The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1874-07-17

ward TO push matters"
"What do you think Of the political
: situation 2"
"Itis Id bad, and no mistake. Thing.
are awfully mixed down there"
! "What are the prospects of getting
! them straight ?"
Not much show we must be patient
and wait. Things won't get fixed short
tlof two or three generations. that IL Ger.
tain. Ii is too much TO expect more
than that"
"What do you think of the merits OF
the Pinchbeck- Sheridan contested elec-
ton case y
i Gen. jeff. became contelnplative here.
I" HUM" said he, "they arc both friends
of mine pinch is good fellow, so is
Sherry Iam republican, but would
not like TO see Sherry seated because it
would turn out all the present state
government. and they are friends OF
mine. Sherry is good fellow, and i
guess he ough; to have il, but it would
unsettle the state government to too
great an extent"
/ may add here that the general is en-
gineer for the state under the present
government, and that may account for
his anxiety 10 not see the present state
government disturbed.
IL am surprised, general" said ], "that
you are republican. What do your con
iederate friends say to that -
"Oh, d---n these twenty -nigger men,
say. None but they object, and =
them. ! ranked them before the war. sir
during the ar, sir, and rank 'em now,
sir. by Cdr
What do you mean by twenty-nig-
ger men? ?"
during the war the confederate gov
ernment exempted all men from the
service who owned twenty niggers, and
lt is these stay-at-homcs who are the
ranting heroes now: the most trouble
some men to satisfy. The war Isl
over sir, and / am not going TO fight
now; | am whipped. That is why am
a republican. because l believe it for the
best interests of the South to be reconcil-
ed and get settled.
IL never did believe in secession" re-
sumed the general. did not believe
lin the Kansas muss. i was WING be-
fore the war, and never did believe in
state rights, sir. But, damnaton this
war had to come, and I'm not sorry it did.
The nigger had TO be disposed of, and
he was. lie is going fast now"
''IIow did you come to fight then, If
lyou did not believe i'm SECESSION"
General jeff raised himself to his full
height as he said proudly, the sombrero
lquivering on the back of his head with
lemotion,
IAN A soUTHERNER, SIR!
land | would fight for her. right or
wrong. even if Christ attacked her.
AT this moment stepped back seve-
raj PAGES and waited the change of the
excited guerilla, but he remained quiet
and became calmer.
"You say the negro question is settled.
| What is TO become of him 7"
ale will disappear like the Indians.
Do YOU suppose 4O.OO0,6OO whites will
not crowd out 100000 niggers! Why,
the whites will amalgamate them of cx-
istence. The south is full of mulatoes
now. Full blood niggcrs are already be-
looming scarce.
II was opposed to the Kansas muss.
This imposing the Niger on states a
never had 'em, and didn't want 'em, i
didn't believe in, sir. But those states
as had 'em should never have been al
lowed to free one until there was gem
eral plan of emancipation proposed
That would have saved trouble. But,
sir, when the North began the attack on
us with old John Brown at Iarper's
Ferry, where | was born, TO murder our
women and children, then ] got mad all
over. like a woman. | was AT that llar-
lper's Ferry fight. and carried the rope
Ito hang John Brown. stood bv TO see
him kick, and followed him down TO his
grave, so mad was ! with him. That is
where began the fight, aud carried il
|, Through in the same spirit
Thus ratified on the voluble ex-gucrilla
chief. As he talked "A cosmopolitan wan
dcrer joined in the group, such man as
you meet in Washington of all places
He is revolutionist by nature: was in
Paris in lS4S in IL kansas during the Dor.
der rufiian war. and only delay of con.
ncction of trains kept him at Chambers
burg from joining Johu Brown. III,
served with credit in the Union army
and several times had direct mee,ing'
. with Thompsons forces on the battle
field. There he stood. calmly listenin.
to Thomsons denunciation of Johl
Brown, while General Joil. ratified on
little thinking that the one before hin
was one whom narrow chance ha,
kept from dancing in the air for tn
J, qualification of the man who when h
(. gets mad gets mad all over like woman
There are strange meetings in this worl
c but the principal actors arc the ones VIII
:, think the least of these things.
II III A Philadelphia gentleman advc,