Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1866-08-03
Massey PREsIDEs AT A CHURCH
TRIAL.
CoNrEDRr X RoADe, lwieh Is the

Is
They had a ructicn in the church at the
Corners yesterday, wich bid fair to result In
a rendin NV the walls uu our Zion. and the
4 tearin down NV the temple we hev reared
with so much care and hev guarded with SO
much solissitood. When / say eve, /"
mean the members thereof ez the church
Tuz reorganized sence the war by returned
confedrit soliers and dch Dimokrats ez re-
named to home noOtrel, but inasmuch ez /
am the only ordained Dimokratic paster ia
these parts, ginerally conduct the services,
and hentz hey insensihy fell into habit NV
speekln nv the church ez 'tmy" church,
and feel all the solissitood for its spiritooal
and temporal welfare that Good ef wuz
reglarly ordained as Its pastor, which I ex-
peet to be ef fail in gettin that post ofiis
at the Corners Wich Is now held by Alb
llshnist NV the darkest dye, wich President
johnson with stubbornness ] can account
for, perSistently refooses to remove
The case wuz suthin like this Deekin
Pogram was charged By Elder Slather with
hevin, IN broad day-lite, with no attempt at
concealment, drunk with IA nigger, and free
nigger at that, in Bascom's grocery, and to
prove the charge Deekin iSlather called Dee
kin Pennibacker.
The Deekin wuz put onto the stand, and
testified ez follows:
Wuz in Bascom's grocery playip seven
up for the drinks with Deekin Slather. Had
jlst beet the Deekin one game and had four
on the second, and held high, low and jack,
and wuz modritly certain Nv goin out, par
tikerly ez the Deekin didn't beg. Wuz
hevin little discussion with him-the Dee
kin insisten that it wuz the best three in FIVE,
instead Nv the best Two in three, Jest as
though man Good afford to play FIVE games
between drinks The ice is preposterous
and unheard of, and thsr amt no precedent
for any sich course. We wuz settlin the
dispoot in regular orthodox style-he he'd
his fingers twisted in my neck Handkerchief
and held stick Nv stove wood suspended
over his head. While In this position we
wuz transfixed with horror at seeing Deekin
Pogram enter arm in arm with a niger
and
The Court--Arm in arm did you say, Bro.
Pennibacker.
Witness
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 and drank
together.
BY the Court-Did they drink together
Witness They undeniably did.
By myself-The Court desires to know
what partickelar food they absorbed.
Witness-Can' t tsay-spose twas Bascom 5
new Whisky-thats all he's got ez the
Court very well knows.
BY myself-The sexton will go at once to
Bascom' S and procoor the identiele bottle
nom which this wretched Han, who stands
charged with thus lowering hisself, drunk,
and bring it hither. The Court desires to
ky. 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
quart.
The bottle wuz, however brought, and the
Court, which is me, wuz satisfied that it wuz
really and troo3y whisky. Ez the refreshin
food irrigated my parchsd throat, wished
that trials based upon the bottle Good be
perpetooal-
/ considered the case proved, and asked
Bro. Pogram what palliadon he had to offer.
| set before him the enornity NV the crime,
and showed him that he Euz by this course
sappin the very foundashln Nv the Church
and the Democratic party Watts the use,
askt, Nv my prgechin aGn niger equality,
so long as my Deekins p.actice it. / told
him that Ham wuz Gust ~ Noer, and wuz
condemned to be a servant unto his brethren
that he was an inferior race, that the De-
mocracy was built upon hat idea, and that
associatin' with him in any shape that indi-
Gated equality, wuz either putin them up to
our standard or loWrin ourselves to theiTn
in either case the result Nuz fatal. / i'm
plored Bro. Pogram to mike clean breast
of it; confess his sin and humbly receive
sich punishment ez shood be awarded him,
and go and sin no more. Speak up, Bro.
Pogranl, sez paternally and yet severely.
!. Bro Pogram to my unspeekable relief, for
he is the wealthiest member of the congFe-
gashun, and one we darsn expel, replied
That he did drink with the niger, and
what wuz more, he WIZ justified in doin it,
for he nigger paid for the whisky r.
But shoorly, [ remarked, it WASH t nes-
sary to your purpose to come in with the
niger arm in arm, aiattitood which implies
familiarity eff not efeckshun. y
The Prlsoner-Ihe niger and had bin
pitchin coppers for drinks, and /, posscssin
the most akootnis, won. tux the niger
by the arm, fearin that eff let go Nv hiIa
he'd dodge me and not pay. They are slip
perry.
0verjoyed, Iclasp.d him around the neck,
and to wunst dismist the charge as unfound-
My brethren, sez i, the action of Bro.
Pogram is not only pstifable, but Is COM
mendable and worthy of imitashun. Ham
Wuz Gust by Noer and condemned by him to
serve bis brethren. The niger Is the de-
scendant of Ham and we are the descend
ants NV the brethren and eff Nocr he'd a
clear rite to cuss one NV his sons and sell
him out TO the balance nv the boys for all
time, we hey ded wood on the niger, for. it
is clear that he wuz made to labor and MN
lister to cur wants. So ID wuz, my brethren,
until an ape who he'd power interfered and
delivered him oat wv our hand Wat shel
we do? Wat we cannot do BY force we must
do by financeerin' We can't compel the
nigger to furnish us the means, and there
fore in order to fulfill scripter, we are justi
fed In accomplishing by our sooperior skill
what we used to do with whips and dorgs.
Their Wuz no confession Nv equality-no
degredashun, but contraryWise the spectacle
nv Bro Pogram's marchin into Bascom,s
with that Niger, wuz sublime spectacle
and one well calculated to cheer the heart
NV the Dimekrat. He had vanquished him
in an encounter where skill wuz required,
thus demonstratin the sooperiority nv the
Anglo-Saxon mind--he led him Al captive
and made nv him aspoil.
ssW God, o wood that we alb had a niger
to play with for drinks. The case is dis
missed, the costs to be paid By the COM
plainant
The wall NV our Zion is stronger than ever.
This trial, ez it resulted isa new and strong
tall and strong tower.
PETROLEUM ". NAsBY,