The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1867-01-09
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Written for The Toledo blade
MIR. Nasty in North Car"Iinn---Ihe
Abrogation of gen. sIekIes' Order
S.,'a 81 no rendered Col. POdgers.

DECEMBER olSIY 1cOo.
I,o- two weeks past hev bin in North
Carolina, and hev he'd an opportunity
,I,, hain NV service to my friends ana
the good cause.
wuz there coIlectin funds fur the
new college mt this pint, to wich atn
devoted heart and sole, and wuZ
maxim nv home at Kernel ADsluui
Podgers, who resides Just back OF
RawIy, and whose table and cellar
permit me to say, are unsuT PiisSeu ~
the South Kernel Podgers Is a gentle
man NV the old skool, who lives IN lux
urious elegance onto plantaShn NV
I5OO akers and who heZ trOo piety into
him and alIus wears shirt-frlIl. Aiore
the war he owned 200 niggers, ana
his sole runnin out after en, ne
hez managed, sence the war, to colLect
the most NV EN- and get EN- together on
the old place. He hez bin buslly en-
gagged in subdooin NV EN- and bringing
EN- back to ther normal candishun, but
alas! Their wuz difficulties in the way.
The men niggers, with an obstlnacy
witch L can't account for, refused TO
work for "a per month, and the wimen
heyin been mostly married totheir nus
bands by the chaplin Nv regiment
witch wuz stashened here doorln the
war, refused to reSoOm their old reIa-
tions, and things looked serious Most
men would hev yielded to cirGum-
stances and give up, but hernel fou
gers wuz not NV that stripe. lie owed
n dooty to those misguided beInS wren
he felt he must fulfill; and besides, he
is DESTROYS of buildin new house next
summer and sendin two daughters 10y
his wife, to n seminary next season, ana
he felt that he must bring EN- to their
senses, He sed that he stood in the re-
lation NV a father tiggeratively speakin,
to all NV EN-, and literally to many NV
EN-, and wuz he agoin to let em go ON a
| dyin out NV their normal speer? Not
any.
The first day wuz there, a crisis oc:.
CURED. John Podgers, his son, insisted
upon takin away the wife NV mulat-
to, and the Niger, forgettin his posi-
shen, wuZ fmpudent. John struck him,
and the degraded wretch waded in ana
whaled him unmerciful. This, NV
course, Good not be endOored. The
| Podgers' blood riZ, and the niger wuZ
seized and Gated till he died Ef re-
member right, he expired while unuer,
goin discipline. 1t may be he lived till
murnin, but it matters not, ceptin that
| like TO be accurate.
1t wuZ IA solem and impressive scene.
The Kernel he'd the Ethopian's wife
present doorin the intiiction NV the
punishment, and to show her that he
| did not perceed without authority, be-
| fore commencin he read to her from
| Scripter the chapters treatin NV Ham
and Hager, and the passage commence
| in ''servunce obey yOor masters" and
then wallopped him with more vigger
than I spOZed wuZ lett in Il man so old.
He pinted TO the Niger on the ground,
! after he wuZ cut down, and tellin her
that he hoped it wood be lesson to
her, babe her go to her quarters. But
| the perverse creecher didn't. She ran
away and complained to the officer ut
the neerest post, who insted NV sendin
NV her back under guard, with his
i compliments to Kernel Podgers, actilly
forwarded her complaint to Gen. Sick
les, who forthwith struck u blow Mt the
foundashens Nv the fabric NV Southern
sosiety, and ordered the arrest NV the
Kernel who wuz to-wunst placed in
doorance vile
There wuz eggscitement in the visin-
ity. never saw sich Il fermentashen.
! Men run to and fro with blnncht cheeks,
and askt "Wat next? Is our rites to
be taken from us? Is Johnson n holler
mockery?" And they made up purse
and begged me to go to Androo and
: stand between EN- and destruckshen.
! | run up to Washington and he'd an
interview with his Eggslency, the Pres
ident. He knowd Kernel Podgers-in
his Younger days he had made his
couts,-and ez l fetched upon the old
; man, immured in dismal dungeon,
he wept. But \. Johnson hez decision
NV CldTuCleT. W pm Ills eyes ne IS
shood II order for the revOkashun NV
J Sickleses absurd order that niggers
shoodent be whipt, and spheshl order
, comn1andin the ofliser who he'd the
Kernel in custody, to turn him over to
the Civil Courts to be tried in accord.
! ance with the laws of North Karliny
Armed with these documents, 1 flew
> back, and the mite arrived 1 he'd the
! satisiackshen NV taking the Kernel out
NV Jail, and takin him afore Justis
: NV the Peace, where he gave bail TO
; appear afOre the Common Pleas to an
swer n charge up manslaughter, pre-
fered by the wilder of the dead Niger.
, y day or two after the case wuZ heard
: I appearin for the Kernel. 1 held that
the case be dismissed for the followin
reasons:
l. The charge nv manslaughter wu2
absurd, for the reason that in the minds
NV the Southern people there heZ aliuZ
bin the gravest doubts ez to whether
the niger is actilly man. L held that
the length NV his heel, the thick ness
NV his skull, the length NV his arm, all
showed that he wuz distink species.
Eff this is the case, eZ n matter of course
the Kernel goes free.
.. The Kernel can't be held, allowin
the niger to be n man. The laws NV
the State NV North Karliny permit the
whippin nv niggers, but they don't pre-.
scribe the quantity NY whippin wicE
may be inflicted. It's u matter witch is
left entirely to the discretion NV the
whiPper. It's matter with witch the
whippee heZ nothing TO do; neither he7
; the State. Ell the Kernel he'd shot
the Niger he wood be liable, for shootin
; amt permitted; but ez whippin is. and
ez the quantity aint prescribed, nv
course il intends the matter to be left
> solely TO the discreshen NV the party
! who hez the power to whip. Nothin
kin be clearer than that. Shell Kernel
Podgers be punisht becoz Niger
hedn't powers NV eudoorence? Forbid
it hevin!
Here l rested the case. I showed tC
the satisfackshen NV the Court that the
law wuZ not only just but humane, and
that any SIGH absurdity eZ punishin the
Kernel for carryin out its provisions
wood be strikin blow at the frame
work NV society.
/ The Court concluded with me, and to,
wunst discharged the Kernel, amid the
acclamashuns nv the crowd. The event
wuZ sellebrated that afternoon by whip.
pin every niger within cirkle NV ter
+ miles The exercise did our people
good. 1t wuZ soothin.
In tho meantime John POdgers heG
gone afore Justice NV the Peace anC
made complaint NV Susan (that is tn,
name NV the female witch was the cause
, NV the dithkilty,l eZ vagrant, and she
wuz so declared by the Justis and put VI
I and sold. Under the circumstances n
one wood bid agin John, and she WI
struck or to him at $50, witch the JUST
T under the pecoolyer circumstances u
/ the case refooSed to take. L saw John
mnrchin NV her home and felt happy.
The Kernels gratitood was boundli'
, swat kin do for 700, sed he wiring
in my hand in fever NV joy.
D "Nothin !" sed I, "nothin. Vircho
j is its own reward. But our College