Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1869-09-08

! yesterday. L received IL with min
gled emoshuns. Ez gazed at the ia
milyer stamp onto the envelope, wicl
I he'd yoOzed so many times, kissel
it in eXtacy-ez / thot it wuz inflicte,
onto the paper by the hand of a mig
| ger, indignashen seized me. But pas
sin this, opened the envelope an,
( read ez follows:
CONFEDERATE Y ROADS,
(Wich is the State NV Kentucky,)
August the 10, 1869.
MY DEAR, DEAR FRIEND Alb
sence il is said conkers love, but tha
won't work in yoor case. 1 he'd trieI
to forget yoo, and he'd well nigh sue
ceeded, but in Overhaulin some paper
yesterday, happened to come acrOs
some Nv yoor notes Nv hand for small
amounts borrowed NV me at differen
times, and / realized to wunst tn,
force NV the old line,
Tho lost to site, to memry DEAR"
And I bust out into a flood NV teers
But enuff NV this. j sot out to give
you the noos NV the Corners.
Crops is a totle failyoor here. ThC
season 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 heV he'd our corn
plantid, Issaker Gavitt, Kernel Nc
Pelter, Elder Pennibacker and Om
sons wuz scourin the country to get
enuft niggers to plant for US, but as
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 tC
nothin ez we coOdent get no niggers
to tend it, durin the CROWN season,
and the weeds took possession Nv il
entirely. Joe Bigler sejested that ei
we'd spend half the time plantin Nv
it, that we did holdin meetins to de-
wise ways to get nigger labor, we'd
hev a Dustin crop. But yOo know
Josep; he's lost carikter; he works
with his own hands. One Nv the
most teching sights 1 ever beheld wuz
at BascOm's early in May, jist after
our committee he'd returned from a
frOotl's search after hands to do our
plantin. The entire Corners wuZ
present; but there wuZ settled gloom
onto their faces wich even the refresh
ments they wuZ sonsOOmin coOdent
entirely dissipate. They wuz grooped
about the bar-roOm eZ yoosual. Elder
Pennibacker wuz a leanin in a chair
with his back to a barrel; IsSaker
Gavitt wuZ on his back on a table in
the corner, and the others wuz a sittin
on kegs in various parts NV the room.
"WO is u.s. sighed the Elder, putin
his feet onto a keg, that he might
rest easier, and pensively squirtin to-
bacco jOoce at a fly on the wall OppO-
site, "where is the labor TO plant the
corn? We shel starve.,'
"Alas :" sighed the Deekin, shiftin
his sea so he that he could cock his
feet agin the wall. "Alas! the minits
is ereepin on, day succeeds day, and
no corn in yet"
"Yes," replied Issaker Gavitt, rollin
over onto his belly, and histin bisself
onto his elbows, "this is the froots NV
ablishnism. Ten years ago when
we he'd our niggers we he'd our corn
all in by this time, and wus 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 nlourned.
The result Nv wich is, that there
aint an acre NV good corn in the entire
section. Wood that the Ablishnists,
wieh brot all this onto US Good see the
ruin they hev wrought.
The prevailin topic Nv discussion
sence yoo left us hez bin the trouble
with Pollock and a Ablishin friend
NV hizzen who lives in Springfield,
the restin place of that human
gOriller, A. Linkin, CROWN out Nv
the bond question. YoO remember
three years ago the Corporashen ish-
coed its bonds bearin per cent. for
200 to bid lookup; and a yeer
later when it wuz found NECESSARY to
gravel the road betwixt the Corners
and the stashen at Secessionville, so
ez to redOose the freight on the whis-
key consumed by us, we ishooed bonds
bearin eight per cent. to the amount
Nv 81 900, both ishOOs runnin twenty
yeers. These bonds were taken by
Pollock and this friend NV hizzen.
Last yeer we paid the intrest on
these bonds, but this yeer the people
felt that the burden was to heavy.
They could not reconcile themselves
to the idea NV sweatin TO support in
idle luxury the bloated bond-holders,
and the populis murmured agin it.
Wat to do we didn't know till finally
Elder Pennebacker, who borrows my
paper reglerly remarked: "EUREKER
I've got it." He he'd bin readin the
Dimoeratic proposition to tax bonds,
and lite dawned onto him.
We'll tax these bonds of Pollock'su
sed the Elder, land thus relieve our
selves Nv this thraldOm to the money
power. Thank Heaven the people
parted with all theirpower'
The segestion wuz acted onto to-
wunst. The Council wuz assembled,
and by yoonanymus vote ordinance
wuz passed leyyin tax nv eight cents
onto the dollar on all bonds ishOod by
the corpOrashun for moneys borrow
ed 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. Immejitlv he
proceeded to the Trezrer's office, wich
IS Captin McPelter's, with his COO
pons. Captin McPelter received him
Dlandly, and putin the coopons away,
rendered him in loo thereof a receipt
III SO-O IlACc Ou lnGln SGu JULIUS.
"Wat is this ?" ejackilated the aston
shed Pollock.
'TaxesI" returned MePeIter, smil-
My. I'VE hev assessed a tax onto
)ur bonds Nv eight cents onto the dol
ar, wieh it happens, is just what yoor
interest is. We skorn repudiation-
We shell pay principal and interest
1ut we hev the rite TO tax bonds, and
ax'em we will.
''Is the tax eight cents on the dollar
IN all bonds Nv the corpOrashen?"
isked Pollock.
''Trooly it is" said McPelter.
"I hold also the bonds ishooed a /
year before these for buildin a lookup
Out wich bear only six per cent. The |
AK pays the interest and two per cent. |
'ver-what will you do with that two |
Der cent?"
"Do with it?" exclaimed McPelter. |
Why, we shell apply it to the pay
nent Nv the principal, Nv course.
The entire revenoo NV the corpora
hen is pledged to the extinguishment |
Iv this debt, and we sheI not be recre-
ant to our trust" !