The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-06-18
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SIr. Nasby Presides at n church Trial.
CoNFEDR1r Y ROADS, (wichl
is in the Stait nv Kentucky,)
June Q. 1855.

Is in the Stait Nv kentuckySl
June 9, 1856.
They had ruction in the Church at
the Corners yesterday, wich bid fair to
result in a rendin NV the walls Nv our
Zion, and the tearin down nv the tenn
pie we hev reared with so much care,
and hev guarded with so much soliSsi-
TODD. When say "we," I mean the
members thereof, ez the church wuz
reorganized sencS the war, by returned
Confedrit soljers and sich Dimokrats ez
am the only reglerly ordained Dino
kratic paster in these parts, l ginerly
conduct the services, and hentz hev
insensibly fell into a habit Nv speekln
Nv the church ez my" church, and
feel all the SolissitOod for its spiritooal
and temporal welfare that Good eff
wuz regerly ordained its paster, wich
1 expect to be ef fail in gettin that
post offs at the Corners wich is now
held by Ablishnist NV the darkest
dye, Wich President Johnson, with
stubbsFneSS can't account for, perS1S-
tently 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 nigger, and a free nigger
at that, in BaSCOm's grocery, and to
prove the charge Deek1n Slather called
Deekin Pennibacker.
The Deekin wuZ put onto the stand,
and testified ez follows:
''wnZ in Bascom's grocery playin
seven up for the drinks with Deekin
Slather. He'd jist beet the Deekin one
game and he'd four on the second, and
held high, low and jack, and wuZ mod
ritly certin NV goin out, partikly ez the
Deekin didn't beg. WuZ heyin a little
discussion with him-the Deekin in
sistin that it wuz the best three in five,
instead NV the best two in three, jest ez
though a man Good afford to play five
games between drinks! The ijee is pre-
posterous and unheard OF, and ther
aint no precedent for any sich course.
We wuZ settlin the dtspoot In regIar or
thodoX Style-he he'd his fingers twisted
in my neck handkerchief and held a
stick NV stove wood suspended over his
head. While in this position we wuz
transfixed witk horror at seein Deekin
Pogram enter arm in arm with a mig
ger and
Bro. Pennibacker?
witness-Certainly.
The Court-The scribe will make
mint NV this. Go on.
witness-They cum in together, ez
sed, arm in arm, walked up to the bar
and drank together:
By the Court-Did they drink togeth-
witness-They ondeniably did.
By Myself-The Court desires to
know what partikeler hooid they alb
sorbed.
Witness-Can'ts say-spose twas Bas-
CONS new whisky-that's all he's got
eZ the Court very well knows.
By Myself-The Sexton will go at
once to Bascom's and procoor the iden-
teal 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 important one for the
Court to know.
A wicked boy remarked that the pint
wood be better understood by the Court
if it wuz a quart. The bottle wuz,
however, brought ,and the Court, which
is me, was satisfied that it wuz really
whisky. Ez the refreshin hooid iIri-
gated my Parched throat, wished that
trials based upon that bottle Good be
perpetooal.
1 considered the case proved, and
asked Bro. POgram what pallidtion he
he'd TO offer. / set before him the
enormity NV the crime, and showed
him that he wuz by this course sapPin
the very foundRshun Nv the Church
and the Democratic party. Watts the
use, 1 asked, NV my preachin agin
nigger equality, so long ez my Deekins
practis 1t. 1 told him that Ham wuz
Gust by Noer, and wuz condemned to
be servant unto his brethren-that
he wuz an inferior race, that the
DimocriSy wuz built upon that idea,
and that associatin with HIM in any
shape that indicated equality wuz either
putin them up to our standard or low
rim ourselves TO theirn; in either case
the result wuZ fatal. l implored Bro.
Pogram to make a clean breast Nv it; /;
confess his sin and humbly receive sich
oh F1f az lhnn6 no FHn6 him
and go and sin no more. "Speak up,
Bro. Pogram," sez paternally and yet
severely.
Bro. Pogram, to my unspeekable re-
lief, for he is the wealthiest member of
the congregashun, and one we darsn't
expel, replied:
THAT he DID drink with the nigger,
and wat wuz more, he wuz justified in
doin it, for THE SIGGER PAID FOR THE
wHIsKEY !r'
"But shoorly, I remarked, sit wasn't
nessary to yoor purpose to come in
with the niger arm in arm, a attitood
wich implies familiarity ef not effeck-
shun.'
The Prisoner-The nigger and he'd
bin pitchin coppers for drinks, and L
possessin more akootness, he'd won. 1
took the nigger by the arm, fearin that
eff let go NV him he'd dodge without
payin. They are slippery.
OveEjoyed, 1 clasped him around the
neck, and to wunst dismist the charge
as unfounded and frivolous.
"My BRETHREN" seZ 1, "the action of
Bro. Pogram is not only justifiable, but
is commendable and worthy of imita-
shun. Ham wuz Gust by Noer and con-
demned by him to serve his brethren.
The nigger is the descendant of Ham
and we are the descendant Nv the breth-
rem, and eff Noer he'd clear rite to cuss
one NV his sons and sell em out to the
balance ny the boys for all time, we hev
ded woodIo the nigger, for it is clear
that he wus made to laber for us and
minister to our wants. So it wuz, my
brethren, until an Ape who he'd power
interfered and delivered him out NV
our hand. Wat shel we do? Wat We
cannot do by force we must do by hnan-
ceerin. We can't any longer compel the
niger to furnish us the means, and
therefore in order to fulfil the skripter,
we are justified in accomplishing by
our sooperior skill wat we used to do
with whips and dorgs.
"The spectacle NV Bro. Programs
marchin' into BascOm's with that mig
ger, wuz sublime spectacle and one
well calculated to cheer the heart Nv
the trOo DimekTat. He had vanQuish-
ed him in an encounter where skill wuz
required, thus demonstratin' the 500
periority nv the Anglo-Saxon mind
| he led him captive and made Nv him
II spoil.
''Wood, o wood that we all had mig
ger to play with for drinks. The case
| Is dismissed, the costs to be paid by the
complainant"
The walls NV our Zion Is stronger
than ever. This trial, ez it resulted, is
a new and strong abutmen-a tall and
strong tower.
Lait Pastor NV the Church nv the Moo