Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1855-12-08
WHOLE NO. 53l.

Should | not remember we'll the rich, round
laughs Of the niggers, in soft GUNNER evenings on
the banks Of Laoulche, spontaneous, genial, sym.
pathv, ready upon the smellest occasion2 -
"llow is you, Mister Jonsingi'
"Iah, yah, yah ~
"lIov is Missis Jonsng?"
"Iah, yah, yah"
"Whar you cum from? Whar you gon?" and
here whole deluge Of jolity was spread abroad
over the country and fertilized the land, like the
Hoods of the Nile
/ Professor Simpson, down Mt Yale or Harvard,
may say that such enjoyment is quite unintelec-
tual, and below the highest standard of n sem
ucnt and immortal being.
There's not doubt Of it: and there is not a
doubt that he will say So Yet, look for n moment
at htS thin, skinny grin, and ask voursef--if he
has not, in the pursuit Of the diferentia calculus
and Greek roots, lost some thing of his manhood
which the nigger Of Lafuuche has yet in excess
| believe the niger dcspises the professor, as
warmly as the professor does him Of this, there
IS no question: that the Black Convention at Ro.
choster, last year, was much better behaved than
the Scientific Convention at Providence even if it
proves nothing, it is fact.
Fog myself, | am not so proud Of nv race and
religion as some are when see the possibilities
Of both and when ! see tLat 50 fir) they have
eliminated, the ono in Franklin Pierce at the head
OF the temporal Kingdom. and the other in ,JoLl,
Hughes at the summit Of the Church-that the
enc is the blossom Of Patriotism and the other of
Christianity; when think Of these. would shud.
der with horror we've il not extremely ridiculous
and look about and wonder that every grown ur
person is not provoked TO laughter. l say, when
think of this, ,lor it is not often that dol und
remember the Jays and the Jelfersons the lIenrys
aud the ShermanS and when | remember that the
lowly yet divine Jesus, spat upon all hierarches
and priestIy machinery, then wish | were II Mig
ger, with such large capacities for enjoying the
present, however absurd.
There was something ex1uisitely fine and true.
too,in the reply that theEgyptan made toNewman,
who had held forth to him for an hour about tho
mysteries aud dosmas Of Oxford divinity.
"G5l' he said, "hls given you English many
revelation he has told YOU how to make ships
and looking glasses, and dictionaries and m6JsSSe.
traps; But he seems to have withheld from you all
knowledge Of the true religion, and given it to
US"
Our nation, too, has an ins piration for moving.
machines and india-rubber and dnguerreotvpes,
but very small perception of the meaning Of the
twenty-seventh verse of the tenth chapter of Luke.
But let us have patience for truth makes its way,
though at snaiPs pace.
As this world now is, it seems more desirable to
be smart ana wicked, than to be good and stupid
bat neither are desirable, and neither bring desira-
bic results. We must look to the time when men
can be both good and smart ia that time the lion
may lie down with the lamb, but also, in Wall
Will the 'bear" drag down the nose of the "bull"
That will be singular time, when men get their
living by honest work, and not by ingenious hocus
pocus, and 1t will be better time for niggers than
this.
Some people have notssbeen to negro meeting
some have;-l have, and cheap as was the noise
made, and common as was the theology, it was
genuine and unaffected mostly untaught, and /
enjoyed, as they did, the free rocking style of
giving way to the sense of the moment and shout
ing, or dancing, or rolling about as the impulse
seized them
ooh, God Oh, Lord =" shouted woman ues,
me-
"Oh Lord
Set me up
'Set me the rock I.
Set me on the rock edge ways -
ooh, Lord
"Set me up edge-ways"
| suppose she had some distant reference to tho
Rock OF Ages ut any rate, she said what she chose
and 1t no doubt answered her purpose, and was az
good as singing through the nose, or growing wes
ry with dull discourse, or burning gilt paper
practices in which some religious nations indulge
Niggers are not only religious--they are wags;
yet the genius for humOr is held to be an indica-
ton Of the very highest cpabity in its possessor
When my granther Fowler, away back in those
Connecticut times when clergymen owned q few
slaves caught his Niger Cuff bowling and fussing
like u Greek priest before ugly wooden image
tLat he had cut out, he said:
"Whats this? What's this, Cuff"
For a m:mont Cuff was silent, but he looked up
and said; -
"Why, Massa Fowa, whiteman steal niger
nigger no like white-mHn. White-mans God let
him steal nigger-nigger no like whte-man's God.
MasSa Fowla mako his God, and he like him; Cuff
make his God, and then he know what he is, and
he like him, too. Wah, Wah, Massa Fowa."
Again, on a time, my friend, v H., asked An
thony Rox superb engine driver, on the Ohio
river, how he came to get free,
"Why, Massa Vincent, my health was very bad
when was in Kentucky, couldn't do no kind OF
work; was very feeble: twas es' much as
could do to hoe my own garden and eat the sass;
and the missus that owned me see that | was
mis- able niggcr-one OF the mis- ablest kind. So
said to her: 'Missus, I'm mis- able nigger and
amt worth nothing. and :hink you'd better sell
ne, I'm such mIs'abe nigger.' Now Massa
vincent was such poor nigger that missus
agreed to sell me for hundred dollars, and
agreed to try 10 work AMI earn the money to pay
her, and did, and my health has been getting bet
ter ever since, and | 'spccks | made nbout nine
hundred dollars that time out of that niger =
Wah, Wah, Massa Vincent"
Bat with all this charming ioty and wageish.
ness. the niger has terrible capacities for revenge
and hatred (which opportunity may developed as in
st. Domingo), and which ought to convince tho
skeptic that he is a man, not Daboon; and when
ever our southern partners quit US and begin 70
take care OF their niggers themselves, they will
learn that they are no Joke.
The nigger is no Joke, and 20 baboon; he is sim
ply black-man, and | say; Give him fair play
and let us see what he will come to.
Mr. Culvert geologist, from Australia, recent
y read paper before the British Association, in
which he affirmed tnat gold found in forty
codnties, and over area of $4,000 square miles.