Weekly Trinity journal., 1866-05-19
MIR. Nasty Sees a CLEAN of Light.
{. CONFEDERATE X RoADs, (which is in the
gtaff of Hapfuckv Aprfl 2 186

/ confess never quite lost faith in Androo.
Pro-slavery Democracy sticks to man ez does
the odor Nv the gentle skunk to clothes, and it
is only got rid nv by the same means, to wit,
buryin the victim thereof
Androo started out to be Moses and he is
one, but think he changed his Israelites. l
onst saw woman skinpin live cells, and re-
preached her sayin:
woman, why skinnest thou the eels alive
Doth it not pain 'em ?"
"Nary," replied She "Ive skinned em this
way for going on to 20 years, and they're used
to it.'
Even so. The negroes hav bin in bondage so
long that they re used to il, and Androo feelin a
call to continue in the Moses bizness, haz, l
hope turned his attention to the Dimocrisy. It's
us he's goin to lead up out Nv the Egypt NV
wretchedness we've bin in for nearly five years
its us that's goin to quit brick maxim with
out straw, and 90 up into the Canaan which is
runnin with milk and honey NV public patron
age. We shell hev sum ftes-there's s Amakeilish
post masters and Phillstne collectors to dis
place, but with a second Jaxon at our he'd, what
can we fear?
feel tonight like young colt To me it
seems ez though my venerable locks wich hangs
scantiy about my temples, had grown black
agin, and that my youth returnin. If he'd
any notion Nv sooisde them idea is dismist.-
I'm young agin. What hez worked this change?
you ask. It's the proclamation declarin the war
at an end, and, withdrawn from the Dimocratic
States the odous hirelins Nv the tyrant Linkn,
and the doin away Nv that terrible marshal law.
That's watts done it for me. Now | feel like
sayin with one NV old, g Mine eyes hev seed
thy glory-let thy servant depart in peace"
We hev bin dooly subjoogated some time
waitin for this. We wantid it, and longed for it
ez the hart does for the water-course and con-
siderably more, onless the hart wuz thirsty in
the extreme. For now we are in the yoonyun
agin-we under the shadder Nv that glorious
old flag which protects all men cepting niggers
and abishinsts. The nigger is left to be ad-
justed by us, who is to be governed by the laws
which control labor and capital. Certainly he is
NV coarse. l Nv my naibors adjustin
one on EN- last mite. They wuz doin it with a
paddle which wuz bored full holes. He
didn't seem to enjoy it ez much ez they did.
By that proclamashun our states are agin under
their own control. Let um go at wunst to work
to destroy all the vestges the crooel war
through which they have past. There aint no
solgers now to interfere, for the policy NV keep
ing solgers in and among free people is abhor-
rent to freedom and humanity. Go to work at
wunst and build up the broken walls Nv your
Zion.
We must hev Peace and unauimity-and Peace
cannot dwell among US onless there's oneness
purpose and sentiment. To prokoor this is
yoor fust dooty. If there be among 700 them ez
opposed 700 durin yoor late struggle for Rites,
histe them. Their presence is irritatin and kin
not be tolerated. Ablishunism is as abhorrent
now as ever, and the sooner you are rid of it the
better. 1t is safe to assume that every man who
opposed the lately deceased Confederacy is a
Ablishuner.
The next step and the most important is to
tear down the nigger school houses and churches
which hev been bult here and there, and kindly
take the nigger by the and lead him back to
his old quarters, which is his normal position.
The Yankee school teachers sent here by Freed
mems Aid Societies, should properly be hung
for spreading dissatisfaction and spelling-books
among the niggers, but | wood advise mercy
and consultation. Tar and feathers with whip
pins will perhaps do ez well, and will go to
show the world that our justice is tempered
with charity-that we kin be generous ez well
ez just. Your Legislatures should be instantly
called together, and proper laws for the govern
ment NV the Freedmen shood be passed. Slave
ry is abolsht, and the people must live up to the
requirements NV the act in good faith. protest
again any violation NV good faith but labor
must be done, for the skripter commands it,
and our frail nacher demands wat can't be got
without it. We don't like to do it, but shall
skripter be violated? Not at all. The niger
must do it hisself not ez a slave, for slavery is
abolisht, but ez n free man. Ethiopian citizens
NV Amerikn descent, which is a mulatter, and
ful-blooded blacks, and all heyin in the veins
and for their own good | suggest laws as fol-
lows:
l. They must never leave the plantation onto
which they are, when this act goes into effect,
without pass from the employer, under penalty
NV being shot.
.. They shell hev the privilege NV suein every
body Nv their own color eff they kin give white
bail for cost.
3. They shell hev the full privilege Nv bein
sued the same white folks.
4. They shell be competent ez witnesses in
cases in which they not interested, but
their testimony is to go for nothin eff it is op-
posed by the testimony NV a white or
another niger.
5. No nigger shell be allowed to buy or lease
real estate outside Nv any incorporated city,
town or village.
6. No nipger shell be allowed to buy or lease
real estate within any incorporated city, town or
village, except as hereinafter provided for, to
wit:
He shell give notice Nv his desires by publica-
tions for six consecutive weeks in some moose
paper nv general circulation in sed village, for
which publication be shell pay invariably IN ad-
vance. He shell then give bonds in sich sums ez
the mayor shell decide, that neither be nor any
NV his ancestors, or descendants, or relations,
will ever become public charges, and will always
behave themselves with due humility, the Donos-
men to be white men and freeholders. Ihen me
mayor shell cause election " ue P'oeiai'
and eff the free white citizens shel vote "yea "
unanimously, he shell be allowed to buy or lease
real estate. If there is dissenting vote then he
shell be put onto the chain-gang for six months,
for has impudence in making such request.
=. Their wages shell be sich ez they and the
employers shell mutooaly agree, but that the
negroes may not become luxurious and effemi-
nate, wich two things goes to upset the sim
piicity and strength NV people, the sum shell
never exceed S5 per month, but not less than
enun In all cases to buy him one SCOT nv close
per annum, wich the employer shell purchase
hisself
8. The master shell hev the privilege nv add;n
to this code sich other rules and regulations for
their proper government ez may strike him ez
being good for EN- from time to time. 8
These provisions secnre the nigger in all the
rites which kin reasonably be asked for him,
Just elevated ez he is from slavery ana thrown