The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1866-12-21

never was so elevated nor never so cast
down il my life ez larst mite, and the entire
Korners wuz ditto. The circumstances of the
kase wuz ez follers: Me and party NV trends
wuz playin draw poker with Moo York
ccmmershel traveller, believe they call EN-,
SOFA Teller With mushtash and side whiskers,
witch come South talkin secesh and a sellin
goods. He made some inquiries about the
standin of the deelers at the Korners, and wuz
after sed inquiries eggstremely ankshus to sell
EN- goods for cash. They wanted ,en on
agreed with em in principle-he drank to JEFF.
Davis and damned Lincoln flouently-but on
the cash question was iutiexible and inmova-
BILE.
choice spirits, him inclooded, gathered in the
Post Orfis to enjoy game of draw poker
There wuz me and Squire Gavitt, and the Moo
York drummer. We plade til after the wach-
ghosts troop forth-when the Moo Yorker sue
cumd His innocent, unseasoned bowels he'd
notbn dedicated up to the standard NV Ken
lucky whiskey, witch new ez we drink it is pr
zen to foreigners. The Deekin and Elder graz
bed the STAKES witch wuz onto the table, ana
ritied his pockets on the spishen that ne wuz
Ablishnest and rolled him out, and while In
the very act, Pollock, the Illinoy store keeper,
cum rushin in, askin eft we'd heard the muse.
We answered yoonannymusly that we he'd
not
"I'm just from Luisville," sed he, II jist rode
over from the stashen. Luisville is in a blaze
wat" seq 1, "hez Sumner killed Thad Stew
ems and immejitly committed sooicide?"
Mary" SEE he, but johnson and Congress
hev cum together on the basis NV yooniversal
Amnesty, witch wuz proclaimed yesterday, to
be folered by yooniyersal suffrage ez soon ez
the South ken conveniently do it, They hev
met and embraced on Horace Greeley's plan"
Deekin Pogram burst into historical laff
and in his joy handed me the proceeds NV his
exploration NV the pockets NV the New York
err a M Cor fba
meeting house. In a momint or 2 the bell
peeled forth its joyus notes. and in a minnie
more the half-dressed villagers were seen
emerging frum their respective domiciles in all
stiles NV attire. A few minits sufficed to make
them understand wat waz the occasion NV the
uproar, and a more enthusiastic populashun
never woke the akhoes. Afore five minits he'd
rolled of intu eternity, there waz a bonfire
blazin on the north side NV the square, the sed
bonfire being Niger skule house, witch the
Freedmens COmishen he'd erected, and witch
our enthusiastic citizens in their delirium OF
Joy set fire tn. 1t waZ emblematic. The smoke
as it rolled to the South methawt assumed the
shape NV olive branch-the cry NV the Mig
ger children witch coodent escape, symboized
their deserted condishen, and the smell NV em
they roasted was like unto incense grateful
TO our nOStrilS. s4asr.s.
A informal neetin waz to wunst organized
by the lite NV the burning skule house, to wich
Deekin POgram addressed hisself He remark
ed that this waz a solemn occashun, SO solemn
indeed that he felt inadekate to express the
feelins witch filled him. His mouth wuznt big
enough to give vent to his sole, though eff he
didn't he'd bust. What are we met for to-nite,
nv friends?" sed he, wat calls us together?-
Wherefore these sounds NV joy = wherefore
this fire, and wherefore is Bascom selling Ii
quor at half price? Becoz we are rehablitat-
ed-that's what we are Becoz the North has
gone intu the olive branch bzness agin, we
hev wunst more our rites. We are amnestied
We kin vote-we kin go to Congress-we are
agin citizens NV the great republic"
Pollock, the Ilinoy store-keeper, riz and
begged permission to say word He protest
ed agin these doins He understood akkordin
to Horris Greeleys plan, that universal suf-
frage waz to follow universal amnesty-why
then this maxim John Rodgerses NV the Mig
gers? Waz the South a goin to act in good
faith? ''
Deekin Pogram replied-The South neve r
yet broke plited faith save when they Good
make suthin by SO DOOM. At this presunt
iunktoor NV affairs he PERSONNEL the South
would extend, not precisely universal suffridpe
to the niggers, but the way wood be opened to
them. Such a mass ov ignorance could never
be trusted with the ballot without preparation,
and TO prepare them would be overtnrnin the
Kentucky theory tibet the niggar is beest and
the Northern Demokratic idea that the niger
was Gust by Noar and doomed forever to be a
slave. .1.8as. f.I
The gentleman from nnoi will towunst per-
seeve the pink we ar in. Tina ant phit for the
ballot now, and if we can make EN- So it over
turns our theory, which we kant do Still we
propose to be just to UNI. We shell give SIGH ov
EN- the ballot as are sufficiently intelligent, and
we shel not put the standard too high nyther
We shell give every one of EN- the ballot who is
able to reed the Greek testament hooently and
pass kreditable examination in Latin, embro-
idery, French, German, English grammer and
double entry bOok-keepin. The path to the
poles you see is open to EN- Wv koarse we
kant be expected to tolerate school-howses for
EN-, koz that would raise EN- above their nor
NAL condition.
Also there must be proper regulations con-
trolling EN-, for, my deer sur. they are mere in.
fants, and their totterin steps ON the road to
freedom need directin. Society is compro-
mise in which every one resigns ez much NV
his personal liberty as the good of the hui may
demand We count ourselves the hui, and the
resgnin persnel liberty must come from
them. THAT Niger" said he, printing to one
which the joyous citizens was stringing up To
Bascom's sign post, that niger is a-resinin
his persnel freedom for the good of the hull
No doubt in his heart lIe murmurs, and eff the
kOrd which is chokin him Good be lOosened he
would repine. 1t is rough on him, but the SUI
periority of the kawkasshun race must be-my
God it's one of my niggurs! Stop, Bascom,
stOpP eackulated the Deekin; but it was too
late The niger was already black in the face
and had ceased to kick, and the Deekin, heav-
in sigh, perceeded. s-
We shell scroOpulously regard their rites
They shell hev the rite to buy land and be in
all respecks like US, eZ soon they kin be
trusted. Till then they will hev to be restrain
ed. There must be laws prohibiting EN- from
receiving more than $4.50 per month, that they
may not become bloated aristocrats and pam
pered sons oflaxury-the pr Jper development
of this cOuntry-and likewise the payment of
the Confedrit debt requires manual laber, witch
we were never educated to do, and therefore
the good of the whole requires that they shell
resine their persnel liberty SO far as to be con-
fined to the plantashuns onto witch they hev en-
gagged TO laber, that they may relijusly do it,
wich is cleery nessary, for 700 see Ell hire a
niger in Janooary must not be exposed to
the chances of his quittin me in July But wat
more kin they want? They are free to as CRATE
q extent as the good of sosiety will permit We
shell give EN- qualified suffrage, fixin, of course,
wich is just, the qualifications ourselves, and
bein valyooable members of sosiefy, hereafter
we shell caref fur em, so long ez they are healthy
- good Lord, why will them cnssess persist in
hangin up able-bodied niggers when there's so
many old ones around, good for nOthin but to
celebrate WITH" and to save another wun NV
his former servants, the Deekin closed abrupt
1t il Unnecessary to recount the further doins
ov the mite. There wuz school-house and
church, recently erected, burned, with some
witch wuz too young to be NV any yoose save one
So girl, witch wuz nearly white and almost fifteen,
81 witch ought to hev bin lreskooa, and fve eff
counted correctly, able-bodied men and wimen
wuz hung. Bascom sold out his stock entire
ly, and by three A. nj. the entire inhabitants NV
the Corners wuz layin around the sgt are in
lssto0ns
There wuz bitter awakenin to this scene NV
festvity. At little after T. while the Deekin.
the Elder and myself, wuz in Bascom's tryin
to git an assuager, aud the best we Good do wuz
to pour a quart ov water into barrel which
he'd bin emptied and roll it around and thus
favor it, Captn McPelter late NV Morgans
cavalry, cum in from Louisville. Eagerly we
asked him the confirmation NV the tidings,
when he informed us that it was a hoax-that
no such thing had been done, nor wuz Congress
in any SIGH noshen
Pollock dropped in and when reproached
him with his dooplcity, he answered that it
wuz hoax, but he hoped we'd excuse him.
He had a craving desire to see whether eff Am
nesty and suffrage shood be adopted, how fur
we'd go in the latter direction He wuz salts
fed, and honestly hoped we forgive him the
pleasant jest. He'd made the Corners lively
one mite anyhow l wuz too profoundly dis
: gusted to reply to the wretch.