Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1866-12-27
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DECEMBER Is, 1866. J

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DECEMBER Is, 1866.
heard, nearly two months ago that
my old friend, John Cutie, NV Nobel,
he'd departed this life and gone to that
other and better world where the wicked
Geese from troublin and the weery are at
rest, and wuz profoundly shocked. John
Cutie wuz my friend, and l much fear
his like ne'er shall look upon agin. He
wuZ Democrat NV the old skool, one
Nv the few links witch renamed to con-
meet the present generation with the past.
Well do | remember the gellorious old
man How often hev set in the square
room in his country residence, and drunk
whiskey and water with him till we
neither on us Good see a hole thro a for
ty foot ladder; how many times heZ he
logged niggars for my amOozement, to
show me the proper way nv managin Nv
EN-; and how many times hez he lent me
small sums Nv money, varyin from five
to thirty-one dollars, akkordin to the
state NV mellernis he wuz in when | ap-
preached him on the delikit subjik Alas
poor John Guttlei Let not the skoffer
say that regret his death becoZ his sons
will be apt TO try and collect the notes
the old man departed holds NV mine !
No no they know me too well To waste
eny time on that. | monrn becoz | loved
him and becoZ Nv the mistortunes witch
druv him to a prematoor grave. A. Lin
kin is responsible for this dark shadder
onto my pathway. John Cutie he'd three
hundred niggers on his plantashoDs and
in his house in town-these wuZ Wrencht
from him by the Proclamashen and
turned out from his paternal care to
starve wiCh the most NV EN- are indus
trously doin at about So per day. He he'd
EN- Nv all hues-there wuz the full
bloc ci black, the disgustin Mulatter,
the pleasant Quadroon, the beautiful Oc-
toroou, and them witch he'd so nearly lost
the cuss Nv Ham ez to be hardly distin-
guishable from the pure Caucasian, and
it wuz noticeable that the nearly white
niggers on the Guttleses plantation wuz
all beautiful. The Guttleses themselves
wuz perleck specimens Nv manly beauty,
and i: probably he'd it's effeck upon the
blacks. The niger is initiative ami
NAL.
property-this overturnin Nv the nor
NAL condishun Nv thipgs-wich killed
John Cutie. He never held up his after
the Proclamashen, but faded away like
frostid flower
I wuz in Nobel last week on biznis
connected with our college, Qt wuz So
lisitin funds to endow my Professorship,)
and | felt that / Good not leave the city
without droppin dozen teers or SIGH
onto his grave. felt ez he he'd contrib
bitted at various times so much to
moisten my clay, that it would be un-
gentlemanly not to do suthin toward
moistinin hizzen. And in pursuance Nv
my resolve, wended my way sadly to
the cemetery, and, tlndin the tomb,
struck an attitood Nv despair, and lean
in pensively onto the monument, strove,
to the best Nv my ability, to weep, but
it wuz futile endeavor. My eyes
woodent give down. / strove to recall
his virchoos, but SIGH is the weakness
Nv human nacher that, whenever his
form rose in my memory, my mind in
! voluntarily wandered to his whiskey
and my mouth would water to SIGH an
extent ez to monopolize all the moisture
in my system. Good hev spit onto his
grave, but weep Good not. Alas fol
poor humanity
While / wuz standin there irwin to
weep, and maxim bad fist NV it, motifs,
three beautiful young ladies approach
| in, with baskits Nv hot-house flowers 8
hangin onto their arms. | recognized
EN- to wunst. They wuz John Guttle's
daughters, and they wuz comm te
strew flowers onto the grave NV theil
paternal ancestor on their fathers side
1t wuz techin site, and feelin that
wuz introoder, not bein a blood rea
shun and only connected with the de
ceest by notes nv hand, l withdrew /,
short distants. Skasely he'd they got t,
the tomb, when from the other side ap
preached three more ravishinly beau
tiful young ladies, with baskits Nv hot
house flowers onto their arms. Tn
last ones resembled in strikin name
the fust ones, ceptin they wuz shad
darker, and their hare waved bootifu
whereas the hare Nv the fust wuz pei
feckly strate.
The two parties faced each other o
opposite sides nv the toom, and part
Number One glared fiercely at part
Number Two.