The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1869-07-15

Posi- OFFIs, CoNFEDRIT X ROADS, !
(Which is in the Stait Nv Kentucky !
June 90, 1869.
The die is cast. The guilloteen hez
fallsn--I am no longer Postmaster at
Confedrit x Roads, which is in the
State of Kentucky. The place which
knowd me wunst will know me nc
more forever--the paper wich Deekir
Pogram takes will be handed out by 6
nigger--a nigger will hev the openin
Nv letters addressed to parties residir
hereabouts containin remittances--s
nigger will hev the riflin NV letters ad-
drest to lottry managers and axtractlu
the sweets therefrOm--a nigger will be
but / can't dwell upon the disgustir
theme no longer.
he'd bin in Washington two weeks
assistin the Caucashens NV that city to
put their foot upon the heads Nv the
cussid niggors who amt content tc
accept the situashen and remain ez they
alluz hev bin, inferior beins. To say
had succeeded, is a week expresshn.
organized a raid onto EN- so etfectooally
ez to drive no less than thirty NV en-
out Nv employment, twenty-seven Nv
wich wuz compelled to steel their bread
wich give us splendidsOpportunity to
show up the material cussidness Nv the
Afrikin race--wich we improved.
On my arrival at the Corners, knew
to wunst that suthin wuz wrong.
he'd rid over from Secessionville on Bas.
CONS mule wich he he'd sent over for
me, and ez l rid up to his door,
knowd suthin he'd happened. The bot.
ties behind the bar wuz draped in black,
the barrels wuz festooned gloomily
(wich is our yoosual method NV ex.
preSsin greet at public calamities,) and
the premises generally wore a funera
aspeck.
swat is itr gasped l.
Bascom returned not a word, but
waved his hand toward the Post Offs.
Rushin thither, l bustid open the
door, and reeled almost agin the wall
At the general deIirery tous the GRIMM tact
uv nigger and settin in my chair wu2
Joe Bigler, with Pollock beside him,
smokin pipes and latin over suthin in
a noospaper.
Bigler caught sight of me, and dart.
in out, pulled me inside them hitherto
sacred precinks.
"Permit me-" sed he jeeringly, etc
interdoose you to yoor successor, Mr.
Ceezer Lubby."
"My successor i! Wat does this mean?'
"Show him, Ceezer."
And the nigger, every tooth in his
head shinin, handed me a commission
dooly made out and signed. saw il
all at a glance. In imitashen NV our
Secretary Borie | led left my biznis in
the hands NV a depetty, which is now
the favorit method of doin public biz
mis-. 1t arrived the day after l left, and
Isaker Gavitt, who distributed the
mail, gaveit to the cuss Pollock made
out the bonds and went onto EN- him
self, and in ten days the commishn cum
all reglar, whereupon Bigler backt the
nigger and took forcible possession NV
the Office. While / was absent they
he'd he'd a percession in honor NV the
joyful event, sed persesh consistin Nv
Pollock, Bigler and the new Postmas-
ter, who marched through the streets
with the stars and stripes, banners and
sich. Bigler remarkt that the perces-
sion wuzn't large, but it wuz talented,
eminently respectable and extremely
Versateel. He (Bigler) carried the flag
and played the fife, Pollock carried
banner with an inscription onto it
"sound the loud timbrel DER Egypt's
dark sea-" and played the bass drum
while the nigger bore aloft banner
inscribed "where Afric's sunny fountins
roll down the golden sands," with his
commission pinned onto it, playin in
addishn pair of anshent cymbals.-
Bigler remarkt further that the per-
eeshun created a positive sensashun at
the Corners, wich / shood think il
would. cit wuzn't, !" sed this torment
in cuss, every much like the grand per-
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