The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1869-09-01
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old and BteadfASt Friend, Deacon
Pogram, In which the Deacon
SETS Forth tho Condition or
Affairs at the Corners.
From hS Z0Isdo Blade.
PEPpRR's TAVERN, HoLMRs Co., o., I
.. .... August 10. J
The following epIStl0 reached me yes,
terdAy. / received It with mingled
emoShuns. RE gazsd at the f&mlIyer
stamp onto the envelope, Wlch he'd
yooBed 90 many times, kissed II In ex
tasy-eS thot It wuE inflicted onto the
paper by The hand nv q niger, indIg-
naShen s0ezsd me. But pRssln this
opened the envelope and red ez follows
CoNFHDRIr X ROADS, \
(Which 10 In State nv Kentucky,
August the 10, 1859
MY DEAR, DEAR FRIRND-Abseuce II
is Hed conkers love, bat that wont
work In your case. had tried 10 for.
get you and he'd we'll nigh succeeded,
but In overhanlln some papers yeater-
day, happened TO come across some
Nv yoor notes OF hand for small
amounts borrowed Nv me ut different
times, and I realize TO Wunst the force
OF the old line,
"Tho Loaf TO Rlte, TO mSn,ry dear"
And / bust out into flood Nv teers.
But enuffuv this. sot out 10 give voc
the news Nv the Corners.
Crops Is o totle failyoor here. The
season hez bin favorable, but we heV
bin 30 entirely without labor that we
put In very little seed. At the time
we ought to hev he'd our corn plantld,
1Ssaker Gavitt, Kernel McPelter, Elder
PennibRcker and our sons wuz scourIn
the country TO get enuh niggers 10 plant
for US, but ez they each he'd land nv
their own. they wOodent do 1t. So, Nv
course, there wuz none Nv any account
put In.
The little that wuz put In wont
amount 10 nothin, PE we coodenI get no
niggers to tend It during the CROWN
season, and the weeds took posS session
OF 1t entirely. Joe Bigler sejestod that
et we'd spend half the time plautin nv
II that we did holdin meetIns to devise
ways 10 get the Niger labor, we'd hev
q Dustin crop. But 700 know Josef
he's lost cRrikter: he works with his
own hands. One OF the most techin sites
ever bsheld wuz at BAscom's early
In May, inst after our committee had
returned from a frootlis search after
hands TO do our plRntln. The entire
corners wuz present; but there wuZ a
settled gloom onto Their faces Wlch even
the refreshments they wuZ ccnsoomlng
coodent entirely disslpate. They wuz
cropped about the barroom ez yoosual.
Elder Pennibacker wuz a leanIn In O
chair with his back to barrel; Issaker
GAvitt wuz on bis back on a table In
the corner, and the others wuz sittin
on kegs In various parts Of the room.
'Wo Is usP sighed the Elder, putin
his feet onto key, that he mite rest
easier, and pensIveiy squirtIn tobacco
Jooce at fly on the wall opposite,
where Is the labor to plant tho corn ?
We shall starve.'
Alas = sighed the Deekln, shiftlu
his seat TO get 80 that he Good cock Lis
feet agin the wall. Alas! the mlnits
is creeping on, day succeeds day, and
no corn In YETI
Yes replied IsOaker Gavltt, rolIiu
over onto his belly, aud hIstln hisself
up onto his elbow, this Is the froots OF
Ablishnism. Ten years ago, when we
he'd our niRgerS, we he'd cur corn In by
this time, and wuz ready to put EN- TO
plowin on 1t. Now then we are depen-
dent onto our labor
And 1sssker groaned and rolled over
onto his back.
And so We aOt and sot and mourned.
The result nv wich Is, that there aInt
an acre Nv good corn In the entire Sec
ton. Wood that the AblIshnists wlch
brot all this onto US Good see the room
the hev wrought,
The prevalu topic OF discussion sence
700 LETT us hez bin the trouble with
Pollock and q AblIshin friend Nv hIz
zen who lives In Springfield, Illinoy,
the resting place Of the human gorillcr,
a. Ltnktn, CROWN out Nv the bond
question. Yoo remember three years
ago the corporashen ishood its bonds
bearin per cent. for S2.60O to build a
lookup; and year later when 1t wuz
found nessary to gravel the road betWlxt
the Corners and the ataGhen at Seces-
sionVille, 30 as TO redooae the freight
on whisky consumed by US, we Ishood
bonds bearin eight per cent, to the
amount Of 81 900, both ishood running
25 years. These bonds we're taken by
Pollock and this friend nv hizzen,
Last yeer we paid the interest on
these bonds, but this yeer the people
felt that the burden wuz too heavy,
They could not reconcile themselves to
the idea nv sweatln to support In idle
luxury the bloated bondholders, and
the populIs murmured aEin 1t. Wat to
do we didn't know, TIL finely Elder
Pennibacker, who b0rrowB nv paper
reglerly, remarked: 'EuRRKER-I've
got It, BE had bin readln the Dino.
cratic proposition to tax bonds, and q
lite dAwned onto him.
We'll, tax these bonds Of Pollock's =
sed the Elder, and thus relieve our.
selves Nv this thrsldom to this money
power. Thank Heaven the people
haven't yet parted with all their power,
The segestion WIZ acted on to~wunst,
The council wuz assembled, and BY a
yoonanymus vote an ordinance was
passed levying a tax Nv eight cents
onto the dollar on all bonds ishood by
the corporashun for moneys borrowed
nv all sorts.
Pollock wuZAway when the ordinance
was passed, and so It happened that he
returned the very day that his Interest
wuZ due. 1mmelltly he proceeded 10
The TreZrer's office, wich Is Captain
McPslter's. With his coopous. Captain
McPelter received him blandly, and
putin the coopons away, rendered him
In loo thereof a receipt for $500 Iaxos on
them sed bonds.
wat 10 thlsli ejakllated tie aston
ished Pollock.
Taxes = returned McPelter smlllnS.
~. I'VE hev assessed a tax onto our
bonds Nv eight cents onto the dollar,
wich, Il happens, 10 just what your In.
terest is. We skorn repudialion-we
shall pay principal and interest-but
we hev the right to tax bonds, and tax
em we WILL
rs the tax eight cents on the dollar
on all bonds OF the corporashsn p asked
Pollock.
'TrooIy It is,' sed McPeller.
i hold also the bonds lshood year
before these for building lock up, but
which only bear six per cent. The tax
pays the interest and two per cent over,
what will you do with that two per
cent? ....
do with itr exclaimed McPelter,
Why, we shell apply 1t to the payment
Nv the principal, Nv course. The entire
rsvenoo Nv the corporashen 10 ploged
to the extinguishment nv its debt, and
we shell not be recreant to our trust.'
Pollock went away, but McPelter
he'd new idea. He immejltly called
the Council together, and &C. ested that
the tax on the bonds ought to be twelve,