The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1867-01-17
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Letter Addressed to Jacob Turnabout

Letter Addressed to Jacob Turnabout.
FRIEND JAKE Il have jest konkludid
reading yer letter to brother Peil, that wuZ-I
ciprilly takes the Standard in my pocket
| over to let dakon H. heer its kontints, and
the dakon and pondurd it over in much
sorrow and that not without kaws, the same
as shall set down here sayreeathim.
Empremcs or sorrow the fust, you appear
| to retain brotherly hankuring for Pell, and
at the same time to retain yer pursition in
! the church, and knowing him to be what is
emfattikerly nominated a latter-day war man.
Sorrow the sakkened. You ask Pell to
pray for you. Brother Jake, in the name of
Christ hev you Civ up reading your Bible ?
then do you indeed, afford to US a sorrowtul
proof of IA kristian falling from grace; for
dear Jake alters kunsidered you kristian,
but to ask Pell TO pray for you! Fave We
nivur red that the prayurs of the wicked ar
an ahuminashun to the Lord. Here this ID
talking of falling from grace Dakon H. re-
mark was that alters kunsidered Pell hip
perkrit, and aksed me to give you the toller-
ing narrytif as Sorrow the Third. The
dakon he'd four sons when the war .kummen-
sed but three Of the boys wur married and
he'd famlees. The dakon is, was, and alters
has bcen-and while God spars him, is re-
solved to remain Il true Wasllingtonian. But
a long one witR4,im and his poor umman-
three of his brave boys wur taken off by the
hell-hounGls of secession, and the yankees
coming along to wipe out the foul treason
left the poor dakon without roof over him.
tell We, brother Jake, the old dakon's story
coming from his own old quivuring lips
would melt We and he says he'll hev nothing
to do with the Adcokat or anythink in which
Pell-mind We he ceases to call him brother
Pell-is kunsarned, and he adds-requestlng
me to enform you eff you don't wish to be
put outside the pale of salvation, not to ask
the prayers of Pell-for they will draw down
upon your head black cusses, so black that
you may already see them in the shape of
the murders and robberles that are now be-
stridin our land.
Sorrow the fourth In this one, dear Jake,
we have to bewail the deestrakshuns in our
church, from which it seems that Divine
grace, in a kongregashunal sens, has abser
lutely departed for the dark gales of the
wicked wun who is repursintcd as the prence
Of the power of the air, are pro pe13-ing the
lureyed clouds of disorder and disatfection
all over everywhar Jest as eff the sperlts of
the departed trends was Il conspirating with
thar survivors to hold karnival of dcsola-
ton over the remains OF old Rip Van Win
kle.
L
oning for have sorrows to relate without
number. I have 70 look st my own family,
one of which, my second boy got a rife ball
thro' his skull at Malvern hill whar Zeb
Vance had a command. was down at the
time sick and could not look arter him, and
so my boy had to rot on the altar Of treason.
Ny other boy is going on three legs, two of
them was made by Tom Mumford-and it is
just a renewal of all my trouble every time
| looks at him; and sometimes feels thank
full that his mother was dead afare the
troubles come on as know it would made
her all but distracktit. Ny life is near
close, but if Old master spars me just till l
see the words of Andy johnson vcrifed-that
treason be made odious, I think shall die
happy.
Hoping, my dear Jake. that you wall alb
iure Pell and that you will call ON me when
you be round in this direkshun believe me
only conditionally yours, TOBIAS,
or as you used to call me brother Toby.
P. S. and n. B.-Round these tliggins we
have a considerable of what yoar brother
Pcll calls by the name of the straiteSt seflt''
which is as l understand it a turn he applies
to the men what tie to Holden. But guess
kongris will shortly put PeIl and his rortt
les dupes into strait jackets instead of strait
sekts. I.