Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1867-05-08

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sal Brotherhood. the Effect of which i
Destroyed BIZ Northern Democratic Pa
Psrs-He demonstrates.
PosT OFFICE C~oNFEDRIT Y ROADS,
(which is in the Stait Nv Ky.) )
April 25, 1867. J
We are in continyooal trouble dowr
here with these cussid niggers. They
are harder to manage than pigs. Pig:
don't express their peeoolyarities.-
Mule conner nearer. Their is such
method in their obstinacy-sich a will
full cussidnis hat 1 RELY hev made uI
my mind that l don't understand EN-
at all. They cuddle up to US ez-kind ez
ored, and they fling US just ez natral e7
that same guileless maiden does when
number two heaves in site. They be.
have well for a season, apparently for
no other purpose than to enjoy our dis.
comtiture when they finally throw US.
| hev bin a gettin a suspishen thro me
that they amt half ez stoopid ez they
look. and that, after all, we are not fur
form the trooth when We say in our res.
olooshens that they are the ekals Nv
the whites, Why shooden't they be ?
All! why indeed? Why shooden't the
yooth wich is now crossin the street,
wich hez Deekin PoGRAM's feechers ez
like ez a PHOTOGRAPH, hey ez much sense
ez the Deekin? l hev eggssmined in
to the pedigree NV that niger. and 1
ind that his mother he'd the hawtiest
and best blood Nv Virginny coursin
toomulchusly thro her veins-and that
stock the PoGRAH mix cooden't materi-
ally ~depreciate in one generashen.
he'd the niggers Nv the X Roads,
very handsomely in tow up to yister-
day. l he'd EN- attendin services last
Sunday at the meetin house, and by
private arrangement he'd EN- seated
miscellaneously among the awjence.-
Deekin Pogram he'd a wench, witch
weighed at least $50 pounds averdu-
poise, atween him and his wife, while
four other niggers ornamental his pew.
Bascom with alscrity consented to
three, and Elder GAvITT provided seats
for four. 1t wuz a pleasin site White
and black wuz alternatid like the spots
on a Observation-Disclosures and whites
spread out together like the fat
aud lean in pork, and ez l seed it 1
Good hardly restrane my emoshuns.-
There before me wuz the regenerashun
Nv the Democratic party-there wuz
what wuz to bring us out Nv the valley
and shsdder Nv death into witch we
he'd fallen, up on the high ground Nv
ofhshel life. / preached that mem
rable day from two texts, to-wit "UV
one blood did he make all the nashens
Nv the earth" and "All ye are breth-
rem" and | Grated a moyin discourse.
p demonstrated with great fervor
the loonacy Nv the idea that the
Almighty wood take the trouble to
create two or more when one
wood do ez well-whieh idea is alluz
well received in this regin. All men
form their idea of the Deity somewat
for themselves, and l never knowd a
Confedrit Cross Reader to make two
things when one wood anser. l refut-
ed the theory advanced by some writ
ers that there wuz more than one head
to the race, by quotin the texts witch
treated Nv the cresshen Nv ADAM and
EVE, and demolished the Han Doctrine
at site. "Ef," sed l, "Noer did cuss
Ham and condemn Canaan to be q SER
want unto his brethren, how do we
know that our colored brethren and
is the descendants Nv Ham and
Canaan? 1t may be US for all we know?
Is it his color Is not black jest ez
convenient a color ez white 2"
More So" murmured Mr.. Pogram
half asleep, "more so-it don't show
''Is it his shape? Oh, my brethren, 1
a handsome man, nor wood l ex-
sctlY anser for a model for Appoller.-
Eff beauty, or confines, or shape, or
is to decide the pint, may the
Lord help usi Is it his smell? My
brethren, the New York World asserts
that the niger hain't no smell, and eff
he hez. why shoodent he hev? Stand
in under the common flag Nv our coun-
try, with his hand upon that magma
charta the Deklarashen, and his BEAM
in eye turned exultingly toward our
nashnel emblem, the Elgle, shall not
Afrikin brother be allowed to smelljist
co AC GAAOOoCo . LII cACAA WQol NC uuk-
form, then let ouc government estab-
lish a Burow Nv Perfoomery to-wunst.
Besides, 1 take high religious grounds
in this matter. Ef he hez a natural
odor the Lord give it to him. Let US
not fly in the face Nv the Lord by con-
denim it. Judge not lest we be judged.
The odor Nv the colored gentlemen or
lady is the work Nv the LOrd-the odor
Nv yoor unwashed feet is yoor own
wich shood stand the highest?
My brethren and s~istern, I acknowl /
edge that l hev not long held these
l hev showed the common pref
udis, and heV contemmed our friends
color /; 1 heV despitefully used en-
hev gone for en- and banged EN- like
old boots. But it wuz becoz l didn't
know EN-. l didn't see the kernel Nv
meat under the rough she'll didn't
recognize the glitterin diamond under
the ebony coal. My ewes heV bin open
I'd. Like Saul Nv Tarsus I see a lite
Sence the passage Nv the Military bill
[ heV diskiVered many things too tejus
% menshun. l hev mostly found out
.hese sence that occurrence. But let
Is accept the situeshen and bless the
Lord that eff we wuz resistid, it hez re-
ultid in d~evelopin ~excellencies where
dipn't expect to find en-"
There wuz an effectin scene after SER
'ice wuz over. Deekin Pogram, Capt.
icPelter and Elder Gayitt shook hands
With EN- with degree of corjality l didn't
Trooly them are crate men,
they develop a degree Nv sdaptability
o circumstances Wich l didn't look |
Or. l REILLY bleeve if I'd told EN- that
t wood hev a good effect to kiss the
Iigger babies all around. that they'd a
lone it. But | spared EN- this. There
J such a thing ez laying it on too thick.
But sll this Wuz all spilled the next
ay. There WIZ an extraordinarily
eavy mail that day. In addition to
be paper Pollock, the Illinois store
takes, there wuz eight others,
nd to my surprise they wuz all direct
/ to niggers. "Wat is this" thor 1 to
"Hev the Ablishnists nv the
Iorth determined upon p~roselytin
hese men, and are they a goin to food
ais country with their incendiary
Ez a Federal officer it is my
ooty to look into the matter!" Jest
my delirious joy at findin they
'uz Democratic papers from Moo York
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