The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1866-06-22
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Mr.. Nasby Preside. a, a Church Trial.
CoSPspuRArR X ROADS, (wich is In the
Stait OF Bentucky,) June 0 1865.

htait OF bentucky,) June 1856. !
They he'd ruction in the church
at the Corners yesterday, wich bid
fair to result in rendin NV the walls
NV our Zion, and the tearin down NV
the temple we hev reared with so
much care and hev guarded with 80
much solissitood. When / cay "we,"
| mean the members thereof, ez the
church wuz reorgsnized sence the
war by returned Confederate soljers
and sich Demcxrats ez renamed at
home nootrel, but inasmuch ez l am
the only reglerly ordained Dimekrat.
ic paster in these parts, ginerly con-
duct the services, and hentz hev in
sensibly fell into habit Nv speekin
NV the church ez "my" church, and
/ feel all the solissitood for its spir.
itooal and temporal welfare that
Good eff wuz reglerly ordained ez its
paster, which / expect to be ef l fail
in getin that post orfs at the Corners
which is held by Ablishnist NV the
darkest dye, wich President johnson,
with q stubbornness I cant account
for, persistently refooses to remove.
The case wuz suthin like this:
Deekin Pogram wuz charged by ell
der Slather. with hevin, in broad day
lite, with no attempt at concealment,
drunk with nigger, and free mig
ger at that, in Bascom's grosery, and
to prove the charge Deekin Slather
called Deekin Pennibacker.
The Deekin wuz put onto the stand,
and testified ez follows:
"Wuz in Bascom's groseTy a play
in seven up for the drinks with Dee
kin Slather. He'd jst beet tie Dee
kin ore game and he'd four on the
second, and held high, low and jack,
and wuz modritly certain NV goin out,
partiklerly ez the Deekin didn't beg.
Wuz hevin little discussion with
him--the Deel1in insistin that it wuz
the best three in FIVE, instead Nv the
best two in three, jist ez though q
man Good afford to play five games
between drinks The ice is prepos
ferrous and unknown Of, and thar aini
no precedent for any slch COURSE
We wuz settling the dispoot in reg
lar orthodox style-.he he'd his fin
gers twisted in my neck handkerchief
and held stick of stove wood sus-
pended over his head. While in this
position we wuz transfixed with hor.
ror at seein Deekin Pogram enter arm
IN arm with nigger and
The Court Arm in arm did you
say, Bro. Pennibacker?
Witness-Ceitainly
The Court-The scribe will make
q minnit NV this. Go on.
Witness-They came in together
ez ! sed. arm in arm, walked up tc
the bar and drunk together.
BY the Court-Did they drink to-
gether2
Witness-They ondoutedably did.
By myself--The Court desires to
know what partikeler hooid they alb.
sorbed.
Wilness-Can't say--spose twas
Bascom's new whisky---that's al
he's got ez the Court very well knows
BY myself-The sexton will go at
once to Bascom's and prokure the
identicle bottle from which this
wretched man, who stands charged
with thus lowerin hisself, drunk, and
bring it hither. The Court desires
to know for herself whether it wuz
really whisky. The pint is an i'm
portant one for the Court to knU".
A wicked boy remarked that the
pint wood be better understood by
the Court if it wuz quart. The bot
tic wuz, however, brought ard the
Court, witch wuz me, wuZ satisfied
that it wuz really and trooly whisky.
Ez the refreshin fiooid irrigated my
parched throat, l wished that trials
based upon that bottle Good be per-
petooal.
/ considered the case proved, and
asked Bro. Pogram what palliation
he he'd to offer. l set before him the
enormity NV the crime, and showed
him that he wuz by this course sap
pin the very foundashun Nv the
Church and the Democratic party
Watts the use, / askt, Nv my preechir
agin nigger equality, so long ez my
Deekins practis it. / told him that
Ham wuz Gust by Noer, and wuz con
demned 10 be a servant unto his
brethren--that he wuz a inferior race
that the Dimocrisy wuz built upor
that ijee, and that associatin with hin
in any shape that indikated equality
wuz either putin them up to oui
standard or lowrin ourselves TO .hirn
in either case the result wuz fatal.
implored Bro. Pogram to make
clean breast of it; confess his sin ant
Lumoly receive sich punishment ei
shood be awarded him, and go an,
sin no more. "Speek up, Bro, Pog
ram," sez paternally and yet severe
ly.
Bro. Pogram to my. unspeekabl'
relief, for he is the wealthiest mem
ber of the congregashun, and one w
darsn't expel, replied:
"That he DID drink with the nigge
and what wuz more. he wuz justiiie'
in doin it, for THE sISGER PAID Fol
THE WHISKY!
"But shorty" l remarked, it WASH
nessary to yoor purpose to come Il
with the Niger arm in ARA, a attitoo'
wich implies familiarity ef not affeck
shun.
The Prisoner-The niger and
he'd ben pitchin coppers for drinks
and /. possegsin the most akootnls