Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1860-05-12
CoEsTITUTIoNALLY TIRED.

COEsTITUTI0NALLY TIRED.
IA North Carolina correspondent Of tho n. T.
Tribune, gives the following illustration Of the in
dolence which he everywhere saw in that State.
The tendency to inactive Incidence is every
where to be noticed. Even the NEST youthful of
the community are not free from it. Juvenile
sports are conducted on the most languid princi-
pies. 1had, the other day, a charming experience
with a representative child Of Carolina. lie
was a stablo.boy, and was deputed to drive me, in
an open and imperfectly constructed wagon, from
Lexington to High Point, a distance of about
twenty miles. lie was almost eleven years old
and given to abrupt speech, warmly epiced with
impromrtu profanities. His face was not strictly
clean. but, while betraying slight trace of watery
publication, beamed with a certain dignity; md,
although his trowsers were tom, they disclosed a
knee that was not framed to crook in pregnant
hinges. The lad was chary Of his confidence,
and concerning me, evidently cherished a suspi-
cion of something Northern. I sought at first to
win his regard, but he steadily repealed all such
advances.
The road from Lexington to High Point is in
tricato. We had passed over about a mile of it,
when tho small boy startled me by demanding if
I were acquainted with the way. assured him !
was not; and indeed, it was not exactly the reas-
enable thing fer him to expect Of me, since was
then traveraing it the first time. No more nm |
said he with calm Indifference. | suggested then,
that there might be difficulties in getting at the
right direction. oh we'll he said, you can in
inquire I SUPPOSE I admitted the truth of that,
asl L. ,on,,o1 - 1ool, rpop tho ~ p,otter as snttle6
Presently he laid the roins upon my knee, init
mating that he was tired, and that I had better
undertake the driving for q while. Of course it
| was impossible to deny him the privilege of being
tired, that being the natural and lasting prercga-
, tive Of the white North Carolinian. As | yielded
to his wish, he remarked, Now if I fall out, you
/, must wake me up and straightway coiled himself
in the straw upon the wagon and went to sleep. I'm
der these circumstances, it was impossible for me
to do anything else but lose the way, which | ac-
S cordingly dill, and succeeded in accomplishing two
or three miles in a wrong course before meeting
any human thing from whom TO gain Information.
NV small boy reused himself about this time, de-.
manded an explanation, and took 1t exceedingly
i'll that | should so have Numbered. His pTinci-
pal objection to my deviation was that hunger be-
D gan y cFh iiu! u Ms N''"S 49,
deferred by at least an hour. But soon he sought
again somuiferous consolation.
The harness breaking shortly after in some
mysterious spot, the technical name of which !
am not conscious Of, l aroused my young driver,
and mentioned the circumstance. 1t caused him
no disturbance whatever. Here's a long hill he
said, and you'd better get out and fix it before
we begin to 90 up There seemed to be reason
in this so l did get out, and fixed as l best
knew how, which was not very well imagine, as
nv drivers countenance indicated dissatisfaction
But when, at the end of the hill, my repairs be-
came undone, and the harness once more refused
, its office, his dissatisfaction d~eepened into scornfu1
displessure, which did not depart until he wen
to sleep again.
Having completed his slumbers,in the course o.
an hour he awoke, not clear as to temper, and be
gan to prefer unpleasant observations. If you
whip him on the rump,' said he of the horse
whose name was Buchanan. by reason probably
Of his age, his slowness, and the great uncertain
, ty of his movements, he will kick up / declared
that nothing vas further from my intention thar
to whip that noble animal on the Enmp; at whicl
my counselor became silent, though apparent
not more than half convinced.
! Next came a powerful hint that. if Buck wa
driven too fast, he was sure to have the bots
| called attention to the updeniable fac
that Buck could not, by any possible meth
cd known to the human race, be driven fast
lie then protested that it made but very little diH
, erence whether he was driven fast or not, he wa
+ sill prone to bots on most occasions; and that, t
the best Of his belief, bots were very sure to ia
tervene between the place where we were an
High Point. l hoped not, but asked what course
in case of bots it would be proper to pursue. NJ
4 Juvenile answered that there was nothing in pal
.icular to be done excepting molasses and milk
and, as he hadn't any molasses and milk abou
him, Buck would probably die without delay
This was by no means a cheerful prospect, bu
Young Carolina appeared not much afflicted by
after all, and in the course of ten minutes lai
himself away for another sleep.
le lie slept until we reached High Point and wa
then with some difficulty persuaded to attend t
&, the necessities Of old Buck. who had not show
r the sligbtest disposition to die. or to have tho bots
or to Dc anything at all ia tho slightest dcgre
exciting. My small boy allerward dined with IN