The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1867-12-25
Written for the Toledo Blade.1
Nasty.
THE ALABAMA ooNvENTIoS-THE WOES o
JOHN GUTfLE, JR.

THE ALABAMA oONvENTI0N-THE WOES OF
JOHN GUTfLE, JR.
|lkssSiJyffnLA MONTGOMERY, Ala, Dec |.
It is possible that this world may contin-
700 to exist--that theF heavenly orbs may
continyo0 to roll about each others axises,
and move i'll harmonious cycles into their
respective speres-that comits may contin-
700 to wheel and turn in regular orbits
throo the speer assigned em in the grand
economy in celestyel space, but doubt it.
Eff SIGH disorganization ez am now wit
nessin doesn't overturn that order witch is
Heavens first law, all kin say is, nacher is
so constituted ez to stand stunners NV no or
binary magnitood.
am in Montgomery, in attendance, ez
locker on in Vents, Nv the "Constooshen-
Ell Convenshen," ez it is called, now in ses-
sion in this accused town. Ihed heard NV
this piebald ibody-uv this black ard tan
gatherin, in witch niggers and white men,
niggers in witch the white blood predomina-
ted and white men in witch the Niger
blood pred0minated-wuz gathered and
settin side by side. the same ez tho Noer he'd
never Gust Ham, an ez tho the nigger was
not beast and not our inferior at ali. Ell
gazed sed to myself,
2" The times is out nv Joint, o cussed spite.
That ever was born to set EN- rite" =
entered the hall with the sun Nv my old
friend, John Cutie. John, Jr, is a chip NV
the troo Cutie block. When arrived
found him leanin on the bar of small
grosery, a smokin cigar and a .lookin ez
ttisconsolate ez mortal Good Shakin hands
with MN, momentary CLEAN NV JOY shot
atwart his care worn face ez he invited his
self to drink with me. Not feelin it rite to
deprive him Nv one little ray of contentment,
stood drinks not only for him but for a
dozen more which found leanin on their ell
bows ON the bar, all NV EN- with cigar be-
tween their teeth, Nv witch the | f. had gone
out in conscience NV their bein too much
discouraged to draw EN-. knowd the most
Nv these young men in the happy days of
They wuz all the sons of planters in the
vlclnity-a Nv EN- the first families Nv Ala
bama, whose fathers he'd ,wunst own their
thousand akers apeece, and hev bfot Elm up
ez the froo shivelry NV the South wuz alluz
brot up. There wuznt wun Nv EN- but he'd
worn the most magnificent broadcloth, and,
IN his day, won and lost his thousands at
faro. Their wuznt wun Nv EN- but wat wuz
up IN all the ennoblin sports WITCH wuz the
delite Nv the shivelry NV the South, SIGH as
pitchin dollars, draw poker and hbrse racin,
and scarcely wun Nv EN- but who hid fought
dooels in his time, and every mah NV EN-
he'd slaughtered his hecatoms uvtYankees
in the late war; Yet here they aood, out
at elbows, with naplis hats, and al in the
last stage Nv seediness.
"Cheer upl' sed 1, ez we sot dwn the
tumblers. turned and told the b4 keeper
that cz soon ez drawd my pay and,mileage
wood call and settle for the drink
"W-a-t2" sed he.
Pm member Nv the Constooshiel Con-
venshun," sed !, /" and when I get hy pay
and mileage I'll CALI
No you DON'T sed he, +" seezingI me by
the collar" "No you don't. Th{re halt
been member Nv Convenshun Oh Leeis-
lacher in these doors sence Pope's Tin here.
Pay now, orr
! Seem that my little strategy woodent
work, I reluctantly forkt over.
The young men wuz in dreadful state NV
dilapidashen, and their murmurin wuz more
like the lamentashens Nv Job than anythin
he'd heard for long time.
Why sed John Cutie, jr., the old
man, when he departed this life, left me q
Thousand akers Nv land, but wat wuz it good
lori 1 he'd no niggers! The accused
wneips refooscd to work without wagis,
and that woodent pay 'em on prinsiple.-
FINALLY they commenst maxim offers for the
land, in patches nv from ter. to fifty aixers,
and crooel necessity compelled me to accept
It.. The money reserved wuz compelled
70 live on, ontil my psternal alsts WIZ re-
doosed to scant hundred. Tho pr0dux Nv
| q hundred atefs would ss,,Dnort me- hut it.