The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1866-12-31


the PatFiarChal System.
PosT-oFFIsE. CoNFEDERIT X ROADS,
(Which is in the Staff NV Kentucky,)
December Is, 1866.
I heard. nearly two months ago
that my old friend, John Cutie, Nv
Nobel, he'd departed this life and
gone to that other and better world
where the wicked cease from troublin
and the weery are at rest, and wuz
profoundly shocked. John Cutie
wuz my friend, and [ much fear his
like I ne'er shall look upon agin.
He wuz Democrat NV the old skool,
one of the few links which remained
to connect the present generation
with the past. Well do / remember
the glorious old man! How often hev
[ set in the square room in his coun-
try residence and drunk whisky
and water with him, till we
neither on us Good see a hole
thro forty foot ladder; how
many times hcz he fogged niggers
for my amoozement, to show me the
proper way Nv managin Nv EN-; and
how many times hez he lent me
small sums Nv money, varyin from
five to thirty-one dollars, akkordin to
the state of mellernis he was in when
l approached him on the delikit sub
jik! Alasl poor John Cutie! Let
not the skoffer say that | regret his
death, becoz his sons will be apt to
collect the notes the old man departed
holds NV mine! No! no! they know
me too well to waste any time on that.
| mourn becoz | loved him and be-
coz of the misfortunes which druv
him to prematoor grave. A. Linkin
is responsible for this dark shadder
onto my pathway. John Cutie he'd
three hundred niggers on his plan
tashens and in his house in
town - these wuz wrencht from
him by the proclamashen and
turned out from his paternal care to
starve, witch the most Nv EN- are In
dustriously doin at about So per day.
He he'd EN- Nv all hues-there wuz
the full blooded black, the disgustin
mulatter, the pleasant quadroon, the
beautiful octoroon, and them witch
he'd so nearly lost the cuss Nv Ham ez
to be hardly distinguishable from the
pure Caucasian, and it wuz notice
able that the nearly white niggers on
the Guttleses plantation wuz all beau
tiful. The Guttleses themselves wuz
perfeck specimens Nv manly beauty,
and it probably he'd its effeck upon
the blacks. The niger is initiative
animal.
It wuz this Robin him Nv his prop
erty-this overturnin Nv the normal
condishn of things-wich killed John
Cutie. He never held up his head
after the Proclamashen, but faded
away like frosted fowerl
/ was in Nobel last week on bis
mis- connected with our college, Git wuz
solisitin funds to endow my Profess
sorship,) and felt that | Good not
leave the city without droppin dosen
teers or SIGH onto his grave. l felt ez
he had contributed at various. times
so much to lnoisten my clay, that it
would be ungentlemanly not to do
suthin toward moistenin hizzen. And
in pursuance Nv my resolve l. wended
my way sadly to the cemetery, and,
fndin the tomb, struck an attitood Nv
despair, and leanin pensively onto the
monument, strove the best Nv my
ability, to weep, but it was futile en-
deavor. My eyes woodent give down.
[ strove to recall his virchoos, but
SIGH is the weakness of human ma
cher that, whenever his form rose in
my memory, my mind involuntarilv
wandered to his whisky, and my
mouth would water to SIGH an extent
ez to monopolize' all the moisture in
my system. [ Good hev spit onto his
grave, but weep | Good not. Alas !!
for poor humanity
/ While / wuz a standin there tryin
to weep, and maxim fist Nv it, not
list three beautiful young ladies APP
proachin, with baskits Nv dollhouse
flowers hangin onto their arms. [
recognized them to-wunst. They Wuz
John Guttle's daughters, and they
wuz a comm to strew flowers onto the
grave Nv their paternal ancestor on
their fathers side. 1t wuz a techin
site, and feelin that [ wuz a introoder,
not bein a blood relashun and only
connected with the decest by note nv
hand, [ withdrew a short distants.
Skasely he'd they got to the tomb,
when from the other side approached
three more ravishingly beautiful
young ladies, With baskltS Nv hot
house flowers onto their arms. The
last ones resembled in strikin man
ner the fust ones, ceptin they wuz a
shade darker, and their hare waved
bootiful, whereas the hare of the fust
perfectly strate.
The two parties faced each other on
opposite sides Nv the tune, and party
| Number One glared fercelv at partv
Number Two.
Lie Flora Janet" sed the old
est NV party Number One, wat are
700 doin here?
"Sisters," sed the oldest Nv party
Number Two, were here dischargin
fillyel dooty Beneeth this sod lies
the remains NV our father, and we are
goin to strew these flowers onto his
toom. Jine us in the strew."
Father!p shreeked the three NV