The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1869-03-23
MARCH 33, 1863. Whole ssss"'s'} NO. 3.
For the Palladium.
GrumbIer Papers.
No. T..

GrumbIer Papers. No. 4.
DELIVERED lectur not long ago on
cleanliness I informed my hearers
that 'to be clean was next door neighbor
to bein' godliness;' and strange to admit
1 was laughed at. Squire Jollyboy said
that before talking SO much ont of my
mouth, why, I'd better be spruce my
self He also said that he never saw
me with my hair blacked or my boots
combed; nor he never seed me wash my
hands and face bnt once, an that was in
the sugar water what we was about to
bile down into country molasses, which
everybody has heard of, no doubt He
also said that my barn, an ny cut
houses, an my garden, an cornfieids,
an to condense his hifalutin speech, my
whole farm was as dirty as mud -icnce
on a wet day when it had been white
washed with white wash made of COM
mon lime. It is with shame stamped on
my face that relate Mr.. Joliyboy's re
marks; pity him, he knows not his self.
Like once heerd MICRO cry, She mis-.
construes his own IDEAS Anybody
could see that he was laborin' under that
terrible contagious, (but mostly hereda-
tory) sickness, 'egosistical2ism pedantry,'
which, 1 am proud to say, is French
phrase, as you kin see because it's in
little fine types.
hat T hoA
a pound OF soap inside of my house
I answered scornfully; we keep our
soap il, tie wood she'd proudly smiling.
1 haint the space to tell about our
discussion, but MUST say iist what l
think OF SOME people.
amt one speck of faith in the Squire.
He would stoop to do anything for
glass of beer (may be forgiven for
using such vulgar words) and I'm sure
if he was an editor of newspaper, he'd
cover his sheet all over, from top to
bottom, with advertisements about pure
wines imported from the Rhine, iist for
the sake Of treat all around You kin
find such men all over the world, at
home, and abroad; men vino will stoop
to do the meanest acts fur nearly moth
in
am not exactly saiut, nor 1 amt
perfect in q long shot, but I consider
myself TOO good to notice Mr.. Jolly boy
and his ten million followers.
I will acknowledge that am leetle
slovenly in my ways; but if man goes
among Romans he must do as Romans
does 1t l go among lecturers on
cleanliness, / must foller their example
They wear dirty, dusty boots, and
greasy, besmcared clothes, an I must
foller. They never wash nor comb their
hair, so / am bound to foller suit Hor-
ace Greeley has come out on my side,
see. He believes in bein' as clean as
circums tances will allow, and how far
circumstance lets him go, is plainly
seen. I haiht agoin' to criticise Hor.
aces dress, fur will only expose my
own important self; and, also, might
lose my ally, Greeley.
am awfully mortified with our peo-
pie; nothin' seems to suit em. My lee
turs don't draw we'll Our place is Of
no account They are all let's set
down and do nothin' kind of people. 1
hev tried in vain to excite some fesiin'
of pride in them, but as above in vain
ly.
If we were manufactured to do moth
in but set still and complain Of our fel
low creatures, l say, let's do so. But,
my excited reader, we we're not made
to be idle, no more than the women of
to day were made to be workers tell
you, we are in bad position, when
smart men spout forth and nobody is
intelligent enough to misconstrue them
rightly. have talked to my audience
for hours, until the sweat poured down
my face. until felt as hoarse as a coffee
mill, and as tiret as a cart wheel, and
still. my hearers would set like stumps,
not lookin' q tall amin a.ed. My finest
passages fail to bring cheers; my most
eloquent words could net draw forth an
amen or q that's So
What foolish world this is, no one
seems to understand anything in regard
to what ought to be, or can be.
Reader you and me are exceptions, of
course We can see through mill
stone, hole or no hole. We are able to
anything ng-everything-all
things but one, and that is-nothin'
makes me nervouser than to see how
the women sex is.
Nothin,' no nothin!
DEACON SMITH.