The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1869-09-11
PEPPERS TAVERN, !

PEPPERS TAVERN,
HOLMES Co., o., Aug, 10, 1869.
The followin epistle reached me ycstcr-
day. received it with mingled emoshuns.
Ez | gazed at the familyer stamp onto the
envelope, witch he'd yoosed so many times,
| kissed it i'll eytacy-cz | thot it WIZ i'll
llictcd onto the paper by the hand NV mig
ger, indignasheen seezcd me. But passin
this l opened the envelope and red cz fol-
lows:
Posi- OFFS, CoNFEDERIT X RoADs,l
| (Which is III the Staff of kentucky,)
August 10, 1869.
Ny Dear Dear Friend Absence it is
sed conkers love- but that won't work in
my case. had tried to forget 700 and he'd
well nigh succeeded, but in overhauling
some papers, yesterday, 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
tie old line,
"Tho lost to site, to memry dear
And | bust out into flood NV teers. But
enuff NV this. l sot out to give you the
news Nv the Corners.
Crops isa total failyoor here. The season
! hez BIN favorable, but we hev bin so entire
ly without labor that we put in but very
little seed. At the time we ought to hev
he'd our corn plantid, Issaker Gavitt, Kern
cl McPelter, Elder Pennibacker and our
sons was scourin the country to get enutf
niggers to plant for us, but ez they each
he'd land NV ther own, they woodn't do it
/ SO, NV course, there wuz none NV eny ac-
count put in.
The little that WIZ put i'll wont amount
to nothin, ez we coodent get no niggcrS to
| tend it during the CROWN season, and the
weeds took possession of it entirely. Joe
! Bigler seiested that if we'd spend half the
time plantin Nv it that we did holdin meet
ms to devise ways to get niger labor, we d
hev Dustin crop. But 700 know Josef
he's lost carikter; he works with his own
hands. One NV the most techin sites ever
| beheld wuz at Bascom's early in May, just
after our committee had returned from q
frootlis serch after hands to do our plantin
| The entire Corners WIZ present; but there
wuz settled gloom onto ther faces witch
even the refreshments they WIZ consoom-
ing coodent entirely dissipate. They WIZ
grooped about the barroom ez yoosual--
Elder Pennibackcr WIZ leanin in chair
| with his back to 4 barrel: Issakcr Gavitt
! an is lo, oil -,
and the others was sittin on kegs in vari-
| Gus parts NV the room.
''Wo is us.'' sighed the Elder putin his
| feet onto key, that he mite rest easier,
and pcnsivcly squirtin tobacco jooce at a fly
on the wall opposite, ''where is the labor
( to plant the corn? We shall starve.''
| ''Alas.' sighed the Dcekin, shifting his
seat to get SO that he Good cock his feet
/ ing on, day succeeds day, and no corn in
/ yet
"les," replied lssaker Gavitt, rolling
over onto his belly, and histin hisself up
onto his elbow, this is the froots NV Alb
lislnism. Ten years ago, when We he'd
our niggers, we he'd our cornin by this time,
and WIZ ready to put en- to plowin on it.
! Now that we are dependent onto our
! labor
| And lsSaker groancd and rolled over onto
his back.
And so we sot and sot and mourned.
| The result Nv wich is, that there aint an
] +1,n
Wood that the Ablishnists witch brot all
this onto lis Good see the room they hev
wrought.
! The prevailin topic NV discussion sence
! and a Ablishin friend NV hizzin who lives
in Springfield, Illinoy, the resting place of
the human goriller, A. Linkin, GROWN out
NV the bond question. 700 remember
bonds bearin per cent. for So, 600 to build
lookup; and yeer later when it wuz
found nessary to gravel the road betwixt
the Corners and the stashen at Secession
| vile, so ez to redoose the freight on whisky
consumed by us, we ishood bonds bearing
eight per cent, to the amount of $4,000,
both ishoos running twenty-five years.
These bonds were taken by Pollock and
this friend NV hizzen.
| Last year we paid the interest ON these
bonds, but this year the people felt that
the burden WIZ too 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 Pcnnibacker, 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.
Well, tax these bonds of Pollock 81
sed the Elder, ''and thus relecv ourselves
NV this thraldom to this money-powcr-
Thank Heaven the people hewitt yet parted
with all their power"
The secession WIZ acted on to-wunst-
The council WIZ assembled, and by yoo-
nanymus vote an ordinance wuz passed
| levying tax NV eight cents onto the dol
lar on all bonds ishood by the corporaslun
| for moneys borrowed NV all sorts.
Pollock WIZ away when the ordinance
WIZ passed, and so happened that he re-
turned the very day that his interest was
due. Immcjitly he proceeded to the Trez-
rers office, wich is Captain McPclter's,
with his coopons. Captain McPelter re-
ceevcd him blandly, and putin the coopins
away. rendered him in loo thereof a receipt
for 1920 taxes on them sed bonds
"Wat is this >" ejackilated the astonished
| Pollock.
''Taxes.' returned McPeltcr, smilingly
1--WE hev assessed Il tax onto our bonds NV
eight cents onto the dollar which, it hap
pens, is just what yoor interest is. We
Skorn rcpudiaton-wc shall pay principal
and intcrest-but we hcv the right to tax
bonds and tax EN- we will
SIS the tax eight cents on the dollar on
all bonds of the corporashcn?" asked Pol