Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1866-12-27
CoNYEDRIT x ROADS,
[wich is in the Stait nv Kentucky,
December Sd. 1866.

CoNYEDRrT ROADS
[wich is in the Stait nv Kentucky,
December Sd, 1885,
| never wuz SO elevated nor never go
cast down in my life ez last mite, and the
entire Corners wuz ditto The circumstan-
ces Nv the case wuz ez follows Ne and a
party Nv friends wuz a playin draw poker
with Moo York commershel traveller,
believe they call EN-, feller with mus
tash and side whiskers, witch comes South
a talkiu secesh and selin goods. He made
some inquiries about the standin Nv the
dealers at the Corners, and wuz, after said
inquiries, eggstreemly anxious to sell EN-
goods for cash They wanted EN- on nine,
ty days time, and on this they split He
agreed with EN- III principle-he drank to
JEFF. Davis, and damned Lincoln fooently--
but on the cash question he wuz infexible
and immovable. To while away the rosy
hours, a knot of choice sperrits, him in
clooded, gathered in the Post Orfis, to en-.
joy game nv draw poker. There wuz
me ard Square Gavitt, and Deacon Pagram
aud Elder Slathers, and the Moo York drum
mer. We played till past the witchin hour
of IL NJ, when grave yards yawn and costs
troop forth-when the Moo Yorker suck
umb. His innocent, unseasoned bowels
hedn't been eddicated up to the standard
nv Kentucky whiskey, wich, new ez we
drink it, is pizen to foreigners. The Deck
in and Elder grabbed the stakes wich wuz
on to the table, and riaed his pockets on
the suspishen that he wuz Abolishnist,
and rolled him out, and while in the very
act, Pollock, the Illinoy storekeeper, cum
rushin in, askin US eff we'd heerd the news
We ansered yoonanimously that we
hedn't.
"rm jist in from Louisville" sed he, 81
jist rode over from the stashen, Louisville
is in blaze nv glory !"
"Wat," sez l, 'hez Sumner killed Thad.
Stevens, and immejitly committed suicide?"
Mary" sez he, ''but Johnson and Con-
gress hev come together on the basis Nv
yooniversal amnesty, witch wuz proclaimed
yesterday, to be follered by yooniversal
suffrage ez soon ez the South kin conven-
iently do it They hev met and embraced
on Horace Greeley's plan"
Deekin Pogram bust into hysterical laff
and in his joy handed me the proceeds nv
his explorashen NV the pockets Nv the Moo
Yorker, and like blessed old lunatic broke
for the meetin house. In moment or two
the bell pealed forth its joyous notes, and
in mint more the half dressed villagers
wuz seen emergin from their respective dom
iclles in all styles NV attire A few minits
sufficed to make them understand wat wuz
the occasion Nv the uproar, and more en-
thoosiastic population never woke the eek
OF. Afore FIVE minits he'd rolled off into
eternity, there wuz a bonfire blazin on the
do rio h..c hn.a
bein nigger house wich the Freedmen's
Commission he'd erected, and wich our en-
thoosiastic citizens he'd in their delrium Nv
Joy set fire to. 1t wuz emblamatic. The
smoke ex it rolled to the South methawt
assoomed the shape Nv olive branch-the
cry NV the nigger children witch coodeut es
cape symbolized their deserted condition
and the smell Nv em ez they roasted wu2
like unto incense, grateful to our nostrils.
| A informal meetin wuz to wunst organ
lied by the lite NV the burnin skool house
to wich Deekin Pogram addressed himself
He remarked that this wuz solemn occas
ion, 80 solemn, indeed, that he felt made
kate to express the feelins witch filled him
His mouth wuz'nt big enough to give ven
to his sole, though eff he didn't he'd bust
"Wat are we met fore to mite, my friends,
sed he, "wat calls US together Wherefor,
these sounds Nv joy-wherefore this fire
and wherefore is Bascom sellin liker at hal
price? Becoz we are rehabilitated-t that
what we are. Becoz the North hes gon
into the olive branch business agin, ant
we hev wunst more our rites. We ar
amnestied We kin vote-we kin go t
Congress--we are again citizens Nv tn
CRATE Republic
Pollock, the Illinoy store keeper, riz an
begged permishin to say word. He pre-
tes ted agin these doins. He understood
akkordin to Horris Greeley's plan, that nj
iversal suffrage wuz to follow univers;
+ amnesty-why then this maxim job
. Rodgerses Nv the niggers Wuz tn
South goin to act in good faith?
Deekin Program replied The South me-
er yit broke plighted faith save when sh
Good make suthin by so doin. At this pre-
q ent junkter Nv affairs he presoomed tt
9 South wood extend, not recisely univers
e suffrage to the niggers, but the way woo
: be opened to em. Sich mass Nv ignuran
. Good never be trusted with the ballot wit
out preparashen, and to prepare EN- wo'
8 be an overturnin in the Kintucky theor
3 that the nigger is beast. and the Northe
Demokrstic idea that the nigsss wa %