The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1881-03-23
CoNFRDRIT Y RoABs, !
witch is in the State Nv Kentucky, !
March 4th, 1881,

witch Is in the State Nv Kentucky,
March 4th, 1881. }
The YooniLed Stales 10 no place for Dim
oCrats any more. A Radikel General setl
in the Presidential chair, and Radike
Oongris controls the deslinies nv the
Gashen. The Oongris has leendish de-
lite in tsarin open the wounds that time
Rhood hev heeIed. 1t will do nothing tC
consulate the suffrin South. 1t wont
levee the Mississippi, 1t won't bid Gus
tom HOUSE and Postoftis at the Corners
and to cap the climax, 1t refooHes to pay
$4,000 for the papers Nv every Con
lsdrit General witch Is hard up and tC
whom $40 900 wood be a blessin,
For me there amt no chance wateVer
The Niger, Lubbock, will continyoo In
In tho postolliS, and Bigler and Pollock
will contrOle the Collectorship. I am left
out in the cold for four yeers, and by that
time n PoslUilis wood be q superiority, ioI
by 1885 l shel be where there amt no
null Rmatters onless Their are fre.prooi
bsgs 10 carry 1t in. And to make 1t worse,
Hancock won't send me 4 cent, and Eng
ish won't even answer my letter appeelin
for aid.
The Corners held q meetin to determine
wat wuS to be done with me. II wuz deCi
ded that the burden Nv carin for me wu2
too heavy to be borne longer, and sum
thin must be done 10 ease em up.
A keeriul estimate showed that owed
In rouud numbers suthin over 81, 000, witch
WIZ that much ded loss. Bascom swore a
ssIlum oath that he wood never give
credit for q dollar more to me, and that
settled 1t. didn't care what they did
with me alter that.
The prevsilin disposlshun Nv the people
WIZ to take me out quietly, and kill me;
but that was overruled. II wnz desided
that ell wuz permitted to live suthin mite
turn up to enable me to pay authin on the
indebtednis, whereas, Of | wuz wunst ded
all hope wu2 gone.
30 they decided that shood live, but
that must leave the Corners. sed, Gan
rite, but how am | to leayeP hev no
money and | absolutely decline to walk,
ard when l am gone what am too live
on? These questions must be answered,
or decline to go. Fl l hev to die ] mite
ez we'll die here, and save the worry nv
packing my handkerchief with my other
shirt"
Then arose long and tejus discussion.
Dsekin Pogram remarkt that his dawter
Mirandy told him that the Greeshuns he'd
q habit Nv making ther Helots drunk 80
ez to impress onto the minds Nv Their
hA INT n -
"Why," ned the Decking, "shoodent we
send the Parson 10 t+reeBe, and put him
into the Helot biznisW
To this eagerly Gsenti1. WIZ willing
to 10. III they wantid q healthy Helot to
illustrate the evils Of intemprAnse, I wuz
the man, and 10 relieve thir minds l
wood say that In this case gallery wood be
no objik, q stiddy Ritooaahen bein all that
| wood reqwire. he'd no doubt nv bein
able 10 satisfy the Athenians in this per.
tikeler. III the average son w the average
Atenian ghood sec me when l wuz RELY
full nv coffin varnish, don't think he
wood ever venCher 10 pNrtake Nv the aoln
bole. Raise the money for the passage,
and consider me Helot for the remain.
der Nv my life. II Is singler wat luck some
men hey. Why wuz not born Helot2
Think Nv II. 10 not only hev yoor likker
iurnisht free, but lltraly poured down
your throte.
This dream nv bliss wuz roodly disturb.
ed BY Captain McPelter, He sed that Their
wuz no question ez to my Capasslty for the
Halot biznis, but the AthenianB wuzn't
doin that sort nv thing now. Wat Miriam.
dy posram referred TO wuz praCtist some
thousand Nv yeers ago, but at present the
Athenians got on without Helots, and Il.
lustrated the evils Nv rum In ther own per.
soug, The custom wuz an ancient, not
modern wun.
IsSaker Gavitt proposed that l shood be
sent TO Moo York, but BasCom pertested to
wunst, lie remarkt that he'd sent me to
NOo York twlOt, but that It wuz no good.
I alluz come back. Dedhed passes Good be
procoored to eazy, and II them wuE onRt.
iaipable o man Good walk from Moo York
10 Kentucky. No, eli he wuz to be relieved
lrum this burden send him fur enuf away
80 that return wood be impossible. He
wood prefer 10 send me to hte the Booera
in South Africa, but he mite compermlse
on heyen me across the Atlantic. Ell he
rontribited 10 hevin me sent Rbrod be
phood insist thatit be fur enuf to preclood
Tie possibility ov q return.
It wuz HueIly agreed tibet shood hev
a steerage passage 10 Liverpool and SlO on
which 10 live ill Good establish myself
Therefore, abel 20 to Europe. l am mol
displessed with the prospeCk. There is nc
yoose Nv my remaining here, Tor there i
nothing In this kentry for me. Ez | sed
tho postoflls Is hopelis, and there 70 nc
oppertoonity for anything else. l shoot
only be enabled 10 live here by the chance
charity Of friends, and siCh Contrlbooshenl
es mite bs able 10 levy Oh them ez oidn'
know me. ,,,
Ther Ia a field for me In the Old World
| I Kin turn 10 be an Irish patriot, and XII
make a deCint Twin by Sgitstin the wrong
of Ireland in Paris. shel appeal 10 tht
triah III Ameriky for means TO start
skirmisbin Fund. shel not line the teg
lar agitators, siCh As Parnell and them lei
efB, but Changin my rsme TO ONasbty
abel take bord at The best hotel and liz,
In gorgeousniS ez long eS the present agi
tashen goes on. ,.-.......
I kin cit 10 DO organizer Nv suffrii
labrin men, Ell n0lhin else turns up, tho
think I shood prefer the, Irish dodge
Their never wuz m appeal made to TIL
irish servant girls In Amefiky 10 hehal
Nv The old sod, that was not llbrally re
sponded to, and kin make good livii
out Nv that.
Their are other pihts that are worthy u
confederation. Likkefs Is only abou
a.hal they ara here, and consequently tht
expenses Nv Twin 10 less. w course she
hev 10 git over my taste for sod.cori
whisky, and aCcustoln my Btumick 10 othe
varieties Of lkker, but that l kih do
Their aih't bothin made Ia the shape u
likker wiCh Amt grateful 10 me- l am
self made man, hut kin drink Ia AM
llsnVWidRe. kin aCCustom myself 10 Eng
list ale, Scotch whisky, German laget bee
Of French brandy. The eiIeCk nv one 4
iist the same eE the other, the only rex
visit bein enntf Nv II.
shel make my way 10 Paris TO .wunst
and II will 20 hard with me 81 can
establish myself thet in some way. 1tuti
nv hock ut,on The Corners hawtilV, onli