Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1864-08-24
For the Standard.
Quare Things

Mr.. EDrER:-It pears to me the 'riginal sick
seshunists is gittin sick shore enuf At fust they
weren't for wor, only to fife in peas and then they
were tuirbie feers to git others to 60 and fife in
arhest and now they seem to want all hands to cry
quits and stop ft,n-I s pose that's what they mean
by what they call q arnlsticks-and let the big 'uns
see if peas can be made by reconstrucshun or eny
other way.
see SUN of the R;chmon papers squintin and
sum lookin rite strste in this direcshun; and then
the Cornfed it and the Corn swivet how is it they
like corn so much p are winkin' and blinkin and
occasionally goin' wan eye on it emmy how, but
with ifs and butts and proYisers so as to mean emmy
thing or nuthin, jest as may suit the futur.
And why is it they are so perticerly pertieler to
draw Gistncshun atwixt last year or last month,
and this year and this month. Accordin' to them
what was tresun last month amt tresun this month.
On the contrary what was tresun then is patriotism
now. Rsconstrucshun used to be a tabbooed word,
and peas 'bominashun Z; but now they role these
words like lasscs candy pills under their lungs.
hat change has cum over the speret of their
dremcs? Are they sashated with blud? or are
they afeard that the time is cum:n for 1.-THE last
and the last dollar" and that they may be
cotched IN the latter eend? Why was peas black
word not long ago, and brite one now? Why,
could McRay see no ray Of light last spring. when
SIGH fluids of it pored onto him these Dog Days
Why was uighmaE so tall then that his he'd was
dDoHc d. duO pcdS, anu INV 81 lOW ILas LIZ
Sees buty in both and berries bis in the saf
delshusness of their dissolvn' vews? liant we fell
on quare times?
Why, if Jed Bump had quit standin' on his feet
and TUX to inverted posishun like them feers, he
would have had kin attached to him, so as to make
pumpkin. | can't understand their transmograf.
cashun. They used to lie with their beds to the
South and their feet to the North: now they are
,eiser aoussey, as our ecoolmarster ses. What in
thunder do they mean? They astonish US country
folks. We never heard of SIGH tergeversashuns.
The new lite of peas, armsticks and reconstrac-
shun has bust upon them briter'n the calseen lamp
the Rorin Boracks; and they now see clearly
what was afore all darkness, deth and desolashun.
/ can't understand how it is that the odur of peas
cams t. their OF factories delitefuy than that
of gnnpowder which they have bin "smellin' afar
of" for a long time. Nor do know how it is that
their auric-auricu- sum big word, but can't
git it, factories bare the sound of reconstruc-
shun, when it has all along set their teeth onto a
edge so that they had to chaw up nigh onto whole
wool hat brim to git it of. spose these lites
have jest bust forth at R;chmon and sent ray to
Moray and Highman. Why, accordin' to Their
vews tue only difference atwixt tresun and patriot
ism, and atwixt sedishus and -esmnenJable words
atwixt Independence and rcconstrucshun, anc
.atwxt the sord and the alive is only questshun Of
time.
But ant in the habit Of within much, and Sc
will close: Yourn, &c.
JED. BUMP.
Bramblevilie N. c., Orgust 16, ateen GA.