The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1867-01-08
For the Standard.
LETTER FROM. JACOB TURNABOUT.
SLEEPY BoTToM, Jan'y 8, 1856

IS SLEEPY DOTTOM, Jan o,1oot.
DEER BRUTHER PELL Il got your affex-
shunit letter which you rit to me, and the
copy of our church paper which you sent
with it fur sirkulashun amung your old
trends in the naborhood, last mite. l will
karry it over to the class-meetin tomorrow
evenin, which is Sunday, and git bruther
Jones' the class leeder, to reed it to the class
and take up CONSUMPTION fur it. see you
have altered the name sense we used to take
it. But SeentandL will suit US jest as we'll as
Adookit, so it is relijus paper. The Majors
will be rally glad you are gwine to edit it
agin, kase you succeeded so well with the
Adcokit.
Deer bruther Pell, you ak so ahexshunitly
about the Majors, 1 must tell you. We have
seen site of trubble sense you used to be
down here and preech to US; Old sister Sim
mons, where you used to hav your home
when you rid this sirkit, is livin yit, pore
sole But she leeds nifty loansome life now.
Her old man dide jist the year the war be-
gum Then they TUX all her suns one after
anuther, until they was all killed but Sam
my. He was the baby you know what belt
out his purity little hands to you when you
kristened him in the church, and sed you
wuz goin to pray for him to be a preecher.-
When all the rest of the old womans suns
wuz killed, she did pray so hard fur the war
to end before Sammy got old enuff But
jist at the ending off, they KUN and TUX
Sammy rite out of his muthers arms and she
has never seen the pore boy no more. She
and her darter Nancy are all the family now,
and letter from you would be nifty konso-
lin to them. She would be nifty glad too,
to git copy of the Scentanat now and then
to konsole her.
Deer bruther Pell, there has bin heep of
back-slidin in the church-speshully amung
them that wuz kunverted at your big meetin
down here. Seem like there is more sin
than there used to be. Even old bruther
Waterspout, the good old Babtist preacher
whenyou wuz down here, is proved the truth
of what you used to tell him about fallin
frum erase. He kin now feel the forse of
the Skripter passages you used to quote in
your arguments with him, where it SEE, Lord,
laint we done heep of wundertul things
and yit you don't know u.s." and all about
the "sow wOllwin in the dogs wormit."-
Yes, deer bruther Pell, the old man is fell
from erase in his old age and turned poller-
tishun, and goes about slanderin our big men
who don't even condesend to notis him, and
sumtimes sez he rally haint got no charity for
no boldly that don't say he is good. How
much better it would be for the old man jist
goin down to his grave, eff he had let poller-
ticks alone, like you and me, and gone on
sarvin his master like we duz.
Deer bruther Pell, we wants you to kun
down here and preech to us agin. We are
in a orful kundishun morrely. socierly and
perlitikery. But then we don't spect you to
say nuthin about pollerticks, except to adj
wise us like you used to, to let them alone
and keep ourselves onspotted frum the
preech us one of them purity sarmints you
RI Go1 nd
mammun; and that one about charity, and
that other one about telling lise. There is
heep of sinners here and they would believe
you kase they know you pracktis what you
preeches. When old bruther Waterspout
preeches they don't believe him, kase they
say he amt no better than we is, lie tells
stories and talks more pollerticks than We
duz. But they know you never speeks evil
of men, tells the truth and don't have nuthin
to do with pollerticks in these excitin times.
Deer aruther, how kunsolin it is to see that
while sum is thinkin and talkin about pol
lerticks and the like you still stands up in
your old age u brite and shinin lite for us to
steer by.
Deer bruther Pell, sum of the nabors has
been tryin to git me to edit perlitikal pa
per. They say l could make a heep of
mummy at it and maybe be elevated to the
onorrable posishun of State printer. need
the mummy so bad sumtimes the old Sarpint
tempts ME nifty. But when I thinks of
them purity sarmits, you used to preech, say
git behind me Satan, wont Civ up my re-
ligiun and turn perlitikal editur. Then he
seq to me. "you amt no preacher, but only
exorter in the church. 1 admit eff you wuz
preacher and turn perlitikal editur, YOU
would be no better than / is, but it amt no
harm for you" But you know, deer bruther,
he is cuanin.
In konklushun, deer bruther Pell, pray for
US, kase we know your prayers is always an
swered, that these bad men that kept takin
our boys to war and KILN them up, and leav-
in their pore old muthers to sutherland
takin the husbands away frum their wives
and keepin them until news KUN they wuz
widders and their little children wuz orfuns
and beggers; and then KUN to takin away
the young boys rite out of their muther's
arms; and all fur nuthin but offs; deer bruther
Pell, pray fur us and these bad men shant
rule over US no longer.
Your old friend and affexshunit bruther.
JACOB TURNABOUT,
Erorter
P. 81 will send you the CONSUMPTION
list to our church paper arter class-meetin
tomorrow, which maybe you will remember
is Sundy. And eff it haint agin your kon-
shuns to say nuthin about men to hurt their
feelins, and to think about pollerticks, list
rite sumthin in the next I" ScentannLn our
church paper, agin perlitterkal editurs
]. T., Er.
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