The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1866-01-03
TIE SIIIyBLRS a PRACTIsIN,.

SAINTS REST, !
(wich IS in the Stait Of Moo .Jersey(,' ,'6j !
Ginral Boanvrges Pog. am NV NIissis-
sippy, who demonstrated his devoshuu to
the CRATE prinsples wv constitooshnal lb-
erty by servin the contederosy as CONF
missary, wrote me 10 meet him in WASH
inton. He he'd just reserved his pardon,
and the fust yoose he made of his privil-
eyes wuz tc cum to WasIinton to meet
me for consultashen on The hopes and
prospex of the DmUcrisy
Ginral Pogram is fine specimen ~
the gnnooine, shivelrus sutherner. Six
feet inches in hte, he kin chaw more
terhacker, spit with greater accooracy,
and walk uprite under heyyer lode Nv
strate whisky than any man ever met
A unsotiStlcated child Nv nacher he
scorns the polish and sham Nv wat is call
ed civilization. Never shell ! forgit the
litenin glance Nv contempt lie dartid at
me, when askt him to qualify his whisky
with little water.
Gnral Pogram opened by lamcntin the
untimely decea-c Of 50 many suholn vo-
ters, in the late diaholiRle war Linkin and
his heIyuns made upon 'em.
replied to-wunst, that tile deficit Good
be easily made up. ~ hcv," sez I, ''bin
a con>iJrit this matter: At triiin en-
pcndito0r Nv money the tide Of emgrashcn
from Europe kin be turned southwark,
and the places NV yoor Slawtered heroes
be filled with the lrishman, the German,
the -
"Liar thecf! murdrer ! nigger-steal-
err" shCutid tho Ginral, seeziti me by
the throle, and brandishin his cane over
me.
Falln on my knees (formin tabow,
the "iconyun ez it wuz'( ! Igaspt-
"Why this violence 2"
ooh, nuthin," replied the Girrel, re-
laxin his holt 81 shel be eIectid TO
Congris, and cz shall hev to mix with
yoo Yankees, Iwus ii practi'in the old
tackliS, just to get my hand i'll agin.-
Wuz yoo aieerd Bless yoor sole, we
woodent kill Northerin Dimekrat for no
money-we need EN-, But" continued
won't work. Yer Irshman and yer Ger
man wood work, but thhyd want wages p
"Wall!' seq I astoundid not seein
what he was drivn at.
"Can't you see seq he, ''they'd earn
money they'd save it. Our habits ez ex-
pensive, and now that niger breeding ez
dun away with, we can't sell Il half dozen
niggers per annum, to keep up our cx-
expenses. 'Alas (teers suff:.sed his
beem'n eyes, cz he spvke) the last niggcr
sold wus ez white ez yoo are, my son
Tom was her father, and I got $500
for her in Mcbeel, when she wus l6.
sold her TO the President nv the Suthcn
Society for the converShunuv the lleathn.
knockl hundred off the price NV the
gal on that account But TO resoom.
"Ihe furrincr works, and saves suthm'
we won't work, can't sell no more mig
gers, git hard up, and hev TO sell land TO
furriner, Then, hos OUR EKAL! and
wat becomes of the ancient shivery ?"
"But," sez |, 'yoo he'd the poor white
among you afore the war What wuss
NOou luIIl1cl Dt !
"rhem poor whites wuz a pckoolycr
class-we KEEP them coz We he'd EN- to
vote We allowed them TO SQUAT on our
lands, never let EN- learn TO read, and
KEEP their skins tuh of cheap whisky
When wun NV them got 10 know toe
much, we ether killed him or sent North,
keepin among us jest such as we wanted.
With our poor whites doir our votin at
hum, You Dimekrats doin il up North,
snd the niggers doin our labor, truly we
wuz a favored people"
4" But who are you goin to cit TO do
your labor !"
"The niger"
+" But wunt You nev to pay him now -
" Not much. The Northern LegisIa-
cher are passin lars agin ther comm
there, so they can't GIT away from us:
and Jest ez soon ez the thrlce-accurseG
herelin soIiers are Withdrawal. our laws
is in force, and then wat good is a niggcr's
contract to him Methinks the cuss of
Kanan is still onto him, Linkin 10 the
contrary notwithstandn ! shGl be kind
10 mine-l shel pay the abelboded field
hands "a per month, mechanics So. Uv
course ef furriners kin compete with en-,
and work for less, we'll take en-, pervidod
they'll be ez umbls.
The niger was made TO be slave.
God Gust Kanan and sed lie shood be q
servant iotever. Did he mean to US 70