The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1867-06-27

| POsT Offs, CONFEDRTT x ROADS, !
] (Wich is in the Stait Nv Kentucky,
April 25, 1857.
We are in continyOoaI trouble down
here with these cussid niggers. They
are harder to manage than pigs. Pigs
don't express their peeoOlyarities.-
Mule comes nearer. Their is SIGH a
method in their Obstinacy-sucha will
full cussidnis, that I hev RELY made
up my mind that don't understand
EN- at all. They cuddle up to us ez
kind ez a bIoOmin maiden does to her
first adored, and they fling US just ez
natral ez that same guileless maiden
does when number two heaYes in site.
They behave well for a season, aper-
emily for no other purpose than to en-
Iioy our discontinue when they finally
throw us. hev bin a gittin sus-
pishen thro me that they amt half ez
stoopid ez they look, and that, after
all, we are not fur from the trOoth when
we say in our resolOoshens that they
are the ekals Of the whites. Why
shoOdent they be? All! why, indeed?
Why shoodent the nigger boy wich is
now erossin the street, witch hez Deekin
Pogran' s feechers ez like ez a photo
graph, heV ez much sense ez the Dee
kin? I have egzamined into the ped
igree NV that nigger, and I find that
his mother he'd the hawtiest and best
blood Nv Virginny COursin toomul-
chusly thrO her veins-and that stock
the Pogram mix cOOdent materially
depreciate in one generashen.
I he'd the niggers Nv the x Roads
very handsomely in tow up to yister-
day. I had EN- attendin services last
Sunday at the meetin house, and by
private arrangements he'd em seated
miscellaneously among the awjence.
Deekin POgram he'd a wench, wich
weighed at least 25O pounds averdu-
poise, atween him and his wife, while
four others niggers Ornamented his
pew. Bascom with alacrity consent
ed to three, and Elder Gavitt provided
seats for four. It wuz a pleasant site
White and black Wuz alternatid like
the spots on a checker board-niggers
and whites wuz spread out together
like the fat and lean in pork, and ez I
seed it I Good hardly restrane my emo
shUns. There before me wuz the re-
generashun NV the Democratic party
there Wuz wat Wuz to bring us out Nv
the valley and shadder of death into
wich we he'd fallen, up on the high
ground Nv Ofishel life. I preached
that memrable day from two texts,
tO-wit: "Uv one blood did he make all
the nashens Nv the earth" and "All
We are brethren" and GRATED mOvin
discourse. I demonstrated with great
ferver the lunacy NV the idea that the
Almighty wood take the trouble to
create two or more races when one
wood do ez welI-wich idea is alluz
well received in this region. All men
form their idea Of the Deity somewhat
for themselves, and I never knOWd a
COnfedrit Cross ROader to make two
things when one wood anser. I re-
futed the theory advansed by some
writers that there Wuz more than one
head to the race, by fUotin the texts
Wich treated uv the creashen Nv Adam
and Eve, and demolished the Ham
doctrine at site. aEf," sed I, "Noer
did cuss Ham and condemn Canaan
to be a servant unto his brethrin, how
do we know that our Colored brethren
and sisters IS the descendants Nv Ham
and Canaan? It may be Us for all we
know. Is it his color? Is not black
jest ez convenient a color ez white ?'
"AIore sc" mUrmured Mrs. POgram
half asleep, ''more so-it don't show
dirt"
els it his shape? Oh, my brethren,
I amt handsum man, nor wood 1
exactly anser for a model for Apoller.
Eff beauty, or comIiness, or shape, or
style, is to decide the pint, may the
Lord help us Isit his smell? My
brethren, the New York World asserts
that the nigger hain'tno smell, and eff
he hez, why shoodent he hev? Standin
under the common flag NV our coun-
try, with his hand upon that magma
charta, the Deklarashen, and his
benin eye turned exultinIy toward |
our nashneI emblem, the Eagle, shall |
not our Afrikin brother be allowed to |
smell iist as he chooses? Eff smell |
must be uniform, then let our Govern |
ment establish a Burow Nv PerfOOm-
cry to wunst. Besides, 1 take high |
religious grounds in this matter. Eff
he hez a natural odor, the Lord give
it to him. Let us not fly in the face
of the Lord by condemin it. Judge
not, lest we be judged The Odor of
the colored gentleman or lady is the
work NV the LOrd-the odor NV yOOr
feet is yOOr Own-wich
shOod stand the highest?
"My brethren and sistren, I ac-
knOwlege that 1 hev not long held
these views. Ihev showed the COM
mon prejudis, and hev contemmed our
friends NV color; I hev despitefully
used 'em-I hev gone for 'em and
banged 'em like old boots. But it was
becOz I didn't know 'em. I didn't
see the kernel NV meat under the rough
she'll didn't recognize the glitrin
diamond in the ebony coal. My eyes
hev bin opened. Like Saul of Tarsus,
I see a lite. Sence the passage NV the
Military bill, 1 hev deskivered many
things too tejus to menshun. I hev
mostly found out all these things sence
that occurrence. But let us accept the
situashen and bless the Lord that it hez
RESULTED in developin excelIencies
where we didn't expect to find 'em."
There wuz an affectin scene after
service wuz over. Deekin POgram,
Capt. McPeltter and Elder Gavitt
shook hands with 'em with a degree
Nv corjality 1 didn't expect. Trooly
they are great men. They develOpe a
degree Nv adaptibility to circumstances
which I didn't look for. I really
bleeve if I'd a told EN- that it wood
hev a good effeck to kiss the nigger
babies all around, that they'd a done
it. But I spared EN- this. There is
such a thing ez laying it on too thick.
But all this wuz spilled the next day.
There wuz an extraordinarily heavy