Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1867-04-11
Ing foah dat, but, golly, dat's too

my most pierclnest gaze, confess this is
included |"
"Well," returned he, sulkily, "ef 1
must, l speck must, but, golly-"
The mite arrived and the meetin house
wuz full. We thot fust of holding it in
the chapel NV the College, but give up
the idee ez impracticable, ez OWN to the
dillytorlnis Nv our Northern friends in
forwardin sich subscripshens ez they
hev raised, we heven't got no further
with the bildin than layin the corner
stun. In the front wuz the four niggers,
all in clean shirts, and on the stand wuZ
the nigger l he'd engaged. Over the
platform was the follerin notices:
"In Yoonion ther is strength-For
President in 1858, Fernando Wood. For
Vice President, FrGdrick Duglis."
"In the niger, strength-In the Cau-
casshen, beauty-In the mulatter, who
is trooly the nOblest NV the human
species-both."
In addishen to these, we dug up all
the old mottoes which jefferson writ,
about yooniversel liberty and sick, wich
hedn't bin quoted in Kentucky for
twenty years, and postid EN- up; in
brief, he'd Wendell Phillips blessid sperit
bin hoverin over that meetin-house, it
would hev smiled approvinly.
I spoke to EN- elokently on the yooni-
versel brotherhood uf mankind, holdin
that whatever else Good be sed, Adam
wuZ the father Nv all mankind, and that
the only difference between a white man
and niger wuz the niger wuz sun
burnt. The niger, remarkt, wuz on
doubtedly, ORIGINALLY white, but hevin
bin, sence his arrival in this country, ad-
dicted TO agricultooral persoots, he he'd
become tanned to degree wich, tho it
marred his physikle beauty, did not in
terfere with his sterlin goodnis Nv heart.
Their he'd bin dffrences between the races
at times ther he'd bin onpleasantnises
wich no one regretted more than I. The
whites Nv the Corners he'd not alluz bin
ez considrit ez | Good hev wished. They
he'd fogd sevral Nv em, and hung many
more, and in times past he'd held em in
slavery and siCh, but that shood not be
thot uv at this happy time. 1t wuz
ConstOoshnel to do these things then,
and Kentucky WIZ eminently a law
abidin State 'Here," sez I, "on this
platform, with the flag Nv our common
country over me, declare eternal
friendship to the colored man, and to
seel the declarashen thus embrace"
The obstinit Niger didn't stir step.
Come up and fling yoor arms around
me, you black cuss," sed /, in stage
whisper. "Come upm
"No 700 don't, boss !" sed the niger,
in loud voice, wich was audible all
over the church, and holdin out his
hand. 81 can't trust 700 sressid mint.
Glib me de IS fust. Yoo owe dis chile
foah dollars now fo' sawin wood fo' yoah
post offs, and eff wes a gwine to hab
our rites, de fust yoose l shell put mine
to will be gittin dat money. Pay up fus
and de brace afierward. | can't do sich
a disagreeable ting widout de cash in
advance"
This ruther destroyed the effect. The
unities wuzn't preserved. The niggers
in front burst out in a torturing latf,
aud Pollock and Bigler rolld in convul-
sions of lafture, in wiCh half NV our PEG
pie Joined. Me standin petrified, in
the attitood of embracin, and that cuss-
ed niger standin with bis hands ex-
tended for the money, with the Deekin
and Bascom horror-struck jtst behind,
formed q taboo wich wuz more strikin
than pleasant
The meetin wuz to-wunst adjourned,
for 1t wuz evident to the dullest compre-
henshen that uothin more Coodent be
done that mite. E2 yoOsual | failed for
want of capital. He'd / ben pessest Nv
the paltry sum Of five dollars how diff.
trent wood hev bin the result Per-
chance we may, thro that dtfshencys
lose Kentucky. 1t must never occur
agin-my sslery must be ralsd. can't
make briX without straw
Joe Bigler me- me next mornln and
remarkt that he regretted the occurrence
ez he ardently desired to see the two
races pullin together. "The fault, Per-
fesser," sed he, "wuz in mott msnagin
properly. The next time 700 want 8
spectacle nigger to sit on the platform
with 700 and the DeekiD, or kiss and
embrace yoo-git him drunk. He'll do
it then, probably-I know he will. Ef
he's drunk enuf, he'll hurrah for John
sou, and it's possible to git EN- down to
the pint NV votin with 700. Lord how
whiskey drags 81 man down. See what
it's brot 700 to-" and the insultin
wretch rolled off latin boisterously.
"Git EN- drunk, Perfesser," he yelled at
me ez long ez he Good see me.
We don't intend to give it up. Big
ler's advice wuz given in jest, but never
theless shell act upon it. Whiskey is
wat brings white men to us, and eff a
white man kin be thus capchered, why
not nigger7 The Afrikin hezn't got
ez far to fall to git down to our level,
and it'll take less to bring him. Bas-
com ordered Ave barrels TO day, wich |
spose the Administrashen will pay for
We have yet the Moo York Custom
House, and more NV the perkesits must
be yoosed for politikle purposes.
PErRoLEuM V. NAsBY, P. NJ.
(Which is Postmasterl, and likewise Pro-
fesser nv Biblikle Politicks in the
Southern Classikle g. Military Insti.
toot.