The Vermont transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1864-1870, 1867-01-25

I explained to the obtooso man tibet
it WIZ all rite; that in most Nv such
enterprises the expenses cat up the
coleckshuns, but that it wuz seed
sown. 1--WE must" seq /, raise the
wind from the North, md to do it, let
us show that suthin hez bin dun.
"Wat kin we do, sed Bascom.
LAY the corner stun NV the Insti
toot, seq l. Con the square forninst
us liz the corner stun ov the niger
church we burnt n month or so ago,
ready to our hand Let organize
percesson and do it to-day, that we
may publish to the world that the
work IL commenst that our friends
may shell out liberaller than they
Lev"
The idee wuz considered good and
forthwith it wuz acted upon, the stun
wuz conveyed to the field onto witch
the Institoot is to be built, and cayi-
ty wuz hollered into it.
At z. NJ witch is in the after
noon n percession wuz formed, head
cd by the Trustees, and VIC marched
out to feeld Into the cavity Nv the
stun wuz deposited the following ar
ticles
A copy NV the constitooshen nv the
Confedrit Stats nv America
A copy NV the message nv Androo
Johnson, yetoin the Freedmen's Buro
Bill
A copy NV the Odd NV FEBRUARY
speech.
Portrates NV the Trustees.
A copy nv the veto NV the Civil Rites
Bill.
A pair NV handouts.
Portrates NV President johnson and
Secretary Seward.
A niger whip
A So greenback contributed for the
purpose by Elder Pennibacker
A pint bottle nv whiskey, seeled,
contributed by Bascom.
When the stun wuz placed in po-
sishun, n niger tied to it and hogged,
hiz blood bedoozlin it, and after IA few
feelin remarks by myself, in wich
stated that this wuz CRATE day for
tue Corners, aud that posterity would
bless us for the work we had done,
the crowd dispersed, the Trustees go
in back to my offs to draw up state
ment NV the ceremonies and an appele
to the Northern Dimocrisy for aid.
The niger witch we whipt at the
corner stun wuz shot in dispoot by
Capt MPelter, wich circumstances
greatly annoyed Deellin Pogram, ez it
wuz n niger witch wuz formerly hiz-
zen. He demonstrated with the cap
tain angrily, and ashoored him that ez
soon ez the Soopreem Court he'd de
clared the Amendment abolshin
slavery unconstooshnel, he shood sue
him fer hiz value. With this trihin.
excepshun, the affair passed ez pleas
antly ez Good be wished. i remon-
strated with both NV EN- for quarrelin
on SIGH occasion over so small
matter ez the shootin nv niger and
they finally settled it without hard
feelins. How sweet is peace and
frenliness between man and man
How blessed il the offs NV u peace
makerl The Captain acknowledged he
wuz wrong and stood the drinks for
the crowd
That mite about =. NJ. | wuz sit
tin in my offs musin onto the events
Nv the day and wondering whether
the Dimocrisy wood give down, it ok
kurred to me that thar wuz pint bot
tie NV first class corn whiskey, and IS
in currency agoin to waste in that
stun.
"Watll posterity know nv us, thot
to myself IF posterity does ever
overturn that stun, wont she git Just
ez good an idea NV who we wuz from
the trem the other articles If pos.
terity ever reads the speeches NV His
Eggslenoy, and the messages wich We
hey placed there, wont the whlskey
be inferred? If 1t amt, posterity is q
consumate ass, and thus musin,
wendell my way thitherward, deter
mined to reskoo these two articles
from oblivion anyhow.
1t wuz pitch dark, but | knew the
way Creepin cautiously up to the
stun, l reached out, and horror thel
wuz another hand onto it Strikin q
match quickly, there stood revealed
afore me the forms of Deekin Pogram
Bascom and Elder Slathers, to whom
the same thought had occurred that
moved Inc. But my presence of mind
did not forsake me. Strikin another
match, assoomed look of virchus
indignation, wich they all saw aiore il
went out, and reprocht them for THEN
worldly mindedness. How Good the,
expect the lnstitoot to prosper whei
those into who's hands its interests
wuz conhded, proves reereant to tn,
extent Nv steelin the sacred memen
toes witch were to-day enclosed. &c
home sed l, Il forgive you this time
and will not expose 700 ez 700 deser
We. l spected 700 all from the wa,
700 eyed the bottle and the greeabaci
and FASTENED hithor to protect them
CO.
And they went. after wich | tipped
over the stun and sekoored the
prize.
The next morning they all reproach
ed me with havin stolin the articles
In privit. wich satisfied me that all II,
EN- had cum back, but didn't max,
no fuss about it. They are all POO,
men, but alas, sich is the deprayitv n,