The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1869-09-02

elhoshuns. III gaZed at the iamIIyer
stamp onto the envelope, which l he'd
yoozed so many times, kissed it in
extacy-ez | thot it wuz inflicted onto
the paper by the hand Nv nigger,
indignashen seezed me. But passin
this l opened the envelope and read as
follows;
CONFEDRIT X ROADS, I
(Which is in the Stait NV Kentucky) !
Aug. 10, 1869.
My DEAR, DEAR FRIEND :-Absence
it is sed conkers love, but that wont
work in yoor case. | had tried to forget
you and he'd well nigh succeeded. but
in overhaulin some papers yesterday, l
happened to come across some of your
notes of hand for small amounts bor-
rOwed NV me at different times, and |
realized to-wunst the force of the old
line
Tho lost to site, to memry dear"
And | bust out into a food Nv teers.
But enuff Nv this. | sot out to give VOC
the news Nv the Corners.
Crops is totle failyoOr here. The
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 planted,
Issaker Gavitt, Kernel McPeltor Elder
Pennibacker and our sons wuz scourin
the country to git enuff niggers 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 ac-
count put in. The little that wuz put
in wont amount to nothin ez we Good
ent get no niggers to tend it, durin the
season, and the weeds took possession
Nv it entirely. Joe Bigler seiested that
eft we'd spend half the time plantin Nv
it that we did holdin meetins to devise
ways to git niger labor, we'd hev a
busiin crop. But you know Josef; he's
lost carikteri he works with his own
hands. One Nv the most tetchin sites
| ever beheld wuz at Bascon's early in
May, jist after our committee had re.
turned from frootlis search after hands
to do our plantn. The entire Corners
wuz presents but there wuz a settled
gloom onto ther faces wich even the
refreshments they wuz consooming
coodent entirely dissipate. They wuz
grOoped about the bar-room ez yoosual.
Elder Pennibacker wuz leanin in A
chair with his back to barrel; Issaker
Gavitt wuz on his back on a table in
the corner, and the others WIZ q sittin
on kegs in various parts NV the room.
'Wo is u.s." sighed the Elder.puttin
his feet onto keg, that he might rest
easier, and pensiyey squirtin tobacco
jooce at fly on the wall opposite.
"where's the labor to plant the corn +?
We shell starye."
"Alas." sighed the Deekin, shiftin
his seat to get so that he Good cock his
feet agin the wall. "AIas! the minits
is creeping on, day succeeds day, and
no corn in yit."
eyes, replied Issaker Gavtt, 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 our niggers we he'd our corn
all in by this time, and wuz ready to
put EN- to plowin OH 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 mourned
The result NV wich is, that there
amt an acre of good corn IN the entire
section. Wood that the Ablishnists,
wich brot all this onto us Good see the
room they hev wrought.
The prevailin topic nv discussion
sence yoo left us hez bin the trouble
with Pollock and Ablishn frend NV
hizzen who lives in Springfield, Illinoy,
the restin place Nv the human gorriller,
A. Linkin, CROWN out Nv the bond
question. Yoo remember three years
ago the Corporashen ishood its bonds
bearin 6 per cent, for so, 900 to build a
lookup; and yeer later it wuz found
nessary to gravel the road betwixt the
Corners and the stashen at Secession
vile, so ez to redoose the freight on
the whiskey consoomed by US, we
ishood bonds bearin eight per cent. to
the amount of $4,000, both ishood
runnin twenty-five yeers. These bonds
were taken by Pollock and this friens
NV hizzen.
Last yeer we paid the intrest on these
bonds, but this yeer the people felt
that the burden wuz to heavy. They
could not reconcile themselves to the
idea Nv sweatin to support the idle
luxury the bloated bondholders, and
the populis murmured agin it. Wat to
do we did't know, till finally Elder
Pennebacker, who borrows my paper
reglerly, remarked: "Eureker-I've
got it" He he'd bin readln the Dim
ocratic proposition to tax bonds, and a
lite dawned onto him.
"We'll tax these bonds of Polloek's!"
sed the Elder, "and thus relieve our
selves NV this thraldom to the money
power. Thank Heaven the people
hey'nt yet parted with all their power.
The sejestion wuz acted onto to-
wunst. The Council wuz assembled,
and by yoonanymus vote an ordinance
wnz passed levyin tax Nv eight cents
onto the dollar on all bonds ishood by
the corporashen for moneys borrowed
80, oil enrfu