New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1862-08-05

g Snit Yourself" said Andy, with perfect imper-
tu,bobtv; hut as YOU han Jest ready, z pose You
set down and har me tell bout your relations:
they re- "a right decent set-them as knows-and
III swar they re shamed of YOU
A buzz went through the crowd, and dozen |
voices called OUT BE civil, Audy"--" Let MIN
blow" "Shut up'-"Go in, Jones'-with other
like elegant EXPLANATIONS.
A lew of bis friends look the aggrieved gentleman
aside, and, soon quieing him, restored order
oval, genlienen,' resumed Andy, "al on you
know whar | wac raised-over thar IN South Car
iua. I'm sorry TO say Ii, but 1t 6 true Aud you
all know my father was pore man, who couiuh
give his bows no chance--and eff he could, thar
warn't no schues IN the dstrict-so we coulin bev
got no book farming ei we d been minded to- Wal,
the next plantation 10 whar we lived was Old IN,
mel is the father Of this cunnel. lie ~as q ID
old nulier jest like his son-but not hall 80 decent
q man. Wal, on his plantation was an old n'gger
called Uncle Pomp, who'd sumhow larned to read.
lie was a mighty good Niger, and he hev been IN
heaven long aiore now eli the LORD hadn q had SUN
good use for him down har-but he'll be thar yet d
G-i sixbt sooner than sum on us white foss-,hat
sartin WAL as was saying, POmp cosid read, aud
when was bout sixteen, aud had never seen the
inside of book the old darby said 10 me one day
he was old then, and that was thirty years ago-wai,
he said TO me, Andy chile We orter harm to re;d,
twill be ob use 10 ye when youse growed up ana
moight make you good aud 'spected man-now,
come 10 ole Pcmp's cabin, and he'll larn you, Andy
chile Wal, reckon ! vent iled nothiu' but "A
Bible and Waits's Hymns; but we used to stay thaI
all the long winter eveuins, and by the bght o TIE
fre-we war both so burned pore we couldn't raise
candle atween us-wa by the heht o, the hre he
larned me- and fore long could spell right smart.
"Now. Jest think Oh that, gentlemen. l. white
! bow and, cordin' to the Declaration OF lndepchd-
ence, with iest as good blood in me as the Old Cun-
mel had III hn, ben larned 10 read by an oid save
and that old slave most worked to DEATH and takin
his nights when he orter hev been restin his OLD
bones. to larn me I'm id if he don't get to heaven
for that one thing, If for nothin' else o.,
oval you all know the rest-how, when L q
crowd up settled har, in the old North STATE, and
how the Young Cunpei hacked my paper and SET ne
a runnin at turpeDtIning. P'raps you don't think
this has much to do with the Yankees, but II has a.
burned sight as ye see rather sudden. wal, arter
a while when Id got a Etile forehanded begun
shipping my truck TO York ard Bosiin; and at last
nv Yankee factor, he come ont bar, inter the back
woods TO see me, and says he, 'Jones come norm
and take a look at u.s. I'd sort o took to him. Ia
lots o. dealin's with him ufore ever seed nm, ana
I alters found him straight as Single wal
went NORTH and he took me round, aud showed Inc
how the Yankees does thipgs. Atore know,d mn,
| alters thought-as praps most ON yon do-that ,he
Yankees war a sort o cross atween the devil ana
jew but how do you s'pose found EN- found
/ that they sent me pore mans chHdTeR 20 senN'!
FRFE-and that the schule-hous war ID sight
thicker than the bugs in Miles Pryetts beds! ana
that's sayin' heap, for eff eny on yon KIN sl-ep III
his house. excep he takes 10 the soft side OF III. moor
I'm id. las, the pore mans children are lhrned
thar FREE all on 'eIn-and they We Just 30 good
chance as the soGs of the rich nan Now, arer
that do you think that las got all my schuiein,
from an old slave by the light Of borrored pine
knot-der you think that kin say any thing sgn
the Yankees P'raps they do steal-though ooant
know it--praps they do debauch thar wives ana
darters and sell thar mothers vartue for DOLLAR
hut ef they do I'm id if they doant send pore chill
dren to schule--end that's more II we do-and ict me
tell you, until we do thet we must eXPec they II be
cutter and smarter nor we are.
"1his gentleman too, my friends, who's been a
givn sech hard settin' down ter his own relation,
after they We broughten him up, and given him sech
schuleiD for nothin be says the Yankees want 10
interfere with our niggers. Now, tibet haint so, and
they couldn ef they would ease it agn the Con-
s,erturion And they ,tand on the Constertution
durned tight solder nor we DO Didn't thar big gun
Daniel Webster-ddnt he make mince-meat Of
South Carlna Hayne on tibet ar subec But
tell YOU they hsint mind ter NEEDLE with the mig
gers; they're a goin' TO let us 60 ter HI our own
way, and were gon thar mighty FAST or 1 hant
read the last census
"Pr'aps you haint heerd on the ablsh ners
Andy 7" cried a voice from among the audience.
| oval, / reckon l hev," responded the orator.
"Iye Leerd Oh EN-, and seed EN-, too. When was
North went TO one on thar conventions and I'll
Tell you how they look. They've all long, wimmins
bar, and thin, shet hps, with big, bawhn' mouths,
and long, lean, tomnerhawk faces, as white as var
! kin dpand they all talk through the nose giving
specimen) and they all look TOR all the world Jest
like the South Car lima fre-eaters-and they are al
near like EN- as two peas, eXcep they don't swar
quite 30 bad, but they make up for thet IN prayl-l
aud prayin too much, l reckon when mans q id
hippercrit, 10 bout bad as swearn' But, tell
YOU, the decent folks up North haint ablsheners.
| They look on 'em jest as We do Oh mad dogs, the
itch, or the Niger traders.
Now, bout this secession bis ness-though faint
no nee talk that eubec, Gaze this State never II
secede-South Car lima has done II, and IN RATHER
glad che has for though was born thar-snd ray it
as hadn't orter say it-she orter hev gene TO HI
long ago. ana shes got thar, why-iet her stay!
But, bout tibet bis ness, l IL tell you story.
Il know'd an old gentleman once by the name OF
| Uncle Sam, and bed heap OF sons. They war all
likely boys--bu. strange ter TELL though they'd all
the saue mother, and she was white woman, bout
/ half on en war cooIed-not black, but sorter half
and.half. Now, the white sons war well-behaved,
industrious, hard orkin boys, who got long well,
sdcated thar children, and alters treated the old man
decenty; bat the n.aater fellers war pesky set
though some on EN- war better nor others. They
wouldn't work, but eet up for airystocracy-rode in
kernges, kept fact horses, bet high, and chawed to
baccer like the devil Wal, the result was they got
out at the elbows and case they warn gettin long
quite so fast as the white uns-though that war all
thar own fauk-tbey got jealous, and one on EN-
who was blacker all the rest-a little feller but
terrible big on braggin'-he packed up his truck one
night and left the old mans house. and swore no d
never come back. He tried to make the other mu-
atter 90 with him, but they put thar fingers 10 thar
nose, and says they, No you doant. was III IA
vor of letn him stay ont IN the cold, but the old
man WAS benevolent old critter and so he Gays:
Now, sunny, you jest come back and behave your
self, and I'll forgive you all your old pranks, and
treat you Jest aliens used ter, but, ef you wont
why-I'l make you, thet's all
"Now, gentlemen, thet quarrelsome, Uneasy, on
grateful, tobaccer-chawin', hossraein, high-bet-
tin, big-braggin, ngger-stealn, wimmn-whippn',
waller son OF the devil, is South Car lima, and Ell
She doant come back and behave hersef in fntur',
I'm ID ef che wont he plo~ed with fire, and sowed