The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1869-09-03
CONFEDERATE Y ROADS,
(Wich is in the State nv Kentucky,)
Augnst the 18th 1869.


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CONFEDERATE Y ROADS,
(Wich is in the State nv Kentucky,)
August the 18th 1869.
My DEAR, DEAR FRIEND Alb
scence it is sed conkers love, but that
wont work in your case. l had tried
to forget yoo and he'd well nigh sue
ceeded, but in overhaulin some pa
pers yesterday, happened to come
across some Nv yoor notes of hand for
small amounts borrowed Nv me at
different times, and 1 realized to-
wunst the force of the old line
Tho lost tv site, to memry dear,
and l bust out into flood Nv tears.
But enuff Nv this. sot out to give
yoo the news Nv the Corners.
Crops is a totle failyoor here. The
season hez bin favorable, but we hev
bin so entirely without labor that we
put in but very little seed. At the
time we ought to hev he'd our corn
plantid, Issaker Gavitt, Kernel Nc
Pelter, Elder Peunibacker and our
sons wuz scourin the country to get
enuff niggers to plant for US, but ez
they each he'd land Nv their own, they
Woodent do it. So Nv course there
wuz none Nv any account pvt in.
The little that wuz put in wont
amount TO nothin ez we coodent git
Dlggers enuff to tend it, durin the
CROWN season, and the weeds took
possession NV it entirely. Joe Big
Ter seiested that eff we'd spend half
the time plantin Nv it that we did
holdiD meetins to devise ways to get
nigger labor, we'd hev a Dustin crop.
But 700 know Josef he's lost carik-
ter he works with his own hands.
One Nv the most tetchen sites [ ever
beheld wuz at Bascom's early in May,
jist after our committee had returned
from frootlis search after hands to
do our plantin. The entire Corners
wur r,rv1oDt but thoro ~un a settled
gloom onto ther faces wich even the
rafreehnannts thoy wuz consoomlng
coodent entirely dissipate. They wuz
grooped about the bar-room ez yOos-
ual. Elder Pennibacker wuz a lean
in in a chair with his back on a ia
bic in the corner, and the others wuz
a sitten on kegs in various parts Nv
the room.
"Wo is us !" sighed the Elder, put
tin his feet onto keg, that he mite
rest easier, and pensively squirtin
tobacco jooce at fly on the wall op-
posite, "where is the labor to plant
the corn9 We shell starve.'
"Alas r sighed the Deeken, shift
in his seat to get so that he Good cock
his feet agin the wall. "Alas the
minits is creeping on, day succeeds
day, and no corn Id yet"
ayes" replied Issaker Gavitt, roll
in oyer OTTO his belly, and histin his
self up onto his elbows, "this is the
froots Nv Ablishnism. Ten years ago
when we he'd cur niggers we he'd our
corn all in by this time, and wuz ready
to put EN- to plowin on it out,
Now that we are dependent onto our
labor
And Issaker groaned and rolled
over onto his back.
And so we sot and sot and mourn
ed.
The result Nv wich is, that there
amt an acre Nv good corn in the en-
tire section. Wood that the Ablish-
nists, wich brot all this onto US Good
see the roin they have wrought.
The prevailin topic Nv discussion
sence 700 left US hez bin the trouble
with Pollock and Ablishn friend Nv
hizzen who lives in Springfield Illinoy,
the restin place Nv that human gor-
iller, A Linkin, CROWN out Nv the
bond question. Yoo remember three
years ago the Corporashen ishood its
bonds bearin per cent, for 81, 900 TO
bid a lookup and a yeer later when
it wuz found nessary to gravel the
road betwixt the Corners and the
stashen at Secessionville, so ez to re-
doose the freight on the whiskey con-
sumed by US, we ishood bonds bearin
eight per cent, to the amount OF S4,-
600 both ishoos runnin twenty-five
years. These bonds were taken by
Pollock and this friend Nv hizzen.
Last yeer we paid the interest on
these bonds, but this year the people
felt that the burden wuz too heavy.
They could not reconcile themselves
to the idea Nv sweatin to support in
idle luxury the bloated bond-holders,
and the populis murmered agin it.
Wat to do we didn't know till fually
Elder PenneDacker, who borroWs my
paper reglerly, remarked: "Eureker-
I've got it" He he'd bin readin the
DimOcratic proposition to tax bonds,
and lite dawned onto him.
well tax these bonds of Pol
loek'sr' sed the Elder, 'and thus
relieve ourselves Nv this thraldom to
the money power. Thank Heaven
the people hev'nt yet parted with all
their power"
The segestion wuz acted onto to-
wunst. The Council wuz assembled,
and by a yoOnanymOus vote an ordi-
nance wuz passed levyin a tax Nv
eight cents onto the dollar on all
bonds ishood by the corpOrashun for
moneys borrowed NV all sorts.
Pollock wuz away when the ordi-
nance wuz passed, and it SO happened
that he returned the very day that
his interest wuz due. Immejitly he
proceeded to the Trezrer's Office, wich
is Captin McPelter's, with his COO
pons. Captin McPelter received him
blandiy, and, putin the coopons away,
rendered him in loo thereof a re-
eeipt for 1920 taxes on them sed
bonds.
swat is this?" ejackilated the as
tonished Pollock.
ssTaxes p returned MePelter, smil
ingly. "We hev assessed tax onto
our bonds Nv eight cents onto the
dollar, wieh, it happens, is just what
yoor interest is. We skOrn repudia-
tion-we shell pay principal and in
terest-but we hev the rite to tax
bonds and tax EN- we will.