Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1868-01-30
MISSISSIPPI TERRITORY, Dec. 1867

like Jonah's goard, only somthin you read
about-taint hardly in the memry of man.
When the year begun, kotton was 30 cents
per lb. Every body went crazy, and L
mong em-hired heap er niggers, rented
land, bot pervissions and planted hugely of
kotton. We all walked on stilts-I kould
see over any mans head. Truth is I went
to town and bot me money chist, and give
way all my geans klothes, and bergun chaw.
in manufactured terbacker. Well, Paul
planted and Pollus poured down rain per-
fusely-then bone, muscle sweat and hope
were all brot to bare-but the increase, it
or turning to ashes on our expectations, and
-each farmer feels like one who were all a.
lone in some banquit hall deserted-that is
ter say, when he walks in his Clubhouse or
feels in his pocket. Yes, sir, the floods
kome and descended upon the kraps-then
the sMilitary bills" with territories, taxes,
bayonets and other terrorems, then whining
Rad speakers, hipperkrittical preachers and
infamous teachers, tergether with hellish
Loyal Leagues, boil worm, army worm, craw
fish, kotton lice and registering-in short,
all the akursed kalamitus kalumities that On
avengin yanky spirit kould konjure up, to
krush kotton krap, kome altogether kom-
bined aginit, and the harvest ar fruitless,
cherries, mock holiday-just nothin-"on-
ly leetle spinnin kotton," shore nuf, and
''didn't I tell you so, Genes" still ringing
like tinklin simblin or sounding brass /;
and my aforesaid money chist, it ar bekome
cupboard for krokery, an old par of slip
pers in one of the pigeon holes. Jarusalem !!
+ wish my name war moss kivered, in some
old dylappidsted monastery, where monks
live without concern, and Yanky's never
kome. I'll be dad-rabbed if I wouldn't like
to see Andy Jackson rise from the Hermit
age, and git in the Presidents cheer, bout
now. Talk about impeachin him !! "By
the ETERNAL" he'd take fazzled hickory
broom ind sweep Ktsongriss so Clean, you
might see your face in the floor. Whoopee !!
Wouldn't Thad git over them sick spells,
sing a doxology to his pack and curl up in
his kennel, quick; that thar Beast Ben
Beast the batler) who is branded with a
spoon, and looks so much like the butt cut
of board tree, wouldn't be big enuff for a
single rail cut. Yes, sir, and that Consti-
tuition we used to have, would be snatched
out of the dead letter office, and the people
made free again. Talk about your Nation
al Banks-States having no reservedrights; !;
setting up an absolute consolidated Govern
ment, without limitation of powers-freed-
mems franchise and bureau u's-these here
things wouldn't be morrated, confdentialiy,
in Gath, nor avAispered in the corporation
of Askalon. No, sir thunderbolt fulmi-
mated by Jackson's waU, out of the Consti-
tuition, would crash Radical ranks so rapid,
there wouldn't be detail left, to put head
boards over the hellish crew. All creation
would cry out $50 mote 1t be" and Rhody ;
we'll, she'd just say, 81 told you so, Genes. "
Do you think the Spirit of Liberty will
hold up these RAIDS like the Graccian moth
er of fanchient days, and say these are jew
els?" No sir, but shakin her torn, latter
ed bloody locks in disgust, will say, "depart
from me despoilers of human rights, I give
you over s'to believe ke." Dr.. Stops
Katalogue of kurses he heaped all over poor
Obediah, will be a christians evening
chant, beside what will follow. "My people
down South war an hungered for their rights
under the Constitution, and you give em
bullets, blood, and burnt their korn they
were poor and naked, and you took their
spoons and dishes, and stole the remaining
shred of their poverty, and when from sheer
xaustion they broke down in manly open
combat, you promised if they would lay
; down their arms, to tie up the hounds Of
war, and respect person and property
Now that they are at your mercy, you are
fxin up plans for konfskatin property, and
maxim menials of their person, ye are they
who under the cant and hipperkritical whine
of restoring the Union, ar disgorging whole
venimous volumes of diskord and disuasoa
the land over. Look out; somebody else
may have ter be wAipped back into the u:
nion." Yes, sir Liberty will say heap
er hard thing, and she ought ter. After
we had stopped shooting and stacked arms.
see them loud mouthed Bob Akerses, whose
kourage had leaked out er their fingers
jumps up in the loft of skurity, agin bullits
and bumshells, while they war flying, and
lay down fatter than lizzard on the floor
see EN- now, when thar amt no powder burn
ming, drap out er that aforesaid loft-yes
sir, kome rattling down like post oak akornE
in Oktober. The bar is dead, and who's
afeard. See EN- buckle on the saber, san
ter forth, rob us of millions of property
, kick the Statutes of Ten States higher than
+ Haman, inter pi, and light EN- up with the
glare of despotic bayonits. Shame has tru
ly an unblushing marble face, and down
right lying become Kongessionally, kroni
cally, konstitutionally national. If this be
treason, then brand the signers of the dek
laration of independence and GENES Nun
70 as traitors, and 'slet EN- rip''-that is tel
say, means must be given the latter tel
Grip" fur from short kraps and konfsca.
ton in the way of taxes, he amt able to rur
away, even Kongriss may knock the taz
off kotton now; but its too late. Kottor
has abdicated, tuck all the money, per.
nounced benediction over the nigger, and
gone to Egypt. King Korn bread ar the
mighty monark the Southern stonak ar Hor'