The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1866-05-25
Che ataaeotk 5sftsrsoaiaa
ir. Nasty aud the RECONSTRUCTED Meet
to Congratulate the Country upon the
Result OF the Memphis sOutbreak-He
Dtscourseth upon the Niger and
Runs against n snau.
CoNPEDEn.rs X ROADS, twich ia IN the
Stait OF Bentucky,) May IL, 1850,

The news from Memphis filed the
soles NV the Dimocrisy NV Kentucky
with undilooted joy. There at last
the Ethiopian wuz taught that to him
at least the spellin book is a seeled
volume, and that the gospel is not for
him save ez he gets it filtered through
a sound, constooshnel, Dimekratic
preecher. We met at the Corners
last mite to jolliiy over the bravo acts
NV our Memphis trends, and wu7
the speaker. / addressed them on
the subjick NV the nigger-hs wants,
needs and capacities. subiclk per-
NIT me to state I tlatter myself un.
.derstand. .1.r..
Probably no man in the Yoonited
States hez given the nigger more
study, or devoted more time TO O
pashcnt investigashen NV this species
NV the brute creashen, than the un-
dersigred. have contemplated him
sittin and standin, sleepin and wakin,
at labor and idlcness,in every shape
in fact, ceptin ez free man, wich
situashen is too disgustin tor proud
Caucashen to contemplate him, and
when he ariz before my minds eye
in that shape, | alluz turned shudrin
away.
l he'd proceeded in my discourse
with a flowin sale. Its easy demon
stratin anythin yoor awjence wants
to believe, aud wich their interest
lies in. For instants, l hev notist
wicked men who wuz somewhat wed.
ded to sin, genrally lean toward Uni
verslism, men heavily developed in
the back NV the neck are easily con-
vinst NV the grand trooths NV free
love, and them es is too fond NV ma.
kin money TO rest on the seventh day,
hev serious doubts ez to whether the
observance NV the Sabbath is bindln
onto EN-. l, not liliin to work at all
am firm bleever in slavery and wood
be firmer eli Good get start enuf to
own a niger.
| he'd gone on and proved con
cloosively from comparison NV the
iizzikle structer NV the Airikin and
the Caucashen that the niggor wuz u
beast, and not a human bein, and that
consekently we he'd a perleck rite to
catch him, and tame him, and yoose
him, ez we do other wild animals
Finishin this he'd NV my discourse,
glode easily into a history NV the
tlood-explained how Noer got tite,
and Gust Ham, coDdemnin him and
his posterity to serve his brethren
forever, wich l insisted give us an
indnhitnhn warranty deed IN all Nv
EN- for all time.
l warmed up on this elokently.-
"Bchold my brethren the beginnin NV
Dimocrasy' l sed. "Fust the wine,
(Which wuz the antetype Nv our whis-
ky) wuz the beginnin. Wine Tor
whisky wuz necessary to the foun-
dation Nv the party, and it wuz forth.
comm. But the thing was not COM
plete. 1t did its work on Noer, but
yet there wuz achin void. There
was no Niger in the world, and
without niggor there could he no
Dimocrasy. Ham, my friends, wuz
born n brother NV Japheth and wuz
like unto him, and NV course could
not be a slave. Whisky wuz the in
strument to bring him down and IL
fetched him. Ham looked upon his
father and wuz Gust, and the void wuz
filed. There wuz wisky and niggcr
and upon them the foundashens NV the
party wuz laid broad and deep. Me.
thinks, my brethren, when Ham went
out from the presence Nv his father,
black in the face ez the ace Nv spades,
eff | may be allowed to yoose the eX-
preston, bowin his back to the bur.
dens Shem and Japheth piled onto
him with alacrity, that Democracy,
Chen in the womb Nv the future, kick
ed lively and clapped its hands,
There wuz niger TO enslave, and
whisky to bring men down to the
pint NV cnslavin him. There wuz
whisky to make men incapable Nv Ia
bor-whisky 10 accompany horse
racin, and poker playin, and sich ra-
tional amoosements, and nigger
Gust especially that lie mite sweat to
the means. Observe the tit
Miss Nv things! Bless the Lord, my
brethren, for whisky and the nigger,
for without EN- there could be no
Dimocrisy, and yoor beloved speaker
mite hcv owned farm in Moo Jersey
and bin a votin tho whig ticket to-
day."
At this pint venerable old freed
man who wuz a sittin quietly in the
meetin ariz, and asked el he mite ask
a question. Thinkin a what splendid
opportoonity there wood be NV dem
onstratin the sooperiority NV The
Caucashen over the Aflikin race,
answered "yes," gladly.
"Wall Mas'r!' sed the old imbec.
lie, sis l beest?"
"My venerable friend there amt
nary doubt NV it,"
"Is my old woman old beastess,
tool
"Indubitably,' replied |. .
"And my children, Is they little
beasts and beastesses?" t
"Onquestionably." 'yl
Den a yaller feller aint but half a
beast, is hef" -.-
"My friend" sed /, "that question
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