American citizen. [volume] (Butler, Butler County, Pa.) 1863-1872, 1867-02-13

I W lCH Is Ill the Otdlt NV heul uCkyJ
December 3lst, 1866.
For two weeks past hey bin in Norf
Karolina, and hev he'd an opportunity
Nv being nv service to my friends & the
good cause.
I wuz there collecting funds fur the
new college at this pint, to which am
devoted heart and sole, & wuz a maxim
my home at Kernel Abslum Podgers,
who resides just back of Rawly, g. whoz
table and cellar, permit me TO say, are
| unsurpassed in the South. Kernel Pod
gers is gentleman Nv the old skool, who
lives in luxurious elegance onto plan
tashun NV 1900 akers and who hez troo
piety into him and allus wears a shirt
| frill. Afore the war lie owned 200 mig
gers, and his sole ruapin out after en-, he
hez managed, sonce the war, to collect
the most NV en- and get EN- together on
| the old pace He hez bin busily en-
gagged in subdoon NV EN- and bringing
EN- back to ther normal condishun, but
alas ther wuz difficulties in the way
The men niggers, with an obstinancy
which,I can account for, refused to work
for 81 per month, and the wimen hevin
been mostly married to their husbands by
the chaplin NV regiment wich wuz sta>
shened here doorin the war, refused to
resoom their old rclashuns, and things
| looked serious, Most men would have
yielded to circumstances and give up, but
Kernel Podgers wuz not NV that stripe.
1 lie owed dooty to those misguided bens
wich he felt he must fulfill and besides
| he is desirous ef buildin q new house
next summer and scndin two daughters
| (by his wifc) to asamiuary next season,
and he felt that he must bring them to
their senses. lie sed that he stood in
the relation Nv father 6ggcratively
speakin to all Nv EN-, and wuz he agoin
to let en- go on fyin out Nv their nor
NAL spear? Not any.
The first day ! wuz there, 2 crisis. toc-
Cured. John Podgers, his son. assisted
upon takin away the wife Nv mNlatto,
and the ngger, fcrgettin his posishen,
wuz impudent John struck him, and
We dcgra ded wretch wadel in & whaled
him unmerciful. This, Nv course, could
not be endoored. The Po1gers' blood
riz and the niger ,wuz seized and cattlod
till he died. IF | remember right, he
expired while undergoin discipline. 1t
may be he lived till mornin, but it mat
tcrs not, ceptip that like TO be very ac-
cHrate.
1t wuz a soiem and impressive scene,
The Kernel he'd the Ethopiap's wife pres.
ent doorin the infiction w the punish
mont, and to show her that he did not
percced without authority, before COM
mencin he read to her from Scriptcr the
chapters treatIn wv Ham and Hager, and
the passage commencin ''servance obey
yoor masters" and then walloppcd him
more vigger than | spozee wuz left in a
man so old. He pinted to the niger on
the ground, after he wuz cut down, aud
tellin her that he hoped it wood be les
son to her, bade her go to her quarters
But the perverse creecher didn't. She
ran away and complained to the officer at
the necrest post, who insted Nv sendir
her back under guard, with his compli
ments to Kernel Podgers, actilly forward
ed her complaint to Gen. .Sickles, who
forthwith struck blow at the founda
shens NV the fabric NV Southern society
and ordered the arrest Nv the kcrne
who wuz to-wunst placed in doorance vile
There wuz eggscitement in the vlsin
itv. | never saw sich fermeutashen
Men run to and fro with blancht cheeks
and askt "Wat next? Is our rites to b.
taken from us? Is johnson holle
mockery p Aud then made up purs
and begged me to 90 to Andfoo and stan,
between EN- and destruckshen. run VI
to Washington and he'd an interview
with his Eggslency, the President. II
kuowed Kernel Podgers-in his Youngc
days he had made his coats and ez
touched upon the old man, immured in
dismal dungeon, he wept. But ~ John
, son hez decision NV character. Wipi
his eyes he ishood order for the revoka
! shun NV Sckleses absurd OF der that mig
gers shoodent be wh;pt, and sphesh
order eommandin the offiser who he'd tn
Kernel in custody, to turn him over
the Civil Courts to be tried in accord
: ance with the laws of Norf Karliny.
Armed With these documents, fe'
back, and the mite arrived had tn
satisfaction NV taking the Kurhel out u
Jail, and takin him afore Justis Nv tn
S Peace, where he gave bail to appear afor
J the Common Pleas to answer a charge u
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