Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1867-03-02

Gated. Let by-gones be by-gones. I
forgive yoo Give me back my position
/ in the paymaster's Department wich l
used to hold, and let things be normal
agln.'
4 President johnson graspt his hands
and bust into tears. He Good not give
him back his posishen becoz, and he
wept, becoz it WIZ so, it wuz okkepied
by a Northern supporter Nv his policy
wich he'd just returned from protractid
residence in Kanady. washington,
sed Johnson, els the troo golden mean.
Here extremes meet. / hev supporters
who want offisis from the extreme North
and the extreme South. Wood, oh
wood l Good Git EN- from the middle"
Is ther anything else kin do for yoo?
"Nothin, ''sed he, nothin," and he turn
ed sadly away.
Tine continyood to roll. Reconstruc-
shen by means of consiliashen wuz pro
gressin. President Johnson wuz pardnin
the supporters of the lost coz, and wher
that woodent conciliate he wuz a oivin
back ther confscatid property, and Ca
siOnally in extreme cases, some body elses.
My friend heard of this and come up
from Richmond Sed he to Jonson
"My property" sed this friend NV min
who wuz reconstrucktid, ''is in the hands
nv a associashun NV wimmin, who per-
nit its sacred soil to be contaminated by
nigger babies. There is so or 100 Nv EN-
from the tender pickaniny who hez jest
entered this vale of teers. up to the girl
NV II, who in two years more, wood ef
things wuz normel, be old enufi' for mar
ket. Good Ihcv that property agin, L
"Yoo shell" sed Jonson You shell.
Here is pardon, and here is a order for
the restorashen NV your property. Shell
so or 100 niggers stan i'll the way NV con-
siliatin erin brother? God forbid.''
And my friend went out with lite hart
But alas he WIZ sumwhat troubled to
git posesshun, so he sent for me, and |
cum. Their wuz difficulties in our path
The wimmin he'd posesshun Nv the place
and wood not go. They wuz obstinit
They KEEP the doors locked, but wuz E.
kal to the emergency. Gittin in stable
Ihollered "fre. !" My trend wuz at the
door, and when the affrited teechers, not
comprehendin the strategy, rushed out,
he ssipt in, and dared EN- to assault him.
fimmejitly iiued him, and possesshun
wuz eekoored.
Still they refoosed to vacate, but my
friend displayed great presence of mind.
''It's cold ~ sed he
~ on bet - sez [.
''Dost think eff we shood take the win
ders ont, and the doors orf their hinges,
that these wimmin wood care about stay
In, with the mercury in the thermometer
cokettin with zero?
"My dear sir" sed I, struck with the
boldness Of the concepshon, "yoo led
nasty job on hand, but RELY wat need
he'd 700 for me?
''Grate need, the very presence Nv a
Northern Democrat inspires me. But, to
biziness."
And we did it, and shoor enuff, the
wimmin after stickin it out two mites,
moved their traps and the niggor children
to quarters provided EN- by theman of Be-
liel, Gen. Howard, and we he'd Won. The
property wuz ourn, and another step
wuz taken in the crate work Nv concilia-
shun.
But my frend wuz not satisfied. He
remembered that for months his proper
ty he'd bin defiled by the presence ofthese
niggers, that his house he'd sheltered EN-,
and from his land they he'd subsisted,
and he felt that reparashen must be dun.
The stigma must be washed out, and ak
kordingly he sood the managers Nv the
institooshen for use NV his place, lay
in the damages at $4,000. Troo, the
wimmen he'd fixed up the property and
1t wuz in better shape than when he left
it, but he wanted reparashun for injoory
done his feelings, and the.opportunity Nv
persekootin the wives NV two sich ANA
lekites ez Trumbull and Wade, wuz too
good to be lost. How the SCOT wuz desi-
ded | know not, ez | left before it came
OFF.
For my trouble took five NV the Mig
ger children wich picked up at the asy-
lum, one girl nearly white, g years old
and four boys. Ez vet they aint wuth
much i'll Kentucky, ez our labor laws aint
yet perfected, so | shell take EN- to Miss
issippi, and ez soon ez the bill passes levy
in taxes onto nigger orfuns, they will
bring good price, ef the citizens don't,
by extrayagant KILN Nv matoor niggers,
make too many orfuns and overstock the
markit. However ther amt much dan
ger nv that, ez the labor laws hev bin so
skillfully drawd ez to make the lives Nv
sich ov EN- ez amt too obstroprous, al
most ez valyooable ez they wuz when
they wuz actilly Slaves, and don't know
butmo so. Under this arrangement
we don't hev to take keer nv EN- when
they are sick, and haint got no capital
invested in EN-, and their wagis amount
to jest about the same ez it used to-.
their keepin. Altogether things hez
good and smilin aspect. The Lord Nv
Japheth is favorin US.
PETROLEUM Y. Massey, P. N.
Wich is Postmaster) und likewise Professor of Bibikle
Polticks in the Southern Cassille and Military In
sttoot.
Some sensible writer has hit the rule
of life which we are trying to work up
to. We don't know how he knew it