The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1867-12-20
NASBY.
The Alabama Convention-The Woes
Of John Cutie Jr. s-sasssssas-
MONTGOMERY. Al. Dec. I 67

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MONTGOMERY, ALA, Dec. l, 81.
1t is possible that this world may
continyoo to exist-that the heavenly
orbs may continyoo to roll about on
each others axises, and move in har-
monious cycles into their respective
spheres-that comits may continyoo
to wheel and turn in regier orbits
thro the speer assigned EN- in the
grand economy in celestyel space,
but l doubt it. Eff sich a disorgan-
izashen ez am now witnessin doesn't
orortuin that Order mioh 10 IIeav ca .
first law, all kin say is, nacher Is so
constitooted ez to stand summers of
no ordinary magnitood. 1 am in
Montgomery, in attendance, ez a
locker On in Vents, Nv the econ
stooshnel Convenshen." ez it is call
ed, now in session in this accused
town. Itwuz curiosity wich brot me
hither. l he'd heard Nv this piebald
body-uv this black and tan gather
in, in wich niggers and white men,
niggers in wich the white blood pre-
and white men in wich
the niger blood predominated--wuz
gathered and sittin side by side, the
same ez tho Nocr he'd never Gust
Ham, and ez tho the nigger wuz not
a beast, and not our interiors; all.
Ez 1 gazed l sed to myself,
Tine times is out nv joint, oh cussed spite
That wuz ever bora to set en- rite"
1 entered the hall with the son NV
my old friend, John Cutie. John Jr.
is a chip NV the troo Cutie block
Whom I arrixoa I found him a leanin
on the bar NV a small grosery,
smokin cigar and a lookin ez dis
consulate ez mortal coold. Shakin
hands with him, a momentary CLEAN
NV Joy shot athwart his careworn face
ez he invited hisself to drink with
me. Not feelin it rite to deprive him
NV one little ray Nv cOntentment, /
stood the drinks not only for him but
for a dozen more wich l found leanin
on their elbows on the bar, all NV EN-
with cigar atween their teeth, Nv
wich the lite he'd gone out in conse
kence Nv their bein too much disour-
aged to draw EN-. Iknowd the most
NV these young men in the happy
days NV yore. They wuz all the sons
NV planters in the vicinity-all Nv EN-
NV the first families NV Alabama,
whose fathers he'd wunst owned their
thousand akers apeece, and he'd brot
EN- up ez the troo shivelry Nv the
South wuz alluz brot up. Their
wuzn't wun nv EN- but he'd worn the
most magnificent broadcloth, and, in
his day, won and lost his thousands
at faro. Their wuzn't wun Nv EN- but
wuz up in all the ennoblin sports wich
wuz the delite nv the shivelry NV the
South, sich ez pitohin dollars, draw
poker, and horse racin, and scarcely
wun but he'd fought dooels in his
time; and every man NV em he'd
slaughtered his hecatoms Nv Yankees
in the late war. Yet here they stood,
out at elbows, with naplis hats, and
all in the last stage Nv seedinis.
"Cheer upp' sed I, ez We sot down
the tumblers. ! turned and told the
bar-keeper that ez soon ez / drawd
my pay and mileage l wood call and
settle for the drinks
"W a-t2" sed he.
"Tm member Nv the Constooshnel
Convention" sed 1, "and when l get
my pay and mileage I'll call"
"No you don't sed he, seezin me
by the collar, "No yoo don't. There
haint bin member NV a Convenshun
or Lepislacher in these doors since
Pope's bin here. Pay now, Or"
Seein that my little strategy wood
ent work, reluctantly forkt over.
The young men wuz in a dredful
state NV dilapidashun, and their muir.
murin wuz more like the lamentashens
Nv Job than anythin he'd heard for
a 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 for? I he'd no mig.
gers! The accursed whelps refoosed
to work without wagis, and that ]
woodent pay EN- on prinsiple. Fl.
nally they commenst maxim offers fol
the land, in patches nv from ten to
fifteen akers, and crooel necessity
compelled me to accept it. The
money / reserved 1 wuz compelled to
live on, ontil my paternal akers wuz
redoost to q scant hundred. The
produx Nv q hundred akers wood sup
port me, but it won't perdoose.
bev no labor--wher kin / git the Ia
Dor ?"
"Yes," exclaimed all Nv the dozen
young men, rollin over onto the
tother elbow, "Guttle's case is our
own. We all hev land, but wher's the
labor?"
Twas about to commisserate EN-
when the bar keeper struck in. He
wood sejest, he remarkt, that possibly
under the circumstances, it wood be
better if instid NV layin on ther el-
bows, askin, swher's 9 the labor y they
shood 60 and do . little NV it them
selves. Troo, if they shood do it be
woodent see ez much Nv EN-, but they
wood be able to pay suthin for the
likker they consoomed. s-a-
John Cutie and / wended our way
to the hall in wich the Convenshun
wuz sittin. In the hall wat site
On the rite wuz q niger on the floor
and maxim a speech; on the left wuz
a nigger of majestic presence, with
his feet cockt up onto the desk in
front NV him, abslootly readin q
noosepaper and another wuz jist q
comm IN towards his seat a pickin
his teeth with ez much composure ez
tho he he'd never did anythin in his
life but be q member NV constitoo-
shel convenshuns. All about the ball
in varius attitoods sot niggers Nv va
rius shades, and all nv EN- well dresst,
self-possessed. and without particle
NV that hoomility wich the race he'd
alluz displayed wen in the presence
up their soOperiors.
"Good Good sed I to Cutie, af-
ter 1 he'd recovered from my astonish-
ment, Gam awake, or am / dream
in Tell me, please. who are those
nfggers2"
s.Dost see that nearly white niger
on the floor offerin a resolution 2"
sed Cutie, hoarse with emoshun.-