The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1867-02-13
For the Standard.
Letter from Jacob Turnabout.

fge>H " SLEEPY BOTTOM, FEB. q loO1.
DEER BRUTHER PELI, Gas wUNcE wUz)
When rit you my last letter. promised to
go up to Rolly to make arrangements ABOUT
helpin Won to edittbe Scentandk ButJist as
l was gittin fixed up like, here KUN a letter
frum ole bruther Toby Watchout, reveelin to
me sumthin of your true karacter. That you
are jined to them war men, that, made our
pore BOYS fite to tleth in |, kausc they always
hated and brought Shermans army over our
settlement to destroy our property, as ute
as Efrim wuz to idlcs let him alone. That
you wuz mitily in fur every body to go and
fite but the preachers That you, moreover,
like ole deeon Waterspout, are not only tell
frum erase, but goes about misrepresentln
sum of our publick men who wont even de-
served to motifs you, jest bekase they nose
you and has the boldness to ekspress their
knowledge. .f
Now kin stick as tite to rale honest
trend as emmy boldly, and wuz reddy to glyv
up my relijun and jine you as you wanted
me to do. But when it kums to standln up
to them traters, that like yourself lnsted OF
bein peece makers, cried war and blood fur
our pore boys, while they hilt all the oftises
and reeped all the glory. Kant swaller
that. know well enuff what honor and
konsistensy is. But it amt to be found IN the
karacter of professin krlstian that don't
liv up to his duty, nor in men that wants
Others to fife while they don't smell powder,
but least of all is homer and consistency to
be found in the karacter of a backslid Meth
odist preacher.
konfess have sumtimes mixed in with
nifty meen men. have eat supper with ole
Tom Jones, better known to you as "lyin
Tom," and hav slept all mite with ole Joe
Smith, that you remember stole sheep frum
his pore ole blind nabor, but never yit sunk
so low as to keep kumpany with Metho-
dist preacher, who is not only fell frum erase
and turned perlitikal editur, but even jined
hissef to traters. This is my only apollo
gy fur brakin my promis and not gwine up
to Rolly to talk matters over with you last
Sundy. a t4
Purmit me now, deer bruther Pell, (as
wunce wuz,) to relait you dreem that ole
sister Simmons had few mites ago. The
ole lady had gone to bed redin her Bible
minis you used to preech to US down here
about backsldin, lovin the wurld and SIGH
like. Purity soon she had dreem, that
"wuz not all dreem," as Skakespeer says
you know. The judgemint day had kun,
the wurld wuz burnIn, and CRATE crowds of
men and wimmin died and alive, wuz march
ed up to the CRATE Judge fur trial Sum of
the Eases looked femiliar, but many were
forgot or never seen before. One by one
they went up and wuz tried and assined their
places, the good on the side where every Ease
looked so brite and happy-the bad on the
other side where wuz weepin and walln and
nashin of teeth. At length CRATE big fat
man, with white he'd wuz brought forward.
Hemarchedupmity proud konsequenshul
like, and started out to tell a nifty purity
tale-how he had preeched to sinners, pinted
them the rite way, and begged them to flee
the rath to kum His voise sounded so IA
miliar-so much like ole times-she looked
to see who it wuz, but jest then up rushed
CRATE crowd of men wounded and bleedin,
sum with an arm gone, sum with both legs
shot off, and sum without any heds, and
they all begun to charge the ole fat man with
their dcths and sufferin Chem that had no
heds jest pinted at him and hissed) Then
here kun crowd OF widows all dressed in
black, weepin fur their husbands and all tes-
tifyin agin him. And then SIGH multitude
of little orfan boys and girls KUN holloin at
the ole fat man accusin him of bein the caus
of their fathers deth, and leavin them to
bekum beggars and thieves. And then kun
along crowd that throwed all their aposta-
sy and sin at his he'd like rocks, until they
like to have nocked him down. But in the
Ease of all this he stood proudly up, until at
last here kun along sumboddy holdin up at
him modderit size paper and printed at
the top wuz "Rolly Scentanar' (Scent-and-
all) No sooner did he see it than his he'd
dropped fur shame, and he fell on his knees
and tried to pray, but ne had furgot how
Then wuz herd the order, kast lin out"
and SIGH a set of horrid creeturs seezed him
and kummensed tarin and draggin him and
showtin hipperl1rit and back-slid methodist
preecher and SIGH, that it walked the ole lady
up jist in time to find her bed clothes kotch-
ed afire and blazin. She skreemed and hol-
Tered for help until the family kun in and
put out the fire, but the ole lady lost all her
bed-clothes. This is only given you as
peece of news; that will of coorse interest
you.
Finally, deer bruther Pell, Gas wunce wuz.)
as you used to preech nifty sharp at me and
other sinners, but bein as the thing is now
turned round and am an exorter and YOU
a - perlitikal editur, purmit me to ex-
ort you little. You are CROWN ole now
Your he'd is white for the grave, and maybe
more than half your days are gone. We are
both ten years nearer deth and the Judge
mint than we wuz ten years ago, and every
day brings us still nearer. Does your mind
ever revurt to them purity sermints you used
to preech to us in your better daysG When
you think of what you WIZ, what you are,
and what you must soon be, unless you re-
pent and do your furst works over, don't you
trouble? want to see you saved-not lost
and when behold the malls of your hart
in sum of your editorials in the copies of
the iScentanal that ole bruther Toby sent me
and think how you are kausin the ruin of so
many preshus soles, by your example, that
you ought to be tryin to save; and remem-
Der you are ole and must soon die, trimble
fur your latter eend. Then let me beg you,
that when you go home to-nite, before you
go tn sleep, examine yourself by the skrip-
ter and Discipline, and git down and pray
fur mercy and pardun until you are restored
back to that high posishun frum which YOU
hav so deeply fell. Do this; and when you
get to be a good kristian agin, and quit pol
lerticks. and begin preechin agin in urnest,
kun down to Sleepy Bottom and tend one
of our ole fashuned class meetins, and give
US the rich experience of your dose of
| backslidin.
Your (quondam affexchunit bruther.)
JACOB TURNABOUT, Erorter.
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