The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1865-09-12
Mr.. Nasby Sarches the Scriptures.
SAINTS REST, (which is in 6rol
the stait Of Moo GersyO
Aug. IL, 1865.

inc stait Oh MOO dersyJ
Aug. IL, 1865.
The contemplashun NV the Niger
hcz, in the time past, given me a grate
deel NV trouble. Nigger hez to me
been inkubus, nitemare. i never
Good see why the species wuz created,
never Good / understand why they wuz
put onto the face If the earth, any
more than todes or uther disgustin OBJ
gecks. But last mite lite burse onto
me- seed it all! 3
I wuz low spcrited AMI deprest.-
jeff Davis pinin in loathsum dun
gun-the English capitalists mour-
min for their cotton bond, and refasin
to, be comforted because the Confedera-
cy is not-Mrs. Surrat danglin in the
a.r-pilitary courts plenty and habis
cOrpusis skaroe-the loosenis with
which people put their mummy into
7:30s-the soljers 'returnln and going
for constooshenl dimikrats, and the
general decentralization NV Dimocracsy,
all conspired to give me the horrors,
and to add to my distress, the Jug was
out! To avoid madness took up the
Bible Il board with a Justis NV the
Peace who has to keep one to sware
witnesses on) and happend to open at
the 9th chapter of Jeneysis. You know.
all about that blessid chapter '
Noer, after the water went down,
cum down from Aryrat, went into
farm in and planted grapes extensive.
One day he took a nip to much, and
laid down with insflichent clothin ons
to hun. His I'd son Ham seed him in
that fx, and when Noer awoke, while
his hair was still pullin, he Gust him,
and his posterity, and said they shood
be servants forever, 9iaLiD ''el
Ham (Which in the original Hebrew
signifies hind-quarter Nv a hog,) wuz
the father of the Afrikins, and they hev
been slaves ever since. s"'
] seed lite to-wunst--I realized the
Importance NV the niger. He is the
connectin link in the chane Nv circum-
stances which led to the formashen of
the demekratice party-he hoz kept
the blessed old masheen runnin to this
day. 07.f.s.'l' F..f t) "a
Observe. IVA
Whiskey or wine, (Which is the same
thing,) made Noer tight.
Ham seed Noer inebriated. Id g Il
Noer Gust Ham, which turned him
into nigger and servant. ,fo
That the skripters init be fulfilled,
the children Nv Ham wuz brot to Am
erika, to be servance here.
Wikked men set themselves agin the
skripters, and tried to make men NV the
niggers.
The Dimekrat party ariz for the pur-
pose NV keepin the nigger down, ane
that deliteful bizness hez given them
employment for morn 80 years.
Ez / shet the book l Good not help
remarkin in the words NV the sammist:
Good Lord upon what slender threads,
Hangs everlasting things"
Sposin Noer, instid Nv plantin grapes
he'd gone to practisin law, or in the
grocery bizniss, or byin produce on,
or putin up patient medi-
Gins, he woodent have eust Ham, Ham
woodent hev turned black, there wood
ent hev bin no niggers, no Ablishnests,
and consequently no Dimekrats. -
Or, sposis all of Hams children had
taxed the diptheris, and dice the same
results would hev follered.
Whiskey'nade nigger, niger made
Take away whiskey and
nigger and Dimocrisy woodent be Of
no more akkount than q one-armed
man at a raisen. n -.
Whiskeyl Niger! Dimocrisy!-.
Oh, savory trinity.
We dom none of us read the skrip-
ters euuff. 4fi h.
e PETROLEUM V. NAsBY.
Late Paster. NV the church Of the
Moo Dispensashun. =.