Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1870-08-26

MI DEER OLE Friend AND NAMEsAKE:-
I'm old friend to ye, and haint q gwine
to fursake you now in the day of yore nd.
vursity. use to swar by yc, an hav al
ways believed you to be CRATE man and
onest man; bat as mi letter wont git be-
fore the publik I'll be purtikular enuf to
staff that thar amt menny peple of mi
opiniun. 1-Ers-
think its one ov the meanest things in
natur to stick up to Teller while he's got
a plenty ov whiskee and propity tell you
make phooi ov him, and then when he
has to sign away his propity to bis widder
and ORTIZ children in order to keep it, and
loses his karakter, to eneek off and turn
agin him and not no him.
No, sur, blamed of I don't stick to 70 rs
long rs yoro name is Bill Holden, provided
the Ku-Kluxes don't git arter me.
Ef you ore Crafty, SO much more's tho
needle fur you to have friends to take keer
ov you and to give yu desont bcrryin. EFF
yu are skeered-and rite here, Bill, I've
got to talk serious to you. That's tho on
~ way to talk to skcered man. I larnt
that by managin skeered bosses.
You know the time the Gorgce solgers
kome to Rolly, don't you? You remember
yore pluck held out fust rate tell yu hearn
they war kummip. My fust advise to
you on that ockasion wer to face the mu-
six and dye by tho Standard, all kuvered
with glory. You know then / didn't be-
leevc they wer kummip. Afterwards,
however, when l bekum satislide to the
kontrary, on more sober rehekshun seed
that pluck afore tho devil kums is one
MIN
another thing, and that had give
peace OF advice that want likely to be tuck.
tho, under other circumstances, it mout
OF did well enu1f. Then it was Won no Bill
that [ told you would stand bye We as long
you'd take koer of yourself, and / never
left you tell l seed you snng cnuM under
Vance's bed.
Jewheelikins Bill how shamed was of
you arter the skeer got over | Blasted ef
hadn't ruther of seed you capsised he'd
fomust rite into q hoxed of rotten eggs
than to have hid under the bed of SIGH a
trater and blaggard as that teller Vance.
But you coated that are passage from
Shakespeer an don't think iii ever forgit
it.
"a lr1dent man foreseotb the danger
and hideth himself"
/ thought never seed o peace of POETRY
fit as well as that did. It Jest wedecd in
tus and made everything as easy as il hood
be under the surkumstances.
But you hadn't discovered at that timo
what sort of pheler Vance were, and
that's the reason [ excused you. If you'd
of knowd before what you knowd arter-
ward you wouldn't of went under that bed.
don't mention this little surkumstance to
make You ashamed of yerself, for the last
time l seed you you was as shamed "a ever
I want to sec any of my trends in the
flesh.
But you remember, Bill, that told you
howe to git out Of that difficulty by gittin
on Vance's bed instd of 1tnder it the fust
time yOu cotch him out of it, and the rito
way to du that successfully was 10 diskuver
all at wonst that Vance and tho respekta-
BILE klass OF people war set of traters and
raskals, and nobody wood du to trust but
the niggers and tho whito rogues that use
to trade for what the niggers stold. told
you there was heop in a mans stickin to
his own klass, and besides that tho low
klass, takin in all, beginin with the niggers
and goin downe to the carpet-baggers, and
the scalawaggers and to your kass, wood
bee konciderably in the majority, speshally
if thay wood vote often enuff. And don't
you mind, Bill, how you lated when 1 got
dun talkin hardly ever seed man Iaf1
so in all my life. I seed it wer brite
sweet slider, and the next news that KUN
to NEE in Texas was that you had got onto
Vance's bed, and was layin thar singin
halaluyah like you use to do when you war
u Methodist klass leader.
Now Bill Run to you agin III your cd
vursity to help you out of the singularest
predikament--W thare aint no
chance to mako any rashonal Komparason,
for you are tho fust guVerner of North
hat To hou
gard in piece or war. What makes it SO
bothered singular is that you haint got
trends enuff to take keor of you only 10y
speehal appintment. I'll be blamed ole
pholler if the Tu-Kluxes haint nifty nye
freed you, jest as shore es candies mado
out OF Taller.
But I don't want to skeer you any wusser
for I'd ruther you'd git rashonal if you kan
Blast the Ku-Kluxesl if they wer all chick
ems, and [ had run in a coop, I'd have thur
mex rung afore you kood shake hands with
a new niger, or scramble under bed.
The SUGGESTION that want to make ia
you now Bill, i'll the striktest koDfdence
is this:
You don't seem to be worry decided with
any pertikuler party. In fack you don't
seem to no adzakly what to du. Them as
got you into the skrape don't keer about
gittin you out, because the reason they
BOL you AlLO III was IllAO LLcy 6Ceu ITOA
your natur that if you KEEP on risin you
would git in thur way, and it wer eesyer
or at least cheeper to git you kilt off than
to bye you off. Do ye SEQ Bill Its quar-
that you did mt see what them two fellers
was up 10 all the time. Now maxim O
O speech in korngrass are won thing, and
restin respectable siterzons arc another
thing.
Won thing are dod surtinty BILL
You'v got to bee Demerkrat. You no
that's what you use to be, or you sed you
was. Theirs no other chance, and that's
bad chance, but when fellers in tite
phase, like under the bed for instance. O
bad chance are moro kumfertable than no
chance at oil.
You've got TO bee a Dcmerkrat.
The only kwestion is howe to git to bee
won successfully. That is the kwestlon.
Now there's won thing surtin, and that
no boldly cant dispute, that ever red or
heerd any thing at all, or knows any thing
about your natur, that is, you are down