Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1858-10-21
Letter 20 PaFs0n BF0Wnlow
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A REPLY TO THE PARSONS OPINION OF
AMALGAMATIoN IN cINcINNATLJ
"Nost potent, grave and reverend f''ss''
Suffer me to correct few mistakes 'eat
you have made in your opinion OF oinoin-
matt. l am one OF yonr couh,ryinen' q
Tennessean by birth, therefore hope you
will hear me with patience. Il is true, you
have poor reputation for possessing any of
the Christian virtues: patience, piety, or
anything else that is good. Stin, can
not consent you are SO great bear as you
are represented: nor do l believe that you
are utterly lost to all sense of decency, or
entirely void of charity. There are some
sterling qualities in your character; you
would have made an excellent pot-house
politician, especially Southern one, you
hate the north with SO much earnestness,
and the nigger would be the especial object
of your pious solicitude. In your remarks
about Cincinnati you make use Of the fol-
lowing:
. ~ was struck with one fact, that every
negro woman ! met with a child In her
arms, or one or more small ones following,
carried, or accompanied, mulatto-no
oiack children. This is the work of pious
Abolitionists or freedom shriekers."
Now, Parson, what 1dislike Is, that you
have clothed very little truth in great
amount of falsehood. 1t is true that ma
iority of the children (colored) 10 our city
are mulattoes; but it is utterly false that
thsy are the fruits of Abolitionists or Free
dom Shreikers. No, Sir; zoe are from the
Slavery iShriekers
Do you not know, Parson, that you have
offended large portion of the young scions
of the South, in saying they are of Abol-
ton or Yankee amalgamation? No, Sir;
we draw our blood from royal loin She
lordly planters of the South are our sires,
and we are too proud to disclaim our con-
nexlon. Though as in your case, their
act may sometimes cause US regrets, aye,
tears; yet they are our fathers; we are
blood of their blood, bone of their bone.
sour fathers have eaten sour grapes, and
set their children's teeth on edge?" You
know, Parson, from observation and your
own personal experience in Knoxville, Ten
nessee, that nine-tenths of the mulatto chill
dren born in the South are of arlslocratIc
parentage. Poor white trash, in the es-
timatioa of our dusky mothers, ''aln't no
whar." From The cradle to the grave, the
negroes in the South are taught to look
upon this class of dependents with con-
tempt. 1t is no strange matter at all to
see sisters in the picaninny and the young
mistress. The South has very little pre-
judice to colors-thick lips fiat feet, kinkey
heads and black skins are qualities not to
be dsspised. You exhibit discretion iu ex-
posing these things. That's right-never
tell tales out of school. Honor among
thieves forever-you know it too, you sly
old fox.
Parson you ought to know that we re-
ceive annually into the Queen City hun
dreds of muattoes and quadroons from the
South, bearing in their veins the best
blood of its aristocracy.
We have no end to Col. so and SOS cihl-
dren; Senator such ones daughter. Gov.
so and SOS son. &C. can point out these
facts, and will do so if you don't behave
better. We are willing as Southerners to
overlook your vulgarisms, thought often
brings the blush 10 ones cheek. In Hea-
ven's name, teuthe truth. We are some
times little ashamed Of being bastards-
but then the idea of our fathers being the
F. FPS of the South compensates somewhat
for our otherwise loss of character.
remain, respectfully, yours,
OITADROON