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

[From Punam's Monthly Magazine
What now, are you going to bring the mig
gers into 'Putnami'
Yes, Mrs. Grundy, am.
Niggers are admitted into the best palaces in
New York, and into churches; and on some
frst-class plantations, clergyman is kept
whose business is to get them into heaven
Then why not into Putnam say
'Whyl They are nothing but niggers =
Trna anou.L - s z-Ou ai0 notuinS
but Mrs. Grnndy, yet you get into Putnam.
and onener than some folks think you ought to-
Now.to begin; | am sorry for him, aud |
do not respec, the 'boot-blacking,' waiting
'tobacco-chewing, 'old clothes, three-cent-job'
niger. Mrs. Grundy, any mote than you do,
though do not see what else he can well be,
if we white folks insist upon his being that ;
but | do admire that barbaIic splendor which
hangs about the true nigger-that sable and
glossy skin, that ivory mouth, that 1.-THE and
sialwart form like, too, the fexe grace and
inexhaustible kiudliness which belong to the
negro woman, as well as to you, Mrs. Grundy;
which drew from Mnngo Park, in the wilds
OF Africa, this tribute to woman
But do not recullecl' says Mungo, "a single
man. In all my wandering and wreichedness,
l found them uniformly kind and compassionate;
and ! can truly say The is speaking ofniggersl,
as Mr.. Ledyard has eloquently said before me,
to woman never addressed myself in the
language of decency and friendship without re-
ceiying decent and friendly answer; If was
hungry or thirsty, wet or sick, they did not
hesitate, like the men, to perform generous
action. In so free and SO kind manner did
they contribute TO my relief, that, if was dry,
drank the sweetest draught, and, if hungry,
ate the coarsest morsel with double RELISH
Now, like these things about niger wom-
EN-, and so do you, Mrs. G. 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 a
month or two, / will say a few words, because
| want 10 say them, and because their dark,
tropical, luxuriant grace will pleasantly vary
the pale faces which so charm US in the pages
of the crcscive Putnam
Cuff has come to be the synonym for a race,
which is varied by the epiihet damned niger
whether applied to the beastly BOzal, who grow
els in the rice .swamps of Carolina, or the T0us-
saint Louverture, who orders kingdom. The
origin OF this singular title, no man knows /;
but suggest that, as the nigger has always
more cuffs than coppers, it may have started
from that the curious will look in Roget or
Crabbe their latter title (quoted above) is
compound word, and will be found in no die
.iionary.
Ii is not necessary for me to defend niggers,
for believe in the law offorce-that 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 go ofTlike sky-rocket and say:
There, always said so-that the niggers
must be slaves, and must be bought and sold
like cattle and now Putnam says il, and il
is so.
Putnam does not say so, and don't; Put
nam says what do, and say
That the strong must govern the weak-must
control, guide, support, and encourgage the
weak, and that il must be done wisely for their
mutual benefit.
When it is done to beneft the one side only
the strone-then 1t is slavery, although it is
not always chattel slavery, for there is good
deal of it this side of Mason and Dixon's line
Now, whatever benefit the niger has got
(ifany,) it has been no part of the white mans
plan and has never talked turkey to the black
man once, and this, in so many years, is not the
fair thing. The private chaplain ofthe Cotton
Press says:
'Oh, my dear Mr.. Wallys, he's going to,
pretty soon he's going TO employ cergymen,
anG save their souls