Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1877-04-13

THE CONFEDERATE ROADS WON'T BE CON-
CIIIATEp.

THE CONFEDERATE x hbAI'S NOS L III. IpN-
CIIIATEp.
Nasty had some trouble i'll keeping the
party at the Cross Roads together, somo of
them being disposed to accept the situation
and support the policy OF the administration.
The parson having left town to replenish his
wardrobe from the clothcs-lines of q commu-
nifty where clean shirts We're more fashiona-
ble than in his immediate neighborhood. u
meeting was called in his absence. lie re-
turned to find his friends MPelter lssaker
GG tt and Bascom fraternizinS with Pollock.
Bi;, low and the 'niggers III the meeting
house, where n string OF resolutions iayorlng
peace and good feeling were read, concluding
rs follows:
Resolved, That from this time ont all the
htternis NV the past shel be buried i'll the
Corners. and that every man will recognize
every other man ez n citizen, all hevln ekal
rites, in life, liberty and the pursoct NV suth-
i'll to cat
And drink sejcsied Bascom.
And that all divisions on polItikle quos-
tious shcl Geese ontil things hev settled, and
su;lin occurs 10 divide us more material
way.
Resolved, That
Good stand it no longer, writes Nasby).
and l sprung to my feet
'Deekin, Bascomi Mc'Pelter! lssakeri My
Friendsl are you going to set there, and let
them infamus inceniary resolooshens so forth
ez the voice nv the Corners! Are yoo agoin
To be led by your enemie.. into such trap
'Why noi?' askt Basc-m. 'Aint't we had
hell enuif here: Hez anybody made anything
by all the worry and trouble NV the last ten
yeers:"
'Bascom, ef them resolooshens pass, and
eff they are carried out in the spirit wich
seems to pervade this unconstitutiooshnel as
semblage, wat, let me ask, Is GOING TO Be
COME OF ME? Ef ther is Goin TO bo peece and
harmony, Nv WAT USE AN /? Ef ther amt
agoin to he no more niggeis TO kill, ef every
body hez ther rites, ef ther aint no yooserper
to struggle aGin, i'll Bascom's bar-room, ef
ther amt no occashen for eloquence and de-
fance, WAT AM To DO! What do you want
to throw me out Nv bizniz for? Deekin, Bas-
com, Issaker, kin you do this?
4 don't see commenst Bascom, but l
wouldent let him go on.
But see. Ef this cry nv good teelin sets
i'll, may exclame with the Niger in the
play, 'Othello's Okkepashen gone. My
friends, before yoo commit yooself TO this
heresy, let us consult
l finally got these misguided men out of
the house, and into Bascom's, and ther ap-
peeled to EN- more Mt an advantage. | held
up afore EN- the horrors NV niger rool, |
showd EN- that ef they past them resolooshens
they wuz Republicans, and that the old Dem
ocratic party was gone forever, and that the
dooty NV every Dimecrat wuz to tite on, fte
ever, till we had restored peace to our bleed
in country.
Ther amt nothin like decision and prompt
mis-. Before | he'd got thIo with EN-, l got
en- back to ther old moorins, and they didn't
go back to the meeting at all, and Issaker
WIZ SO enraged at bein almost capcherd, that
he shyed u brick at one OF the niggers wich
wuz goin home from the Church. wich al
most perdoozed good old-time riot.
The Corners is now normal. The DimOc-
racy and the Radkels hate each other ez harti-
ly ez ever Fites is ez common ez ever, and
| am back in my old place at Bascom's.