The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1867-12-19

Ito pay suthin for the likker they colisoomed-
r. John Cutie and Iweendcd our way to the
Hal into wich the Convenshun wuzs a sittin.
In the Hal wat site u On the rite wuz q
dnigger on the floor and maxim q speech ON
the left, wuz niger Nv majestic presence,
with his feet cockt up onto the desk In front
ov him, absolutely readin IA noosepaper and
another wuz list comm in towards his seat
a pickin histeeth with ez much composure
ez tho he he'd never did anything in his life
but be a member Nv constooshnel conven-
shuns. All about the hall in varlus atti-
foods sot niggers nv varius, shades, and all
4 NV enl well bresst, sef-possesst, and without
particle Nv that heartily hoomility wlch
the race he'd alluz displayed wen in the pres
ence NV their sooperiors.
"God !" sed to Cutie, after 1 had re-
covered from my establishment. Am L
awake, or am I dreaming Tell me, please,
who are these niggers 2"
"Dost see that nearly white niger on the
floor offering a resolution q sed Cutie,
hoarse with emoshun. "That niger is my
property His mother wuz sold to Orleans
! twenty years ago, on account NV a resent
| bance wich my mother fancied she saw in
him to my lamented father. 1 KEEP him ez
my servant, and the yaller cuss somehow
learned to read. He owns part Nv place
| the oldman he'd il the north part Nv the
State. That one to the rite, who liz blzZy
writin, Is another one NV mine-a black
smith, wich the old man bot on purpose to
do his reparin coz the white blacksmith
witch wuZ located near us cost too much
He wuz cheap at $4,000, COZ NV his bein
sooperior workman, and 1 am told that the
incapable bein hez now shop Nv his own
and hez pile Nv money in the Savings
Bank, while Ibis material sooperior-hev
to depend onto the chance -liberality Nv
comparative stranger like 700 for the very
drink witch 1 am now parched for want w."
And the unfortunit young man busted in
to teers, and went out and asswaged. Re-
turnin, he resoomed:
1.-THE mulatto on the left, by the double
winder, is a carpenter, and wuz wunst my
property He bot of me fifty akcrs Nv land
for u mere song, and when delegates wuz to
he elected to this yere Convention he run
agin me, and beat me four to one. the I'M
grateful nigers wich we had worked all our
lives abslootly preferrin him to me, to legis-
late for en-" and he bustid into teers agin.
Firdin the excitement was too great for
him, gently led him out Nv the hall.
Wat" sed l, I" is to be the end NV all
this? ?"
God only knows" sed he, az don't.
There is nothin but room ahead and on
each side nv US. These niggers and the
crazy whites in league with enl, hev now
sole control Nv Alabama, and they are
mashin down the spectacle old barriers
which KEEP the races in their place. They
are passin all sorts NV ordinances perviGin
for skools they hev given themselves the
ballot and hev DISTINGUISHED Nv who served
the Confederacy, so that the power will he
therein for all time to come. The result is
already foreshadowed in wat they heV done.
Out near my place. just west of Nobel. they
hev village and skool house in which
they are fought recdin, ritin, arithmetic and
all sorts Nv devilment bya Niger skool-
man witch is sent by the Fredmen's Com
mission in the North. They refooze to work
for eny Nv US onless we pay in advance. and
consistently, ez we can't git labor. oar farms
is runnin to weeds. And to make matters
wus, the Convenshcn is maxim labor lien
upon the crops, and so hamperin us that it
does seem to me that they intend to ,lelibe
rately room us. They are establishin skools
and churches, and villages everywher, and
wat is pertickerly oppressive, we hevn't the
power tn stop EN- in their mad carer. Pol
i-tik-le power we hev noue, and VIII en- it
comes to force, the beast Pope stands here
seizure behind the baynets he controls Good
Lord, but let's drink
Wich we did, payin for it.
/ shell leeve here to ;norrer. kin neN -er
bear to hev niggers pass me clothed in broel-
cloth, with papers stickin out Nv their poch-
its l kin never bear the degradashun NV
havin niggers pass me without takin off thel'
hats and stepping respectfully off NV the
side walk. Thank God that Kentucky
didn't openly rebel. There. at least, we kin
keep him in his normal speer.
= PETROLEUM V. Massey, P. NJ.
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