Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1867-02-14
From the Toledo Blade.
An IMPORTANT CASE AT THE CORNERS,
UNDER THE VAGRANT AoT-THE DECIs-
IONS OF SQUIRE GAvITT.
Posi- OFFS CoNFEDRIT Y ROADS, !
(Which is in the Staff nv Kentucky
JANUARY 90, 1867.

Wun NV the most important cases
| important in q nashnl sense-ever tried
afore a court Nv iustis, cum Off afore
Squire Gavitt at the Court House at the
Corners yesterday. 1t wuz important,
| beCoZ it involved the very eggsistence Nv
the institooshn upon witch Kentucky Is
| huilt-becOZ upon its deCeshn hung the
great question whether or not the Bible
shood be respected and its holy iujunc-
| tiOns Obeyed-whether Kentucky shood,
clingin to the Skripters, go on ez
Christian State, or, denyin it, 90 back
into IUtltelity and barbarsn. skasely
need say that the porshens NV the Bible
TO witch refer is the ever blessed chap
tiers relatin to Ham, Hager and One
simus-the only parts of the Skripter
we pay much attenshun to. Butef them
is successfully attaCkd wat follows
The entire struCkter comes tumblin to
the ground. Therefore, holdin to Afer-
kin slavery, we are orthodox believers.
The circumstances NV the case wuZ
suthin like this A niger NV the name
NV Gabriel, wunst the happy and con-
tented servant NV the eminent Christian
Deekin Pogram, BEGUN possessed NV the
sperit Nv the devil, and sullen, beCOz the
deekin sold his wife to raise the means
to send his second son, Issaker witch
wHz 8 studyin for the ministry, TO a
TheolOiikle InstitOOt, sumwheres in
Georgia and also enraged becOz his fe-
male offspring Elzer, happened to at
track the attenshun Nv his eldest son,
Elijer, he run away in the first year of
the war, and fOllered the Federal army,
finally enlstn as a sOljer. Durin the
progress Nv the struggle, he learned to
read and bein powerful in prayer and
SIGH, he headed revival, and hevin
gifts that way attracted the motifs Nv
Genrel Howard, or SUN Of them fana-
tics, who had him instructed, and finally
made him an agent Nv branch Nv that
accursid Freedmen's Burow. And shoor
enuf, after the war, he appeared in this
vicinity, salaried by this society, and
commonest untttin the niggers for their
normal cOndisben by teachin on EN- to
read, and establishin Sundy skooIs !
among EN-, and given Nv EN- advise gen |
orally, witch wuz aginst the peace and |
dignity Nv the Commonwealth. The |
citizens stood it with the pashense car
akteristik nv the people Nv Kentucky, |
Ontil last Monday. The Deekin he'd a |
dispoot with Niger, relative to a |
trihn matter Nv wages. The niger he'd |
been workin at the stipulated price NV
81 per mOnth-the Deekin brought in, |
ez a offset, his board at 81 per week and |
ruther than hev any fuss about it pro |
posed TO let him work the balance !
durin the winter months. To this
eqtable arrangement the niger demur- |
red, hOldin that board wuZ inClOoded |
and this Gabriel advised the niger to |
sue, and he did so,
Enraged at this interference the Dee. |
kin went before Squire Gavtt, and com |
planned Nv Gabriel eZ a vagrant, and en- |
ployed me to attend to the case. Pol |
lock, the Illinoy store keeper volun-
teered to defend the niggar, and there |
WIZ tremenjus eggsitement over it.
opened the case by Stain that the |
niggar's biznis wuz to prove that hehed |
vizable means Nv pport-Pollock in. |
sisted that it wuz our biznis to prove |
that he hedn't, but the court decided |
agin him.
The nggar then swore that he re- |
seeved from his Congregashen $50 per |
month for his services. I submitted |
that, ez he wuz interested party, other
proof wood be required, Pollock inter-
dOOst the elders nv the congregashan,
but | check mated him there, by sub
mittin that the testimony NV niggars
wuznt admissible, witch the court de-
cided it wuzn't.
Immejjtly Pollock submitted that |
whether or no his client COOdent be con.
sldered vagrant, ez he Good testify him
self to the fact that he (Gabrel) he'd in
his house $500 in greenbaX-a suffishent
support for time, at least.
Their wuz u immense eggsitement in
the court.
"Wher 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 thir.
ty mints, sed the Squire, boundin over
the railin in front nv him. Hold on"
SEE he; "hold on, Deekiu, fair start is
all | want. Don't take advantage Nv nv
age to get Their first, " and pell-mel over
one another the entire audience, ceptin
Pollock, the niggar and me, started on
Keen run for the house. In a few minits
they returned, pantin and out Nv breath,
when the Squire called the court to
order agin, witch bein restored, he re-
marked
Ef it Good be established that the mig
gar he'd $500 in greenbax it wood neces-
sarily discharge him, ez no man with
that sum Good be considered a vaerant;
but he ruther thot eff the primer at the
bar shood look in the drecksheu Nv his
house, he'd find it wuzn't there apy
more ez a house, tho the material Nv
witch it wuz built wuz lynn around per
miskus. Likewise, probably, he woodent
be able to find the 5000 he bed in his .
ch'st. The place that knOwd it wunst
will know it no more F0rever-it he'd bin
contisticated by the enraged citizens.
He wanted it understood that no SIGH {
trifiin impediment in the way NV iustis
ez the possession Nv 5000 Good be al ,
lowed within the joorisdickshen NV this
court. The niger not bein able to prove !
his means Nv support, and ez the court
knows NV its own knollege, that he
amt now got any $500, the court wood ]
ask the criminals counsel. wat other .