Brownlow's Knoxville Whig. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1866-1869, 1867-02-13

a number Of others who wanted small Off
SEES did likewise, but he wood ent advise enl
igrashen there, for the reason that there
wuz too many there now and besides, It's
possible that before the next elecshun Con
gress inay concIood that suffrage in the
Deestrick will run EN- into the ground in
the States, Chsir constituents, which are
all Ablishnists, not being edjicated up to
the pint and repeel it,
The Deekin nUged me agin.
What shell we do ~ then sed the niggus,
all in korious.
/ "Dol sed the niger, wich his name II
| wuz Lee, "do grin and bear it wher VOC
are. Ez 70 nle,s eff I,hed nv five yeahs
back agin, shood do different. Liberty is
a gift boss witch, ef dis nigeah he'd It to do
ober agin, be wood look in de mouth, shoah.
| shood want to know whedder, / bein a
begga-, eff / mounted it l shoodent ride to
| the devil. When I turned agin Massa and
went into de seryis,.l wuz promised eff /
behabed like man shood be counted a
man. / behabed like man, but wat now?
Oars de cibbeI rites bill, which reads good.
but wha's de sogers to put it froo Oars
al sorts OBJ laws, but wha's de yoose oh EN-
SO long ez nobody pays any tenshun to EN-?
| go Norf wha de Ahlisbnists had cherry
ting dab own way, and find de niggah is
ez bad off dab ez he sheah COZ the Ablishnis
witch is de champions Nv ekal rites amt ed
dicated up to de pint Nv Dustin unekal laws.
We cant stay heah and get our rites-we
can t go dab, coz ebry wun OBJ EN- will tell
yoo bis nabor amt dedicated up to de pint
OBJ doin anything but holdin de ofises and
passin reslooshens dat dey bleeve in de
principles oh de Declarashen oh Indepen-
dence, witch principles reed berry well but
wat good is dey to me eff dey amt actid up
to !? Fo' fe'Pence I'd go hang myself
They had other talk, and finally broke
up, endin with a prayer, the burden, Nv
wich wuz that the good Lord wood find
some way, wat they didn' t care, to eddicate
their friends N wsA up to the pint
I Ez soon ez they wuz gone the Deekin and
l erawled out from under the wagon, and /
must say. the old gentleman surprised me.
Daslia his hatsldown on the ground, he ex-
ecooted one nv the most frantic Highland
fings my eyes ever witnist. 1t astonished
me to see how recklis the old man wuz with
his legs. Finally out Nv breath, he subsi-
ded with a prolonged ashreelz9 NV exultant
jeys -. .7s3W e -. 2li.r .
why 50 jubilant, my venerable friend p
sed /. 49,
"Nasby, sed he cts better than Hoped
for. The Ablishnists bar EN- out--they
amt eddikated up to the pint, and they |
drive EN- away. They make distinkshuns,
and when the niggers distinkted aginst in |
part, he's precisely the material NV witch to |
make servant unto his brethren Eff the |
niger can't git all bis rites in the North,
he'd better be without any Nv EN- in the |
South. Up ther hehez all the cussiteod NV
bein free man, without any NV the in
doosements; down here eff he amt got any |
NV the blessins nv freedom he ain { any NV |
the responsibilities. The niger nv course
will stay-he'd Oe a cussed fool eff he didn't |
Bless the Lord for the Ablishnists wat amt /
eddikated up to the pintl'' ah s. asa
And the blessed old lunatic execooted an
other Highland fling onto his hat. Sharin
his enthusiasm, ez / allus do everybodysI |
meet that l may share whatever else they |
hev, we went to Baseom's, wher before we |
we WIZ eddycated up to a pint. /
and considerable more. Baseom carried I
the Deoi1ln homo j vThseIbasrel- at a lit
tie past one.
PETROLEUM ". MASSEY, p. NJ,
(Wieh is Postmaster, and likewise PROBES
sor NV Biblikle Politics in the Southern |,
Classikle & Military Institoot