The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1869-07-06


~ Pos OFFts, CoNFEDERIr x ROADS,
(Which is in the Staff ov Kentcuky),
June %, 1869.
The die is cast. The gulliteen hez
fallen-I am no longer Postmaster at
Confedrit x Roads, witch is in the Staff
NV Kentucky. The place witch knowd
me wunct will know me no more forever
the paper witch Deekin Pogram takes
will be handed out by nigger-a niger
will hev the openin NV letters addrest to
parties residin hereabouts contaiEin re-
mittances-a niger will hev the rifin
NV letters addrest to lottery managers
and extractin the sweets therefrom-a
niger will be--but can't dwell on the
disgustin theme no longer. ~
he'd him in Washington two weeks
assistin the Caucashens NV that city to
put their foot upon the heads NV the
cussid niggers who amt content to &C
cept the situashen and remain, as they
alluz hev bin. inferior beins To say /
he'd suckseded is week expreshun. I
organized raid onto 'em so effectooal-
ly ez to drive no less than thirty NV EN-
out NV employment, twenty seven NV
witch wuz compelled to steel their bread,
wich civ us splendid opportoonity to
snow up Tue usltuTdl CuSSeuucSS NV tuC
African race--wich we improved.
On my arrival at the Corners. knew
towunst that sumthin wuz rong. / led
rid over from Seceshunville on Bascom's
mule wich he he'd sent over for me, aud
ez I rid up to his door,I knowd sumthin
he'd happened. The bottles behind the
bar wuz draped in black: til e barrels wuz
festooned gloomiiy, (Which is our yoosual
method Nv expresin greet at public ca
lamities,) and the premises generally,
wore funeral aspeck.
wat is it?' gasped l.
Bascom returned not word, but wa
we'd his hand toward the Post Offs.
Rushin thither, bustid open the door
and reeled almost agin the wall. At the
gineral delivery wuz the GRIMM face NV
a niger! and sittin in my chair wuz Joe
Bigler, with Pollock beside him, smokin
pipes and latin over suInthin in muse
paper.
Bigler l1ot site NV me, and dartin out,
pulled me inside them hitherto sakrcd
presinks.
Permit me- sed he jerinly, 'to intro.
docs 700 to yoor suckserrer, Mr.. Ceezer
Lubby.'
my sucksesser! shrieket I, wat does
this mean?'
SHOW him, Ceezer?'
And the niger, every tooth in his
head shinin, handed me q commishun
dooly made out anil signed. I saw it at
glance. In imitashen Nv our Secreta.
ry Borie, [ he'd left my biznis in the
hands Of deputy, wich is now the IA
vorit method NV doin public biznis 1t
arrived the day after / he'd left, and Isa-
ker Gavitt, who distributed the mail, Civ
it to the cuss. Pollock mad. out the
bonds and went onto EN- hisself. and in
ten days the commishun cum all regler,
whereupon Bigler backt the niger and
took forcible posseshun NV the offs
While | wuz absent they he'd a perses
sion in honor Nv the joyful event, sed
persesh consistin NV Pollock, Bigler and
the new Postmaster, who marched thro'
the streets with the stars and stripes,
banners and SIGH. Bigler remarkt that
the perceshun wuz't large, but it wuz
talented, eminently respectable and ex
tremely versateel. He (Bigler) carried
the flag and played the fife: Pollock car
ried banner with an inskripshun onto
it, sound the loud timbrii DER Egypts
dark sea- and played the bass drum,
while the niger bore aloft banner in
scribed, where Affric's sunny fountins
role down the golden sands with mis-
commishun pinned onto it, playin in ad-
dishun pair NV anshent cymbals. Big
Ter remarkt further, that the perseshun
created a positive censashun at the Cor.
ners, wich / shood think it wood 1T
wuzn't,' scd this tormentin cuss, tvery
much like the grand perseshun wich tux
place when you received your commits
sion. Then the whites Nv the Corners
wuz elated, for they spectid to git wat
VOC owed EN- in doc time and the mig
gers wuz corresponding deprest They
SUNK into the byways and sideways;
they didn't hold up their heads, and they
busted out ez fast ez they Good git At
At this perseshun there wuz change
The niggers lined the streets ez we pas
sed; GRIMM exultingly, and the whites
WIZ deprest corresponding. It's sing>
lar that at the Corners the two races
can't feel good both at the same time.
My arrival havin BEGUN known, by
the time I got back to Bascom's all my
friends he'd gathered there. There wuz
ent dry eye among EN-, and ez | thot
Nv the joys once tasted but now forever
fed, mine moistend likewise. There wuz
visible change in their manner toward
me. They regarded me with solisitood,
but Good dizurn the solisitood wuzn t
so much for me ez for themselves.
sWat shell l do?' l askt sSumthin
must be devised, for can't starve.'
Pay me wat 700 owe mel calculated
Bascom,
Pay me wat 700 owe me-. ejakelated
Deekin Pogra am: and the same remark
wuz made by all nv EN- with wonderful
yoonanimity. w atever differences NV
opinyun there mite be on other topics,
on this they were all agreed.
Gentlemen l commenced, backing
up into n corner, lis this generous? Is
this the treatment 1 hev right to ex-
pect? Is this Iaa
l shood hev gon on at length, but jist
at that minnit Pollock. Joe Bigler and
the new Postmaster entered Room wuz
made for EN- and cheers offered EN-, but