Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1867-12-19
From tie Toledo Blade.
NASBY.
The Alabama Conventions-The
Woes of John Cutie, Jr.

mONTGOMERY, Ala DEC Il loOt'
1t is possible that this world ma,
continyoe to exist-that the Heav
emily orbs may continyoo to roll OF
each orher's axises, and move il
harmonious cycles into their re
spectiye spheres-that comits may
continyoo to wheel and turn in reg
ular orbits thro the speer assigned
EN- in the grand economy in celes
tyel space, but l doubt it, If such
a dis0rganizashen ez l am witnessin
doesn't overturn that order which
is Heavens first law, all l kin say
is, nacher is so constituted ez to
stand Summers of no ordinary mag
nitood.
l am in Montgomery, in attend
ance, ez a locker on in Venis, NV
the "Constooshenel Convenshen, !"
ez it is called, now in session
in this accursed town. It
wuz curiosity wich brot me hither.
l he'd heard Nv this pie bald body
Nv this black and tan gatherin, in
wich negroes and white men-nig-
gers in which the white blood pre-
dominated-wuz gathered and set
tin side by side, the same ez tho
Noer had never Gust Ham, and ez
tho the niger wuz not a beast, and
not our inferior at all. Ez / gazed
l sed to myself,
"The times is out of joint, 0 cussed spite,
That wuz ever born to set EN- rite,"'
l entered the hall with the son
NV my old friend, John Guttle.-
John Jr. is a chip Nv the troo Gut
tie block. When l arrived l found
him leanin OH the bar NV a small
a smokin a cigar and look
in ez disconsolate ez mortal Good.
Shakin hands with him, a momenta-
ry 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 drinks not
only for him but for a dozen more
wich 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 conscience NV their
Oein too much discouraged to draw
I'm. I knowd the most NV these
Young men in the happy days NV
7ore. They wuz all the sons NV
planters in the vicinity-all NV EN-
he first families of Alabama, whose
athers he'd wunst owned their
thousand akers apeece, and he'd
,rot EN- up ez the troo shivelry NV
he South wuz alluz brotup. There
yuzn't wun Nv EN- but he'd worn the
most magnificent broadcloth, and,
n his day, won and lost his thOus-
nds at faro. There wuzn't wun
" EN- but wat wuz up in all the en-
loblin sports wich wuz the delite
" the shivelry NV the South, sich
2 pitchin dollars, draw poker and
orse racin, and scarcely wun NV
IN but who he'd fought dooels in
is time, and every man NV EN- he'd
his hecatoms Nv Yam !
ees in the late war. Yet here they
TODD, out at elbows, with naplis
ats, and all in the last stage NV
eedinis. s
"Cheer up" said /, ez we sot !
own the tumblers. I turned and {
I'D the bar-keeper that ez soon ez S
drawed my pay and mileage /
God call and settle for the drinks |
"W-a-tw sed he. /
sim a member Of the Constoesh- i
Ell Convention" sed 1, "and when {
get my pay and mileage I'll call" V
''No yoo DON'T" sed he, seezin {
% by the collar; "No yoo don't. r
here haint bin a member NV a |,
onvenshun or Legislacher in these k
oors sence Popes bin here. Pay Fl
Ow, or" n
Seein that my little strategy is
oodent work l reluctantly forkt C
YER. d
The young men wuz in a dreadful d
ate Nv dilapidashun, and their t,
ournin wuz more like the lamen- V
shens NV Job than anything 1 he'd ii
'ard for long time. p
"Why," sed John Cutie, Jr., r,
he old man, when he departed this a.
e, left me a thousand akers NV b
nd, but wat wuz it good for2 I h
d no niggers The aceursid G
lelDs lefoosed To work withnnt +