Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1870-01-25
Nasty.
Mfr. Nasty Receives o Letter from Ills Ola
Friend Deacon Posrsm--Ths Ff4shsfli
Decentralization as the Corners.
SIXTH WARD, CIrK " Moo YoRE. !


letter from that old saint in trowsers,
Deekin Elkanah Pogram. II was
delayed a long time, ez the Deekin
directed it to "Rev." Petroleum V.
Nasty. The letter carriers hedn't
any idee that there wuz any man in
the 9th ward who he'd any title to
that prefix. But finally got it. l
need not say that after reading it |
closed my bar, and hung Grape onto
the door. On, the decentralization NV
this guessed age But it wuz q COM
fort TO hear from him. "Ez in water
face answereth to face, so the heart
NV man TO man." The text should
reed, in Kentucky, at least, SEE in
whisky" etc, but take no liberties
with scripture. This is the Deekin's
epistle:
COSFEpRrr ROADS. Ky,l
December 2, 1860.
My DEAR FRIEND Il avale myself
Nv the presence Nv young man
from lnjeany, who kin rite, to inform
700 eZ TO the condishun of things in
yoor old home. Things is bad here
and is rapidly CROWN wuss. Sence
700 left US it seems to me ez tho
kaos he'd come agin, and that con-
fooshen was bein wuss confoundid
The first families hev lost their grip
niggers and ablishnists hev come in
and hev taken controle, and Confed-
rit X Roads is no longer a place in
witch a gentleman Nv refinement and
culture kin decent,y live.
That infamous wretch, Joe Bigler,
and that onmitigated pest, Pollock,
is in partnership. at least Joe is sell
ling goods for Pollock, and his store
is the resort Nv all NV their class fur
miles around. The old settlers hev
nothin watever to do with EN-. We
wuz disposed to paternize EN-, but
when Pollock refoozed to let goods
witch zoe he'd boaght go out nv the
store till they wuz paid for, and the
next mint give credit to niggers, we
indignantly declined to deal with
him. That indignity we wooodent
submit to. We indoost two mer-
chants from Louisville to start biznis
here, but they didn't stay long.
They gave credit, and Their trade was
Consistently brisk, but they he'd diff
ficulty in renooin their stocks.
When one Nv EN- presented his bill
to me told him, Indignantly eff that
wuz the way be perposed to do biz
mis- be might ez well close. "Why,"
said /, 81 mite ez we'll deel with Pol
lock-" He remarkt, lnsolently, that
be wished | he'd delt with Pollock,
and flung hisself out Nv my presence.
Merchants are, ez a class, disgustinly
mersenary.
Bascom threatens to close out and
leave US. He hez already mortgages
on all our land to its full valyoo, and
sence the offises are all in the hands
Nv men who don't drink likker at
all, he SEE there amt no money with
in his reech and he can't carry us
much longer. He signs for the good
old times under Johnson's admins
trashen, when all the money receev-
ed by the Postmaster, the Collector
and Assessor poured into his drawer
He is morose and gloomy, and
waters his likker fearfuIIy. / allez
hev to take five or six drinks before
| experience any sensation.
But these things is not the worst
or most gloomy Nv the signs NV the
times. There's room ahed NV u.s.
The chivalry of tho Corners hev lost
all spirit. Only last week Their wuz
a temprans lecterer advertised to
make speech in the hall over Pol
locks store. "Shel this he permit
ted ?" asked Bascom, indignantly,
bringin his fist down onto the bar till
the glasses ratified.
"Never |" SHOUTED Issaker Gavitt
and the others in the bar-roou, who
scented drinks ahead.
Bascom sot out the bottles we all
took suthin, and rusht toomulchusly
to the hall. 700 remember with wat
eagernis we formerly mobbed obnox-
yus speakers? We wuzn't at all
eager that mite. We only run a rod
or two our pace got down to slow
walk afore we reached the spot. and
when we got into the hall we meekly
sot down and listened to the hereti-
kle cuss, and went away without
heavin stun at him. When Bascom
reproached us for our lack of spirit,
| told him that wuz no yoose. Men
coodent mob anybody on sieh Ticker
as he furnisht. II wont do to diloot
when 700 hev SIGH biznis on hand.
But that wuz not the most alarmin
sign Nv the degeneracy nv our peo-
pie. Within month two Methodist
preachers hev held forth in this vii
lage, and neither NV them were hung
or shot What hope can there be
where such things occur? And wat
is wuss, two Nv our old friends at
tended their meetiDs, and immeiitly
they quit comm to Bascom's and /
notist their children yesterday with
shoes on. Bascom sighed ez he seed
it.
Its mystry to me" he seq.
what is mystry p SEE |.
"Why, so long ez them men stayed
with me all day they hedn't no mon
ey to spend-now that they don't
come no more, they hev money, but
they waste it on shoes and l don't
get it. Why didn't nacher make
men capable of working all day and
drinking all night?"
Their amt no change in me or mine
ceptin that my house is somewhat
smaller. At the beginnin of the
winter we wuz compelled to yoose
our kitchen for frewood, ez me and
Jethro, my oldest son, cooden't pro-
coor the labor to cut the winters
fuel. The niggers won't work for
US. Next winter | suppose the set
tin room will go, then the wing which
we use for spare bedroom will fol-
low, and eff | am not gone hentz by
that time, | don't know what we
shall do for more. The coil nv fate
is titenin about me.
The niggers up towards CARROTS