Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1865-10-05
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He Meets a ChivaIry-Tbeir Interview.
written for the Cincinnati commorcial.1

Written for the Cincinnati Commercial.
SAINTS REST (wich is In the Stait of !
Moo Jersy), Sept. II, 1865. !
Girral BOanerges Pogram, NV Blissis
sippy, who demonstrated his devoshun t,
the CRATE principles NV constitooshunal lib
erty by servin the confedrasy as Il commits
sary, wrote me TO meet him in Washinton
He he'd jest reserved his pardon, and th'
fust yoose he made NV his privileges wui
to cum to Washinton to meet me for con
silltashun on the hopes and prospex NV the
Dimocrlsy.
Ginral Pogram is fine specimen NV the
ginooine, shivelrIls sutherner. Six feet :
inches in hite, he can chaw more terbacker
spit with greater accooracy, and walk up
rite under hevyer lode NV whisky than
any man l ever met. 4 unsophisticatid
| child NV nacher, he scorns the polish and
sham NV wut is called civilization. Never
shel I forgit the litenin-glanse NV con-
tempt he dartid at me, when l askt him to
qualify his whisky with a little water
Ginral Pogram opened by lamentin the
untimely decease NV so many suthern voters
| in the late diabolikle war Linkin and his
helyuns made upon EN-.
replied, to-wunst, that that deficit Good
be easy made up. IL hev," sez /, "bin II
considrin this matter. AT atrifin expen-
ditoor NV money the tide NV emigrashen
from Europe kin be turned southward, and
the places NV yoor slawtered heroes be filled
with the Irishman, the German, the =
"Liar theefl murdrer nigger-steeler y
showtid the Ginral, ,seezin me by the throte,
and brandishin his cane over me.
III Al
the "Yoonyun ez it wuz, l gaspt;
"Why this violence?'
'Oh, nuthin,n replied the Ginral, relaxin
his holt; II shel be electid to Congris,
and ez I shell hev to mix with yoo YAM
KEGS, wuz practisin the old tacktics jist
to git my hand in agin. Wuz yoo afeerd?
Bless yoor sole, we woodent kill northern
Dime1rat for no mOney--we need EN-.
But" continnered he, ''this emigrashen
skeem Nv yoorn won't work. Yer Irish
man and yer German wood work, but
they'd want wages!"
"Walp sez l, astounded, not seein wat
he wuz drivin at.
"Can't yoo see," sez he. "They'd earn
money, they'd save it. Our habits is ex-
pensive, and now that nigger-breedin is
dun away with, we can't sell half dozen
niggers per annum, to keep up our expen-
ses. Alasl (teers sutfused his beenin eyes
ez he spoke,) the last niger sold wuz ez
white ez VOC are my son Tom wIlz her
father, and got 81, 500 for her in Mobeel,
when she wuz I6. l sold her to the Pres
ident NV the Suthern Society for the con-
vershm NV the Heathin. l knockt a hun
dred off the price NV the gal, on that ac
count. But to resoom.
"The furriner works and saves suthin-
we won't work, can't sell no more niggers,
and git hard up, and hev to sell land to
the fTlrriner. Then, he's OUR EKAL!
and wot becomes of the anshent shiv-
elrv u
dBut,n sez /, ''vou he'd the poor whites
among YOU afore the war. What wuss
wood furriner be ?"
s'Them poor whites was pekoolyer
class-we KEEP EN- COS we he'd to hev EN- to
vote. We allowd EN- to squat on our
lands, never let EN- learn read. and KEEP
ther skins full NV cheep whisky. When
wun NV got to know too much, we either
killed him orsent him North, keepin among
Us lest sieh ez we wantid. With our Door
whites doin our votin at hum, WOO Dime
krats doin it up North. and the niggers
doin our labor. trooly we wuz A fayord
people"
"But who ara Won roin TO git TO do voor
lobor?n
nThe nigcersD
0But voo1 bev TO nav him wagis ?,
tcNot much. The Northern Iegislach
ers are passin laws agin ther comm there.
SO they cant git away from us, and Jest ez
soon ez the thrice-accursed hirelin soIiers
are Withdrawal, our laws is in force, and
then wat good is a nigger's contract to
him? Methinks the cGss of Kanan is still
onto him. Linkin to the contrary notwith-
standin. I shell he kind to mine-T shpI