Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1867-01-30
NAsBY.
Nv Nasby IN North CarolIna-The Abre:
=: sisn a Cen, Siokles, Order-Tho Aid
Ia Ronderod Col Podgers.
Written for the Toledo Blsde.]
CoNEsDRrr x ROADS,
witch is in the Stait Nv Kentucky,)
nncamher 81. 1865.

Written for tho Toledo Blsde.]
CoYssDRIT x ROADS,
(wich is in the Staff Nv Kentucky,)
December 81, 1866.
For two weeks past l hev bin in North
Carolina, and hev had an opportunity
Nv bein Nv service to my friends andthe
good cause.
1 wuz there collectin funds fur the
new college at this pint, to witch l. am
devoted heart and sole, and wuz a max
id my home at Kernel Abslum Podgers,
who resides just back of Rawly, and
whose table and cellar, are unsurpass-
ed In the South. Kernel Podgers is a
gentleman Nv the old skool, who lives
in luxurious elegance onto q p~lantashun
Nv 1900 akers, and who has troo piety
into him and alluz years q shirt-frin.
Afore the war he owned 200 niggers,
and his sole runnin out after EN-, he hez
managed, sence the war, to collect most
nv EN- and get EN- together on the old
place. He hez bin busily engaged in
subdooin w EN- and bringing EN- back
to Their normal condishun, but alasl Their
was difficulties in the way. The men
niggers, with IN obstinacy witch ! can't
account for, refused to work for 81 per
month, and the wimmin hevin ben most
ly married to Their husbands by the
chaplin Nv q regiment witch wuz sta
stunned here doorin the war, refused to
resoom their old relations, and things
looked serious. Most men would hev
yielded to circumstances and give up,
| but Kernel Podgers wuz not nv that
stripe. He owed a duty to these mis-
guided beins witch he felt he must full
fill; and besides, he is DESTROYS Of build
in q house next summer, and sendin
two daughters (by his wife) to q semi
| nary next season, and he felt that he
must bring EN- to their senses. He sed
that he stood in the relation Nv a father
fggeratively speakin, to all Nv EN-, and
literally to many Nv EN-, and wuz he
agoin to let en- go on a fyin out Nv
their normal speer2 Not any.
The first day I wuz there, a crisis oc-
CURED. John Podgers his son, insisted
upon takin away the wife Nv a m~ulatto,
and the niger, forgettin his posishen,
wuz impudent. John struck him, and
the degraded wretch waded in and
| whaled him unmerciful. This, Nv
| course, Good not be endoored. The
| Podgers' blood riz, and that niger wuz
seized and Gated till he died. Eff re-
member right, he expired while under
goin discipline. It may be he lived till
mornin, but it matters not, ceptin that
I like to be accurate.
1t wuz a solemn and impressive scene.
The Kernel held the %Ethiopian's wife
present doorin the infiction Nv the pun
ishment, and to show her that he did
not perceed without authority, before
| commencin he read to her from Scripter
the chapters treating Nv Ham and Ha-
ger, and the passage commencin SER
vance obey yoor masters" and then
walloped him with more vigor than
| spozed wuz left in a man so old. He
pinted to the niger on the ground, after
| he wuz cut down, and tellin her that he
| hoped it would be a lesson to her, bade
her 60 to her quarters. But the per-
| verse creecher didn't. She ran away
and complained to the officer at
the neerest post, who instid Nv sendin
her back under guard, with his compli-
ments to Kernel Podgers, actily for
warded her complaint to Gen. Sickles,
| who forthwith struck o blow at the
| foundashens of the fabric Nv Southern
society, and ordered the arrest Nv the
Kernel, who wuz to-wunst placed in
| doorance vile.
There wuz eggscitment in the vicin-
ity. never saw SIGH o fermentashen.
| Men run to and fro with blancht cheeks,
and askt "Wat next2 Is our rites to
be taken from us2 Is johnson q holler
mockeryl" And they made up a purse,
and begged me to 60 to Androo and
| stand between EN- and destruckshen. /
| ran up to Washinton and he'd an inter-
view with his Eggslency, the President.
| He knowd Kernel Podgers-in his youn-
ger days he he'd made his coats-and ez
/ teched upon the old man, immured in
a dismal dungeon, he wept. But A.
johnson hez decision Nv character.
Wipin his eyes he isshood a order for
the reyokashun Nv Sicklesses absurd
order that niggers shoodn't DO whipt,
and q speshil order commandin the Off
ser who he'd the Kernel in custody to
turn him over to the Civil Courts, to be
tried in accordance with the laws Nv
North Karliny.
Armed with these documents, I few
back, and the mite | arrived he'd the
satisfackshen nv taking the Kernel out
Nv Jail, and tskin him afore a Justis Nv
the Peace, where he gave bail to appear
afore the Common Pleas to answer q
charge Nv manslsughter, preferred by
the wilder Nv the dead niger.
A day or two after theHcase wuz herd,
l appearin for the Kernel, l held that
the case be dismissed for the followin
reasons:
l. The charge Nv manslaughter wuz
absurd, for tho reason that in the minds
Nv the Southern people there hez alluz
bin the gravest doubts ez to whether
the niger is actilly q man held that
the length NV his heel, the thickness Nv
his skull, the length nv his arm, all
showd that he wuz Nv a distink species.
Eff this is the case, ez a matter Nv
course the Kernel goes free. ~.
Q. The Kernel can't be held, allowin
the Niger to be q man. The laws Nv
the State Nv North Karliny permit the
whipping Nv niggers, but they don't
prescribe the quantity nv whippin which
may be inflicted. It's 9 matter witch Is
left entirely to the discretion Nv the
whipper. It's o matter with witch the
whipper hez nothin to do; neither hez
the State. If the Kernel he'd shot the
niger he wood be liable, for shootin
amt prescribed, Nv course itintends
the matter to be left solely to the dis
creshen Nv the party who he1 the power