Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1866-11-09
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CoNFBDR1T X ROADS,
(Which is in the staff NV Kentucky,
Oct. ID 1866.
There is mournin 10 Kentucky. The results
NV the elections in Ohio, lnjeany. Pennsylva-
ny and Iowa, reached me yesterday through
Louisville paper witch was dropped off the
cars at Secessionvlle, WITCH is the nearest
station to us, and wch, hapnn to be there,
picked up.
Ohio--40, 600 Ablishin
Injeany-20, 900 Ablishin
Pennsylvany-20,0O 900 Ablishin
Iowa 10000 Ablishin
Abishin Wat dreery waste Of Ablish-
in! Not single oasis of Dimoorisy any
where-nary ArJfa. ON wich our ark kin
rest in safety, but all around US the mud
waves NV Ablishinism rearin their crested
heads muchly.
felt it my dooty to make this fact known
to my nsybors, for, sposin that His Serene
Highness' trip would ensoore us enuH dis
tTicts to make the next Congress safe, and
consekently make us certain Of admission,
they had been maxim arrangements for re-
STORM things to their normal condishun, ez
they wuz before the war.
In fact, two weeks before, in view NV the
expected success NV the Dimocrisy, meetin
he'd been held on the subject. Some wuz
for al once seezin the niggers werever they
Good be found and putin EN- at work, but
the conservatives over-ruled this. They
hold that slavery he'd bin abolished and that
it ought not to be restored in fact, that to
act in good faith it could not be re. establish
ed Dekin Pogram announced plan. The
town authorities shood pass ordinance for
the proper government ofthe negers. Their
good and ourn demanded it. For instance,
they shood not be permitted to be out after
7 o'clock p. NJ. in the eveuin they shood-
ent leave the plantashun onto wch they wuz
employed; they shood work every day until
7, and to do away with the pernicious work
NV the freedmens bureau, no man and wife
witch he'd been married by a chaplin NV the
bureau, OF by any one else. shood be en-
ployed on the same plantation, and also no
father or mother or child. SIGH ez violated
these ordinances shood be arrested by any
body and fined, and in default Nv payment
NV the fine and costs, shood. be sold to the
person who wood take bis or her labor for
the shortest number of years, and pay the
fine and costs aforesaid. "Ez a conservative
sed the Deekin, 81 report this plan"
"Do you want to know my definition NV
the word conservative" sed Joe Bigler, re-
turned Coniedrit soldier, who bleeve has
seen enough NV war, sits a man who goes a
roundabout way ofdoin devilish mean thing
Deekin, why can't you go the devil by strait
way ez do"
The interrupshun Nv the demoralized
wretch wuzn't notist, and ez the trustees nv
the township wuz all present, the ordinance
was passed and that night two thirds NV the
niggers within five miles nv the Corners wuz
arrested and sold, and within two weeks
every one had been capchered
l HE'D me to to the Corners, and the first
man | saw was Bascomb, the grocery keeper,
engaged in the congenial bzness Of tapping
Darrell NV conteniment, which he had Just
reserved. l wuz goin to tell him the dread
intelligence, when he caught sight Ct me.
" Taste that parson," sed he, holdin out a
tin dipper full. drank it off. aud one look
at him unnamed me. kin | o'ercloud that
smiling cheek" thought l, e. in a fl NV alb
sentmindedness, wioh l have every now and
then, held out the empty dipper to be filed
again, witch it wuz--" no Tor a time he shell
be spared" and l borrowed his mule and
rode away pensively.
wuz going fust to Deekin Pogrsm's for
: he wuz the most interested Nv eny in the set
, Element. After the meetin mentioned above
the Deekin had caused the arrest of sich mig.
gers e. be kood ketcb, and had EN- fined il
sums Of S275 and upwards, which bein una
, BILE, q rool, to pay the fine, had kindly bid
, EN- in.
7 He he'd picked up here and there all NV his
old servants, ceptin those witch he'd been killed
! in the army and the few misguided ones witch
! he'd made their way North, and 'that mornir
he plantashun wuz to be reconstructed upor
, the old pa;riarkle system. Mrs. Deekin Po-
J gram wuz marshallin four NV the likiest wen.
; ches ever saw in the kitchen; his son Ton
Z wuz chuckin yaler girl under the chin
witch he'd beed born on the place about eight
. cen yeers before, and wich, ownin to a unfor
tunate resemblance to the Deeken, he'd caused
I, a unpleasantnis between him and bis wife
witch ended in the loss NV the most Nv his
hair and sellin Nv the girls mother tn Noe
Orleans. The two girls he'd each their wait
in maids, and wuz putin EN- through tbei
! PAGES. There ned bin some trouble in gettir
EN- recons tructed it bein deemed nessary tt
, take the conseet out Nv EN-, witch they wu7
all doin.
FL rode up, the ola lady he'd just knock,
ed one NV EN- down with FIRE shovel and
wuz dancin Inland fling onto her PROSTATE
. body. Almira, the oldest gal, he'd her fin
gers in the wool Nv her gal, and tother one
wuz q thumbng hern, tn redoose her tn hel
proper level, and the Deeken hisself wuz
dealin with one ungrateful wretch, who OBJ
jected tn ben put tn work on them terms
not realizin that the Bureau wuz gone. +,
the Deeken he'd a revolver he yielded the pint
: and submitted tn be logged, wich the Deck
in wuz doin ez neatly ez ever saw, consid
erin he he'd bin out av practice fur four yeers
He he'd him tied up tn a tree and wuz wallop.
in NV him glorius while he wuz convincin u,
: him with hiz whip that there wuz trooth il
; the skripter, and shat Ham wuz really serv.
: ant onto his brethren, exclaimed " sthop u
and immejitly whispered the appalln noos in
his left ear, (tother one he'd bin chawed of
> in misunderstandin at Basoons the previ-
Gus sunday mite after servis) Never shell
? forgt the look NV woe on that eminent Chris
tian's face. The whip fell from his nervous
; hand, and with teers streemin down hi,
cheeks ,washin up little straeks NV dirt in tn,
, most heart-rendn manner, be gasped in
husky voice tn the wife NV hiz buzzum, " Gu
him down Mirandy, the North's gone Ablish
in and the id niger will be free anyhow,
and the old patriarch swooned away at M
feet.
4 And sich an exnresRion nv anguish on distor