Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-01-23
/" 4 Tar-Heel. !"

- " Il Tar-Heel.
Stuck away in, corner, rolled up
almost like ball, was the countryman
who had paid SO cents for having his
boots pulled off,
please read my ticket" he said,
handing it to me. ST can't read"
L did so, and asked where he was from.
Indiana" he replied.
Indiana, and can't read It was most
too unnatural, and I ventured to ask
him II he was born in that State.
No, SIR" he answered. 81 was born
in North Carolina. -
My guess was right after all. He was
veritable Tar-heel.
"How long have you been living in
Indiana, asked.
1.-Two years. I'm just now going
back"
Don't you like it up there? ?"
p" Not so mighty well. A Southern
man don't have fair show. You see I
was IN the rebel army four years. Tn
willing to acknowledge that I'm whipped,
but l don't want to take all the blame
on our side for all the trouble. Up In
Indiana they seem to think that all the
blame should go agin the South. I don't
quite acknowledge them principles, and
that makes discord. The Democrats
sorter held up for me, but there amt
many about where I live. We only
polled about thirty-four votes in the
township out of about three hundred"
"You got in among the Radicals,
then? ?"
No; the sort about where I live are
not old straight-out 'Publicans. I call
them worse than Radicals"
Are you going to return to North
Carolina ?"
Yes; can't be satisfied in Indiana.
A Southern poor man has little show
there, tell you. Pears like the whole
community is suspicious of him. Then,
L believe that every man gets along bet
ter among his own sort of people. The
Northern folks are different from the
Southerns-a heap different. They don't
even chew tobacco alike. Up there
they use what they call fine cut I
don't want any of it in mine We North
Carolinians stick to the old plug. Well,
but that amt the only difference.
Southern people have bigger hearts.
They are more kind and considering.
They don't make money their god, ike
the Yankees. know men about Indi-
annapolis that have got enough of money
to buy out half of North Carolina but
still they are on the hunt for more.
Seems like they can't get enough So
much money, or trying to get more, or
something, that makes them cross.
They won't stop and talk like Southern
man. If you ask one of them the way
anywhere, he will nearly snap your head
off. A Southern man will stop and give
you all the directions you want, and talk
with you long time, and ask you about
your crops and family, and if you won t
come IN and take drink, and if you
don't want to come around to the field
and see some of his stock, and all that.
But up North, L tell you, they don't do
things on that style. They won't stop
long enough to answer you civil ques-
ton. In the cities every fellow walks
like the devil was after him. A Northern
man Ill a city will walk faster than a
North Carolina horse can go, and they
will run over you if you don't get out of
the way, which horse won't do. |
never saw such people to stave ahead
and let every fellow look out for him.
self. Pears like they don't care any
thing for one another. They amt jovial
and don't go in for good time like we
in North Carolina. You can stay in
Indiana year and never be invited to
drink, but you can't in North Carolina.
But they get us on the money. They
have got more money than we have,
that's fact. The two people are alike
only in one way, they have both got to
die and leave what they have, and there
we have the advantage, for we haven't
much to leave and be sorry for
"Soyou don't like Indiana ?" I unused.
No; she's too cold and swift for me.
| want to get back to the old North
State, where things are run more ac-
cording to my notion. am plumb sick
of Indiana. The old woman has soured
on it too. She says she would rather
have dirt floor cabin in North Carolina
than whole township in Indiana. DR..
IL. Y. Redfetd, IN Cincinnati Com
naerci0l.