The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1867-01-09
For the Standard.
LETTER FROM JACOB TURNABOUT.
SLEEPY BorToM, Jan'y 3. 1897

For the Standard.
LETTER FROM JACOB TURNABOUT,
SLEEPY BorroM, Jan'y 8 1857
DEER BRUTHER PELL: II got your affer.
shunit letter which you rit to me. and the
copy OF our church paper which Won sent
with it fur sirkulashun amung your old
trends in the naborhood, last mite will
karry 1t over to the class-meetin tomorrow
evenin, which is Sunday, and git brutber
Jones, the class leeder, to reed it to the clasa
and take up CONSUMPTION fur it. see Won
nave altered the name sense we used to take
it. But Seentanal will suit us lest as well 40
Adcokit, SO it is relijus paper. The nabors
VIII be rally glad You are gwine to edit it
agln, kase you succeeded so well with the
Adcokit. '"'
Deer bruther Pell, you Ak SO affexsllupitlv
about the Majors, / must tell you. We have
seen q site of trubblc sense You used to he
down here and preech to us. Old sister Sim.
mons, where you used to hay your home
when you rid this sirkit, is Twin Wit more
sole. But she leeds nifty loansome lifes now
her old man dlde jist the year the war be-
gun. Then they TUX all her suns, one after
anuther, until they was all killed but Sam
my. he was the baby you know what belt
out bis purity little hands to you when Won
kristened him in the church, and sed Won
wuz goin to pray for him to be preecher~
When all the rest of the old woman's Suns
wuz killed, she did pray SO hard fur the war
to end before Sammy got old enuff. Bnt
jist at the ending off, they KUN and tnk
Sammy rite out Of his muther's arms and She
has never seen the pore boy no more. She
and her darter Nancy are all the family now
and letter from you would be mity konso'
I'm to them. She would be mitv glad too
to git copy Of the Soentanal now and then
to konsole her.
Deer bruther Pell, there has bin been of
back-slidin in the church-speshully anime
them that wuz kunverted at your bio meet;Sn
down here. Seem like there is more Gin
than there used to be. Even old brntber
Waterspout, the good old Babtist preacher
whenyo wuz down here, is proved the truth
of what you used to tell him about f,Il;n
rum erase. He kin now feel the forse of
the Skripter passages you used to quote in
your arguments with him, where it sez Lord
haint we done hecp of wundertul thines
and yit you don't know u.s." and all abont
the SOW wollwin in the dogs wormitn-
Yes, deer bruther Pell, the old man is fell
from erase in his old age and turned poller-
tishun, and goes about slanderin our bio men
who don't even condesend to motifs him. and
sumtimes SEE he rally haint got no charity for
no boldly that don't say he is good. How
much better it would be tor the old man list
goin down to his grave, eff he had let poller
ticks alone, like you and me, and gone on
sarvin his master like we duz.
Deer bruther Pell, We wants you to KUN
down here and preech to us agin. We are
in orful kundishun morrely. socierly and
perlitikerly. But then we don't spect YOU to
say nuthin about pollerticks, except to adj
wise us like you used to, to let them alone
and keep ourselves onspotted frum the
wurld. But we wants you to KUN and
preech US one of them purity sarmints YOU
used to preech about not sarvin God and
mammun; and that one about charity. and
that other one about telling Gse There is
heep Of sinners here and they would believe
you kase they know you pracktis what YOU
preeches. When old bruther Waterspout
preeches they don't believe him, kase thew
say he amt no better than we is. lie tells
stories and talks more pollerticks than we
duz. But they know you never speeks evil
of men, tells the truth and don't have nuthin
to do with pollerticks in these excitin times.
Deer bruther, how kunsoin it is to see that
while sum is thinkin and talkin about pol
lerticks and the like you still stands up in
your old age brite and shinin lite for us to
steer by.
Deer bruther Pell, sum of the nabors has
been tryin to git me to edit perlitikal pa
per. They say I could make a heep of
mummy at it and maybe be elevated to the
onorrable posishun of State printer. need
the mummy SO bad sumtimes the old Sarpint
tempts me nifty. But when I thinks of
them purity sarmits, you used to preecll. / say
git behind me Satan, wont Civ up nv re-
lgiun and turn perlitikal edifur. Then he
sez to me. "you amt no preacher, but only a
exOrter in the church. I admit eff you wuz
a preacher and turn perlitikal editur, you
would be no better than is, but it amt no
harm foryou." But you know, deer bruther,
he is cunnin.
In konklushun, deer bruther Pell, pray for
us, kase we know your prayers is always an
swered, that these bad men that kept takin
our boys to war and KILN them up, and leav-
in their pore old muthers to suffer-and
takin tine husbands away frum their wives
and keepin them until news KUN they wuz
widders and their little children wuz orfuns
and beggers; and then kun to takin away
the young boys rite out of their muther's
arms; and all fur nuthin but offs; deer bruther
Pell, pray fur us and these bad men shant
rule over us no longer. a"
Your old friend and affexshunit bruther.
JACOB TURNABOUT,
Eporter.
Isl will send you the CONSUMPTION
list to our church paper arter class-meetin
tomorrow, which maybe you will remember
is Sundy. And eff it haint agin your kon-
shuns to say nuthin about men to hurt their
feelins. and to think about pollerticks, jist
rite sumthin in the next Scentaaal," our
church paper, agin perlitterkal editurs
- ]. T., Ez.
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