The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1869-09-06

in extacy-ezI thos it WIZ inflicted
onto the paper by the hand Nv a mig
ger, indlgnashen seezed me. But
passin this I opened the envelope and |
red ez fooWs:
C0NFEpERIT Y ROADS, /
(Which is In State Nv Kentucky /
August the 10, 1869.
RIy DEAR. DEAR FRIEND-Absence |
r Il sea eoukers love. but that won't |
7vorL- in vnur case. [ had tried to |
forget VOC and he'd well nigh sue |
eeeded I happened to come across |
some nv vCor notes of hand for small |
amounts borrowed Nv me at different |
times. and I realized to Eunst the
force Of the old line.
sTho lost to site, to memry dear"
And I bust out into q fooe Nv teers,
Rnt enuff Nv this. I sot out TO give
VOC the news Nv the Corners.
Crops is a tOtile failyoOr here. The
season hez bin favorable, but We heY
bin o entirely without labor that we
put IN very little seed. At the time
We ought TO hey he'd our corn plaDtid,
Tssaker Gavitt. Kernel Nc Peter,
Elder Peunibacker and our sons Buz
scourin the country to get enuff mig
gers to plant for Us, but cz they each
he'd land Uv their own they Yoodent
do it. So, Nv course, there Wuz none
Nv any account put 10.
The little that WUZ put IN wont
amount TO n0thin, eZ we c0Odent get
no niggers to tend it during the grow
in season, and the weeds took POSSES
. sion Of it entirely. Joe Bigies sejest-
ed that ef 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 a Dustin crop. But 700
know JJsef-he's lest carikter; he
works with his own hands. One of
the most tetchin sites l never beheld
wuz at Bascom's early IN May, jlst
after our committee had returned from
a frootiis serch after hands to do
pIantin. The entire corners wuz
present; but there BuZ a settled
gloom onto Their faces Iich even the
refreshments they Wuz c0nsOOmiug
coodent entirely dissipat They wuz
crOOped about the harToom eZ yoOsual.
Elder Pennibacker wuz a leanin in a
chair with his back to a barrel; Issak-
er 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 il Us! sighed the Elder, put
tin his feet onto keg, that be mite
rest easier, and pensiVely squirtin to-
bacco jo0ce atsa fly on the wall OPP
posite, where is the labor to plant
the corn2 We shall staTve.
"Alasl sighed the Deekin shiftin
his seat to get so that he Good cock
his feet agin the wall. Alas the
minits is creeping on, day succeeds
dev and no corn In vet
Yes" replied IssakerGavitt, rOlliu
over onto his belly, and histin hisself
up onto his elbow, "this is the iroots
of Ablishuism. Ten years ago, when
we he'd our niggers, we he'd our corn
IL By this time and wuz ready to put
em 10 plOWin on ii. Now that we are
dependent onto our labor"
And Issakeg groaued and rolled
over onto his back.
And we sOt and s)t and mOurned.
The result Nv Wich i that there
amt an acre Nv good corn IN the en-
tire section. Wood that the Ablish-
nists Wich Erot all this onto Us Good
Sec the room they hey wrought.
The prcTailIn topic of dlscusslo on
sence VOC left US hez bin the troub lie
with Pollock aud a Ablishin frien d
nv hiZzen who lives in Springfield.
Iilinoy, the resting place of the human
goriller. A. Linkin, GROWN out Nv
tho bond question. 700 remember
three years ago the eOrporasheu ishood
its bonds bear.n per cent, for q 600
to build a lookup: and a yeer later
when it wuZ found nessary 10 gravel
the road betwixt the Corn ers aud the
stashen at ssiOnville, SO ez 10
redoose the freight on whisky con
1rl hr-rr - IL n q
eight per cent, to the amount of q, OOC
both ishoOd running % years. These
bonds were taken by Pollock and
this friend Nv hizzen.
Last ycer we paid the interest OF
these bonds, but this yeer the people
felt that the burden Wuz too heavy
They could not reconcile theIrselvei
TO the idea Nv sWeatin to support il
idle luxury the bloatcd bondholderE
ard the populis murmured sgin il
Wat 10 do We didn't know, till fuall
Elder Penuibacker, who bOrroWs n
parer n clsrly remarked: "EUREKEl
II We got it., He he'd bin readir
the~DlnlOcratIc proposition 10 tai
bonds, end a lite daWned onto him.
well, tax these bonds OF Z, /
locks p sed the Elder, and thus re
leeve ourselves Nv this thra dom t
this money power. Thank Heavel
the people heven't yet parted with al
their power"
The segestiou Wuz acted On Il
wunst The council Wuz assembled
and by q yoonanymus vote an OF
dinance WIZ passed levying a tex u
eight cents onto the dollar on a.
bonds ishood by the eorporashun fo
moneys borrowed Nv all sorts.
al w NJ
dinance wuZ passed, and it SO hap
Ueued that he returned the very da
that his interest WIZ due. Immejitl
he proceeded 20 the TreZrer's ofic
wieb Is Captain Bic Peters with h
co1Dons. Captain Nc Pelter receive
Linn blandly, and putin the cooper
away. rendered him in loo there's
receipt for 1920 taxes on them sc
bonds.
shed Pollock.
"Taxesl" returned Nc Pelter, sm
lingly. We hev ass ssed tax on
our bonds Nv eight cents onto tt
dollar on all bonds of the eorpoTasl
en?" asked Pollock.
"Tr3oly ii Is, sed Nc Pelter.
il hold also the bonds ishoO /
year before these building q lock-u
but which oaly bear six per cen
The tax pays the interest and two p
cent, oVer-Bhat will you do wi
that two per centY'
do with it p exclaimed Mc Pc
ter, why, we shell apply it to Il
payment Nv the principal, Wv cours
The entire r5VenOs Nv the corporatil
is pledged to the extinguishment |
is dept, aad We shell not be recrea