The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1866-06-18

to habit Nv OF Speekln Nv the church
ez my church, and / feel all the So
lissitood for its spiritooal and temporal
welfare that / Good ey | wuz reglerly
ordained ez its paster, wicH [ expect
to be eff | fail in gettin that post offs
at the Corners witch is now held by a
| Abiishnlst NV the darkest dye, wIch
President johnson, with a stubborn
ness / 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 a niger, and free mig
ger at that, in Bascom's grocery, and
to prove the charge Deekin Slather
called Deekin Pennibacker.
The Deekin wuz put on the stand,
and testified ez follows: H
ssWuz in Bascom S grocery playin
seven up for the drinks with Deekin
Slather Had just beet the Deekin
one game and had four on the second,
and held high, low and jack, and wuz
modritly certin NV goin out, partik-
elry ez the Deekin didn't beg. Wuz
hevin a little discussion with him
the Deekin insistin that it wuz the
two in three, jest ez though a man nan
Good afford to play five games be-
tween drinks The lice is preposter-
Gus and unheard of, and there amt
no precedentfora any SIGH course. We
wuz settlin the dispoot in regler or
thodox style-he he'd his fingers
tvyicfod ~, INV t,,ooly hanIl-o,.alo -.
| held stick Nv stove wood suspended
over his head. While in this position
we wuz transfxed with horror at see
in Deekin Pogram enter armin arm
a niger and
The Court-Arm in arm did Won
say, Bro. Pennibacker?
Witness Certainly.
T The Court-The scribe will make
minnit NV this. Go on.
Witness-They cum in together, ez
| sed, arm in arm, walked up to the
bar aud drank together. ea
By the Court-Did they drink to-
gether?
Witness-They ondeniably did.
By myself-The Court desires to
know what partikeler food they alb
sorbed. h
Witness-Can't say-spose twas
Bascom' s new whisky-that's all he's
got ez the Court very we'll knows.
BY Myself-The Sexton will 90 at
once to Bascom's and procoor the
identicle bottle from which this |
man, who stands charged |
with thus lowerin hisself, drunk. and |
bring it hither The Court desires to
know for herself whether it wuz real
iy whisky. The pint is an important
one for the Court to know. 4
A wicked boy remarked that the
pint wood be better understood by the
Co1rt It it wuz quart The bottle
wuz, however, brought and the Court.
wich IS me, wuz satisfied that it wuz
really and trooly whisky. Ez the re-
Hreshln fioold irrigated my parched
throat, ! wished that trials based up
On that bottle Good be perpetooal.
| considered the case proved. and
asked brother Pogram what palliation
ne he'd to offer. [ set before him the
snormity NV the crime, and showed
llm that he wuz, by this course. sap
lin the very foundation NV the
.hurch and the Democratic party.
Watts the use, / askt, NV my preachin
gin niger equality, SO long as my
leeklns practis it. [ told him that
lam was Gust by Noer, and was con-
Iemned to be a servant unto his
he wuz an inferior
ace, that the Dimocrisy wuz biltup
hat idea, and that association with
i'm In any shape that indicated
quality, was either putin them UP to
ur standard or lowerin ourselves to
heirn; In either case the result wuz
ltal. | implored Bro. Pogram to
lake a clean breast NV it; confess his
in, and humbly receive such punish
rent ez should be awarded to him.
nd go and sin no more. Speak up,
'ro. Pogram,' SEE |, paternally and
ct severely.
Bro. Pogram to my unspeekable
slief, for he is the wealthiest mem
er of the congregashun, and one we
arsn't expel, replied: g
That he DID drink with the mig
n, and wat wuz more, he wuz iusti- :
ID IN dom it, for THE NIGER PAID
DR. THE WHISKY!l G
/" But shoory," | remarked, it wasn't
essary to yoor purpose to come in
18th the niger arm in arm, attitood
lch implies familiarity eff not affek
Jun.
The Prisoner-The niger and I
I'd been pitchin coppers for drinks.
Id L, possessln the most akootnis.
On. | took the niger by the arm. -
arin that eff [ let go NV him he'd ~
'dge me and not pay. They are slip
ry.
Oyerioyed, l clasped him around
e neck, and to wunst dismist the =
arge as unfounded and frivlous. az
My brethren, SEE /, the action pc
20. Pogram is not only UNSUITABLE. pc
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