Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1869-09-03
CONFEDERATE X RokDs,
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CONFEDERATE ROADS
(Wieh II the state nv kentucky,)S
August the 18th, 1s5V.
MY DEAR, DEAR FRIEND Absence 1t
Is said conkers love, but that wont work
in yoor case. he'd tried to forget 700 and
he'd well nigh succeeded, but in overhaul
in some papers yesterday, l happened to
come across some of yOor notes of hand
for small amounts borrowed NV me at diff.
force Nv the old line
Tho lost to site, TO memry dear"
And bust out into food NV tears But
enuH NV this sot OF : to give 700 the
news uv'the Corners.
Crops Is totle failyoor here The sea.
son hez bin favorable, but we hey
bin so entirely without labor that
we put in but very little seed AT
the time we ought to hey he'd our
corn plantid, 1ssaker Gavitt, Kernel
McPelter, Elder Pennibacker and our sons
wuz scourin the country to get enuff Mig
gers 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
put In. The little that wuz put in wont
amount 70 notlIin ez we coodent get no
niggers to tend II, durin the CROWN season,
and the weeds took possession NV 1t en-.
spend half the time plentin NV II that we
did holdin meetins to devise ways to ret
Niger labor, we'd hev Dustin crop. But
yoo know Josef; he's lost Carikter; he
works with his own hands. One NV the
most tetchin sites l ever bchold wuz at
Bascom's early in May, jist afler our com.
mittee had returned from froutlis search
after hands to do our plantin. The entire
Corners wuz present; but there wuz
settled gloom onto ther faces wich even
the refreshments they wuz consooming
coodent entirely dissipate They .wuz
cropped about the bar-room ez yoosual.
Elder Pennibackcr wuE leanin In
chair with his back TO barrel; Issaker
Gavit wuz ON his back on a table In the
corner, and the Others wuz sittin on kegs
in various parts NV the room.
Wo Is usr sighed the Elder, putin
his feet onto keg, that he mite rest castor,
and pensively squirtin tobacco loose nj a
fly on the wall opposite, where is the la.
Dor to plant the corne We shell starve."
Alasp sighed the Deekin, shifting his
seat to get SO that he Good cock his feet
agin the wall "Alas the minIts is Green.
ing ON, day succeeds day, md nc. corn in
"Yes,e replied Issaker Gavi,t, rollin
over onto his belly, and histin hisselr nm
onto his elbows, "this is the froots NV Al.
lishnism. Ten years ago when we he'd our
niggers we he'd our corn all In by this
time, and wuz ready to put en- to pIowin
on II out. Now that we are dependent
onto our labor"
And lssaker gioaned and rolled over
onto his back.
And 80 We rot and sot and mourned
The result NV wich Is that there aint an
" fNfNh t.s Al.
Wood that the Ablishnists, wich brot nll.
this onto us Good see the room they have
wrought. N'
The PreSailin topic NV discussion sence
700 LEFT US hez bin the trouble with Pol.
lock and Ablishn friend NJ hizzcn who
hyes In Springfield, IllinOy, the restin
place NV that human goriller, A. Linkin.
GROWN out Nv the bond question. Yoo
remember three years ago the Corpora.
shen lshood its bonds hearin O per cent.
Tor $4,000 TO bid a lookup; and yeer
later when 1t wuz found ncssNrv.te gravel
the road betWixt the Corners and the sta
shen at Secessionville, 50 ez 10 redo0se the
freight on the whisky consumed by us, we
ishood bonds bearin eight per cent. 70
the amount of $4,000, both ishoos nun,
MN twenty-five yeers. These bonds were
@ken by Pollock and this friend NV hi1.
zen 80
Last yeer we paid the interest on these
bonds but this yecr the neopie fell that
the burden wuz too heavy. They conld
not reconcile themselves to the idea nv
sweatin 10 support in idle luxury the
Dloated bondholders, and the populis mur.
INJURED aglnit, Wat 10 do we didn't know,
I'LL nnally Elder Pennebacker, who bor.
rows my paper regulerly, remarked
"Eureker- I've got IT," He he'd bin readin
the Dimocratic proposition to tax bonds
and lite dawned onto him.
Wen tax these bonds Of Pollock'sir
sed the Elder, and thus releeve ourselves
nv this thraldom TO the money. power.
Thank Heaven the people hevnt YET para.
ed with all their power"
The segestiop wuz acted onto to.wunst
The Council wuz assembled, and by VOC.
nanymus vote an ordinance Wuz passed
leVyin Ia. Nv eight cepls onto the dollar
On all Dohds ishood by fAe cOrporashun
~, moneys borrowed NY All sortS
POLLOCK wuz away when the ordinance
W., W. passed and II so happened that he re.
suIhou the very day that his interest w,iz
due. lmmejitly he proceeded IN the
Trezrer's once, wich IL Capssn SicPeltepS
with his eooponA .Captin McPelter "a
ceeVed him blandly, aud, putin the
coopons away, rendered him in loo
Red bonds. ''0hii
Pollock. '-'o "s'oi'i'neu
~Tsxesi" returned McPeIter, suiIlln,y,
we hey assessed tax onto our bonds Nv
eight cents onto the dollar, wich. n ian.
pens, Is Just what yoor interest Is We
skon repudiation--we shel pay principal
and tax EN- We viii"
is the tax eight cents on the dollar