The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1866-05-16
The Colored Millennium.


The Colored Millennium.
There is no doubt that the colored race
is in the ascendant, and that the Caucasi-
an will soon be nowhere. Congress legis-
lates about the privileged colored man day
in and day out, and not one of the orators
ever gets aword in edgeways in favor of
the degraded and contemplate white trash;
the parsons preach on the same text; and
law and divinity are monopolized by the
favored and fortunate people who can
boast of sable complexion. If destiny
has dccreed that things are to be so and
the white man is to be at the bottom of the
political and social pyramid, and the color
cd man on the top Of the heap, there is no
use in quarreling with fate, and the best
thing we can do is to try and wriggle up
little by policy and strategem, and by ac-
quiring some of the traits and characters
tics of which, nature unkindly deprived
us while comforting them with lavish
hand upon her more favored offspring
BY doing SO, we may aspire to an ultimate
equality with the more favored race. In
this way we will not only be rendering to
our colored superiors the greatest of all
homage, the fattery of imitation, but at
the same time afford scope for several nov
Ell branches Of industry adapted to the
tastes and abilities of ladies and gentlemen
Of African descent. Artists in lampblack
will not have their sphere Of duty limited
to professors of nocturnal minstrelsy, but
will be called upon to impart daily gloss
to the faces of all who now present the OBJ
noxious hue of white. We will no longer
see artificial calves exposed or advertised
to give more perfect proportions to the fe-
male neither limbs but artificial heels will
be offered, to enable all to acquire extrem-
tiles of the African model, consisting of a
foot extending both ways and shin plant
ed in the middle. No waterfalls will dis
figure the female occiput, but their crania
will be adorned with genuine wool that
will curl up as tight as the tail of the little
dog that prevented his hind legs from
touching the ground. Phalon may hide
his diminished head and throw his n sht-
blooming perfumes to the dogs, for no
odor will be tolerated except the cutan-
eous exhalations at which fastidious noses
have been in the habit of averting them
selves towards the zenith. BY pursuing
these methods for few generations, and
alton, the degrading distinction of white
SAAA Will VIC SoG Itu VI, slilu Tic lOilS-ucSlF-
ed millennium have been realized at last.
The following illustration Of some revi-
walls of religion and of the piety of some
people, as given several years ago by a
colored preacher in Montgomery, Ala, is
forcible and instructive. Alas must it be
so? ''Bymby 'vivals gone-an' dar dey
lie tall 'nOder 'vival.'
"My bredren, God bless your souls,
'igion is like de Alabama river! In spring
comes de freshet an brings all de ole logs
an slabs an sticks dat hab been lynn on
de bankss an carrie dem down de current
Bymeby de water 60 down-den log gil
cotch on dis islam, an slab git cotch or
dat shoah, an de sticks on de bushes-an
dare dey lie, withrin' an dryin' till comes
noder fresh. JUS SO dare come 'vival oil
'ligion-dis ole sinner brought in, dat ole
backslider brought back, an de ole foxes
seem comm, an mighty good times. Blu
bredren, God bless your souls bymeby d.
'yival's gone-den dis ole sinner is stuck
on his sin den dat ole backslider is cotch
ed where he was afore, on is' such rock
den one arter 'noder dat has got 'ligiol
lies all along de shoah, an dare dey lie til
'noder 'vival. Belubed bredren, God blcs
your souls, keep in de current