The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1863-04-03


two armies and kutchin' it all round.
Oullered gemmen here at de Mort didn't
ak 'em. Pose we wants dem dirty black
niggers cirklatin' round here takin' bis
ness out'n our hands Is we gwine to shave
for Elk cents and black boots for two cents
like dry COW? No, sab, no! My senti-
ments is dat if white folks had waited
till cullered people and niggers had axed
'em to fight bout 'em dere wouldn't bin no
fghtin', no way. Dey can't come it over
dis chile, amt gwine to get my shoulder
behind musket! No, sab! an what's
more, aOhite sodgers don't aOant as no
MORN zoe ,Oont to go! Dis yere countryll
be safer to let de white folks fight it out,
an to let &c cullered gemmen stay at home
and mind dere own bisness!
In 'clusion, fellah-citizens, and in de-
language of Mr.. Hamlet when he stabbed
General Caesar in de House of Represen-
tatives, we cullord gemmen is all got to
Root hog or die"
At the conclusion Of Mr.. Crows re-
marks, there was every appearance of the
meeting breaking up in general row. The
President, in his endeavor to restore order,
received shower of decayed potatoes and
oyster shells, which, fortunately, bounced
off. In the midst of the storm, Secretary
Toney rose and read from the Conscript
Law the penalty attached to interference
with enlistments, and the crowd calmly
simmered down.
Uncle Ike, an aged contraband, obtained
the floor, and said: "Mr Chairman: Ole
Uncle Ike amt got de larnin' dat nigger's
got what fust sot down; but Use got sense
huff to know he done tole de truf, and
muffin but de truf. Mr.. Chairman, dis ole
niger members nearly hundred years go,
when de Britishers done tuck dis town an
burn it all down. Fore de Lord, seems to
me only last week; Mass Fred, ole mas
ter's Oldest boy, he got shot same month,
what makes me member it. Well, Mr..
Chairman, from dat time till August, Ole
Uncle Ike never knowed what twas to be
hungry, cold or sick. When de soldgers
obir bout WarrentOn las August, one OBJ
'em tell Inc, 'you's country band, yous
free, come long wild us, you sha'n't work
no more. JUS like ole fool niger, comes
along wild him and brings my chile, gal
bout twenty. Bredren, dat white man got
heap to answer for to God Almighty, for
'suadin' me off: Las week my poor gal
tuck de smallpox, what's KILN so many
of us, and the people she lib wild laid her
ont on lie pdcenenttO die Gan actual fact.
Now, poor old uncle Ike he here in strange
place by he self, and must soon follow his
poor child. Bredren, if Old Nick got one
place hotter'n another, he's gwine to save
it for desc Bobolishionists what make
poor niger suffer so much. Mass'r Wick
life he tell ole Lovejoy, odder day, dat he
could save de ship of State by THROWN
overheard all &c Abolitionists, and save us
poor niggers, too. Lor', Lor', Mass Charles,
why didn't you frow 'em ODER, and den,
may be, poor ole uncle Ike could git to see
his old master once more fore he die!"
The remarks of old uncle Ike and Mr.
Cole, had such convincing effect upon
the assembly, that the efforts of the Presi
dent, who was the only darkey in the
crowd who had received five dollar bill
from the Government, were totally inet-
fectual for the preservation of order. The
barrel upon which he was mounted was
kicked from under him, but as he fortu-
nately fell upon his head, he sustained no
personal injury. While down, the crowd
took the precaution to cover him with
layer Of oyster shells, under which was
substratum of ancient eggs and Seventh
street mud The crowd then dispersed,
with three groans for the Aberltionists
Do not imagine, from the tone of this
letter, that belong to the class of slavery
propagandists. On the contrary, could
wish that the negroes were all in Guinea
to-day, as free as the sunbeams that warm
that rather too genial shore. 1t is one
thing, however, to turn these poor crea
lures loose, merely changing their condi-
ton from vassals to vagabonds, and quite
another to bestow the boon of liberty so
that it shall not become double curse up
on both black and white. Let the sober
minded people of Missouri take heed that
the spirit of revolutionary radicalism now
abroad in that community does not lead
them into this fatal error whilst they are
taking measures for the safe and gradual
change Of the labor system in that State.