Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1861-03-02
RAILROAD DIALOGUE.
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rHk YANKEE PEpDLER AND TIE soUrHERNER'
Tbss f~olIouing oonssssatioa took place on the
carr az the Now Haven Railroad shortly after the
November election. One Of the speakers was .
peculiar looking man, with a thin. pale face, thin
lips, sharp black eyes, q quantity of long, black
aud-gray hair hanging from his chin and around
bic mouth, and also about his ears and behind q
slouched black felt hAt-eyidently q character.
lie held a little parcel in his hand, wrapped in
brown paper The other person, who sat q few
seats ahead on the other side of the car, was a
snug-built, well-drsssed. good looking man.
just after emerging from the tunnel at AID
street, "a" the fret named, got up and went to
''B," the second, and putting his leg over the arm
Of The seat, planting a good large foot with a
coarse boot on it, on the cushion, thus commenced:
a. Good morning. Captain how are your
B. Very we'll, how are your
"A. 'Tolerable. Been down Soulful
B. Yes
a. Going homer
b. Yes
"A. Going down again this winter
D. Yes, il the damned abolitionists don't kick
up such a bobbery that it won't be pleasant
A.. i guess they won'p land opening bis bun
die he showed the Captain q small imitation
bronze head.) Captain that's a fine head 20,
DON'T see one such in o thousand. That's q grea
bead
B. Whose is itr
A. why, that's the likeness Of John Brown
a.grest nan he was
b. He got hung, didn't her
A. Wall, yes, but that don't argue anything
agin him a great many good NEE get hung tn
6rst straightforad men in o cause, like job
Brown, are apt to get hung. Benedict Arnol
didn't get hung, though l suppose you'd allow b
ought to no, it's your honest men in good cause
that's apt to get hung. Traitors and such Xix
generally employ a good, smart lawyer, like Judg
Roosevelt, Caleb Gushing or Rufus Choatelthoug
he's dead now.) and they generally get cleal
specially if there's a niger IN the case.'
B. DO you know what I'd do if you brougb
ths, thing into my store to self
A. No what would your
B. If you didn't go out quick I'd kick yOu.'
A. Would youi l wouldn't come, then; bu
it's q great head, Captain.
B. why don't you 60 down South and tai
sof'
A. When l hunt such varments, l hunt Wit
along gun and coarse shot
B. If you did 60, they would kill you 10 les
than tweuty-iour hours. The slaves themselve
would kill yOu.'
A. I don't doubt they might,if they are as degri
dsd as some Of their masters. l don't doubt
slave might gss SO degraded by association tina
bs'd kill a man that came to set him free.'
D. 'rd sOoaer live down there than among y0l
danced abolitionists.'
. A. I've nc sort OF objections. il you like il
tut I'd rather stay here. Perhaps you'd like L
~ort On a rice plantation for your ~vistSals anG
clothes. sSd throw IN all the children yOa could
rGss:'
3. White men cao's work on The riee plaata
iious; mono bat niggers can do it,
A. We'll. ! hold that if there is a plAes OF
Gcd AImights's airta that's SO bad that q whit
mAa eah's live there. and a niger is wiliiag Il
~dsk there, he is sMtiied 10 a dollar a day al least
AID 70 o~u all the ehildseu he eau raise 10 sscs
cursed place. I want 10 SEQ = change about GOV
sad-tbsu I wadt The masters 10 stsy al hose en-