The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1867-01-10
GFrom the Toledo Blade.
N a $ B ".
MF. Nasty in North Carolina = The
AbrOgaIiOn of Gen. Sickles's Order
fine Aid he rendered Coz. POdg-

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PoST-oFTIsE, CoNFEDERTT X ROADS,
(wich Is III the Stait NV Kentucky
.e December I'll, 1851.
For two weeks past | hev bin in
North Caroliny. and hev he'd an OPP
portunity NV bein Nv service to my
friends and the good cause.
Iwuz there collectin funds for the
new college at this pint, to wich | ain
devoted heart and sole, aud wuz a
maxim my home ut Kernel Abslum
Podgers, who resides jest back of
Rawly, and whose table and cellar,
permit me to say, are unsurpassed in
the South. Kernel Podgers is gen
tleman NV the old skOol, who lives in
luxurious elegance onto a plantation
uu 1900 akers, aud who hez tFOO piety
into ! i'm and alluz wears a SD rt-trill.
Afore the war he owned 200 niggers,
and his sole runniu out after EN-, he
hez managed, sence the war, to collect
the most NV EN- and get EN- together
on the old place. He hcz bin busily
engaged In subdoOin NV EN- and
bringin EN- back to their normal con-
dishun, but, alasl Their was d fficult es
in the way. The men niggers. with
an Obstinacy WITCH [ cant account for,
refused to work for 81 per month. and
the wimin bein mostly married to
Their husbands by the chaplin NV reg.
iment witch wuz stashuned here door
in the war, refused to resume their
old relations, aud things looked SER
ious. Most men would hev y elled to
circumstances and give up, but Ker-
mel POdgers wuz not NV that stripe.
He owed duty to these misguided
beins wich he felt he must fulfill. and
besides, he is desirious of bulldin a
new house next summer, and sendin
two daughters (by his wife) to a semi
nary next season, and he felt that he
must bring EN- to their senses. He
sed that he stood in the relation Nv
father figgeratively speakin, to all NV
EN-, and literally to many NV EN-, and
wuz he agoiu to let EN- go on hyin
out NV their normal speer? Not any.
The first day | wuz there, crisis
occurred. John Podgers his son, in
sisted upon takin away the wife Nv
mulatto, and the niger, forgettin h s
pOsishen. wuz impudent. John struck
him. aud 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
/ remember right, he expired while
undergoin discipline. 1t may be he
lived till mornin, but it matters not,
cepting that like to be accurate
1t wuz solemn and impressive
scene. The Kernel had the EthiOp-
ian's wife present doorin the infection
NV the punishment, and to show her
that he did not percede without au-
thority, before cOmmencin he read to
her from Scripter the chapters treat
ing Nv Ham and Hager, and the pas
sage commencin servants obey your
masters" and then wallopped him
with more vigor than [ spozed waz
left in man 80 old. He pinted to
the niger on the ground. after he
wuz cut down, and teIin her he hoped
it would be lesson to her, babe her
go to her quarters. But the parvarse
creecher didn't. She ran away and
complained 10 the officer at the neer-
est post, who instid of sendin Nv her
back under guard, with his compli-
ments to Kernel Podgers, actilly. for
warded her complaint to Gen. Slckles,
who forthwith struck blow at the
foundashens NV the fabric Nv South
ern sosiety, and ordered the arrest nv
the Kernel who was to wunst placed
In doOrance vile.
There wuz eggscitement in the
vicinity. | never saw sich iermen.
tashen. Men run to aud fro with
blancht cheeks. and askt :" Wa
next" Is our rites to be taken from
us? Is johnson holler mockery!
| And they made up purse, and begged
ME to go to AndroO and stand between
EN- and destruckshen. | ran up t
4 Washington and he'd an interview will
his eggseliency. the President. II
knowd Kernel Podgers-in his young
err days he he'd made his coats-an,
ez | teched upon the old man, i'm
INJURED in dismal dungeon, he wep
But A. johnson hez dec:shen {
character. Wipin his eyes. he isSh0o
: an order for the revOkashun Nv Sick
lesses absurd order that gger
shouldn't be whipt, and speshll OIL
der commandin the Offiser who he'd I'll
: Kernel in custody to turn him Ovt
e to the civil courts, to be tried in a.
IS cordance with the laws Nv North Ka
. liny.
Armed with these documents,
:. few back, and the mite | arrived [ b.
v the satisfacshen of takin' the Kern
!. out Nv jail, and takin' him afore