Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1867-07-18
From, tho Southern Culuvator.
s.GEMEs MUNRO,"-AGAIN.

MISSISSIPPI lEhhITOhf, Ulay, looI.
EDTURs SUTHERN KUIMvAToR From this
stand pint, looks ter me like ! the Suthern folks
are goin stark crazy, these her times -runnin a.
bout, pichin inter every newfangled -strikin
wild-quittn ther old persuits, and agoin into bu-
siness they know nothin about Like the niger
arter the surrender, the want ter change standing
with mouths wide open, ready to gulp down any
thing you throws in EN-. Somebody agoin to git
pisened. Farmers that kno nothin but diggin dirt,
rent out move ter town and begin sellin ribbons
and rat traps; tin-smiths set up grocery stores
tailors become hotel-keepers. 10 Mullins, my ma
Dor, rented his farm to musick teacher whar had
been singn far-so-lar fur more en- Is years-he'll
make beautiful krap now won't he? l seed our
family doktor goin roun in a kart gitten up kow-
hides-"gwine inter the lanyard bisness, he said.
Parson Brown, what ulster keep the mill and preach
er Sundays, are now keepin holesail and retail
fancy milliner's shop in town. Every feller has
changed his clothes ter suit his perfession l met
Parson Brown in town and hardly know I'd him-he
war kivered with short tail koat, speckled brich
es, aat-top, square-brim hat and turned out small
yaller patch er har atwixt the chin and underlip.
When seed that har, aforesaid, thinks I ter my
self, with the poit, thinks I: 20, agonies, that
er centurie or more has produced no melower nor
more bountifuller harvest"
war sittin on goods box within, when he
come up. Says he ter me, "Good mornin, Kur-
nell-come in a tradin, I spose-give me call y
Never axed hows yer folks, even Says I, "Par-
son, how's yer mill runnin now" He draw'd a
sorter sigh and said "Ah! my friend Munro, lit
uster be Brother Munro, when he run the mill,
that milin bisness war too plebaan er okupasion,
and drapped it-besides wanted ter git more in
society" ''Quit preachin and gone ter maxim
money now spose society agoin to by yer old
woman clothes?' said L "Butiful day for shop
pin" said he, and off he put, steppin fast and
short, just like he bin raised in town, and never
tuck toll at mill Thinks I, I never knowed the
wheels of waggin changed thout hayin smash
up, al.d all these folks what or changin ther pur-
SUITS ar tryin ter work strange wheels on old wag-
gins, and somebody's agoin ter git up-sot shore
Yes sir, they rent out, ter move ter town. sell RIB
bins and rasins war shortta koats, talk like town
folks, step high quit preachin an turn out bunch
er har, but the wheel don't ft-you kant grease it
80 it won't skreak-it keeps cuttn inter the axle,
and great will be the fall, purity soon.
I wouldn't keer if Kongriss war to come down
South as Kommittee Of the Whole on the State
Of gnoranse, and take up every feer sloshin round
as above, aforesaid; xamine him-if he can do
anything put him at it; if he can't do nothing,
take him and prentice him away up North, whar
lazy folks konsume Gods daylight pedlin on nut
megs and day clock fixins-whar 'Konstitution-
al Amendments" ar Matched fur the okasion at /
price, and the 'higher law is 50 high up you
might climb Jacobs ladder, straight up, IA yeres
and never find it. Yes, sir, let him serve there 7
years, and when he gifts back home, he'll go to
work bout right. This here sloshin round is doin
more harm now to the South than Territories. -
Let every feller go ter work at what he knos some
thing about-pitch in with his own hands-quit
rurnin about, talkin poiticks and reading newspa-
pers. These here latter (newspapers) are very de-
moralizing. They keep me in kontinual stew
Now and then I git sorter kahn and serene and
believe I'm most rekonstructed-try ter have
kinder liken for the u. S.-then reads paper
and finds somethin they are hatchin up North and
I gifts hungry, melankolly and mad, kombined al
tergether-feel worsen baby what can't talk and
has the hives. I'll be dad-rabbed ef l amt gettin
mighty tired of this here sorter way of living a.
twixt niger and er Choctaw Injun. The niger
he can vote-aint got much taxes ter pay, cause
he aint got nothin to pay on but then he's In the
Union. and free, bein loyal-his black skin ar his
passport through disfranchisement and koniska-
sion, up ter the public crib. Thar he can set
down, skratch his frizzed hanium and chaw whats
handed round, thout ever takin an oath, eVen.-
Ingun he don't keer for nothin, no how-no taxes
nor yotin fur hm-but then he's Jree-can paint
his face er skyer-blue and wars bis shirt as short
as he pleases ever and anon he has war dance,
seosdes and piches into the q. S. green-eyed.-
Then thars short treaty or surrender, and Mr.
Ingn goes back to his tent fuller of money, whis-
kew, beads and red blankets-thar amt nothin
said about konfskasion then, marry time Well,
we ar somewhar atwixt these here two.
Some time ago, Mr. A. Jonsin Of the white
House." fred up Reconstruction train Of kars,
and told US all ter 'go git yer tickets, jump er
board, and III take you to Union city, without dis
tinkshion of race sex er kuller--chllden and all
over the Konstitushion bridge" We'll, after a
heap er sauabblin about oaths and baggage, we all
got aboard The old trick whistled; and off we
put It war q rough road-l tux the he'd axe fore
we got to the lat station Rhody lost her ridikule
and war gittin in a considerable kommosion when
the kars drawed up at the stasion; and to clip the
klimax, Rob had lost all our tickets. Here kome
Teller with dispatch, sayin A. Jonsin 1.-THE kon-
ductor) war turned off for loadin the train so heavy
and runnip ahead er time; that We must all git
out er that train, bag and baggage and get some
more tickets; feller named Stevens (called Thad
for short) was konductor now, and he said that
bridge aforesaid, war purity well broken down, and
he'd halter put some more planks In it afore we
could git over. Well, we had ter set down on the
ground right thar, and take it easy. Itwar rainin
"A heap of northers komes these days-they do ;
and them what amt northers, amt very bracin
Jrsezes. These Territoi winds don't suit folks
T subjick ter trm5kn in the knees -insomuch that
one old tezer from Georgy houered ont al aboard
, afore Thad gsre the ,oord. However, Thad shuck
his fist at him, and he popped down in the mud a.
gin. "Served him right-some people will be too
!, peart" said Rhody. We'll, we've been standing
out here in the wilderness ever since. Some Of us
ar now 50 hoarse we kant hollow hurrah for no
body-besides, Thads building side track ter
switch off the baggage kar, and heap er folks ar