The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1867-12-12
Lfrein the Toledo Blade.
NASBY.
The Alabama Cenvention-The
Woes of john Cutie, Jr.,
NfnNTaoMRy Ara.

move IN harmonious cycles INTO
their respective spheres-tiat comits
may continyoo to wheel and turn in
reelar orbits thro the speer assign.
ed EN- in the grand economy in ce-
lestyel space, but doubt it. Eff
sich disorganizashen ez / am now
doesn't overturn that or
der wich is Heavens first law, al /
kin say is. nacher is SO constituted
ez to stand summers ny no ordinary
am in Montgomery, IN atten-
dance, ez a locker on Vents, NV the
.sConstooshenel Convenshen,' ez i
is called now in session in this acus
sed town. 1t was curiousity wich
brot me neither. l had heard of
this piebhld body-uv this black and
tan gethern, in wich niggers and
white men-niggers il wich the
white blood predominate-wuz
gathered and settin side dy side, the
same az tho Noer never Gust Ham,
and ez tho the nigger WIZ not a
beast, and not our inferior at all.
Ez l gazed 1 sed to myself,
The times is out of joint, Q cussed
spite,
That | was ever born to see EN- rite"
| entered the hall with the son Nv
my old friend John Cutie. John
Jr. is a chip wv the troo Cutie block
When / arrived ] found him leanin
on the bar Of small grosery, a
smokin cigar and lookin discon-
solate az mortal Good. Shakin
hands with him, momentary CLEAN
NV Joy shot athwart his careworn
face ez he invited hisself to take a
drink with me. Not feelin it rite to
deprive him Nv one little ray of con-
tentment stood drinks not only
for him tu, for a dozen more wich
I found leanin on their elbows on
I'll e bar, al NV em W it'll q cigar at
ween their teeth, NV wich the lite
he'd gone out in conscience ia tEer
ben too much discouraged to draw
m ! knowd the most of these
Young men in the happy days nv
wore. They was all the sons Nv
planter in the vicinity-all Nv EN-
the first families of Alabama, whose
fathers he'd onct or ned their thou
sand akers apeece. and he'd brought
EN- ny ez the true shivelry NV the
South WIZ alluz brought up. There
wuznt wun nv en- but he'd worn the
most magnificent broadcloath, and,
in his dav, Won ahd lost his thou
sands at faro. There WuZn't wun
Nv EN- but wat wuz up in all the en-
noblin sports wich wuz the delite NV
the shivulry NV the South, stitch ez
pitchin dollers, draw poker, and
horse racin, and scarcely wun but
who he'd fought dooels in his time,
and every man NV en- he'd slaugh
tered his hecatoms nv Yankees III
the late war. Yet here they stood
out at elbows, with naplis hats, and
all in the last stage Nv seedinis.
Cheer upr' sed I, ez we sot
down the tumblers. | turned and
old the bar keeper that ez soon ez
/ drawd my pay and milage | wood
call and settle for the drinks
"W ?" sed he.
'sI'm member NV the Constitu
shnel Convention" sed I. land wen
l get my pay and milage I'll cal
and
No you DON'T, sed he, seezir
me by the collar. mo you don't
There haint Lin member NV q
Convenshun or Legislacher in these
doors since Pope's bin here. Pay
now, Or"
Seein that MY little strategy
woodent work, I reluctantly fork
over.
The young men wuz in dredfu
state Nv dilapidashun, and there
murmurin wuz more like the lamen
tashuns Nv Job than enything | het
heard for long time.
why" sed John Cutie, Jr.
1.-The old man, when be departid this
life. left me a thousand al1ers u'
land, but wat wuz it good for?
he'd no niggers! The accurse(
whelps refoosed to work withou
wages, and that | woodent pay Ell
on prinsiple. Finally they com
menst maxim offers for the land, il
patches NV from ten to fifty akers
and crooel necessity compelled M
to acceptit. The money | received
I wuz compelled to live on, on tilmy
paternal aker. WIZ redoosed to
scant hunderd. The produx Nv
hunders akers wood support me, bu
it wo 1T perdoose, l hev no labor
wher kin I git the labor? ?"
EYES," emclaimed all Nv the dozel
young men. rollin over onto tn
tother elbow "Guttle's case is ou
own. We all hev land, but where
the labor -
[ wuz about to commisserate en-
when the bar-keeper struck in. III
wood suggest, he remarkt. that pos
sibly under the circumstances,
wood be hetter, if instid NV layin OF
their elbows askin, "wher's the la
bor?" they shood 60 and doc
little nv it themselves. Troo, i
they shood doc it he woodent Sc
ez much NV em, but they wood b
able to pay suthin for the liker the
consoomed.
John Cutie and / wendid on
way to the Hall into wich the Con
venshun wuz a sittin. In the Hai
wat sire! On the rite wuz nie
ger on the floor and maxim speech
on the left wuz niger Nv majesti
presence, with his feet cockt up ont
the desk in front NV him, absolootl
realm noosepaper, and anothe
wuz jist comm in towards his sea
pickin his teeth with ez much CON
posure ez tho he he'd never did any
| thin in hiS 1ifo b,,t ho a NOM hop r