Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1855-12-08
rom Putram's Monthly for Drccm
ABOUT HIGGERS.

'nto Putnam 2"
B., Yes, Mrs. Grundy, am.
Nipgers admitted into the best palaces il
New York, and into churches and on some first
class plantations, clergyman is kept, whose bust
ness IL is to get them into .aven. Then why moi
into Putnam" say?
..,Why9 They are nothing but niggers!'
True enough; and you? You are nothing but
Mrs Erundy, yet you get into "Pu:nam," and
otter than some folks think you ought to.
Now to begin; am sorry for him, and do not
respect the "boot-blacklng," "wHiting," tobacco
chewing" "old clothes, 'threeccnt-iob" nigger,
Mrs. "rundy, any more than you do, though do
not set what else he well be, if white folks
insist upon his being that; but do admire that
barbane spendor which hangs about the tyue mig
ger-that sable and glossy skin, that ivory mouth,
that 1.-THE and stalwdrt form: like, too, the eN:le
grace and inexhaustible kindliness which belong
I to the negro woman, well as to you, Mrs. Grun-
/ dy; which drew from Mungo Park, in the wds of
i Africa, this tribute to woman
but do rot recolcct," says Mungo, "a single
instance Of hard-heartedness towards me in wo-
man.. In all my wandering and wretchedness, |
iound them uniformly kind and conpassiOnate and
can truly say (he is speaking of niggers as MIR.
Lcdyard Las '!oquenty said before me, to woman
never addressed myself in the language Of de-
cency and friendship without receiving q decent
ana friendly answer; II | was hungry thirsty,
wet or sick they did not hesitate like the men to
per!orm generous action. In SO free and so
KIND manner did they contribute to my relief.
that tif was dry, drank the sweetest draught,
and'il nungry,ate the coarsest mOrse with double
relish"
Now, like these things about niger women
and so do you Mrs. e.. confess it. Well tender
as am OF your feelings, have decided to treat
niggers as see fit here and hereafter; and if you
will not dissolve the Union for month or two,
Will say few words, because wantto say them
and because their dark tropical luxuriant grace
will pleasantly vary the pac-faccs which so charm
US In the pages of the cresciye Putnam"
Gun has come to he the synonym for a race.
which is varied by the epithet damned Niger"
whether applied to the Lcasty Bozal, who grovels
IN the rlce-swamps Of Carolina, or the Toussaint
Louverture, who orders kingdom. The origin Of
this singular title, no man knows but | suggest
that, as the nigger has always more cuffs than cop
pers, 1t may have started from that; the curious
will look in Roget orCrabbe; their latter itlc(quoted
saOove) is a compound word, and will be found in
no dictionary.
1t is not necessary for me 10 defend niggcrs, for
believe in the law of force-t hat the strong man
must rule the weak; and if any man, black or
white, is unable to master himself, somebody must
master him. Now, hope the reader will not 90
off like sky rocket and say:
"f@e:e. always said so-that the niggers must
be slaves and must be bought and sold like cattle
and now Putnam says it, and it is So"
Putnam does not say SO, and | don't "Put-
nam" says what | do and say:
i,r'i dna, 'ne slrong must govern the weak-nuSt
% oua'f1, ~. gu'ae' support ana encourage the weak,
hnu ti"' must De dohe wisely ior their mu'ua'
WI
Aha i.u nen II uohe 10 dement, the one sac only
'e stroES-thenI 1t is slavery, although 1t Is not
aMHys eh"ttei slavery ior there Is good deal OF
tt Ms s'ue VI Nhason ana DIXON line. ,o
NVW, WhaleVer peheht the nigSer has GOT IN
any, 1t has been no part Of the white mans plan;
ne mas never talked turkey" to the black man
once uhu thls' IN SO many years, 1t Is not the lar
lnins' Inc private chaplain oi the Cotton Press
says: :,
Oh my GEAR Mr.. "ailys' he's going to, pretty
soon; hes going to employ clerGymelr, and save
'hGir souls.
put am inclined to believe that patent steam
'aNaton y-theJob-cheap, won't last; but
others thlhk differently. Many say that God has
made the niger on purpose to he the slave and
snoeDiacK OF the White man; they say, "lt not,
why doh the niggor rise and cut the white mans