Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1867-01-02
CHR 0NICLE.
NH. Mas by fries 10 Weep at
the Tomb of a Friend and
witnesses a S1sterIy Fight--
The disadvantages of the
PatriaFchal system.
CONFEDRIT X RoADs. }
witch is IN the Stat Nv Kentucky }
Decs mixer 18th. 1866.

my old friend, John Cutie. nv Nobel.
he'd departed this lie aU2 zone to- that
other and better world where the wick.
ed Geese rom troubiin and the weerv
are at rest, and wuZ profoundly shock
ed. John Cutie wuz my friend, and
l much fear MS like | ne'er shall look
upon agin. He wuz a Democrat nv the
old skool, one Nv the few links which
renamed 10 connect The present gen.
Grafton with the past. Well do | re
member the geilorious old man! How
often heV | set in the square room in
MS country residence, ana drunk wins
key and water. with him till We neiti,-
eF on us Good see a hcle thro a forty
1901 ladder; how many times hez he
nogged nlggers for my amoozemeut. 10
show me the proper way w mansrin
Nv EN-; and how many times b-z he
lent me small Sums NV money. y,ryin
from hive to thirty-One dollars, akKord
IN to the state Nv melleInis he wuz in
when approached him on the delikit
subJik. Alas poor John Guttlel Let
not the skotfer say that l regret his
death becoz his SONS will be ant to try
and collect the notes the old man De
parted holds NV mine Mo- nol they
know me to well 10 waste any time on
that. l mourn becOZ l loved him and
becoz Nv the misfortunes wich druy
him to a prematoor grave A. LINkIN
Is responsible for this dark shadder
onto my pathway. John Cutie he'd
three hundred niggers on his planta-
shens and in his house in town-these
wuz wrencht from him by the Procla-
mashen and turned out from his pater-
nal care to s~taFve, Wich the most NV
EN- are indUstrousiy dOin at about So
per day. He he'd EN- Nv all hues-
there wuz the full-bloodcd black, the
disgustin Mulatter, the pleasant Quad
room. the beautiful Octoroon, and them
which he'd so nearly lost the cuss Nv
Ham ez TO be hardly distinguishable
from the pure Caucasian, ard it wuz
noticeable that the nearly white mig
gers on the Gu;tleses plantation wuz
all beautiful. The Guttleses themselves
Wuz perfeck specimens Nv manly beau
ty, and it probably he'd its ef1sck upon
the blacks. The niger is a initiative
animal.
1t wuz this Robin Nv him Nv his
property-this o%verturnin Nv the nor
NAL condishn Wv things-which killed
John Cutie. He never held up his
head after the Proclamashen, but
faded away like a frostid flower!
l wuz in Nobel last week on bizDis
connected with our college, lit WIZ
solisitin funds to endow my Professor
ship,) and l felt that | Good not leave
the city without droppin a dozen teers
or SIGH onto his grave. l felt ez he
he'd contributed at various times so
much to moisten my clay. that it wood
be ungentlemanly not to do suthin
toward moistenin hiZzen. And IN pur
suance Nv my resolve, l weLded my
way sadly to the cemetery, and, fndin
the tomb, struck IN attitOod Nv despair,
and leanin %pensively onto the monu.
ment, strove, to the best Nv my ability.
to weep, but it wuz a futile endeavor
Ny yes woodent give down. | strove
to recall his VirchOos. but sch IS the
weakness NV human nacher that when.
ever his form rose in my memory, my
mind involuntarily wandered 20 hi:
whiskey, and my mouth wood water t.
SIGH an extent eZ to m~onopolize all the
moisture in my system. l Good hey
spit onto his grave, but weep l Good
not. Alas. for poor humanity!
While l wuz standIn there tryin &
weep, and maxim a bad fist Nv it, l no
fist three beautiful young ladies ap.
~proachin, with baskits NV hot-hous,
flowers a hangin onto their arms.
recognized EN- to-wunst. They WI;
John Guttle's daughters, and they Wi
a comm to strew flowers onto the grave
NV their p%aternal ancestor on theil
fathers side. 1t Wuz a techin site, and
feelln that l wuz a introoder, not bein
a blood relashun and only connected
with the deeeest by notes NV hand, |
withdrew a short distants. Skarcely
he'd they got to the tomb, when from
the other side approached three more
ravishinly beautiful young ladies, with
baskits Nv hot-house flowers onto their
arms. The last ones resembled in a
strikin manner the fust ones, ceptin
they wuz a shade darker, and their
hare waved bootiful, whereas the hare
Nv the fust wuz perfeckly stIate.
The two parties faced each other on
opposite sides Nv tue toom, aud party
Number One glared fierceiy at party
Number Two.
"Lize! Floral janet" said the oldest
NV party Number One. wat are yco
doin here"
"Sisters," sed the eldest nv party
Number Two, we're here dischargin
a fllyel dooJy. Beneeth these sod lies
the remains NV our father, and we are
goin to strew these flowers onto his
JoUm. Jine Us in the strew."
Father" shreeked the three NV
party Number One. ''Yoor all niggers
and Wuz servants unto
"Our hait-sisters," said the spokes-
man Nv patty number TWO, but LIN
KIN removed the cuss NV Ham, and
we're now Tree and hey ez much rite o
strew the grave NV u common parent,
wich WIZ John Guile, e. 700. OH our
Jus father WIZ a g,od man-let
US bedew Ii, grave with our teers
and"-
"Wat impudence !! shreeked party
number one, all in kOrious.
"Impudence yOorsolfl" retorted par
ty number two, gettin red in the face.
We are John Guttle's daughters pre-
cisely ez much e 700, and the only
700 hev over US is in the
NV mothers. YOO three hev
wun, Wich wuz John GutIleses wife.
while we three heY three-ope apiece
.ggsackly-wich Wuz John Guttleses
servants, butwe can't, nevertheless sti-
lie our emOshuns. | shell command my
self, and thus peIce,d to perform . act
Nv tillyel doo;y."
And she histsd Gus tEe flowers ana
,ommenst 10 streT.
The toiher wuns Wuz gettin hot.
the oldest wan Good auG tlis impu-
ience no longer, and Groppin her
went for her, iUii-red by her
1t wuz a speri;ed conflict, and
asted perhaps four minis. or until l
parted 'em, when they gathered them
elves together, aud depsrted-one
'ariy one way, aud tother, tother.
Filiy ell love he'd done more in the
trewin bIznis than it sot ous to do.
he six lovin daughters NV the deceest
Ohm had not only streNed flowers on
is grave, bat hair, and collars and
pins, and shreds NV silk, and
falls, and cotton, and false teeth,
nd pieces Nv almost every thing witch
oes to make up the sum total NV fe-
iale attire.
Ez l gazed at the wreck and saw
heir tattered forms vanish in the dim
isfauca crnd moi holm admitfir tbo