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Friend and Witnesses a sisterlv Fiqht-The
Disadvantage Of the RntriarchaE System.
PosT OFFICE, CONFEDERIT X ROADS,
(Which is the State Nv Kentucky December
10th, lS66.--I heard nearly two months ago
that my old friend, John Cutie, of Mobeel,
had departed this life and gone to that other
and better world where the wicked cease from
troublin and the weery are at rest, and was
profoundly shocked. John Cutie wuz my
| friend, and | much fear his like never shall
look upon agin. He wuZ Democrat Nv the
| old skool, one Nv the few links, wich remained
to connect the present generation with the
past. Well do | remember the glorious old
man How often hev | set in the square room
in his country residence, and drunk whisky and
water with him until we neither ON US Good see
hole thro forty foot ladder; how many times
hez he fogged niggers for my amoozement, to
show me the proper way Nv managin Nv EN-;
and how many times heZ he lent me small sums
Nv money, varyin from five to thirty-one dol
lars, akkOrdin to the state Nv melernis he wuz
in when | approached him on the delikit sub
jik Alas poor John Cutie! Let not the
skoffer say that | regret his death becoz his
sons will be apt to try and collect the notes the
old man departed holds NV mine! No no !!
they know me too well to waste any time on
that. mourn becoz / loved him and becoz
Nv the misfortunes wich druv him to the pre-
matoOr grave.
A. Linkin is responsible for this dark shad-
der out of my pathway. John Cutie he'd
three hundred niggers on his plantashens and
IN his house In tOwn-these wuz wrencht from
him by the Proclamashen and turned out from
his paternal care to starve, wich the most Nv
EN- are industriously doin at about 50 per day.
He he'd EN- of all hues-there wuz the full
| hioodad blaoL tho d.o0,.ot1n MVloftor tho
pleasant Quadroon, the beautiful OctOroon
and them which he'd so nearly lost the cuss o.
Ham ez to be hardly distinguishable from the
Caucasian, and it wuz noticeable that the
nearly white niggers on the Guttleses planta
ton wuz all beautiful The Guttleses their
selves wuz perfeck specimens Nv manly beauty
and it probably he'd its effeck upon the blacks
The nlggers is an initiative animal
1t wuz this robbin Nv him Nv his property
this overturnin Nv the normal condishun wv
things-which killed John Cutie He neve
held up his head after the Proclamashen bu
faded away like frostid flower
} wuz in Nobel last week on biznis connec
ted with our college lit was solisitin funds I,
endow my professorship,) and | felt that COO,
i not leave the city without droppin dozen teer
or slch onto his grave. | felt ez he had con
tribbltted at various times so much to moiste
/. my clay, that it would be ungentlemanly not t
!
do suthin toward moistenin hizzin. And i
pursuance oV my resolve, l wended my wa
n sadly to the cemetery, and findin the tomb
3. struck an attitude of despair, and leaning pei
st sively onto the monument, stIove, to the be-
of my ability, to weep, but it was q futile eI
deavOr. My eyes wouldn't give down. IstroN
to recall his virchoos, but sich is the weakae
= of human nacher that, whenever his form ro
in my memory, my mind involuntarily wande
ed to his whisky, and my mouth would wat
to sich an extent ez to monopolize all the moi
ture in my system. l Good hev spit onto h
grave, but weep l could not. Alas for POI
humanity.
While wuz standin there trying to wee
and making bad fist of it, Inotist three bea
J. tiful young. ladies approachin, with baskets l
hot-hOuse flowers hangin onto their arms
recognized them to-wOnst. They wuz Joi
Guttle's daughters, and they wuz a comm
NJ strew flowers onto the grave of their parent
e. ancestors on their fathers side. 1t was tee
us in site, and feeling that wuz introoder, n
bein blood relashun and only connected wi
the deceest by note Nv hand, | withdrew
short distants Skasely had they got to &
tomb, when from the other side approach
at. three more ravishingly beautiful young ladit
OF with baskets Nv hot-hOuse flowers on th
arms. The last ones resembled in a striki
manner the fust ones, cepting they wuz sha
darker, and their hare wavered bootiful, whe
ce. as the hare of the first was perfecdly strate.
N IN The two parties faced each other on OPT
M M site sides NV the toom, aud party Number q
vi glared fiercely at party Number Two.
Lie Flora Janel' said the oldest
. party Number One. "What are you d.
here?'
"Sisters," sed the oldest Nv party Numl
II Two, "we're here dischargin fillyel dooty.
rs Beneeth these sods lies the remains
our father, and we are goin to strew these fic
ex. ers onto his toom. Jine us in the strew p
"FatherP' shreeked the three Wv the pa
Number One. Yoor all niggers and v
i. servants unto"
"Our half sisters" sed the spokesman
party Number Two, "but Linkin removed
cuss OF Ham, and we re now free and hev
III. much rite to strew the grave NV our conn
PARENT which wuz John Cutie. ez VOC.
Per. our sisters, our father wuz a good man-let
Elm. bedew his grave with our teers and
Am. What impudence - shreeked party NJ
Der One, all in korious. -
Dea. "Impudence yoorselfp' retorted party N,
Der Two, gettin red in the face. 1--WE
i. John Guttle's daughters precisely ez much