The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1867-12-26
From the Toledo Blade.
Nasby.
The AFabamn COnven entf0n-The
Woes of John GuGGle, Jr.
MONTGOMERY, ALABAMA, I
December 1. 1867, {

II Il possible that this world may continyoo to
exist--that the heavenly erbs may eontinyoo to
roll about on each others axises, and move in
harmonious cycles into their respective spheres
that comits may continyoo to wheel and turn in
reglar orbits thro the speer assigned EN- in the
grand economy in selestyel space, but doubt It,
IF sich disorganizashen ez | am now Witnessn
doesn't oyerturn that order Wich Is Heavens first
law, all ! kin say Is nacher is so constituted ez
TO stand Summers Nv no ordinary magnitude
Lam in Montgomery. in atteAdance, ez locker
onin Venis NV The "ConstoOshnel Convenshun,
ez il is called now in session In this accused
town. 1t wuz curiosity wich brot me hither.
he'd heard NV this piebald body--1Y this black and
tan gatherin, in wich nggers and white men
niggers In wich the white blood predominated,
and white men IN wich the nlgger 9looo preoom-
inated-wuz gathered and sittin side by side, the
same ez tho Noer he'd never Gust Ham, and ez
tho thenigger wuz not beast and not our inte-
rior at all Ez gazed sed to myself,
"The times is out uv joint, o cussed spite,
That wuz ever born 10 set em rite"
entered the hall with the con Nv my old
friend John Cutie. John Jr. is chip Nv the
troo Cutie block. When / arrived found him
a eanin ON the bar NV small grosery, smokin
a cigar and lookin ez disconsolate ez mortal
Good. Sbakin, hands with him, ,momsntary
CLEAN nv Joy shot aathwart his care-worn. face
ez he invited hisself TO drink with me. Not feelin
il rite to deprive him Nv one little ray Nv content
ment | stood drinks not only for him but fer
dozen more wich found leanin on their elbows
on the bar all NY EN- with a cigar atween their
teeth, Nv wch the life he'd gone out in cOnse-
kence NV ther beln too much discouraged TO draw
EN-, knoWd the most Nv these young men III
sAe Aappy days Nv yOre. They Tdz all the sons
NV planters in the vlcinity-all Nv elm Nv the first
tamiies of Alabama, whose fathers he'd Wunst
owned their thousand akers apeece, and he'd
hgOtem up ez the Too shiVelry NV the SOut
alluz brot up. There wuznt wun NV enl but he'd
worn the most magnificent broadcloth, and In his
day, won and lost his thousands at faro There
wuznt wun Nv EN- but wat wuz up in ali the
ennoblin sports wich wuz the delite NV the shiy-
elry Nv the South, sich ez pitchin dollars, draw
poker, and horse-racin, and scarcely wun Nv EN-
but he'd fought dooelS in his time, and every
man Nv EN- he'd slaughtered his hecatombs NV
Yankees In the late war. Yet there they stood,
out at the elbows, with naplls hats, and all in the
last stage NV sedinis.
"Cheer up!" sed |, ez we sot down the tum-
blers turned and told the bar-keeper that ez
soon ez drawd my pay and mileage wood call
and settle for the drinks
"W-a-t 2" sed he.
'T'm member nv the Constooshnel Cenven-
tion, sed |, ''and when get my pay and mile
age I'll call"
''No you don't, "sed he, seezin me by the collar,
''No you don't. There aint bin member Nv q
Convenshun or Legislacher in these doors sencc
Pope's bin here. Pay now, or"
Scen that my little strategy woodent work
rcluctenlly fortt over.
The Young men wuz in n dreadful state Nv
dapidashnn, and their murmurn wus more like
the hmcntashuns nv Job than anything he'd
heard for long time.
'0Whv.n sed John Cutie, Jr the old man,
when he departed this life. left me thousand
akers NV land. but wat WIZ il good lOrp he'd
no nggers! The accursed whelps reloozed to
work without wags, and that wOodent pay EN-
an principle. Finally they commcnst maxim
offers for the land IN patches Nv from ten to fifty
akrrs, and crooel necessity compelled me TO aG-
cept IL. The money reserved wnz compelled
TO live on ontil my paterna akers wuz redOOst
10 n scant hundred. The produX nv hundred
akers wood support me- but It won't perdoOse.
Ihe4 no labor wher Kin git the labor?'
eyes. - exclaimed oil NV the dozen Young men,
rollin over onto the tother elbow, "Gnttles case
Is orr own. We all have land, but wher's the
labor?'
wllz about to commisserate em when the bar
keeper struck in. lie wood scest, he relnarkt,
thai possibly under the circumstances II wood
I've better II instld NV ayln on ther elbows, askln
''wher's the labori" they shood 90 and do little
NV 10 themselves. Troo, If they shood do It he
woodent see eZ much NV EN-, but they would be
able TO pay suthln for the liker they consoomed
JOlu duLlIt uilu 1 WtiuCu our WAY 10 lHb llni
into wleh the Conyenshun wuz a sittIn In the
Hall wuz a site On the rite wuz niggcr on
the floor aud m0kln speech on the left wuz Q
ngGer NV majestic presence, with his feet cOeki
up onto the desk In front NV him, absoOotly
reedin q noospaper and another wuz lst n comm
In towards his seat pielln bis teeth with ca
much compOsure ez tho he he'd never did anythn
IN his life but be member nv constooshnel con.
yenshuns. All about the hall In various attitudes
sot nggers NV various shades, and all NV en- well
drest sefpOssest and without particle Nv that
healthy h0Omlllty wlch the race he'd alluz dis
PLAYED wen in the presence Nv ther superlors.
'"Good God ~ sed to Gnttle, after he'd re-
covered from my asionlshment. "Am awake,
or am dreemln ? Tell me, please, who arc
those nggersW
floor oiIerin resoushen ?" sed Guttle, hoarse
with emoshcn. THAT nlgger Is my property
Ills mother wuz sold to Orleans twenty years
AGO on account Nv resemblance which my
mother fancied she saw in him TO my lamented
father. | KEEP him % my servant, and the WALLER
cuss somehow learned TO read. lle owns part
NV q place the old man he'd In, the north part Nv
the State. That one to the rite who Ia blzzy
wrltln, Is another wun Nv mlne--a blacksmith,
wich the old man bot on purpose 10 do bis re-
parln coz the white blacksmith wlch wuz located
near US cost too much. lie wuz cheap at $2, 800,
COZ NV his beln sooperlor workman and am
told that the incapable beln hez a shop now, nv
his own, and hez pile nv money In the savlns
Bank, while Ibis material sooperlor-hev TO de-
pend onto the chance libefalily NV q cOmpartve
stranger like yoo for the very drink wIch am
now parehed for want wv
And the unfortunit young man bustld Into
teers, wlch he went out and assuaged. Roturnln,
resOOmed.
'0That mulatto on the left, by the double win.
der Is q carpenter and wunst my property. He
bot Nv me fifty OkerA Nv land for o mere song,
and when delegates wuz to be electld TO this we're
Convenshen, he run agln me and beat me four tn
one the ongratelnl nlggera wleh wo he'd worked
MI our lives absooo,ly prefurrin him TO me, Ia
egislate for en-, y and lie bustId into teors agln.
Findin the excitement 10 great for him, gently
led him out Of the hall
"Wat, sed ], "ls 70 be the end nv all thisl"
"GOd only knows, sed he, ~ don't There IL
nothn but r6Jn ahead and on each side NV us.
These nggers and the crazy whites IN league with
en-, heV now sole control NV Alabama, and are
maslln down the spectacle ole barriers wch KEEP
The races In their places. They are passln all
sorts nv ordinances poryldln for rskOols; they hev
Owen themselyegthe ballot, and hey disiranehis-
cd us who served the Confederaey, so that the
power win be thern for oil tune to come. The re-
SnltsalFeady ioreshadered In wat they hey done.
Out near my place, list west Nv Mobeel, they hey
village and q skOol-houae, In wlch they are
taught rCedin ritin, arithmetic and all sorts NV
deyIlment. by nlgger skoolmam wlch Ia sent by
the Freedmen's Commission In the North. They
reloos 10 work for any NV us, onless we pay Il
advance, aud cOnsekently, ez we can't git labor
our farms Is runln 10 weeds. And 10 make mat
tors wus. the Conyenshen Is maxim labor lien
upon the crops, aud 80 hamperln US that II does
seem 20 inc they Intend to deliberately rooln us
They are establlshln skools and villages, and
churches eyerywher; and wat IA pertickeIerly v
oppressive, we heynt the power 10 stop them In
their mad career. Potlkle power we hsy none