The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1866-12-17

testament fuently and pass credible
examinashun in Latin embroidery,
French, German, English Grammar,
and double-entry book-kepin. The
path to the polls 700 see is open to
EN-. Wv course we can't be expected
to toldrate skool- houses for EN-, coz
that woold raise them above their
normal condishen. Also, ther must
be proper regulashuns controllin EN-,
for, my deer sir, they are mere infants,
and their totterin steps GU the road to
freedom needs directing. Society is
q compromise in witch every one re-
signs ez much Nv his personnel liberty
ez the good of the hull may demand.
We count ourselves the hull, and
the resumin Nv personal lib
erty must come from them.
That Niger, said he, pinting
to wun witch the joyous citi-
zens wuz stringin up to Bascom's sign
post, that niger is resinin his per-
sonel freedom for the good Of the
hull. No doubt in his heart he muir
murs, and eff the cord witch is chokin
him could be loosened, he wood re-
pine. 1t is rough on him, but the
sooperiority Nv the Caucasian race
must be-My Godl it's one Nv my
niggers! Stopl Bascum, stoplp ejac-
kilated the Deekin, but it wuz too
late. The niger wuz already black
in the face and he'd ceased to kick,
and the Deekin, heavin sigh, per-
ceeded:
I'VE shell scroopulously regard
their rites. They shell hev the rite to
buy land, an kin in all respects be
like uz, ez soon ez they can be trusted.
Till then, they will hev to be RESTRAIN
ed. There must be laws prohibitin
EN- from receivin more than "a 80 per
month, chat they may not become
bloated aristocrats and pampered
sons NV luxury-the proper develip-
ment of the country, and likewise the
payment of the Confederit debt, re-
quired manual labor wich we wuz
never educated to do, and there
fore the good of the whole re-
quires that they shall resine their
persnel liberty SO far CT to be confined
to the plantashuns onto wich they hev
engaged to labor, that they may relij-
usly do it, witch is cleerly nessary, for
700 see eff hire niger in Janooary,
| must not be exposed to the chances
Nv his quitting me in July. But wat
more kin they want? They are free
to ez great extent ez the good of So
siety will permit. We shell give our
qualified suffrage, fxin, Nv course,
witch is just, the qualifications our
selves, and bein valyooable members
of sosiety, hereafter we shell care fur
EN-, so long ez they are healthy-good
Lord, why will them cusses persist in
hangin up able bodied niggers, when
there's so many old ones around,
good for nothin but to celebrate
with, y end to save another wun Nv his
former servants, the Deekin closed
abruptly.
1t is Unnecessary to recount the fur
Their doins of the mite. There wuz
skoolhouse and church, recently erect
ed, burned, with some score or such
matter of young niggers in EN- witch
wuz too young to be Nv any use, save
one girl, witch wuz neerly white and
almost fifteen, wich ought to have
been reskooed, and FIVE, if / counted
korrectly, abel bodied men and wimun
wuz hung. Bascom sold out his
stock entirely, and by 3 A. NJ, the en-
tire inhabitance of the Corners wuz a
layin around the square in festoons.
There wuz a bitter awakenin to this
scene of festivity. At little after Z,
while the Deekin, the Elder and my
self wuz in Bascom's tryin to get an
assuager, and the best we Good do wuz
to pour a quart Nv water into barrel
which he'd bin emptied, ond roll it
roll it round and thus flavor it. Capt |
McPelter, late Nv Morgan's cavalry,
cum in. Eagerly we asked him the
confirmation Of the tidins, when he in
formed US that itwuz a hoax-that no
such thing he'd bin done, nor wuz
Congris in any such noshen. Pollock
dropped in, ann when I reproached
him with his dooplicity, he answered
that it wuz hoax, but he hoped we'd
excoose him. He he'd cravin desire
to see whether eff Amnesty and Suffer-
age shood be adopted, how fur we'd
go in the latter direction. He wuz
satisfied, and honestly hoped we'd for
give the pleasant jest. He'd made
the Corners lively one mite anyhow.
l wuz too profoundly disguised to re-
ply to the wreth.
PETROLEUM V. Massey, PM,