Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1873-02-19
"A Tar.Heel."
Going Back fsom lndinnn 20 North
Cnf6Iina.


Caf6Iinn.
Stuck away In "a corner, rolled ul
almost like hall, was n couniryinn,
who Ind pshl iifiy cunts for having
IN. b8ois pulled OIL.
"I'Ieasc read my ticket" hc said
handing II to mo, II can't read."
Ibid 30, and asked where hc wa,
from.
"iu,liana." he replied.
Indiana. and can't read! TWAS nj.
most too unnatural. and ! ventrrcti
10 ask him II he was born in that
State.
"N". sir," he answered; 81 was
boru in North Carolina"
My guess wa. right, after all. lie
was n vrritable T;v-hcrl.
elbow long have you been living il,
Indiana - Iaskcd. ...
"Two years. I'm just now going
lack"
"Don't you like it up therc?"
"Not so mighty well. a Southern
man don't have fair show. You ST..
J was in the rebel army four years
I'm w,iiing to acknowledge TINT
am whipped, but | don't like to otA:e
all the blame ON our si'lc for the
trouble. Up in Indiana they seem to
think that all the blame should 90
agin the South. don't quite ar-
knowledge them principles, and TINT
Itiakes disG6fd. The Democrats sort.
cr held up for me. bnt there amt
many about where live. We only
pollcd thirty-four votes in the town.
ship out Of about three hundred"
.'Yom got in among this Radicals,
thrn?''
No: the sort about where I live
are not old straight-oHt 'Pubiirans.
I call them worse than Radicals =
"Are you going TO return to Nor,l
Carolina I"
"Ycs: | cant he satisfied in Indi
ana. \ Southern poor man has lit
tie show there, I tell your Pears
like the whole community is suspi
cinu. of him. Then, believe ever,
man gcts along better among his Owl
sort of people. The Northern folk
are different from the Souihcrns--'
head different. They don't cvci
chew tobacco alike. Up there the,
use what they call 'fiuc-cut.' ldon'
want any Of it in mine. We Nortl
Carnlinians stick to tie old plug
Well. but it amt the only difference
They arc more Kind and considering
They don't make money their %ot
like the Yankees. know men about
enough to buy half Of North Caro-.
lima, but still they are on the hunt
for more. Seems like they cant gel
enough. SO much money, or tryin.
TO get more, or something, make,
them cross. They won't stop to tall
like Southern man. Ifyou ask on.
of them the way anywhere, he viii
nearly snap your head of.
"a Southern man will stop AMI Civ,
you all tic directions you want an,
talk with you long time, and asl
you about your crops aud family, ,ant
il YOU won't come in and take Il drink
and If you don't want to come around
to tho field and see some of his stock
and all that. But up North, l tel
you thcv don't do things on tha
styh-thcy won't stop long eliousl
TO answer you a civil question. Ii
the cities every fellow walks like thu
devil was after him. \ morthcr,
man in city will walk faster than
u North Carolina horse can 20, ana
they will run over YOU if you don,
yet out of the way, which 4 horse
won't do. never saw such people
to stave ahead and let every fellow
look out for himself. Pears like
they don't care ANYTHING for one an.
other. They amt jovial. and don't &c
in for good time like we in Noril
Carolina. But they get us on III,
lnoncy. They have got more none,
than we have. that'a a fact. The tw,
people are alike only III one way the,
have both got +" die nhd leave wha
they have, and there We have the ad
van,sce, for we haven't much 10 lcay,
and be sorry for"