Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1867-01-05
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Mr.. Ndsby Tries to Weep at the Tomb Of o.
friend, and witnesses sisterty ttight-Ihe
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~ December 18th, 1866.
I heard nearly two months ago, that
my old friend, John Cutie, NV Nobel,
he'd departed this life and gone to that
other and better world where the wicked
cease from trubln and the weery air at
rest, and=wlz profoundly shocked. John
Cutie WIZ my friend, and Iomuch feer
his like ne'er shall look upon agin. He
WIZ Democrat Nv. the old skooI, and NV
the few which remained to connect the
presint generation with theEpast. Well
do remember the gellorious old mani
How often hev / set in the square room
in his countrvresidence, and drunk whis-
kie and water with him till we neither on
us Good see thro 40 foot ladder; how
many times hez he fogged niggers for my
samOoZement, so to show me how the
proper way NV managin w enr; and how
many times hez he lent me small sums
Nv mummy, yaryin from five to thirty-one
dollars, akkordin tosthe stait of mellirnis
he wuz in when approached him on the
sdelikit subjik Alas! poor ohm Cutie!
Let not the scoffer say regret his death
becoz hiz son viii be apt and try and
collect the notes the old man. departed
holds Of mine! No! no they know me to
well to waste any time on that, l morn
because of the misfortunes wich tlruv him
to prematoor grave. "A. Linkin is re-
sponsibel for this dark shadow onto my
pathway John Cutie he'd three hundred
niggers on his plantashuns and in his
house in town-these wuz wrepched from
him by the Proclamashun and turned out
frum his paternal care to starve, which
the most of EN- air industriously doin at
about So per day. He he'd um NV all hues
there wuz the full blooded black, the
disgustin mulatter, the pleasant quadroon
and them that wich he'd so nearly lost the
cuss of Ham ez to be hardly distinguisha-
bic from the pure Caucasian, and it wuz
noticeable that the nearly white niggers
un the Guttleses themselves wuz all per-
feck specimens NV manly. beauty, and it
probably he'd its effeck upon the blacks.
The nigger is a imuve animal. y
1t wuz this robbin him NV his property
this overturnin of the Dormul condi-
shun NV things-wich killed John Cutie.
He never held up his head after the Proc
lamashun, but faded away like the frosted
flower. - lsr,.-r. rr1.sr4--s
/ wuz in Nobel last week on dizziness
connected with our college, (it wuz soils
in.flnds to endow my Professorship,)
and | felt that l Good not leav the city
without droppin ardozen tears or sich on
to his grave. | felt ez he he'd cOntribbit-
ted at various times so much to moisten
my clay, that it would be ungentlemanly
MOTTO d Dsomthin towards moistenin hiz-
zen. And, in pursuance Nv my resolve I
wended nv way sadly to the cemetery,
and, fndin the tomb, struck an attitood
NV despair, and leanin pensively on the
monument, strove, to theutmost Nv my
ability. to weep, but it wuz futile en-
deavor Ny eyes woodent give down.
l strove to recall his virchoos, but sich is
the weakness NV human nachur that,
whenever his form arose in my memory,
my mind involuntarily wandered to his
whiskey, and my mouth would water to
such an extent ez to monopolize all the
moisture in my system. Ieood hev spit
onto his grave, but weep | Good not
Alas for humanity! MN
While wuz standin there tryin to
weep and maxim a bad fist of it, [ notist
three beautiful young ladies approchin,
with baskets of hot-house flowers hang
in onto their arms. / recognized them
to wullst. They wuz John Guttles'
daughters, and they wuz comm to strew
flowers onto the grave Nv their paternal
ancestor on their fathers side. 1t WIZ a
techin sight, and feeIin that / wuz an in
trooder, not bein. blood relashun and
only connected with the deceased by
notes NV hand, Iwithdrew short dis
tants. Skasely he'd they got to the tomb
when from the other side approached thre
more ravishingly beautiful young ladies,
with baskits NV hot-house flowers onto
their arms. The last ones resembled in
strikin manner the flst ones, ceptin they
wuz a shade darker and their hair waved
bootiful, whereas the hare ofthe fiist wuz