and now say it. The Major is fine
man, and self-made man. He started in the
world swappin of jacknives, and went on rip
through that and dogs, and hosses, till he owns
q mint of mummy, and akers of land that cost
him little or nothin. lives on bit of the Ma
jor's land In the mountings. And 80 after my
letter to you were out, in print, about the death
of ''Countryman" and so forth, the Major come
over to my hut, very friendly-hes mighty
kind man-and sez he ''Mr. Cooney," sez he,
lizard 2" Sez he you'll blow up all our plots !;
hates that man Tomson, and it was me and
some others he had injured, and took away our
gains, that dubbed in to get countryman and
Judas" sez he, "to write him down, and Judas,
poor fellow, il crazy, that nobody can tell his
meann' and now you've gone and testified that
Countrymau is ded and so the Grips family has
nary friend" Sez dear Major didn't know
all that, or I'd Of hated Tomson too. Sez he
''Mr. Cooney, that man Tomson has cut me out
of some of my best trades, only because God
made me little sharper than some others, and
got the better of 'em in fair way, as if mans
wits did not belong to him to be made the most
out Of" Sez he, "Mr Oooney, if woman and
child is in the way, Tompson wont let any man
get the better of 'em" ''For" sez l major,
there's my Jenny and the children spose were
to die, wouldn't it be great comfort to me to
know that the Judge would see that nobody
should get the advantage of 'em when | was
gone" | fear Major all the women and the hus-
bands too will be agin us on that Sez he
ssd-n Jenny and the children; haven't ta-
ken care of you and them tor nothin but what
you all could do, which amt much2 Get me
out of this scrape and turn agin Tomson, or you
don't 90 Coon huntin from my house any
So turns round voluntary, Mister L.
zard, of my own free will, and hope you won't
print any more of my letters. don't know
whether Oountryman is ded or not, and don't
believe be is, tho I seed it with my own eyes,
Now you may think strange Of this, but Major
Grips and me goes for effect. The Major says
he don't believe word about Tomson not doin
enuff work, and the sleepin docket, and all that
stuff. He sez he llelieves TompsOn does id
sight too much work, delvin over them pesky
chancery papers, and interferes with his and
~, nd ohnr nj fboir
profits. and ne knows that when he don't get to
the Courthouse in time he's workin hard over
them very things, to make thrivin men disgorge
their gains; and as to the sleepin' docket, the
Major says there's no delays of justice about that
but he believes that Tomson keeps all them
cases laid by, then, after he has done all in one
that he can do-iist like go many strings around
poor birds legs to draw tie poor things in and
prevent them flying tree. The Major says he had
a dreadful battle with woman in the Chance
ry Court, agin an annuity she claimed out of q
piece of land he had bought cheap. The wo-
man, be sez, beat him, and Tompson give her a
big decree agin him, to pay up all that was
back. The Major seq he granted nightly but
thinkn he was done with the Greater he paid
up; when 10 and behold, here tother day Tomp-
son pulled the string around his leg and sprawl
ed him flat of his back under another big decree
for all the instalments that fell due to the wo
man since the first decree, which the Major had
hoped the woman had forgotten. But the Ma
jor says 'als fair in war, and if Fults and Judas
and Countryman can make the people believe a.
bout the wheels of justice and the sleepin dock
ct, why it's spoke IN their wheel that he is not
agoin to break, and if Fults turns Tomson out,
it's all right; for be hates Tomson on account of
bis being kept tied and hurtin him. And Mis-
ter lizard hates him too, of my own free will,
unless he will let Major Grips and his whole
family alone, and allow them to make what they
can Now the Major sez, that if the people
know that only he and the like of him was suffer
in by Tomson, they would only laugh at him
and like Tomson the better for punishin of him.
So he sez he and all the Grips family, which
amt small, are determined to stand by and back
up all that kin be said agin him and am too
Mister lizard, 80 don't you 90 and print this let
ter. From this time forth go for Fults; and
my doctrine is let every man, woman and child
take care of themselves. | intend too to do all
can for Judas and for the executors of my de-
ceased Countryman. AS the Major says "d-n
Jenny and the children" All which l tell you
again lizard is written of my own free will and
accord, for the Major is good man, and would
not tyranize over any one. No more from me
now and forever. COONEY.