Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1867-01-25
From the Toledo Blade.
Mr.. Fasby Essays a Sermon, but is
Interrupted.
PosT OTIS, CoEF EDRr X Rnsps, .
(Wich IS 10 the Stait nv Keutuckv,4 ?


a discourse from the text wich the no
bic and high minded Guvner BRAN
LETTE used with sich crushin force in
his last annual message, to wit: Kin
the Leopard change his spots or the
Ethiopian his skin p and alluz feelin
anxious to do wat kin for the cause.
did it last nite, or rather essayed to
do it.
And here let me remark, that there
amt more devoted people in Ken
tUcky than them lambs ez compose NY
flock. 1t wuz a tetchin site and G2d
one wich filed my sole with Joy to see
EN- pour out of the groceries at the
first tootin Nv the horn, and to see
PENNEBACKER, wich owns the distil
lery, stOppin Wurk to cum But the
most cheerin and encouragln sign to
me wuz to see Deekin POGRAH, who
Wuz playing seVen-up for the drinks
with Elder SLATHEBs, dt BAsGoAL,s
Law down his hand when he had high
low and jack In it. and he'd only three
to go. Elder sed he, his voice
tremblin at the sacrifice he wuz
maxim, and q tear stealth down his
cheek, Elder them's the horn. Let
US to our doOtes. 'LIgIOn must take
the front seat Of temp'ral matters,
and sighin ez he cast a partin glance at
his hand, he str0de out, resolootly to
the sanktOoary.
I opened by readin the folleriu from
Gov. BRANLETTE's message:
The niger Is the inferior nv the
white-he lacks the power to rise
Ontil the leopard kin change his spots,
or the Ethiopian his skin, all efforts to
repeal and nUllify Gods laws will be
unavailln,
My brethrin these words is words
Nv wisdom, and fur EN- let US be thank
ful. The skin Nv the Ethiopian wuz
inflicted onto him for the express pur-
pose of distinguishin him from his
brethriD, whose servants he wuz con
demned to be, for all time, ez a pun
ishment fur the sin Nv Cain, or the
ImprOodence Nv Ham, wIch, Demo
krrtic divines hevn' t settled on. With
the black skin he wuz given all the
other marks Nv inferiorty He wuz
Gust with long arms, immense hands,
fiat nose and bowed legs, and that ther
mite be no mistake in the matter he
wuz given wool insted of hair, halle
loogy
All, my brethrin, wat a blessid
thing for US is this Ethiopian ! Wat
a consolation it must be to yOo all to
u Il
how blessed the reaeccshun that they
can't change their skin, and by that
means git above 700 That's the com
fort we draw from the skripters, Wat
horror it wood be for Deekin Poo
RAM, who Is snorin so peacefiy,
50 Dreamin, sweetiy dreamin the happy hours
away"
Eff when the Soopreme Court decides
the Ablishin amendment unconstitu-
tional, and he gifts his niggers back
agin eff ther shood be a new dispensa-
shun and niggers shOod be permitted
! to change their skins Wat sekoority
wood he hey for his property Some
mornin he'd wake up and find EN- all
white persons wich it wood be uncon-
lstooshnel to Wall0p.
My brethrin ther hez bin many eff
forts to change to change the skin Nv
| the Ethiopian, or rather ther hez bin
many who wanted to- The Boston
Ablishunists hev tried it, but wat hez
| bin the result2 Amt they niggers yit,
and amt they still the degraded
wretches they alluz was 1 paws for
a reply"
[ made this latter remark becoz, and
only becOZ, it sounded well, not that l
he'd any idee that any body wood reply.
/ Imagine my surprise at seein gray
/ headed niger. wich he'd bin, doorin
and after the fratrisidle struggle, en-
/ ployed In the Freedman's BurOW, rise,
and remark that he he'd a word to say
onto that pint There Wuz a storm of
indignashun, and the impudent niger,
! who wuz so sassey ez to presoOm to
speek IN a white meetin, wood hev bin
sacrificed on the spot, he'd not JOE
BIGLER, who wuz half drunk, draWd
a ugly-lCokin navy revolver, and re-
markin that he knOwd that niger
and that he he'd more sense than the
hull bilin Nv US, and he shood hev his
EFF" sed this recklis Joe, eff he
beats 700, Professor, trooth is trOoth ;
let's hev it. Ef be don't, why, it's all
the better for yoo Efyour Webster
ian intelleck kivers the ground, all rite
-ef his ponderous intelleck gets the
best on it, jist ez rite Out nv the
mouths of babes and sueklins. Elder,
| I 60 my bottom dollar on this sucklin.
! Speek up, venerable-ther won't none
Nv EN- tech 700, and he cockt his re-
vOlver.
Begin pardon, sed the niger, 81
agree with 700, Professor that the
Ethiopian can t change his skin hisself
but does the Scripter say it can't be
changed for him?"
Anser the venrable babe, " sed ] oe
pintin his revolver at me.
[ can't say 1t does, seZ l.
Very good, retorted the niger
hezn't there a change bin a goin or
in Kaintuck from the beginDin My
mutber wuz ez black ez a crow-I' n
: constable lighter-my wife's a hal
lighter than l am-my gals Children !.
: half lighter than their mother, and
want to know what GuvDer BRAN
LETTE's got to say to that. The white
man amt got no cUss onto him, bei
+. be p
Speek up, Professor-the sucklir
wants you to be prompt, sed JOI
BIGLER.
I ansered that he had not-that /
7 wuz piled onto Ham or Cain and theil
: descendants, and nobody else.
Very we'll then, sed the niger
chucklin all over. ez am only hal
! Ham or Cain, (wich, yoo hevn't de
cided), then NV corse there's only hal
a cuss onto me, only a quarter onto M
!, wife, only an eighth onto my daughters
only a sixteenth onto my daughters
! children, and there's lots of niggers il
! this yer visiuity wat hasn't got thi
, thirty -sekund or the sixty-fourth par
z g Nv it hanging to en-. Guvner BRAN
! LETTE also sed suthiu about uigger
: being degraded coz twuz their nacheT
= didn't he, and that educashUn wooden
= do for EN- ?"
E Perfessor," sed the tormente'
BIGLER, wich he'd just whiskey EMU
into him to be ugly, I must remint
y you that the particular babe an d suck
lin out Nv whose mouth yoo are bel
J, condemned, expex prompt ansers, 0
i rather l, his guardian and pertecto
= dc"
ansered that sch wuz the tenor u
+ the Guvner's remarks.
! ' Eff that's troo, why don the mu
lattoes cum up faster Eff its the ma
/ tural stoopidity of the niger, the whit
! man amt affected by it, and the mulai
u u to only half. Iare 'quuinted with th
= heft of the people atore me, and L
bet my last years wages, wioh Deeki
= PoGRAM amt paid yit, that half NV el
y cant read any morn | kin Pears {