Indiana American. [volume] (Brookville, Ind.) 1865-1872, 1867-01-11
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Posr OFFIs, CoNFEDRIT X ROADS, !
(wich is in the Stait NV Kentucky,) :
s5fflet December 10, 1866. j
I heard, nearly two months ago, that
my old friend, John Cutie Of Mobeel, he'd
departed this life and gone to that other
and better world where The wicked cease
froublin and the weery are at rest, and
wuz profoundly shocked. John Guttle
wuz my frend, aud 1 much fear his like
ne'er shall look upon agin lie wuz a
Democrat Nv the old skool, one NV the few
links wich renamed 10 esnncctthe present
generation with the pnst Well do 1 re-
member the gellorious old man How Of.
ten hev / set in the square room in bis
country residence. and drank whisky and
water with him till we neither on us Good
see hole thro :. forty foot ladder; how
many times hez Q flogged 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, va
ryin from five TO thrty.one dollars, ak.
kordin to the state Nv mellernis he wuz in
when | approached Him on the dclikitsub-
jik Alas poor John Cutie Let not
the skoilcr say that l regret his death be-
coz his sons will be apt to try and collect
the notes the old man departed holds NV
mine. Mol mol they know mo too we'll TO
waste any time on that. | mourn beooz |
loved him and bocox Nv the misfortunes
wieh druv him to a prematoor grave. A..
I.inkin Is responsible for this dark shad-
der onto my pathway. John Cutie he'd
three hundred niggers on his plantashcns
and In his house in town. Those wuz
wretcht from him by tho Proolamashen
and turned out from his patcrnal care 10
etarye, wieh the most Nv om are indus.
irously doin at about 50 per day. lie he'd
om nv oil huos- there VIVA the full.blooded
black, tho disgnstin muIlattcf, tho ploas!
ant Quadroon. tho beautiful Oetoroon, and
them wich he'd so neurIy lost tho ouss Nv
liam cz TO be hardly distinguishablc from
the pure Caueashun, and II wux notice.
able that the nearly white niggers on the
Guttleses plantashen wuz all boautifal.--
The Guttleaes themselves wuE periock epo.
cimens NV manly beauty, and IL probably
he'd It's eiicek upon the blacks. The hig-
Ger Il q initiative animal.
Ii wuz this robbin NV him NV this prop.
erty-this oyerturnin Nv the normal con.
dishun nv things-wieh killed John Gut.
tie. lie never held up his head after the
proclsmnshcn, but faded swsy like . ifos.
It'd howeIi
L wuz in Nobel last week on biznis
connected with our college, (itwuz solisit-
In funds TO endow my Proiessorship,) aud
| felt that could not leave the city with
out droppin dozen tcers or dxo onto his
grave. felt ez he he'd contributed at
various times so much TO moisten my clay
that II would bo ungcntlemany not TO DO
suthin toward moistenin hizzen. And in
pursuance Nv my resolve, | wcnded my
way sadly to the cemetery and, 6ndin the
tomb, struck attitood NV despair, and
leanin pensiyely onto tho monument,
strovc, 10 the best NV my ability, TO weep,
but IL wuz futile endcayor. Ny eyes
woodent give down. | siroye 10 recall his
virchoos. but sioh il tho weakncs nv hu.
man nacher that whenever his form rose
In my memory, my mind involuntarily
wandered to his whisky, and my mouth
would water 10 sich an extent ez TO mo.
nopolizo ell tho moisture in my system
| Good hev spit onto his grave, but weep |
Good not. Alas for poor humanity.
While | wuz standin there tryin TO
weep, and maxim bad Est NV IL, notist
three beautiful young ladies approachin
with baskits NV hot.house flowers a hangin
onto their arms. recognized om III
wunst. They wuz John Guttle's daugh.
icrs, and they wnz cummln TO strcw
flowers onto the grave uy their pntcrnal
ancestor on their fathers side, IL wuz
ictchcn site, and feclin that | wux In.
trooder, not boin blood iclaAhen. and
only connected with the deceast by notes
NV hand, withdrew short dlsiants.--
Skasoly he'd they got TO tho tonb, when
from tho other side approacht three more
ravishinly beautiful young ladies, with
baskits Nv hot house flowers onto their
arms. The last ones rosombled in o stri.
kin manner tho fust ones, 'coptin they
wuz shade darker, and their hare waved
bootihl, whereas tho hare Nv The fust wuz
perfockly strate.
The two parties faced each othor on op-
posite sides NV the toom, aud party Mum
ber One glarcd dercely at party Number
Two.
"Lizel Floral Janet" sod the eldest NV
party Number One. swat arc 700 doin
herc?r
"Sisters," sed the eldest NV party num-
bcr two, "wore here discharglu illlyol
dooty. Bcnccth these sod lies the remanes
NV our father, and wo are goin to strew