Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1882-05-23
+" Busted all to HI"

whose name we will withhold but who
wears q light colored, broad brimmed
felt hat, was travelling on the cars, and
whit drowsily leaning his head against
q window, with his face half covered
with his hat. he was approached by q
portly- built, elderly gentleman, who
struck our townsman on the shoulder,
and at the same time exclaimed
"Harry, we are busted all to hi"
II suppose we are" replied the other,
not moving from position and not know
ing for whom he was taken.
"The fact is" continued the portly
gentleman, 1--WE made hell of q mis-
take when we kicked old Massey over
board"
II suppose we did," quietly respond
ed our tOwnsman.
"I'll tell you what we've got to do:-
we must spit on our hands and try 1t
again, Harry Riddleberger, exclaimed
the old gentleman.
At the announcement of the name of
the person for whom he was taken, our
townsman raised his head, when the
portly gentleman exclaimed =
"Oh, HI, you are not Harry Riddle
berger!" Surprise and modification
filed his countenance.
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townsman, it was you who said So"
Visions of having unbosomed himself
very freely, and perhaps to an enemy
of the Readj fitted through the
pOrtly gentleman's mind, and while
showing some disposition to buster
over the awkward fix in which he had
placed himself, he nevertheless retreat.
ed from the disturbed Funder.
Our townsman, who keenly appreci-
ates joke, and who has clear cut
way of adding to one, said, to the
amusement of those who overheard =
II am going to hunt up Harry Riddle
berger, and if he isn't good-looking
man I'll make you apologize"
Our townsman afterwards found Rid
dleberger on the train, to whom he in
troduced himself by relating all that bad
occurred.
We rather think the'portIy gentleman
came very near telling the truth when
he made the remark that heads this ar
ticle.-Cz0rEe Courier.
The Jacobin party are making great
virtue of their action in abolishing the
penalty of flogging. They affect to re-
gard it as more merciful provision of
law to put a chicken thief in Jail for
weeks or months, and leave his wife and
| little children to shift for themselves,
than to punish the culprit with q few
stripes and then turn him loose to work
for the support of himself and family
But some people, quite as humane as
these pretenders, think differently.
There is however, another phase of
this question that deserves notice
These humanitarians appeal especially to
the negro vote, on the ground that they
abolished the whipping post That is
as much as to say "You colored people
are the rogues that never felt the lash
with good opinion of the law You
are the very people who were the most
obnoxious to this mode of punishment,
in consequence of your mania for steal
ing; and therefore you should vote for
the people who have relieved you of this
penalty" That is about the substance
ofthe argument they are making to the
colored people of Virginia. Now, we
know colored people, and quite num-
Der of them, that have no more regard
for thieves, and have no more fear of the
law while 1t existed, than the best white
people in Virginia have. or ever had
because they despised roguery, and
knew that neither white or black we're
ever punished, or in danger of punish
ment, for being honest. Such colored
people should take it as an insult to
their race, to be Extensively reminded,
as they are, of this kind of immunity
from the penalty for stealing, secured to
them by the Mahoneites. And they
should resent it accordingly.-Lynch.
Tirgsaidn.