The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1866-12-17

CoNFEDERrT X ROADS,
(which is in the Staff NV Kentuckyl
December 8, 1866.
/ never wuz so elevated nor never
so cast down in my liJe ez / wuz last
mite, and the entire Corners wuz ditto,
The circumstances of the kase wuz
ez follows:
Me and a party of friends wuz a
playin a game of draw poker with a
Moo York commercial traveller, be-
lieve they call 'em, a Teller with
mustash and side wiskurs, witch comes
South talkin secesh and sellin
goods. He made some inquiries
about the standin NV the deelers at
the Corners, and wuz, after sed in
quiries, eggstreamly anxious to sell
EN- goods for cash. They wanted EN-
on 80 days time, and on this they split.
He agreed with EN- in principle-he
drunk to JEFF. Davis and damned
Linkin fuently-but on the cash
question he wuz infexible and i'm
movable. To while away the rosy
hours, knot of choice sperits, him
inklooded, gethered in the Post ORR
ifs to enjoy game NV draw poker.
There wuz me and Squire Gavitt, and
Dekin Pogram and Elder Slathers,
and the Moo York drummer. We
played till past the wichin hour Of IL
M, when the grave-yards yawn and
costs troop forth-when the Moo
Yorker suckkummed. His innersent
unseasoned bowels Incident been edi-
Gated up to the standard Nv Kentucky
whisky, which, moo ez we drink it, is
pizen to foreners. The Deekin and
Elder grapped the stalk witch was
onto the table, and rifeld his pockets
on the suspishen that he was an Alb
lishnist, and rolled him out, and
while in the very act, Pollock the II
linoy storekeeper came rushin in, ask
| in us eff we'd heerd the news.
We answered yoonanimusly that we
hedn't.
I'm iist from Louisville. sed he,
"jist rode over from the stashen.
louisville IL in blaze Nv gloryI"
Wat" SEE |, s" hez Sumner killed
Thad. Stevens and immijitly commit
ted sooicide?"
Nary" seq he, shut johnson and
Congress heV come together on the
basis NV yooniversal Amnesty, witch
wuz proclaimed yesterday, to be fol-
Tered by yooniversal suffrage ez soon
ez the South kin conveniently do so.
They hev met and embraced on Horris
Greely's plan"
Deekin Pogrim bust into hysteri-
cal laff and in his joy handed me the
proceeds Nv his explorashen Nv the
pockets Nv the Moo Yorker, and like
a blessed old lunatic broke for the
meetin house. In a moment or two
the bells pealed with its joyous notes,
and In mint more the half dressed
villagers wuz seen emergin from theis
respective domiciles in all styles Nv at
tire. A few minits suficed to make
them understand wat wuz the occasion
Nv the uproar, and more enthusiast
tic population never woke the ekkos.
Afore five minits he'd rolled off into
eternity, there wuz bonfire blazin on
the North side Nv the square, the sed
bonfire bein a niger skool house
witch the Freedmen's Commission he'd
erected, and witch our enthusiastic
citizens he'd in their delirium set fire
to. 1t wuz emblematic. The smoke
ez it rooled to the South methawt as
sumed the shape NV a olive branch
the cry Nv the niger children witch
coodent escape, symbolised their de-
sertld condishn, and the smell Nv EN-
ez they roasted wuz like unto incense,
grateful to our nostrils.
A informal meetin wuz to onst or
ganized by the lite of the burnin
school house, wieh Deekin Pogram
addresst hisself. He remarked that
this wuz solum occasion, so solum
indeed that he felt inadekate to ex-
press the feelins witch filled him. His
mouth wuzn't big enough to give
vent to his sole, though eff he didn't
he'd bust. What are we met for to-
mite, my friends?" said he, what
calls US together? Wherefore these
sounds Nv joy--wherefore this fire, 4
and wherefore is Bascom sellin likker
at half priee2 Becoz we are rehabili-
tated-that's what we are. Becoz the
North has gone into the olive branch
hiSness again, and we hev onst more
our rites. We are amnestied. We
kin vote-we kin go to Kongress-we
are again citizens of the great Repub-
lic."
EolIOcK, the llllnoy StOrekeeper,
riz and begged permission to say
word. He;protested agin these doins.
He understood, accordin to Horace
Greely's plan, that universal suffrage
wuz to foller universal amnesty =
why then this making John Rodgerses
Nv. the niger? Wuz the South
goin to act in good faith?
Deekin POgram replied. The South |
never yit broke plighted faith save
when she could make suthin by so
dom. At this junkter NV affairs, he |
presumed, the South would extend, |
not precisely universal suffrage to |
the niggers, but the way would be
opened to EN-. Such mass of igno- |
rance could never be trusted with the |
ballot without preparation, and to
prepare EN- would be a overturnin the |
Kentucky theory that a Niger is a /