The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1866-02-21
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ToTHE MISTER HoLDENs. -Gents, receivln
the Guvner's messidge in due koarse of
male, hev rcd it considabel. It seems to
i me to be toabel fare dokiment in what it Z
sez, but its peertist featur is in what it don't
say. 1t never ofkured to me, which at the
time talked with the Gunner atmy tobakor
wagin and Aeschawed so, that he could hev
put up stitch dokiment as this is Sum ov
the Majors as herd it red stood to it that
Il Mister Pell writ it for the Gunner, but tole
EN- it was injurious to the Guvner to say so,
and that Inoedthe stile wer not Mister Pells.
4 used to delite in Mister Pells union artlc-
kals. to which when he was in the Standard
oz1is he used to rite for that paper-rale union
peeces they wer, full of star-sprangeled ban
I ners. and that's how cum to noe that Mis-
ter Pell didn't rite it, for if you'll beleaveme,
gents, Tn sumthin ov a judge Of stile as well
as tobakor. Howsomever my friend major
Baggarly mout hey fetched it up, but as for
the continents of theaokiment I'm moarn
certain they ar the property ov the Gunner
\ hisself
Well, messers Editurs, as l was sayin the
Majors and me hev talked moarn little
about the messidge and the staff ov the coun-
try. Ole Mr.. Clump SEE, SEE he that Gunner
Wuth'sa hole team, with dog and tar
= bucket under the wagnl. He SEE he noes by
his messidge he's no union, but toabel well
sesoned secessioner. Only tolabel, he sez
For, SEE he, It's plane to my mind that he
don't like the military or the Freedmun's
burow, and he dent like the radicals, as they
call EN-. So furso good. But eft Mister Da-
Wis or Mister Benjimi wer written messldge,
which they never will agin, he sed, with a
grone, they'd a tole the North and the olefed-
eral government what they thort ov EN-. So
would a rale accession Gunner. But, sed he,we
must putup with Gunner Wuth twell we can
do better. l tole him in reply that Gunner Wuth
to my noledge was perfec gentleman IN his
manners, and as good a judge OF tobakor as
any in the Staff, but as for his poitiX wer
not answerabel. He mout do, andth agin
he moutent. With that we shuk hans spon-
famous like, but as soon as | had dun 1T,
gents, which it wer dun without reileXion
on my part, begun to konsider. How isit,
SEE l to myself, that I've shuk hans with ole
Clump? Is ii possibel that I've turned Sc
cessioner9 What an awful retiexion to my
never-dying SOLE thort l. that should ever
meat ole Clump halfway in pc!itix. SEE l
Mister Clump, amt at all agreeabel to you
in politiX We ken never agree, and yet
we've shuk hans and would make beleave
that we are boath eatin outen the same dish
with the same spoon. Mr.. Clump he begun
1 to bat his eyes and git hot, but purceeded.
SEE Mister Clump, Igelived twell I'm nigh
on to sixty year old l. kan make my affida-
w that never ronged my nabors, nor toe
rale Serious I've, nor refused a. naborly turn,
and alters paid my taxes when they wer due,
and alters paid the preachers, which they
i were tolabel severe onto me endurin the re-
bellion because was union and behaved
in Gineral Washington's government; and
b ,,l- Oft aIlf 4bat hoyc
tenansed a secessioner, or jined hans in poll
Tx with one as wanted to phite it out. is an
onplush to my konscence I'll never git kfeer
Of Well seq Clump what didyou do it fur
Their wer no politix In my shake, he sed.-
Then 1 begun to understand him. SEE l
i Mister Clump, shuk for HIM as GUNNER
n With, gentleman and good judge of to-
! bakor The very thing | shuk for sed he,
and then we both larfed and shuk hans agin.
After this | breethed freer, and actiily begun
to think better ov ole Clump.
Gents, we're dead broak. Our ole Staff is
thredbear, and the wind whistles almost to
her very boans. We shall hey no money to
speke oy twell the next crop goes out and
fetehes its returns The Gunner and Legis-
1atur ort to be as Economical as possabel.-
l sarched the messidge keerfully with my
specs, which they are the best specs in the
naborhood, for sumthin on the subiec Of exon
omy. l found nothin ov the sort But l
shall not blaim Gunner With as long as the
Legislator sets him stitch bad exampel. 1t
met in a hurry. and it was expected, to which
when nv fren Mister Battell tole me ther wer
nothin into the tresury, they would legislait
in a hurry and adjourn In hurry. But thar
they set. and set, and SET We've heern up
here in Racket Holler, that they've dubbed
ther pay, and that money is so scace in Rolly
the taverns REV fell in Their horde. Sitchset-
tin, gents, matches greenbax. It's a good bu-
siness All the peopei ask ov en- is, eff they
will set in this way, to fetch home as much
of ther pay as they ken, after squarin ther
bills. Icea frum the papers that boath hou-
ses opens with prayer every day, which l
hope, gents sum of the preachers that Off
state won't pray too yernestly for President
johnson. Their prayers wer not hoalsum fur
Mr. Davis. The influence is they were not
heerd, and in consequence Mr.. Davis suffered.
But as | was sayin, with prayers in both hOu-
ses onct day, and the number ov churches
you hev in your town. and the good moral
karacter ov members when they're at home
4 electioneerin, it is to be hoped they will not
squander ther money, or git nocked down
and robbed ov it in onphrequentcd plaises
4 Anu HOW, gents, WHICH, III we I'd Slt DdCh 10
q the Union? Itappears to me, taken a view at
these presents, boath seSions ar to blaim-
Our sexton seq it submits, which it wei
Il obleeged to, and then it talks credit for sub
mitten, demans its rites, tells Mister John
son and the North that the test oath, which
ar law OF Congress, ought not to be notised
but that we ken go back in our own way
with our own men, to which when we say
i this, we mean jest stitch men as ar acceptable
to the secessioners. We've been lookin ant
phiten for our rites these fore year, and we've
found EN-. This looks purity In theory, but il
won't do in practis. Sumtimes afeller thinks
he's discovered purpetrual motion, which ht
gives you a purity deschripshum ov it. but il
won't run moarn q day or two. Its jest sc
with our rites and gitten back in our OWL
way. The truth is gents we're as Deepen
dant on our unlel at Washington as ever al
foreteen year old boy wer on his father for pok
it change, when he he'd none into his pokit
1t is writ in the Scriptur that the prodega
son went into fur country ov his oan &C
kord. Nobody in the family wanted him tt
go, butwith an are ovawthority he sed to hi
parient, give me my potion. Well, he go
his potion and went, which when he stad
q long time he got tolabel low down will
the hags~ After while the Scriptur tells u
he cum to hissef. Wfdo do with tina
expresshun? Why, TsAy he wer crazy whel
he askt for his potion and left. and by onex
Il pected sufferin he cum to hissdf-that is h
got agin into his rite mind Ne riZ I'D ant