Weekly Trinity journal. [volume] (Weaverville, Calif.) 1857-1972, 1868-05-09

PosT OFFS, CoSFEDRIr X ROADS,
witch is in the Staff Nv Kentucky

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unused to the exhilerashun Nv the flown Dole,
totally imperyious to the soothln Innocence Nv
the floods witch in Kentucky eggsiSl oh'o'
and where the Dimocrisy are in hopeils "ino
ity, made reason totter onto her THRONE anu III
teleck to reel in highly redcoolous manner
To dissipate the impression borrered bascom >
mule and Deekin Pogram' saddle-bags, ana NIL
in the first with oats and the latter Win ioa,
Nv bread and gallon nv whisky, madiy piunseu
OFF into the interior the Staff, that might
in rooral solitoodes give full vent to the neian-
colly that opprest me.
Two days travel up the mountins brot me 10
the most interiorest county Nv the Staff Re
mote from railroads, off Nv the stage lines, and
rot within several days journey nv telegrafs, it
wuz trooy a Arcajen spot. Here wuz the log
cabin in its primitive simplicity here WIZ
streems onto witch there no mills here wuz
roads without no fences here wuz women with
out no hoops.
Ridin along musin onto the quiet beauty NV
the landscape, keerd a swingin, swishin sound;
u whisl.n thro the air; dull, heavy thud, and
then oh joy, shrek wuz in o wood, but
there wuz cleerin beyond, and from that ceer-
in the sound preceded.
Putin spurs to my steed, or ruther, to get
down from the elegancies Nv descriptive writin
to actooal fact, thumpin Bascoms mule the
head With the club | carrid, soon emerged from
the forest and beheld scene witch made my
heart eep for joy. There wuz a house-nigger
quarters-a whipping post-and, Good Hevins,
that should be so blest-a niger tied to it, and
vigorous old man NV sixty, with broad brm-
med hat and pious look, laying it to him
good.
Wuz I awake or wuz dreamin Is these reel
wuz the victim of some pleasant hallucna-
shun Dismountin, | rushed up to him and fell
onto his neck " Now" sed ! in extacy, "let
this servant depart in pcece.'
Shakin me of and continyoon coolly till he
had reached thirty lashes, the old gentleman
IL
him to his quarters and rub his deltefully las
serated back with salt and water, and turnn he
exclaimed, I" Who in blazes are yoo?''
40 speek them words agin =: sed |, strikn
atttood; ''Pve bin in Michigan, ard them
words is music to me-
- Weli-who in thunder are yoo?'
ga Dimocrat-a ante-war Dimocrat - witch
owned niggers (this lie thrown in for eff
fcck u but they've been taken from me by crooel
tyranny. To see 700, troo Sutherner, handlin
NV EN- in the troo Suthern style, quite
me. Speak how hev 700 managed it?''
Slowly rollin over his quid, in quiet and con-
templativ manner, he asked me to the house.
On the PLAYER witch frontid it, we sat down and
he told me these:
His name wuz Rasper. He knowd NV the
Emancipashen Proclamashen, but he he'd KEEP it
keerfully from his nggers, he'd all the planters
in the deestrik. Determined that solely for the
good NV the helplis niggers seckshun NV
time honored institooshuns shood be maintained
at least in one place, he held all in the same
condishun ez before the war. The nabers for
ten miles square he'd organized league, and
had swore a sollem oath to keep their niggers
Hkewise-to shoot at sight all en- wich at
tempted to run away or even to communicate
with other niggers, and that by DRAWN Gordon,
ez it wuZ, around EN-, they he'd been kept in
state tolable subjeckshen. 1t cost EN- ten or
fifteen times ez much to keep EN- the niggers
g H.
give up her niggers or her Dimocrsy, and in one
spot, sklooded tho it wuz, they determined
to hev tfoo sample both.
At this pint the son my host rode up onto
gray geldin from another plantashun witch the
old man owned six miles away
g Ha john" sed my venerable friend, " how
is things over the Run?''
''Alrs well, dad" sed he.
&c Hcz Joolus got sufi silently over bein chawd
by the dorgs to do his regler work ~
s thot He played orr little while this
mornin but we Gated him till he wuz willin to
give up his obstinacy and go at it. He's dom
his average.
% Hez Ceezer got well NV that charge nv buck
shot %
'Ceezer, no he died. He TUX cold in the
leg and it mortified"
Jest my luck He wuz the best hand he'd
on the place. Oh my friend, observe the effeck
in a hasty temper He Civ me too much his
he amt with the powder that druv the shot. o,
how hev wrastled with that ungovernable tenn
per NV mine +! Hez that stranger up the Run bin
looked after?'
g Yes, me and Tim Duggins spected. him NV
pein emlssery, ez he took a noosepaper and his
vile he'd bin seen combin her hair, and we in
qulsited him. He took the Moo York TriJoon
and party NV us gave him ten minits to git
OUT. EA ne dldn git out we shot him. His
family Is still on the place, but they will proba-
bly, ieeve soon, ez we shell burn the cabin down
to-morrer."
' How is kitty?"
g coodent do much with her. Sence her
baby wuz born she hez never been with much
and to git shet nv her tradid her off to Simn
son. on the East Branch, for bay mare NV hiz
zen and bull pup. He siumped me to play
seven-up, best three in FIVE, for the lot and I
lost. The baby hez a strong, healthy look, and
give it over TO big Lie TO bring up by hand.
Simpson sold Kitty to Ambrose, off on the West
Branch, and she carried over Their yester-
day"
q WE'LL come in. It's we'll nigh mite. Come
in to supper"
We he'd supper, and afterwards prayers, and
after that cut-throat loo for dollar stakes.
The next day wuZ Sunday, and a most happy
Sunday it wuz for me. The preacher supported
by the happy flock wuz Nv the reel stock, witch
is onforoonitly goin out. His sermon in the
morning wuz a most movin disquishen on the
u
uiggers wuz created from the beginnin for the
sole purpose bein the servants NV the son NV
Japheth, and, incidentally, he wove in most
conclusive defense the evangelicty Nv
ketchin niggers with dorgs. To the master be
recommended justis, tempered with SIGH Christ
ian forbearance ez he felt he could afford to the
servant, entire submission, ez it wuz the will Nv
the Lord. Ez the old man WIZ in his perora-
shen, there wuz heerd up the swamp the sound
Nv dorgs. The yelps in the distance, ez faint ez
the whisper NV a mother, grew neerer and neerer,
ontil the melojus voice OF the whole pack wuz
chimin in our ears. The preacher stopt and
prickt up his ears, ez did every one in the con-
gregashen The report of rife wuz heerd, and
a shreek follered it,
BE quiet?' sed the good old mau. Its
nothih. Perkinses man John run away last
Thursday, and this MORN Perkins started out
after him with Bustn's dorgs. ISIS all over now
anc 700 Kin render Perkins no assistance. That
enoE nnisnf tue desprit man, and the dorgs are