The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1867-11-22

the same ez though they remained in
their normal condishen. The ten
akers woodent make him good, but
they he'd two children horn to EN-
sence, wich, eff niggers brot any
price, wood do suthia toards it. ID
Bascom perferred to hev Cover
ment pay ther valyoo, and let EN-
stay free. He had arrived at this
conclooshun after givin the subjeck
matoor considerashen. They all he'd
some property now-leastways they
Good all do wat they pleased with
their money. Troo, the heft Nv the
proceeds NV their labor went to Pol
lock for dry goods and groceries and
sich, but he bleeved that they wuz q
initiative race. Ef so, and they fol-
lowed the>sss..-rle ent On" hy thar
white sooperiors, they wood in time
leave the heft Nv it at his bar. He
he'd few Nv em under trainin now,
and he notist that they vuz better
than the whites, ez they
didn't swaller their rashens and tell
him to '.jist chalk it down." fla
A sense NV the meetln wuz then
taken. and a majority voted to fust
try to redoose them to their normal
condishen, and eff that wuz decided
to be impracticable, then we Good,
with still better grace, demand ther
~ ,x- xIo
"Yes," exclaimed Kernel McPel.
ter, "and for this great work ther is
no better time than now. 'sThe
Yoonyun cz it wuz !" Foller me~
And forthwith the entire cOngre-
gashun piled out, rushin toward the
Niger settlement on the CARROTS
town road. .1D Le 2. 'i5-
Arriyin at the settlement, consul
tashen wuz held. 1t wus desided
that shOod adv~aoe to the doors NV
the houses and demand surrender,
but I declined. Kernel . McPelter
volunteered, and We all awaited the
result. He knocked at the door Nv
the first house.
"Wha' dye want ?" exclaimed q
voice. $500 ei fsI- lli
81 want yoe 2" sed the Kernel.
"Wa' foah ?" s Id
"My frend," sed the Kernel, i'm
pressively, "ef 1 recognize yoor dul.
Get tone yoor my niger. -Four years
ago yoo wuz set free, 700 sposed, by
Linkin, but we've done away with
that. Come forth and give yoorsel
up; yoo shel, eff VOC go peaceably
hev yoor old quarters agin and be
tr eated ez nv old. Uo3 1H L2Ii
$50 way, white man, and stop
yoor foolin. DIS nlgga's in bed
"Break down the doorsp yelled
the Deekin, "and hev done with it y
and rush wuz made.
The doors wuz broke down, and
in mint the niger and his wife,
and two children, wuz out in the
street, bound, and the Kernel he'd the
turnitoor packt, ready to take to his
own house. In the mean time, as
saults he'd bin made ON two other
houses with ruther different results.
Deekin Pogram led one on the house
Nv former slave Nv hissen, and wuz
disabled by charge Nv shot in his
leg, and the infooriated niger threw
open the winder,and swore that he'd
empty tother barrel into the head nv
the first man who came within range.
The whole settlement wuz by this
time alarmed, and lites sprang up,
and we Good hear the click Nv the
cocks Nv muskets, and the pilin up
ny furnitoor afore the doors. 1t wuz
desided that the attempt to re enslave
EN- be given over for that mite, and
carryin the Deekin, who wuz weak
from loss Nv blood, We made our way
to the Corners agin. s1ih3.
The result demonstrated to me the
impossibility Nv the two races livin
together IN Les..s.J. There is q
natral antagonism between EN- wich
must result inevitably in a war NV
oSCS, ouiCoS VIC olutuo Nv tuc Nv "
raoos 10 a-ea BY e-.is.-~si. a----f fs
can't be denied that, so long ez they
are among US, SO long shell we be
tempted to subdoo em, and 80 long
will sich sole -harrowin scenes ez that
Nv last mite result. Ez l heer the
groans nv that prostrated saint, Dee
kin Pogram, (this is written at his
bedside in the intervals Nv feedin him
likker with a spoon, l feel ez Tho 1
must vindicate my birth by goin out
and KILN niger. Nothin but the
uncertainty ez to who wood be killed
restrains me. Thank heaven, next
yeer, when Seymore or Pendleton is
and the unconstitooshnel
acts NV a Rump Congress is done
away with, all this will be fixet. 1t
is this that soothes the Deekin and
enables him to endoor his sufferins.
PETROLEUM v. NAsBY, p. M.
(Which is Postmaster.