The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1869-07-15

whites NV the Corners WuZ clated, for
they spectid to git wat yoo owed em in
doc time, and the niggers wuz cores
pOndingly deprest. They SUNK into
byways and sideways; they didn't hold
up their heads, and they busted out ez
fast ez they Good git. At this percess-
ion there wuz a change. The niggers
lined the streets ez we passed, GRIMM
exultinly, and the whites wuz deprest
corresponding. Its singler that at the
Corners the two races can't feel good
at the same time"
My arrival havin become known, by
the time l got back to Bascom's, all my
friends he'd gathered there. There
want a dry eye among EN-, and as |
thot of the joys once tastid, but now
forever fled, mine moistened likewise.
There was a visible change in their
manner towards me. They regarded
me with solisitood, but | Good discern
that the solisitood wuz not so much for
me ez for themselves.
swat shell l do?" askt. "Suthin
must be devised, for l can't starve."
"Pay me wat you owe me-" ejakela-
ted Bascom.
"Pay me wat you owe me-" eiakela.
ted Dekin POgram, and the same re-
mark wuz made by all of EN- with won
derful yoonanimity. Whatever differ
ences Of opinion there might be on
other topics, on this they were all
agreed.
"Gentlemen!" / commenced, back
ing up into corner, sis this generous9
Is this the treatment l hev right to
expect? Is this"
shood hev gone on at length, but
iist at that mint Pollock, Joe Bigler
and the new Postmaster entered. Room
wuz made for EN- and cheers offered
EN-, but they declined to sit.
81 hev biznis !" sed this Postmaster,
"disagreeable biznis, but it's my ofish-
ell dooty to perform it."
At the word "offishel" comm from
his lips, groaned, witch wuz ekkoed
by those present.
81 hev in my hand" continyood he,
"de bond giben by my predecessor, on
to wich is de names Nv Geo. w. Bas-
com, Elkanah Pogram, Hugh McPelt-
er and Seth Pennibacker, ez sureties.
In dis oder hand l hold a skedool OBJ de
property belongin to de 'partment witch
wuz turned ober to him by his prede-
cessor, consistin of table, chairs, boxes,
locks, bags, ct settry, wild sundry dol.
lars wort OF stamps, paper, twine, &c
None of dis postofiis property, turned
ober to my predecessor by his prede-
cessor is to be found in de offs, an de
objeck OBJ dis visit is to notify yoo dat
onless immejit payment be made NV de
amount hereof, ! am directed by de
'partment to bring SCOT to wunst agin
the sed sureties."
Never before did 1 so appreciate A.
johnson and his Postmaster General,
Randall. Under their administrator
wat Postmaster wuz ever pulled up for
steeliu anything? Exc ansers.
This wuz the feather that broke the
cameps back.
"Wat!" exclaimed Bascom, "shel l
lose wat yoo owe me, and then pay for
wat yoo've stole 7"
"Shel l lose the money" sed Po-
gram, "wich l lent yoo, and in addi-
shen pay Abolishen government for
property yoo've confscated7 ?"
"But the property is here" Iremarkt
to Bascom, "yoo've got it all. Why
not return it and save all this troubled"
"Wat wood hev then for the whis-
ky yoo've consoomed ?" he ejackelated
vishusly. "Its all I've got from you,
and I've bin keepin 700 for four years?"
"Didn't that property pay you for
the likker?" | asked, but Bascom wuz
in no humor for fggers, and he pitch
ed into me, at wich pleasant pastime
they all followed SCOT. But for Joe
Bigler, they wood hev killed me. Ez
it wuz they blackt both my eyes, and
rolled me out onto the sidewalk, shuttin
the door agin me.
Ez ! heard that door slam to, / felt
that all wuz lost. No offs no money!
and Bascom's closed agin me! Kin
there be harder fate? l passed the
mite with a farmer three miles out, who
bein sick, hedn't bin to the Corners, and
consistently he knowed nothin NV the
changes.
1 heard the next day the result nv
the ruckshen. Bascom returned sich
NV the property ez hedn't been sold and
consoomed, witch consisted uf the boxes
The chairs he'd been broken up in the
frequent shindies wich occur at his
place, the locks he'd bin sold TO farmers
who yoosed EN- on their smoke houses,
the bags he'd been sold for wheat and SO
on. The stamps, paper, twine and sich
fggered up three hundred and forty
six dollars, which was three hundred
more dollars than there wuz in the Cor
ners. Bascom advanced the forty. six
dollars, and the three hundred wuz bor-
rowed NV banker at Secessionville who
took mortgages on the farms NV the
imprudent bondsmen for sekoority
Nv course | can't 60 back to the Cor
ners under eggsistin circumstances. 1t
would be uncomfortable for me to live
there ez matters hev terminated. |
shell make my way to Washington, and
shell see ef | cant git myself electid ez
Manager of a Labor Association and so
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