North Branch democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Pa.) 1854-1867, 1862-09-03

opened the bottle and poured out some, and
the Kernel took good swig. also took a
snifter, and We both pronounced it No.
ticker, and loyal too.
"Now," ses /, Kernel, can you tell me
why this whiskey is like the Constitution Of
the United States p "No," ses he, 81 don't
see eny similarity" oval" ses [, "Ker
mel, this whiskey was made for White Nen
jest as the Consttushin was.h Ses he, "Ma-
jer, how do you know it was made for white
men 2" WAL" ses l, " it is jest as plain to
me as daylight. You see, Kernel, the Ticker
agrees with you. 1t tastes good. 1t won't
hurt you; in a word, it corresponds with ma
tur. That's sign it was made fer YOU
Jest so it was with the Consttushin. 1t ap-
plies to white men exactly, and they've al
ways got along together with it fust rate
Now you give this whiskey to the niggers,
and they get drunk on it, and cut up all sorts
of scrapes, but white men, whom it was made
for, know jest how to use it, and it don't do
them eny hurt. Jest so with the Constltu-
shin; you apply it to niggers and it is Jest
as bad for 'em as whiskey. They don't know
how to use it. an they'll destroy everything.
an make themselves an everybody else ten
times worse off"
"Wal," ses the Kernel, ses he, "Maior. T
wish could See how it is that the Constitu-
shin don't apply to niggers jest as much as
to white men," Ses |, " Kernel you don't
look at the Consttushun thru constitushun-
al spcctacles. That Chicago Platform both
ers YOU "Now," ses |, A" Kernel, eff III
make you Consttutishunal Teliskope will
you promise NE to use it? If you will, it
will be about as good guide to you as eff
staid here all summer myself" Ses |, 4" it
will show the Constitushin as it is, an the
Union as it was.'" When | spoke Of this,
Linkin sed he'd be tickled eenamost to deth
eff Iwould make him one So told HIM
| could do it in one day, an that although /
was very anxus to get hum, yet I'd fix this
up before started. So jest went up 20
my room and began to plan. | had pair
of old spectacles which Gineral jackson
give me, an knew that the glasses were
jest as sound constitushunal glasses as were
ever looked thru. SO took 'em out of the
cases, and got magnifyin glass and put be
tween 'em an fixed 'em in long narrer box.
1t took me about all day before l got it fin
ished.
When it was all done, looked thru it, an
you never see such glorions site. | could
see jest as eff it was the hull Union lawn out
before me. There was the Stars and Stripes,
an the eagle, and thirty millions of white
people, all happy and contented, an JOY an
prosperity smilin everywhere. An the sky
seemed to be bendn down so as to almost
tech the arth an away up in the clouds could
see rails OF light streemn forth, and thought
| could even see the angil robes of Washing
ton, an Jefferson, an Madison, an the old
Gineral iookin down, an rite over the hull
was the words, Glory and Peace" in crate
big letters. 1t was raley beautiful. | got
| lookin at it an forgot all about myself in
sort of reveree, and wen cum to, found I'd
been cryin, because you see, that was the
Union as 1t audS, an not as it is now. Tn fact.
wen got awake found it was eenamosl
pitch dark, an so Linkin couldn't look thru
the Teliskope that mite. Then got piece
of chalk, an marked in "Linkin Telescope"
and took it to him.
"There," ses I, Kernel that Teliskope is
done an Tomorrow You kin take look at the
Union as it was, and the Constitution as it is."
Ses |, 4" the scene is a glorious one."-So /,
left the Teliskope in Linkns room that mite
an went to bed.
The next mornin, after 7 got my breakfast,
l went in, "and now," ses !, Kernel, we
we must try the Teliskope." So thought
I'd look thru fust to see if the glasses were
set all rite, wen | never was took aback so in
my life. Instead of the joy and happiness,
and the smilln faces, and the thirty millions
of white people, the rails of light in the sky
with "GLoRY and PEACE on EN-. all was
dark and dismal. All | could see was some
1000, 900 of niggers, and war, and bloodshed,
and misery, camps full of sick soers and
broken Wagons, Wlmmln and children cryin,
and the sky was black, and away up on
black cloud, in letters still blacker, | could
see the words NEGRO FREEDOM and WAR;
jumped back as ef was hit wen saw,
it. Ses Linkin, "What's the matter, Majer p
Ses "Kernel that Teliskope is all out of or
der. It amt rite" But Linkin sed he
hadn't teched it, SO was puzzled. So after
thinkin awhile, ses /, "Kernel, was there
ybody here last mite after went away?'
eyes," ses he. Boss Seward cum for
while an talked over matters" Ses /, /" Did
he tech this ?,' "Wai he was lookin kinder
inquirin at it and tclsd him what is was,
and he seemed to be greatly strck, and sx-
amned it very cIus."
"Now," ses 7, that ackounts for it. The
pesky critrer has been playin one of his cum