The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1867-01-31
NASBY.

MR.. Massey TRIES TO WEEP AT THE TOMB
OF A FRIEND AND WITNESSES a SIS
TERLY FIGHT-THE DISADVANTAGES
OF THE PATRIARCHAL SYSTEM.
PosT OFFS CoNFEDRIT X ROADS, J
(Which is in the State Nv Kentucky,
December 18th, 1866.
I heard, nearly two months ago that
my old friend, John Cutie, Nv Mobeel,
he'd departed this life and gone to that
other and better world where the wicked
Geese from trublin and the weery are at
rest, and wuz profoundly shocked. John
Cutie wuz my friend, and much fear
his like / ne'er shall look upon again
He wuz Democrat Nv the old skool, one
of the few links wich remained to connect
the present generation with the past
Well do | remember the glorious old man!
How often hev | set in the square room
in his country residence and drank whis-
key and water with him till we neither on
Us Good see hole thro' forty foot lad
der how many times has he flOgged mig
gers for my amooZement, to show me the
proper way Nv managin Nv EN- and how
tAthCS hSS NC iSIC HlS Slildli w
money, varyin from five to thirty-one dol
lars, akkordin to the state NV mellernis
he wuz in when | approached him on the
dclikit subjik Also poor John Cutie.
Let not the skoffer say that I regret his
death becoz his sons will be apt to try and
collect the notes the old man departed
holds Nv mine No no ! they know me
too well to waste any time on that. l
mourn becoz l loved him and beeoz Nv
the misfortunes which draw him to pre-
matoor grave.
A. Linkin is responsible for this dark
shadder onto my pathway. John Cutie
he'd three hundred niggers on his planta
shens and in his house in town-thesc
wuz wreueht from him By the Proclama-
shen and turned out from his paternal
care to strave, wich the mos. NV EN- are
industrously doin at about S3 per day
He he'd EN- of all hues-there wuz the
fullblooded black, the disgustin Mnlateer,
the pleasant Quadrcon, the beautiful Oc-
toroon, and them wich he'd so nearly lost
the cuss of Ham az to be hardly disting-
uishable from the pure Caucashen, and it
wuz noticeable that the nearly white mig
gers on the Guttlessess plantashen wuz
all beautiful. The Gutlesses themselves
wuz perfek specimens Nv manly beauty,
and it probably he'd its effek upon the
blacks.
The niger is initiative animal.
1t wuz this robbn Nv him Nv his pro-
perty-ths overturnin Nv the normal con-
dshun Nv things-wich killed John Gull
tie. He never held up his head after the
Proclamashen but faded away like fros-
It'd flower
| wuz in Nobel last week on biznis
connected with our college, Git was soils
itin fund to endow my Professorship.)
aud felt that L could not leave the city
without dropping dozen teers or sich on
to his grave. | felt ez he he'd contribbi-
ted at various times so much to moisten
my clay, that it would be gcntlemanly to
do suthin toward moistenin hizzen Aud
in pursuance Nv my resolve, | weuded
my way sadly to the cemetery, aud fndiu
the tomb, struck an attitude Nv despair,
and leanin pensively onto the monument,
strove, to the best Nv my ability, to weep, !
but it wuz futile endeavor. My eyes
wouldn't give down. | strove to recall /
his virchoos, but sich is the weakness Nv
human nacher, that, whenever his form
rose in my memory, my mind lnvoluntari-
ly wandered to his whiskey and my mouth /.
would water to sich an extent ez to mo-
all the moisture in my system.
Good hev spir onto his grave, but weep
| could not Alas for poor humanity!
While | wuz standing there tryin to
weep, and maxim bad fiat of it, | notist
three beautiful young ladies' approachin,
with baskits Of hot house flowers hang
in onto their arms | recognized thsR
to wunst. They wuz John Cutie daugh /
ters, and they wuz comm to strew ilow-
ors onto the grave Nv their PARENTAL an
cestor on their fathers side. 1t wuz a
teehn site, aud leelin that | wuz in
not bein blood relashen and on I
" connected with the deceast by note Nv
hand, | withdrew a short distants, Scase-
" had they got to the tomb when from
the other side approached three more ra-