The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1867-11-26
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BURKE County, North Carolina Staff,
- H21st November 1867

4 BURKE COUNTY, North Carolina Staff,
Il E21st November 1867.
DEER MISTER PELL.- AS you Ak yore
friends, insyore Seent-er-nelI to send you the
lection muse from every Kounty as sumo as
the lection is over, so you may publish the
muse in the Sent-er-n nell and let every boldly
no how the lectipns ar gone, and as you
haint got NANNY trends in thess here parts
and nifty few ov them kan reed ~ur rite, I
hev koncewded to obleege you and let you
no how this Kounty has gone and voted-I
no YOU wood never heer eff I didn't rite to
you and I no you woodnt sleap we'll NV
nights, nor could not say yore prairs good,
nor couldn't eat, nor couldn't drink nor
couldn't do nuthin rite eff you didn't heer
the lection news so l have konclewded to,
send it on to you and to let you no how the
lection went in this Kounty as don't want
you to keap awake all the time, nur don't
want you to stop praing fur yore prars ar
alters ansered in a most re,narkabef manner,
nor I don't want you to fast too long, fur eft.
you Go the price ov beat will go down and
wee mountin foxes will luse a site of mummy;
nur l don't want you too git too thursty fur
l am orfully scared fur feer wee haven't maid
more korn and rye than will doc fur bred
and our stok, so in pity fur you and our
Kuntry I have konclewded to rite to you
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! no how the lection went and how the people
up here voted in this lection, so that you
may publish the muse in the Scent-er-nell
and let all the people every where no how
the lection went up here in this Kounty
and how the white foxes and the niggers
voted up here in Burke Kounty North
Calina Staff and how the lection went fur
Kunvenching and agin Kunvenching and
how the lection went-and the only thing
will charg you fur mi trubble in riting to
you an tellin you how the lection went up
here in this Kounty and how the people
voted is that you will send fur Seaton when
you go to reed this letter and let him hear it,
so he may no how the lection went up heer
in this Kounty; and when you and Seaton
hav red it then 1 want you to send fur Trend
Johnothing and reed it over to him and
then believe you will awl feal like praing
and l no when any prain is to be done that
you no how to do it, fur heard you pra
wunst-but eft any cussin is too be dun you
had better jist hold friend john things hat
and let Seeting pat him on the back and
then lie bet mi pile that he will doc the
cussin part too yore intire satisfaxun, but eff
he shood fale and not cuss hard anutf to
suite you, then awl you have too doc is to
send up here after sum ov over offs holders
who has been sucken the publik TIT so long
that thay don't no how to let go, and lie
enshure that they will cuss tell you will be
obleedged to shout-why my deer Mr.. Pell
you may get them between you an the sun
and you can sea the cusses as thick in them
as maggits in a ded boss an it won't surprise
me wun bit eff thay git so mad when thay
hav to let that tit go thay have been suking
SO long that they will go rite strate and ijine
the--Bankrup law. Well now deer
Mr.. Peli as 1 sed before I will let you no
how the lection went up here in this Kounty
and how the people up here voted. And
fur fear you don't no who yore trends were
here and who yOre enemise was, l will tell
you. Yore trends was Mr. agin Kun
venching and Mister Flemmon and Mister
Kurbey, and yore enemise was Mr. Fur a
and Mister Parks an Mister
Murty. Well as l was gwine on too say
how the lection went and how the people
voted, yore trends Mister Agin Kun
got $50 votes in this Kounty at
the lection and Mister Flemmon got 235
votes and Mister Kurbey got 235 votes--and
yore enemise Mister Fur Kunvenching got
7s2 votes at the lection and Mister Parks
got 1877 votes and Mister Murfy got 1877
votes; but | no deer Mister Pell that 1t will
do you good to no, and | want too give YOU
aw the satisfaction l kin, that only about
335 ov the nasty, dirty niggers voted in the
lection in this Kounty SO you see that eff
thay hadent voted at awl yore trends wood
have bin beet emmy how by more then too
lunderd votes. So no more at preasant but
'emanes yore affeckshunite Trend tell deth.
RED STRING.
P. S. Sence riting the abuv have hearn
rom Mackdowil KOunty an it appears from
The vote that you haint got no trends up
har nuther what kin reed ur rite fur no eff
hey Good hev rote they wood hev had
nore.tickits on yore side so 1 lis no frum
hat circumstance they couldn't read nur
lite, but drink spcrrits, oh Lordy how tina
kin do that. Well as thar Is no boldly to
lite to you trum up thar, hev konclewded
% rite to you miself an let you no how the
ection went and how the people voted I'D
har an how yore trends run at the lection
20 you kin publish it in the Scent-er-nell
md let yore trends down thar no how the
ection went up here an how menny votes
'ore trends up here got at the lection. I
lave Eearn and l no it cum strate that wore
rends Mister Agin Kunvenching and
Ulster Flemmon and Mister Kurbey each
got 1862 votes in Mackdowil Kounty and
lister Fur Kunvenching and Mister Parks
nd Mister Murfy each got 49S votes. Now
ny deer Mister Pell am obleeged to wind
lp my letter as my paper is give out, but
before l klose l must holler whooray fur the
'cent-er-nell and Mister Pel and Seeting
nd friend John-o thing an doc think YOU
'rter send fur Zeb an let him jine the mcetin.
lie will doc you a nifty heap Nv good.
Your feckshunate trend tell deth aein.
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