The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1867-01-10
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(Which is in the Stait NV Kentucky,)
December 18th, 1858.
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 wick
ed Geese from troublin and the weery
are at rest, and wuz profoundly shocked
John Cutie wuz my friend. l much
fear his like ne'er shall look upon agin.
He wuz Democrat NV the old skool,
one Nv the few links witch renamed to
connect the present generation with the
past. Well do remember the geiiori-
Gus old man! How often hev / set in
the square room in his country resi-
dence, and drunk whiskey and water,
with him till we neither on US Good see
hole thro a forty foot ladder; how
many times hez he Aogged niggers for
my amOoSement, to show me the prop
er way NV managin NV EN-; and how
many times hez he lent me small sums
NV money, yaryin from five to thirty one
dollars, akkordin to the state Nv meler-
mis- he wus in when / approached him
on the delikit sutjik. Alas poor John
Guttle! Let not the skofer say that l
regret his death, becoz his sons will be
apt to try and collect the notes the old
man departed holds Nv mineI No! no.
they know me too we'll to waste any
time on that | mourn becoz / loved
him and becoz Nv the misfortune wich
druv him to a prematoor grave. A.
Linkin is responsible for this dark shad-
der onto my pathway. John Cutie he'd
three hundred niggers on his planta.
shens and in his house in town-these
wuz wrencht from him by the Procla-
mashen and turned out from his pater-
nal care to starve, wich the most NV EN-
are industriously d0in at about So per
day. Re he'd EN- Nv all hues-there
wuz the full blooded black, the DISCUS
tin Mulatter, the pleasant Quadroon,
the beautiful Octoroon, and them which
he'd so nearly lost the cuss of Ham ez
to be hardly distinguishable from the
pure Caucashun, and it wuz noticeable
that the nearly white niggers on the
GUTTELsEs plantation wuz all beautiful.
The GUTrLEsGs themselves wuz perfeck
specimens nv manly beauty, and il prob
ably he'd its effeck upon the blacks.
The nigger is an initiative animal.
1t wuz this robbin NV him NV his
property-this overturnin Of the normal
condishun Nv things-which killed John
Cutie. He never held up his head af-
ter the Proclamashen, but faded away
like frostid flower!
wuz in Nobel last week on biznis
connected with our college Gt was So
lisitin funds to endow my Professor
ship,) and felt that l Good not leave
the city without droppin dozen teers
or sich onto his grave. | felt ez he he'd
contributed at various times so much
to moisten my clay that it would be un-
gentlemanly not to do suthin toward
moistenin hizzen. And in pursuance
Nv my resolve, wended my way sadly !
to the cemetery, and, fndn the tomb,
struck an attitood NV despair, and leanin
pensivey onto the monument, strove,
to the best NV my ability, to weep, but
it wuz a futile endeavor My eyes
woodent give down. / strove to recall
his virchoos, but sich is the weakness
Nv human nacher that, whenever his
form rose in my memory, my mind in
voluntarily wandered to his whisky,
and my mouth would water to sich an
extent ez to monopolize all the mois-
ture in my system, ! Good hev spit
onto his grave, but weep Good not,
Alas! for poor humanity!
While | wuz standin there tryin to
weep, and maxim bad fist Nv it, no.
tist three beautiful young ladies ap-
prOachin, with baskits NV hot house
flowers a hangin onto their arms. /
recognized em 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 faith
er's side. 1t was techin site, and
feelin that ! wuz introoder, not bein
blood relashpn and only connected with
the deceest by notes Nv hand | with
drew a short distants. Skasely he'd
they got to the tomb, when from the
other side approached three more raw
ishingly beautiful young ladies, with
baskits Nv hot-house flo Eers onto their
arms The last ones resembled in a
strikin manner the fust ones, ceptin
they wuz shade darker, and heir hare
waved bootiful, whereas the hare NV
the fust wuz perfeckly strate.
The two parties faced each other on
opposite sides NV the toom, and party
Number One glared fercely at party
Number Two.
'Lize! Flora Jane!" sed the old
est NV party Number One, swat are yoo
doin here?"
"Sisters," sed the eldest nv party
Number Two, "we're here dischargin
a fillyel dooty. Beneath these sod lies
the remains NV our father, and we are
goin to strew these flowers onto his
toon. Jine us in the strew."
s'Father!" shreeked the three nv par
ty Number One. "Yoor all nlggers,
and wuz servants ttnto'-
"Our half sisters" Sed the spokesman