The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1867-01-10
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Posr orFls, e~osPsbssxarf x ReAps,
(wich is in the Staff NV Keutucky,)
December 81, 1856.
For two weeks past / hev bin in North
Carolina, and Aey had An opportunity nv
beiu nv service to my friends and the good
cause.
| wuz there c~ollectin funds for the new
college at this pint, to wich / am devoted
heart and sole. and wuz a maxim my home at
Kernel Abslum Podgers, who resides just
back Of Rawly, and whose table and cellar,
permit me to say, are unsurpassed in the
South. Kernel Podgers is a gentleman nv
the old skool, who lives in luxurious elegance
onto a plnntashun NV 1900 akers, and who
hez troo piety into him and alluz wears q
shirt frilL. Afore the war be owned 200 mig.
gers, and his sole runnin out after EN-, hs hez
managed, sence the war, to collect the
most NV EN- and get EN- together on the old
place. He hez bin busily engaged in sub
doom NV EN- and bringing EN- back 10 their
normal condishun, but, alas! Their wuz diff
culties In the way. The men ~niggers, with
an o~bstinacy wich | can't account for, re-
fused to work for 81 per month, and the
wimmin hevin ben mostly married 70 Their
husbands by the chaplin NV . regiment wich
wuz stashuned here aoorin the war, refused
TO resoom their old relations, and things
looked serious. Most men would hev Weld.
ed to circumstance and Civ up, but Kernel
Podgers wuz not Nv that stripe. He owed q
duty to these misguided beins wich he felt
he must fulfill; and besides, he is DESTROYS Of
buildin q new house next summer, and send.
IN two daughters (by his wife, to a seminary
next season. and he felt that he must bring
EN- to their senses. He sed that he stood in
the relation NV a father, fggeratively speakin,
10 oil Nv EN-, and literally TO many Nv EN-,
and was he agoin to let em 90 on a fyin out
Nv their normal speer? Not any.
The first day | war there a crisis occurred.
JOIN Podeers. his son, insisted upon taking
away the wife NV a mulatter, aud the niger
~sorgettin his poslshen, wuz impudent John
struck him, and the degraded wreth waded in
and whaled him nnmerciful. This, ofcourse.
could not be endured. The Podgers' blood
M, and that Niger wuz seized and Gated
till he died. FL | remember right he ex-
pred while u~ndergoin discipline. 1t may be
he lived I'LL morniu, but it matters not ceptin
that / like TO be accurate.
1t wuz a-soluin and impressive scene. The
Kernel he'd the Ethiopian's wife present dur
in the infection of the punishment. and to
show her that he did not proceed without au-
tbority. before commencin he read To her
from Scripter the chapters trestln Nv Ham
end Hager, aud the passage commensin,
.'servanue obey your master and then he
walloped him with more energy than ] sup
posed wuz left ia a man SO Did. He pinted
to the niger on the ground, after he wuz cut
down, and tellin her that he hoped it would
be q lesson 10 hes, babe her GO to her quar-
tiers. But the perverse creeter didn't. She
ran away and complained to the officer at the
neerest post. who insted Nv sendin Nv her
back under guard, with his compliments to
Kernel PodgeF, actilly forwarded her com
plant 10 Gen. Sickies, who forthwith struck
a blow al the foundsshens Nv the fabric NV
Suthern Society, aud ordered the arrest Wv
the Kernel who was to once placed in dur
ance vile.
There wuz eggsitement in the vicinity.
never saw such a fermentsshea. Men run to
and fire. with Llanoht cheeks, and askt, ava,
next2 Is our rites to be taken from us? Ii
johnson a holIer mockery?'' And they made
up a purse, and begged me to 20 to Androc
and stand between em and destruckshen.
ran up to Washington and he'd an interview
with his Eggcelensy, the President. He he'd
knowed Kernel Podgers In his younger days
be he'd made his coats, and ez | touched up
on the old man, immured in q dismal dunJen
he wept. but A. Johnson hes decishun u,
character. Wipin his eyes, isshood a ordel
fur the revocashen of Sicklesses absurd or
der that niggers shoodent be whipt, and {
speshil order commanding the officer who he'd
the Kernel in custody to turn him over to the
Civil Courts, to be tried in accordance with
the laws NV North karliny.
Armed with these documents, / few back
and the mite | arrived | he'd the sssisfacksher
uv taking the Kernel out Nv Jail, and takir
him afore q Justice NV the Peace, where b,
gave bail to appear afore the Common Plea
to answer a charge NV manslaughter, preferred
by the widow nv the dead niger.
A dav OF two after the case wuZ heard,
appearin for the Kernel. | held that tn,
case be dismissed for the iollowin reasons;
l. The charge NV manslsnghter wuz ab
surd. for the reason that in the minds NV tn
Southern people there hez alwuz bin tn
eravest doubts ez TO whether the niger is &C
lilly a man. | ED that the length nv hi
heel, the thicknest nv his skull, the length u
his arm, all showd that he wu5 " disan
species. III this il the case, ez a matter VI
course the Kernel goes free.
z. The Kernel can be held, sllowin th
ffgESf 10 De u iiftf. tHc tdWs NV INV "A
North karlinv permit the whipping NV niI
gers. but they don prescribe the quantity u
whippin wich may be inflicted. It's a matte
wich is left entirely TO the discretion Nv u
whipper. It's q matter with wieh the Will
pee hez nothing 10 do; neither hez the Stat
II the kernel he'd shot the Niger he wood |
liable. for shootin amt prescribed. Nv cours
it intends the matter to be left solely to II
disoreshen nv the party who hez the power
whip. Nothin kin be clearer than ths
Shell Kernel Podgers be punisht becoz a mig
ger hedn't powess Nv ehdoorenee? Forbid
heaven!
Here I rested the case. ! showed to Il
satistackshun NV the court that the law W
not only just but humane, and that any ss
absurdity ez p~unishir the Kernel for carry
out It's provisions wood be strlkin a blow
the frame work Nv society.
The court conceded with me, and to wun
discharged the Kernel, amid the acclaim
shuns Nv the crowd. The event wuz sell
bralid that afternoon by whippin eve
niger within a cirkle Wv ten miles. III
exercise did our people good. 1t VI
sooihin
In the meantime John Podgers bed goi
afore a Justice NV the Peace and made cor
plant NV Susan that is the name NV the (
male wich wuz the cause NV the dlfikilty)
a vagrant, and she wuz 50 declared by I
Justls and put up and sold Under the Ct
cumsiances no one wood bid agin john, al
she wnz struck off to him at $50, wich t
Justis under the pecoolyer circumstances
the case refoosed to take. | saw John
marchin ny her home and felt happy.
The Kernels gratitood wuE boundlis.
await kin | do for you.' sed he, wringl
my hand ina fever Nv JOY.
"Nothinl'' sed I, s'nothin. Vircboo is
own reward. But our College is languisf
for want Nv means-let your ggatitood ia
that shape
He subscribed, and paid, 5000, wich &C
stools him a perpetooal Honorary Profess
and 500 to make his wife q perpetocal hor
rary Professor. horrowd Nv him $50
take me home, ez | coodent NV coorse yos
college funds, and departed $3.50 better.
left regretfully. Now that this portion
the South is gettiu her rites, it is trooly a
liteful place to live, and l shood like to {
my days here. But my postcfis, and Il
collegel-I kin never leave EN-, never.
that college | hev dedikated the few rem
in years NV my life, and Ill never desert it
long ez there s a dollar to be raised for it
nv a~nybsdy.