The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1867-02-06

An important Case at the Corners,
under the VaErant Aet--.The DeeI-
sion OF squire Gavitt. .re
PosT OFFS, CoNFEDRrr Y ROADS,
(Wlch is in the Stait Nv KentuckyD
Jan. IS, 1867.
Wun Nv the most important cases
important in a nashnl sense-ever tried
aiore court Nv justis, come OF afore
Squire Gavitt at the Court House at the
Corners yesterday. 1t wuz important,
becoz it involved the yery eggistence
Nv the institooshn upon which Ken
lucky is built-becoZ upon its decishn
hung the great question whether or not
the Bible shood be respected and its
holy Injunction obeyed-whether Ken
lucky shood, cling to the Skripters, go
on ez Christian State, or, denyin 1t,
go back into Infidelity and barbarism.
L skarsely need say that the porshens
Nv the Bible to which / refer Is the
blessed chapters relatin to Ham, Hager
and Onesimus-the only parts of the
Skripter we pay much attenshun to-
But eff them is successfully attacked
wat follows? The entire structer comes
tumblin to the ground. Therefore,
holdin to Aferkin slavery, We are or
thodo1 believers.
The circumstances NV the case wuz
suthin like this: a nigger Nv the name
Nv Gabriel, wunst the happy and con-
! tented servant Nv that eminent Chris
tian, Deekin Pogram, becum possessed
Nv the sperit nv the devil, and sullen,
becoz the Deekin sold his wife to raise
the means to send his second son,
| Isaker, wich wuZ a studyin for the
ministry, to a Theolojikle Institoot,
sum where's in GeOrgiu; and also en-
\ ragged becoz his female offspring, EliZer,
happened to attrack the attenshun NV
his eldest son, Elijer, he run away in
the first year NV the war, and follered
the Fedral army, finnlly enlistin as a
soljer. Duriu the progress NV the
struggle. he learned to read, and bein
! powerful in prayer and sich, he headed
\ revival, and hevin gifts that way
attracted the notis of Genrel Howard,
or sum OF them fanatics, who had him
| instructed, and finally made him an
agent NV branch NV that accurSid
Freedmen's Burow. And shoor enuff,
after the war he appeared in this visinity
salaried by this sosiety, and commenst
! untittin the niggers for their normal
cOndishen by teechin on EN- 10 read,
and stablishin Sundy skools among em,
and given NV EN- advise generally, wich
wuZ against the peace and dignity NV
| the Commonwealth. The citizens stood
| it with the pasheuse characteristics NV
the people up Kentucky, ontil last
Monday. The Deekin he'd a dispoot
with nigger, relative toa triflin mat
/ ter Nv wages. He he'd bin workin at
the Deekin brought in, ez a offset, his
board at 81 per week, and rather than
hev any fuss about it, proposed to let
| him work the balance out durin the
winter months. To this ekitable ar.
raDgement the nigger demurred, holdin
that board wuz inclooded, and this
Gabriel advised the nigger to sue, and
he did so. rsa
Enraged at this interference, the
Deekin went before Squire Gavitt, and
! complained NV Gabriel ez a vagrant
and employed me to attend to the case
Pollock, the lllinoy store keeper, vol
unteered to defend the uigger, and
there wuz a tremenjus eggsitement
overit. L-.-- OIL.
lE opened the case by Stain that the
nigger's biZnis wuz to prove that he he'd
| yiZable means NV suPport-PollOck in
sisted that it wuZ our biZnis to prove
that he hedn't, but the court decided
agin him.. r.. r..rr-.
The nigger then swore that he re-
seeved from his congregation $50 per
month for his services. 1 submitted
Y that, as he wuz a interested party, 9TH
terdoost the elders NV the congregashen
but L check-mated him there, by sub
mittin that the testimony NV niggers
wuzn't admissible, wich the court de-
cided it wuZn't,
Immeiitly Pollock submitted that
whether or no his client coodent be
considered a vagrant, ez he Good testify
4 himself to the fact that he (GabreI) he'd
\ in his house 5000 in greenbax-a suffi'
shent support for a time, at least.
| Their wuz immense eggsitement in
the court.
I 'tWher duz he keep it," asked the
Squire, visibly agitated.
''In his chist at the house wher he
boards" sed Pollock
"This court stands adjourned for
thirty minits," sed the Squire, boundiu
over the raillin in front NV him. "Hold
start is all want. Don't take advan-
tage Nv my age to get ther first" and
pell-mell over one another the entire
audience, ceptin Pollock, the niggel
+ 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
witch bein restored, he remarked:
Eff it Good be established that the mig
ger he'd $500 in greenbax it wood neces
sarilydis charge him ,eZ no man with tina
sum Good be considered vagrant; bu
J he ruther thot eff the prisoner at thu
bar shood look in the dFeckshen NV hi!
house, he'd find it wuz'nt there any
!; more, ez a house, tho the material uN
wich it wuZ built WIZ lyin around per
miskus. Likewise. probably, ht
wouldent be able to find the $500 he heC
in his chist. The place that knowd i
wunst will know it no more forever-i
he'd bin confisticated by the enrage(
, citizens. He wanted it understood
that no sich triflin impeachment in tn
| way NV justis ez the possession NV $50
Good be allowed within the joorisdick
Shen nv this court. The uigger no
bein able to prove his means nv sup
port, and ez the court knows NV its owl
: knowledge, that he aint now got an,
t $500, the court wood ask the criminal
= counsel, wat other nonsense he hez 1
: plead. a.
r Sed Pollock, the Illinoy storekeepel
: 81 wood beg leave TO state TO thi
3 court, that, under the Civil Rights Law
g the defendant cannot be arrested ez
: vagrant, ez the law under wich the az
1 cused is arrested only menshuns per
: sons nv color, maxim a distinction agi
{ en-"
y Never, while memry retains her sea
a shell forget the scene that ensood. Fill
1 | ed with sense nv the responsibilit
e restin onto him, the squire rose slowl
Il from his seat, his face Nv a deathly pale
e mis-, which he'd the etfeck Nv heighieniI
o by contrast, the intense rednis NV b
: nose, and risin to his full hite, remark
: ed that the court he'd expected that oil
fiction to be urged, and he'd, therefor
prepared for it. That law doesn't bin
A this court to any alarmin extent, col
2 siderin Ii eZ infringin onto the reserve
a rites nv the States.
IS ''wiH the Court be so good ez to mel
o shun, for the informashun nv the POI
IS ulace, wat the reserved rites Nv Il
States are?'Lsed Pollock. "
''The Court insists that it shell not I
II interrupted when its deliverin itself Z
J. opinion. Considern it ez infringi
g. ka rif the Sfaf fa