Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1869-09-21
NASBY.
Mr.. Nasty Receives a Letter fran His Old
and steadfast Friend, Deacon Pogram, In
which the Deacon Sets Forth the Condition
of Affairs at the Corners.
From the Toledo Blade.

PEPPERS TAVERN, Holmes County, o.
August q, 1869.
The followin epistle reached m,
} yesterday. | received it with min
} gled omoshuns. Ez l gazed ct tn,
familyer stamp onto the envelope
witch he'd yoozed so many times,
kissed it in extacy-ez | thot it wu2
inflicted onto the paper by the hand
nv niger, indignashen seezed me.
But passin this opened the envelope
and read ez as follows:
CoNFEDRAFE ROADS \
witch is in the State Of Kentucky
August l9, 1869.
MYDEAR, DEAR FRrEND:-Absence
| it is sed conkers love, bat that wont
work in yoor case. | had tried to
forget 700 and he'd we'll nigh suc>
ceeded, but in oyorhaulin some pa,
pers yesterday, l happened to come
across some Nv yoor notes of hand
for small amounts borrowed Nv me
at different times, and l realized to
wunst the force of the old line
"Tho lost to site, 70 memory dear"
and burst out into d flood Nv teers.
But enuff nv this. I sot out to give
700 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, Colonel
McPelter, Elder Pennibacker and
our sons wuz seourin the country to
git enuff niggors 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 to nOthin, eZ we coodent get
no niggers to tend it durin the CROWN
season, and the weeds took possess
sion Nv it entirely. Joe Bigler Sc
jested that eff we'd spend half the
time plantin w it that we did hoIdin
meetlns to devise ways to get niger
labor, we'd hev a Dustin crop. But
700 know Josef; he's lost carikter
he works with his own hands One
Nv the most tetchin sites | ever be-
held 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
wuz present but there wuz..a settled
gloom onto their faces which even
the refreshments they wuz consoom.
ing coodent entirely dissipate. They
wuz grooped about the bar-room ez
yoosual. Elder Pennibacker wuz a
leanin on chair with his back to a
barrel Issaker Gavitt wuz on his
back on g table in the corner, and
the others wuz sittln on kegs in
various parts Nv the room.
"Wo is usl" sighed the Elder, put.
tin his feet onto keg, that he mite
rest easier, and pensiveiy squirtin
tobacco jooce at q fly on the wall OPP.
posite, where is the labor to plant
the corn? We shell starve."
''Alas" sighed the Deekin, shiftin
his seat to get so that he Good cock
his feet agin the wall. calais the
minits is creeping on, day succeeds
day, and no corn in yet"
"Yes, replied Issaker Gavitt rollin
over onto his belly, and histin hisself
up onto his elbows, ''this is the froots
Nv Ablishnism. Ten years ago when
we he'd niggers we he'd our corn all
in by this time, and wuz ready to
put EN- to blowing on it out. Now
that we are dependent on our
labor"
And Issaker groaned and rolled
over onto his back.
And so we sot and sot and mourn.
ed.
The result Nv witch is, that there
amt an acre Nv good corn in the en-
tire section. Weed that the Aslishn-
lists, witch brot all this onto us Good
see the room they hev wrought.
The prevailn topic Nv discussion
sence 700 left US hez bin the trouble
with Pollock and a Ablishen friend
Nv hizzen who lives in Springfield,
Illinoy, the Resin place Nv that hui
man gsriller, A. Linkin, growing out
Nv the bond question. Yoo remem~
Der three yeers ago the corporashen
ishood its bonds bearin per cent,
FOR $4,000 to bid a lookup; and a
yeer later when it wuz found nessary
to gravel the road betwixt the Cor
ners and the stashen at Secessions
vile, SO ez to redoose the freight on
the whisky consumed by US, we
ishood bonds bearin eight per cent.
to the amount of $4,000, both ishoos
runnin twenty-five yeers. These
bonds were taken by Pollock and
this friend Nv hizzen.
Last yeer we paid the intrsst on
these bonds, but this yeer the people
felt that the burden wuz too heavy.
They Good not reconcile themselves
to the idea Nv sweatin to support in
Idle luxury the bloated bondholders.
and the populis murmured agin it
| Wat to do We didn't know, till finally
Elder Penn.Dacker, 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.
"We'll tax these bonds Nv Pol
locks I" sed the Elder, "and thus
relieve ourselves nv this thraldom to
the monoy>power. Thank Heaven
the people hewitt yet parted with all
their power"
The segestion waz acted onto to-
wunst. The Council wuz assembled
and by yoomanymus vote an
ordinance wuz passed levyin q tax
Nv eight cents onto the dollar on al
bonds ishood by the eorporashun for
moneys borrowed Nv all sorts.
Pollock wuz away when the ordin.
} ance wnz passed, and it 50 happened
, that be returned the very day tha
, his intrest wuz due. lmmeiitly b,
proceeded to the Trezrer's Office
witch is Captin McPelter's, with hi
) cooponS. Captin McPelter receive,
8 him blandly, and, putin the coopon
away, rendered him in loo thereof
receept for 1920 tayes on than GO