The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1867-05-23


TFrcm the Toledo Blade.
Posr OFFICE, CoNFEDRTr K RoADs, J
IWich is in the Stait Nv Kentucky,)
April %, 1867. J
Times change, and men change jist
ez fast ez times. 1 shOOd like to see
the times wich kin change faster than
1 kin, but this last shift I hev bin fore
ed to make, ruther took my breth. 1t
wuz sudden. The Connecticut eleck-
shun didn't do us much good after all.
We felt well over it for perhaps a day,
but ez we begun to git other indica-
shens from the North, we didn't jist
see how that little spirit wuz agoin to
help US Cincinnati went Ablishin
stronger than Chicago ditto, and
most everywhere the Democratic rOOs-
ter was fattened. The cabinet, when
they heerd Nv Deekin Pogram's as
sault upon the nigger, on the reject NV
the intelligence Nv the election news,
me ofisheIly that a repetishen
Nv such IOonacy would be equivalent
to a reset Nv my resignation, even
tho the post offs shOOd be discOntin-
yood. 'The niger vote must be cap
cherd. It's essenshel. Wade Hamp-
ton sez So" wrote Randall to me, and
1 repriinanded the Deekin for his reck-
lessniss and borrowed four dollars Nv
Bascom, who is the only man in the
vicinity who hez any redy money, to
make it all right with him.
We held a meetin Nv the DTecktOrs
and Faculty Nv the Southern Military
and Classicle InstitOOt, last evenin, to
decide wat course that instooshn wuz
to take in the CRATE work Nv surround
in the Ethiopian and attachin NV him
to us. In sich a time ez this, ez I
to Capt. McPelter, it wont
do for our instoOshUns NV learning to
stand back. These great levers, the
molders Nv public opinion, must be ez
ez the prOgressiveist, and
must change like other things to meet
the requirements NV the times. We
hev commenst our march into Afrika,
and thus far hev we gone into the
bowels NV the land without impedi-
ment, to speak uv-let us persevere.
Let us capcher the Ethiopian, stink
and all.
The meetin wuz held in the back
room Nv BascOm's, OWN to the fact
that it was rainin and the roof NV the
Post Offs leaks. I heda appropria-
shun some time since from the Depart
ment, for repairs; but bein in doubt
whether it wuz intended for repairs on
the Post Offs or the Postmaster, I
gave the primer the benefit NV the
doubt and got new pair Nv boots. I
Good better endOOr the site incohven-
ience Nv occasional rain, than to go
barefoot.
1 made statement Nv the case and
5ejistid a radicIe change in the Insti-
tOOt.
Captin McPhelter agreed with me.
He felt that there hedn't bin that COM
pIete, hearty recognition Nv our Afri-
kin brethren wich they ought to be-
He had on several occasions allowed
his natural vivacity to git the better
NV his prOodence, and he'd waded into
EN- alarmin. The old lice Nv Ham
and Hager and OnesimUs he'd bin so
drilled into him in his yOOth that he
he'd to Wressle with it to keep it in
control; and in spite Nv himself it
got the better Nv him. He
sejested that the name Nv the institOOt
be changed from "The Southern Mill
tary and CIassicle Institoot,"
to
'The Ham and Japheth Free Academy, for the deYel-
opment the intellek Nv all races
irrespective Nv color"
That he thOt, wood anser the re-
quired end. The cOlOred gentlemen
who choose to avale themselves Nv the
priviligis afforded by this institOOshun,
when it is finished, kin find in this no
cause Nv complaint. They are recOg-
nized. They are given the precedence.
They stand first in the matter and
foremost. Wat more kin they ask?
BascOm he'd a series Nv resOlOOshuns
wich he desired to present. He sed it
mite be looked upon ez strange thathe
shOOd favor the cOncentrashun NV free
niggers at the Corners, but he he'd good
and suffishent reasons. First, he he'd
faith that constant contact with the
Board wood bring EN- to the pint of
patrOnizin his bar, but if it didn't he
knowd perfectly well that the Board
and Fakulty wood manage to get all
they had, for board and tOoitiOn, wich
he wuz perfectly certin he'd git in the
end. Wat he wanted wuz people
hereto yoOse a illustration borrered
from his biznis, the Ofishels Nv this
InstitOOt wuz the funnel through wich
the wealth Nv all Nv EN- wood be con-
Quoted to his Golfers. I fell onto his
neck in rapCher, and then vOwd that
I wuz Willin to die for his good; that l
cared not how much Nv other peoples
money run through me to him, ef
'twuz thus dilOOted. The resOlushUns
presented read ez follows:
ReSOLUed, That the name NV the
Southern Military and Classikle In
stitOOt be changed to "The Ham and
Japheth Free Academy, for the devel-
Opment NV colors."
ReSOyUeoE, That in maxim this change,
we, the Board Of Directors, do so, as
sertin:
1. That in this emergency we are
justified in doubling whether NOer got
tite at all, the statement in the Skrip-
tiers to that effect bein undoubtedly an
error Nv the translators.
2. That eff he did git tite he didn't
cuss Ham at all.
3. That eff he did cuss Ham, the
cuss wuzn't intended to extend beyond
Canaan at the furthest, and hence his
descendants go scot free.
4. That eff the curse WUz really and
trOoly intended to attach to all NV his
descendants, irrespective NV color, to
the end NV time, it haint NV no efeck
il Kentucky, ez that stait hez aIluz
run irrespective Nv any code 'ceptin
sich ez hez bin adopted by her Legis-
Iacher.
8. That the theory that the white
man is superior to the nigger,
irrespective Nv color, is a deloosion, a
snare, Wich we hev aIluz practically