The Weekly Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, O. [Ohio]) 1861-1???, 1867-02-01
poSroFFIs, CoNFEDRir Y RoADs,l
(Wich is ia the Stan OF Kentucky,)
January 10, 1897.

high.minded Guyner Bramlette used with
sich crushin force in his last annual mes
sage, TO wit: "Kn the Leopard change
his spots or the Ethiopian his sknG aud
alluz feelin anxious to do wat | kin for the
cause, | did it last nitc, or rather essayed
to do it,
And here let me remark, that there aint
moro devoted people in Kentucky than
them lambs ez compose my flock. 1t wuz
tetchin site aud one wioh filed my sole
with Joy TO see EN- pour ont NV tho grocer
les at tho FIRST tootu NV tho horn, aud to
see Pennehacker, wich owns the Distillery,
soppn work TO como but tho most
oheerin and encouragin sign to me wuz to see
Deekin Pogram, who wuz u playin seven
up for the drinks with Elder Slathers, at
Bascom's, lay dswn HE hand when he he'd
high low and jack in it, and he'd only three
to go. Elder" sod he, his voice trembln
at the sacrifice ho wuz a maxim aud a tear
steelin down his cheek, Elder them's the
horn, Lot us to our dootes. 'Ligon must
take the front seat nv tempral matters"
and sighn eA he cast q partih glance at his
hand, he strobe out, resolooly TO the
sanktooary
opened by readn the fo'lerin from Gov.
Bramletto's message
nc nlSgor Is tue interior NV the whlte-hc
lacks the power to rise. Ontil the leopard kin
change hiz spots, or the Ethiopian hz skin, all ef
forls to repele or nullfy Gods laws will be una.
vailin." r. a..
my brothrin these words is words nv
wisdom, and fur em lotus be thankful The
skin NV the Ethiopian was inflicted onto him
Tor the express purpose Nv distingiehin
him Fl ON his hrethcrm, whose servants he
wu2 condemned to be, iur NIL time, e2 Il
pun shment for the sin nv Cain or the i'm
prooIeuce Nv Ham, wich, Democratic di.
wines heveu't settled on. With the black
skin he wuz given all the other marks nv
nferiority. lie WV cust with long arms
immense hauds, Hat nose, and bowed legs,
and that ther mite be ~ mistake In the
matter he wuz given wool Instead NV hair,
halleloogy!
"Ah, my brethren, wat blessid thing
for us is this Ethiopian! Wat consoh-
ton it must he TO 700 all to know that
ther is race below 700 aud how bIessid
tho reilecksbun that they cart change
ther skin and by that means git above 700
That's the comfort we draw from the
skripters. Wat horror it wood be for
Deeiin Pogram, who is snorin 30 peaceiiy,
"Dreamin, sweetli dreamin the happi ours AVA"
Ef when The Sooprome Conrt decides the
Abiishn amendment uticonstooShnal aud he
gifts his niggers back agin cf ther shood
he a new dispensashun aud niggers shood
be permitted to change ther skins! Wat
sekoority wood we hev for our property
iSomemornin he'd wake up and find en- all
white persons Wich it wood bo uncon
stooshunal to wolop.
My brethren ther hez bin many efforts
to change the skin Nv the Ethiopian, or
rather ther hez bin many who wanted to.
The Boston Ablshhists hcv tried it, but
wat hez bin the result Aint they niggers
yit, and amt they still the degraded
wretehes they alluz wuz? paws for
reply" tHi. 1'
| made this latter renal k becoz, and only
becoz, it sounded well, not that he'd any
idea that anybody wood reply. Imagine
my surprise at seem grayheaded niger
wich he'd bin doorin aud after the fratri.
sdle struggle employed in the Freedmen's
Burow, rise, and remark that he he'd word
to say onto that pint There wuz storm
NV indignashun, and tho impudent niger
who wuz 80 sassey ez to presoom to speak
i'll white meetin, wood hev bin sacrificed
on the spot, he'd not Joe Bigler, who wuz
half drunk, drawd uSly.lookin navy re.
volver, aud remurkin that he knowd that
ngger--that lie he'd more sense than the
hull bilin NV us, and he shood hev his say.
Et," scd this recklis Joe, "ef he beats
yoo, Pcrlesser, trooth is trooth let's hev
it. Ell lie don't, why, it's all the better for
VOC. Ef yoor Websterian intelecll kivers
the ground, all rite--ef his ponderous in
tellck gets the best olI't. iist ez rite. 'Oul
Nv the m'uh hs NV babes ard suckins'
Elder, go my bottom dollar on this sucklin
IL n ,Ia. thor
EN- tech 700" and lie ouckt his revolver.
Begin PARDON sod the nigger, 81 agree
with yoo, Perfesser, that the Ethiopian
can't change his skin hisself bnt does the
Scripter say that it can't be changed for
him tHtf
"Apser the venerable babe" sed Joe
Bigler, pintin his revolver at me.
" | can't say that it does" sez l.
Very good retorted the nigger. "heznt
there change bin a goin on ia kaiutuck
from the beginnin? My. mother WIZ ez
black eZ crow I'm constable lighter
my wifes a half lighter than ! am--my
gals children is half lighter than their
mother, aud | want to know wat Gnvner
3ram'et e's got TO say to that The white
man amt got no cuss onto him, hez he p"
Speek up PerGesser--lhe suckin wants |
700 TO be prompt" sad Joe Bigler.
answered that he he'd hOt--trat il wuz |
lied onto Ham and Cain and their descend.
Ints aud nobody else.
Very well then" sed the Ligger, chuck.
in all over, "ez am only half Ham or Cain.
wch, 700 hewitt decded), then NV course
here's only half cuss QUITO me, only
narter onto my wife, only an eighth onto
ny daughters, only sixteenth onto my
daughters children, and there's lots NV mig.
'ers In this yer viSinity wat hezn't got the
or the sixty furth part NV
t fangin to EN-. Glvher Bramlette also
ed sutlin bout niggers bein degraded COZ
wuz their tlucher, didn't he, aud that Ell.
ucashen woodent do for EN- 2"
Perresser," sed tornentin Bigler, witch
| must remind 700 that the partickeler
abe and sucklin out nv whose mouth yoor
Elm immensely condemned, ekpex prompt
nsers, or rather /, his guardian and per-
ector do"
ansered that seh wuz the tenor Nv the
iuvners remarks.
Ell that's troo, why don't the mMlattoes
ome up fastert Ef it's the nateral stoo
idity.uv the niger, the white man ainl
If cted by it, and the mulatto only halt.
are 'qnainted with the half nv the people
fore me, and I'll bet my last years wages
'ich Deekin Pogram amt paid yit, that
llf NY EN- cant read any morn | kin
'ears to me I'd like 10 hev Guvner Bran
Ute take the load off us for year or two n
nd see whether we'd riss or not. But | i
itler think its a leetle too mitch to put a I
Iillstone on top nv man and then kick [
i'm for not gettin up. n