Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1855-12-29


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all hierachies and piestly machinery, then
wish were n nigger with such large capaci-
ties for enjoying The PRESENT, however absurd.
There was something exquisiiely fine, and
true, too, in the reply iha, the Egyptian made
to Newman, who had held forth to him for an
hour about the mysteries and dogmas of Oxfold
divinity.
God, he said, has giveh you English many
revelations he has told ydi how 10 make ships
and looking glasses, and dictionaries and mousse
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 Inspiration for now
ng-machines, and India rubSer and daguerreo-
types, but very small perception of the mean.
ing Of the twenly-sevcnih verse Of the tenth
chapter Of Luke. But let us have patience,
for truth makes its way, though 4, a snail S
pace.
As this world now is, ii seems more dosira-
BILE to be smart and wicked, thaa TO be good
and stupid but neither are desirable, and nei-
ther bring desirable results. We must look
to the time when men can be- boh good and
smart in that time the lion may lie down
with the lamb, but Also in Wall street, the
bull will not gore the hear, neither will the
bear drag down the nose of the bull. That
will be a singular time. when men get their
living by homes, work, and not by ingenious
hocus pocus and il will be better time for
niggers than this.
Some people have moi been 10 a negro meet
ing-some have IL have, and cheap as was
the noise made, and common as was the theol-
ogy, it was genuine and unaffected, mostly un-
taught; and enjoyed, as they did, the free,
rollicking style of giving way TO the sense oil
the moment, and shouting, or dancing, or roll
ling about, as the impulse seized them
oh, God Oh, Lord 8 shouted a woman
'Oh, Lord
Set me up
Set me on the rock
Set me on the rock edge-ways! =
'Oh, Lord
Set me up edge-waysn
suppose she had some distant reference tc
the Rock of Ages at any rate, she said whaI
she chose, aud it no doubt answered her pur.
pose, and was as good as singing through the
nose, or growing very weary with dull dis.
course, or burning gilt paper-practices il
which some religious nations indulge.
Niggers are not only religious-ihey are
wags yet the genius for humor is held to be
an indication Of the very highest capabiliiy in
its possessor. When my gran'ther Fowler
away back in those Connecticut times wher
clergymen owned few slaves, caught his mig.
ger Cuff bowing and fussing like a Greek
priest, before an ugly wooden image tina, he had
cut ont, he said
whats this Wha,'t this, Cuffr
For moment Cuifwas silent, but he looked
up, and said;
why, Massa Fowla, whiie-man steal mig
ger--nigger no like whiie-man. Whiie.man' i
God let him steal nigger-nigger no like
whiie-man's God. Massa Fowler make hi:
God, and ho like him, Cuff make his God
and liru he know what he is. and he like him
too. Wah, wah, Massa Fowla.'
Again, on a time, my friend, V. H., asked
Anthony Rox, a superb engne-driyer, 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 jes
as much as could do 10 hoe my own garden
and eat the sass and the missus that owned
me see that was mis- able nigger--one oi
the mis- 'ablest kind So ] said to her Mis-
sus, I'm mis- able Niger, and | aint worth
nothing, and think you'd better sell me, I'm
such a mis- able ngger. Now, Massa Vim
cent, / was such poor niger that missus
agreed to sell me for hundred dollars, and
agreed 10 try to work aud earn the money to
pay her, and | did, and my health has been
getting better ever since, and 'specks made
about nine hundred dollars that time, out ol
that niger! Wah, wah, Massa Vincent
But with all this charming jollity and wag-
gishness, the niger has terrible capacities for
revenge and hatred (Which opportunity may de-
velope, as in ST Domingo,) and which ought to
to convince the skeptic that he is man, no, a
baboon ; and whenever our southern partners
quit US, and begin to take care uf their niggers
themselves, they will learn that they are no
joke.
The niger is no joke, and no baboon he is
simply back-man, and ! say Give him fair
play and let US see what he will come 10.