The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1867-02-19
From tho Toledo Blade.
NASBY.
An IMPORTANT CASE AT TIE CORNERS,
UNDER TIE NAGRANT ACT-TuE De
CIsIoSs or SQriRr GAvIrr.

Posr OrFIs, CoNFEDNr Y ROADS, }
(wich is in the Sta:t Nv kentucky :
January 20, 1867. J
Wun NV the most Important cases
important in nashnal senee-ever tried
afore court Nv justis, cum off afore
Squire Gavitt Mt the Court House at the
Corners yesterday. 1t wuz important,
becoz it involved the very eggistcnce NV
the insttooshn upon wich Kentucky is
buit-becoz upon its deceshn hung the
great question whether or not the Bible
shood be respected and its holy injunc-
tions obeyed-wkeiher Kentucky shood,
clingin to the Skripters, 60 on cz a Chris
tian State, or denyin it, 60 back into
lnfidelty and barbarism. | skasely need
say that the porshens wv the Bible to wch
| refer is the ever blessed chapters relatn
to Ham, lIager and Onehnus-the only
parts OF the Skriptcr we pay much atten-
shun TO. But cf them is successfully at
tackled wat follows The entire struckter
comes tumhlin to the ground. Therefore,
holdin to Aferkin slavery, we are ortho
dox believers.
The circumstances Nv the case WIZ
suthin like this: A nigger NV the name
Nv Gabriel, wunst the happy and content
ed servant NV the eminent Christian,
Deekin Pogram, becum possessed Nv the
spcrit Wv the devil, and sullen, becoz the
deekin sold his wife to raise the means TO
send his second son, Issakcr, wch wuz
studyin for the ministry, to a Theoloiickle
lnsti;eot, sumwhercs in Georgia and
also enraged because his female offspring,
Elizer, happened to attrack the attenshun
Nv his eldest son, Eljer, he run AWAY in
the first year Of the war, and folered the
Federal army, finally enli'lin as sojer.
Durin the progress of the struggle lie
learned to read and bein powerful in
pra, or and sicht he headed a revival, and
hevin gifts that way attracted the notis
Nv Gcnrel Howard, or sum of them fan
atics, who had him instructed, and finally
made him an agent Nv branch Nv that
accursid Frecdmen's Burow. And shoor
enuff, after the war, he appeared in this
vicinity, salaricd by this society, and
commonest uniiltin the niggers for their
normal condishcn by teachin on en- to
read, and establishin Sundy skools among
EN-, and given wv EN- advise generally,
wich wuz aginst the peace and dignity
Nv the Commonwealth. The citizens
stood it with the pashenso carak,erlstik
Nv the people of Kentucky, ontil last
Monday. The Deekin he'd dispoot with
niger, relative to triain matter Nv
wages The niger he'd been workin at
the stipulated price Nv 81 per month
the Deckin brought in, ez offset, his
board at 81 per week, and rather than
have any fuss about it proposed to let
him work the balance durin the winter
months To this eqitable arrangement
the niger demurred. hodin that the
board wuz inclooded, and this Gabriel
advised the niger to sue, and he did so.
Enraged at this interference, the Dcekin
went before Squire Gavitt, and COM
planned Nv Gabrel ez a vagrant, and en-
ployed me 10 attend to the case. Pollock,
the lllinoy store-kcepcr, volunteered To
defend the niggar, and there wuz q tre-
menus eggstement over it.
opened the case by stain that the
niggar's bznis wuz to prove that he he'd
visible means ofsupporl-Polock insisted
that it wus our biznis TO provo that he
hedn't, but the court decided sgin him.
The niggar then swore that he reseeyed
from his congregashen $50 per month for
his services. Isubmittod that, ca he wux
a interested party, other proof wood be
required. Pollock interdoost the elders
Nv tho congregashen, but l checkmated
him there, by submittin that the testi-
mony Nv niggars wuznt admissible, wich
the court decided it wuzn't
Immejitly Pollock submitted that
whether or no his cient coodent he con-
sidered a vagrant, ez no Good testify him.
self to the fact that he (Gabrei) he'd in
his house 5000 in greenbax-sutiishent
support for time, at least
There wux a immense eggsitement in
the court.
"Where duE he keep it," asked the
Squire, visibly agitated.
"ln his chist lat the house where be
boards" sed Pollock.
"This court stands adjourned for thirty
minits," sed the Squire, boundin over the
railin in front Nv him. "Hold on, sez
he; "hold on Deekln, fair start is all
l want. Don't tsko advantage of my
age to got ther first" and pell nell over
one another the entire and;enca cen,;n
Pollock, the niggar and me. started on n
keen run for the house. In few minits
they returned, pantin and out NV breath
when the Squire called the court to
order agin wich bcin restorsd, he re-
marked.