Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1867-01-10
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CONFEDRIT Y ROADS, }
(Which is in the Staff NV Kentucky
DECEMBER 81, 1866
For two weeks past hev bin in North
Kerliny, and hey had an opportunity nv
bein nv service 10 my friends and the
good cause.
WIZ there collecting funds fur the
new College at this pint, to witch | ain
devoted heart and sole, and wuz a max
ing my home at Kernel Abslum POdgeTS,
who resides just back NV Rawly, and
whose table and cellar permit me to
say, are unsurpassed in the South. Ker-
mel POdgers is a gentleman NV the old
skOol, who lives in luxurious elegance
onto plantashen NV 1900 akers, and
who hez trOo piety into him, and alluE
wears shirt-frill. Afore the war he
owned 200 nlggers, and his sole runnin
out after EN-, he hez managed, senCe the
war, to collect the most of EN-, and get
EN- together on the old place. He hez
bin busily engaged in subdoOin EN- and
bringin NV EN- back to their normal con-
dishun, but alas Their wuz difficulties in
the way. The men niggers, with an OBJ.
stinacy witch | can't account for, refused
to work for 81 per month, and the vim
en- hevin ben mostly married TO ther
husbands by the chaplin NV a regiment
| WITCH wuz stashened here dOOrin the
war, refused to resOom Their old rela-
tiOns, and things looked serious. Most
men wood hev yielded to circumstances
and Civ up but Kernel Podgers wuz not
Nv that stripe He owed a dOoty to
| these misguided beins witch he felt he
| must fulfil; and besides, he is DESTROYS
Nv buildin new house next season, and
! sendin two daughters 10y his wile) to
| seminary next season, and he felt that
he must bring EN- to Their senses, He
sed that he stood in the relation Nv
| father, figgeratively speekin, to all Nv
en- and literally to many Nv EN-, and
wuz he agOin to let EN- 60 on a flynn out
Nv their normal speer ? Not any.
The first day | wuz there, a crisis &C.
Cured. John Podgers, his son, insis'd
| upon takin away the wife Nv a mulattO,
and the niger, fOrgettin his posishen,
wuz impudent. John struck him, and
the degraded wretch waded in and
whaled him uumerciful. This, NV
| course, Good not be cndOOred. The Pod
| gers blood riz, and that niger wuz
seized aud Gated till he died. Eff l re,
| member right, he expired while under
| goin disCrpine-it may be he lived till
mOrnin, but it matters NOT, ceptin that /
| like to be accurate
It wuz a sOlem and impressive scene.
The Kernel he'd the EthiopianS wife
present doorin the infiction Nv the pun
| ishment, and to show her that he did
not proceed without authority, before
cOmmencin he read to her from ScripteR
the chapters treatin NV Ham and Hager,
and the passage cOmmenCin "servance
obey yoOr masters" and then wallOped
him with more vigor than / spOzed wuz
left in a man so old. He pinted to the
niger on the ground, after he WIZ cut
| down, and tellin her that he hoped it
wood be lesson to her, babe her 90 to
her quarters. But the perverse creecher
didn't. She ran away and complained
to the officer at the nearest post, who in
Std Nv sendin Nv her back under guard
with his compliments to Kernel Podgers,
actilly forwarded her complaint to Gen,
Sickles, who forthwith struck a blow at
the foundashens Nv the fabric Nv South
ern sosiety, and ordered the arrest Nv
the Kernel who wuz to-wunst placed in
doorance vile.
There wuz eggscitement in the visini.
ty. l run up to Washington and he'd an
interview with his Eggslency, the Presi.
dent. He knowd Kernel Podgers-in
his younger days he he'd made his coats
and ez | fetched upon the old man,
immured in dismal dungeon, he wept
But A. Johnson hez decision Nv char.
acter. Immejitly he isshood a general
order for the revokashen Nv Sickleses
absurd order that niggers shoodent be
whipt, and speshl order commander
the offiser who he'd the Kernel in custo
dy, to turn him over to the Civil Courts
to be tried in accordance with the laws
Nv North Karliny.
Armed with these documents, | flew
back, and the mite l arrived | he'd the
satisfackshen Nv takin the Kernel out Nv
Jail, and takin him afore Justis Nv the
Peace, where he gave bail to appear
afore the Common Pleas to answer 8
charge NV manslaughter, preferred BY
the wilder Nv the dead Niger.
A day or two after, the case wuz
heard, appearin for the Kernel. I held
that the case be dismissed for the follow.
ing reasons:
/. The charge Nv manslaughter wu7
absurd, for the reason that in the mind:
Nv the Southern people there hez allu2
bin the gravest doubts eZ to whether the
: niger is actilly man. held that TIE
length Nv his heel, the thickness nv IL
: skull, the length Nv his arm, all sho 8
| that be WuZ Nv distink sDecips