Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1867-01-04
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fw;ch ia in the Staff NV Kentucky
December 8, 1855.
never wuz SO elevated nor never SO
cast down in my life ez last night, and
The entire Corners wuz ditto. The cir
cnmstauces NV the case wus eE follows
Me and a party Nv friends wuz a playin
draw poker with q Moo York CONNER
shall traveller, I believe they call EN-, a
feller with q moustache and side whis-
kers, witch comes South a talkin secesh
and a sellin goods. He made some in
ouiries about the standin Nv the deelers
At the Corners, and wuz, after sed en-
ouiries, eggstreemly anxious to sell EN-
goods for cash. They wanted 'em on
ninety days time, and on this they split.
He agreed with 'em in principle-he
drank to JEFF. Davis and damned Linkin
aooently-but on the cash question he
vuz infexible and immovable. To vile
away the rosy hours, q knot of choice
sperits, him %inclooded, gathered in the
Post Ori6s, to enjoy q game nv draw
poker. There was me and Squire Ga
Witt, and Deekin Pogram and Elder
Slathers, and the Moo York drummer.
We played till past the witchin hour Of
IL NJ, when grave yards yawn and costs
troop forth-when the Moo Yorker suck
umd. His innocent, unseasened bowels
hedn't bin dedicated up to the standard
Nv Kentucky whisky, witch, now ez we
drink it, is pizen to foreigners. The
Deekin and Elder grabbed the stakes
wich wuz onto the table, and rifed his
pockets on the suspishen that be wuz q
Ablishnistj and. rolled him out, and
whilc in the very act, Pollock, the ILL
noy store keeper, cum rushin in, askin
us if we'd heerd the news. 1
We answered yoonanimously that we
hedn't.
"I'm just in from Louisville" sed he,
81 list rode over from the stashen.
Louisville is in a blaze Nv glory
"Wat," SEE i, "hez Sumner killed
Thad. Stevens and immejitly committed
sooicide2"
"Nary," seq he, 'but johnson and
Congress hev come together on the basis
Of yooniyersal Amnesty, wich wuz pro
claimed yesterday, to be follered by
y~ooniyersal suffrage ez soon ez the
South kin conveniently do 1t. They
horme+ and emhraced ON Horris Gree
ley's plan"
Deekin Pogram bust into a historical
laf, and in his Joy handed me the pro-
ceeds NV his explorashen Nv the pockets
NV the Moo Yorker, and like q blessed
old lunatic broke for the meetin house,
In q moment or two the bell pealec
forth its Joyous notes, and in a mint
more the half dressed villagers wus seer
emergin from their respectiv domiciiet
in all styles Nv attire. A few mint!
suficed to make. them understand wa
wuz the occasion Nv the uproar, and Q
more enthusiastic population nevel
woke to the ekkos. Afore five mint!
he'd rolled off to eternity there wuz Q
bonfire blazen on the North side Nv the
the square, the said bonfire bein a mig
skool-house witch the Freedmen's Com
mishn had erected, and wich our en-
thoosiastic citizens in their delirium W
10y set FIRE to. II wuz emblematic
The smoke ez it rolled to the South me
thawt assoomed the shape Nv q OLIVE
branch-the cry NV the Niger children
witch coodeut escape, symbolized ,,theil
deseftid condishin, and the smell nv
en- ez they roasted wuz like unto in
cense, grateful to our nostrils.
A informal meetin wuz to wunst or
ganized by the lite of the burnin skool
house, to wich Dekin Pogram addressed
hisself. He remarked that this wuz Z
solemn occasion, so solemn indeed tina
he felt inadekate to express the feelin'
witch filled him. His mouth wuns'
big enough to give vent to his sole
though Of he didn't he'd bust. "Wat
are we met for.to:nite?' my friends, sec
be, "wat calls us together2 Wherefore
these sounds Nv joy-wherefore this fire
and wherefore is Bascom sellin likker q
half price? Becoz we are rehabilitatee
that's the olive branch bizness aginr
and we hev wuust more our rites. W.
are amnestied. We kin yote-we XII
20 to Congress-we are agin citizens ~
the great republic :.
Pollock, the nlinoy store keeper, RI,
and begged permishin to say a word
He protested agin these doins. He I'M
derstood, akkordin to Horris Greeley
plan, that yooniversal suffrage wuz tt
follow %yooniversal .amnesty-why theI
this maxim John Rogerses Nv the mig
pers2 Wuz the South q goin to act IL
good faith2 :,
Deekin Pogram replied: The Soutf
never yit broke plighted faith save wher
she Good make somethin by so dom. A
this present junktnre Nv affairs he pre-
soomed the South wood extend, no
precisely yooniversal suffrage to thu
niggers, but the way wood be open to
en- Such o mass Nv Ignorance coco
never be trusted with the ballot withou'
p~reparashin, and to prepare EN- wooe
be oyerturniu the Kentucky theory, tina
the niger wasa beast, and the North
ern Demokratic idea that the nigge'
wuz Gust by Noer and doomed forever
to be o slave. s,
The gentleman from lllinoy will to
wunst perceive the fix WI are in. The.
amt fit for the ballot now, and ct w
make EN- so, it overturns our theory
witch We cant do. Still we propose u
be iustto en-. We shell give SIGH nv en-
the ballot ez are sufishently intellijen
and we shel not put the standard to-
high nuther. We shell give every wui
nv EN- the ballot who is able to reed tn,
Greek testament fluently and pass
creditable examinashen in Latin, en-
broidery, French, German, Englisl
Grammer and double-entry book-keepin
The path to the polls 700 see is open II
en-. Nv course we cant be expected u
tolerate skool-houses for EN-, coz tina
wood raise GIN above their normal con
dishen. Also, there must be prope
regulashens controllin EN-, for, my dee
sir, they are more infants, and thei
tottern steps on the road to freedom
needs directing. Society is q compro
mise in wich every n resigns ez mucI
NV his personnel liberty O.. the good u
the hull may demand. We count our
selves the hull, and the resinin nv per
sonei liberty must cum from them
uThst Niger sed' he, pintin TO WI
witch the Joyous citizens wuz stringej
-. An ninn nnat- ttfhht niRQe