Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1867-08-07
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Nuy ldluef Wv mine, Teplleu l.,
openin my ewes.
"Becoz, my son." sed he " Shell hev
trade wich'll support 700, otherwise yoo'll
die Nv starvashen when I'm gone"
[ thot the idea wuz good one Thro
woman cuss come into the world, wich
cuss wuz labor, and [ wuz determined that
ez woman he'd bin the coz NV requirin some
body to sweat for the bread [ eat, woman
shood do the sweatin. That mite [ per-
posed to a milliner in the village and she
rejected my SCOT. | offered myself in rap
id succeshun to widder. who wuz wash
erwoman, and TO a woman who he'd bows
old enuff to work, with the same result.
when, teelin that suthin waz necessary TO
be done to sekoor pervisiOn for life, |
married nigger washerwoman wich didn't
feel above me- Wood yoo bleeve it?
Within an hour after the ceremony wuz
pronounced, she sold her persnel property,
consistin Nv tub and board and a assort-
ment NV soap, and investin the>property in
Il red calico dress and a pair NV ear
rings, insisted on my goin to work to sup
port her and the township authorities
not only maintained her in her loonacy,
but refused to extend releet to me, on the
ground that L wuZ able-bodled.
Ez left the niger | vowed TO devote
my life to the work of gettin EN- down to
where they wood hcv to support US, and
that vow | hev relijusly fulfilled. l hev
never failed by my vote and inaooence to
reduce EN- TO ther normal condishun | hev
never felt good ceptin when they wuz put
down peg: | hev never wept save when
they wuz bein elevated | hev bin bathed
in tears the heft Nv the time for FIVE years
past.
The offises hev held hev not been many.
he'd signers to petishun for past office
in Jackson's time, but | killed my chances
by prsenentin it in person. The old hero
looked at me and remarked that it wuzn't
worth while thrown away post offices on
sich-that when he wanted EN- he Good buy
EN- at dollar dozen. Bookanan wuz
agoin to appoint me, but somehow my an
tecedents got to his ears, and he wuz Altered
of his respectability, and [ never succeeded
till johnson returned to his first love and
embraced US.
he'd bin drafted into the Federal army
at the beginning Nv the war, and he'd de-
serted to the Confederacy Prochoorin
certifkit to that effeck. L applied for
pardon and place He didn't like to
give me the offs, but he wanted a party
and coodn't be very pertikler. | succeed
ed, | bore with me TO Kentucky COM
mishun ez Post Master, and [ am now liv-
in in the full enjoyment Nv that posishun,
and | may say that [ am happy.
The sosiety is conjenial. Their Is four
groceries, onto wich [ can gaze from the
winder Nv my offs, and jest beyond, enli
venin what wood otherwise be dull land
scape, is distillery, from wich the smoke
Nv the torment assendeth forever. | hev
associates who reverence me, and friends
who love me- There is nothin monotonous
here. [ he'd knowd ez many ez eight ftes
per day, tho three or four is considered
enuff to break the tedium- And in these
ieliteful pursoots, leavin behind me the
ambishens Nv what mite be called public
life, with my daily bread sekoored, and my
other sustenance ashoored, with a friend
alluz to share my bottle, or to speak with
a greater degree of akkooracy, friends al
luz willin to share ther bottles with me, |
am gIidin peacefy down the stream Nv
time, dodgin the troubles and takin ez
much NV the good NV life ez [ kin.
The twenty-five cents menshuned in the
beginnin Nv my letter, you may, ez L re-
marked, remit either in postal order or cur
rency.
PETROLEUM V NAsBY. F. VI.
(Wich is Postmaster)
p. S.-Dont remit the twenty-five cents
menshuned, in postage stamps. | hev enuff
to last me, ez they amt in demand here,
ontil the Dimocrisy strike agin for their
rites. Uv course all L hev on hand at that
time will be Nv no akkount. Send it in
currency. L. V. n.
How ENGLIsHMEN USE LIoUoR.-The
Pail Mall Gazette says: The Lancet has
raised its voice certainly, none too soon.
against the increasing indulgence among
| the educated and gentle, of what it justly
characterizes as the pernicious habit OF
tippling. There can be no doubt in the
mind of any who observe the changes of
manners in good society, that this very
rious charge is well-founded, nor must the
ladies, though the Lancet delicately alb
stains from direct allusion to them, be al
| lowed to consider themselves exempted
from its structures or unconcerned in its
warnings Everything in modern customs
tends that way-the large wine glasses in
use at all dinner tables; the introduction
of amiable alcoholic drinks: the fashion of
giving claret or moselle cup as an adjunct
to the five O'Clock tea table, and at the
buffets of evening parties. where girls,
heated with dancing or fevered with their
constant round of excitement, may be seen
swallowing glass after glass of these
tempting and fallaciously cool beverages, in
place of lemonade and syrups which for
merly suf6ced for their refreshment.
:. But has the Faculty, as it is called.
nothing to answer for in promoting the
present state of things2 Children are now
given, by the doctors orders, an amount
of alcohol which would have Mortified their
grandmothers The beer and port wine
administered two or three times day at
first disgusts, but soon becomes grateful to
them. Almost every one of us may plead
medical advice as the beginning of the
habit. They say the modern type of dis.
ease is low that stimulants are requisite;
and that whether they prescribe chloric
ether or champagne does not much signify.
Perhaps not in the physical point of view
but in the moral one? Surely the tempta-
ton to the abuse of such stimulants as law
ender, ether, ETC., is not so great or con-
stantly recurring as that of wine and
liquors, which are offered and pressed upon
us wherever we go. Brandy now takes
the place of sal volatile in the lady's dres-
sing-case; and the properties of gin as a
cleansing agent, applicable to everything
from the gilt stopper of seeat-bottle to
lace hounce, are firmly impressed on the