The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1867-12-25

Yes, exclaimed All AZ the d6zeo voune
men, I0Ilin over onto the totber Allow
\ Guttle's case sour own. We all hey land
but wher's the labor r. =.
B Wuz about to oommieeerate EN- when tho
bar keeper struck ma He wood seiest. he
remarkt, that possibly under the circum-
stances, it woofl,be better Is. instid Nv lawn
ON their elbows, askin, "wher's the labor r.
they shood 60 and do little NV it them
selves. TRIO, IT they shoodsioit he woodent
see ez much Nv em, but they would be able
to pay suthin for the likkor they consoomed.
john Cutie and | wesnded our way to the
Hal into witch the Convcnshun wuz sittin,,
In the Hal wat sitel On the rite wuz q
Niger on the floor and maxim d speech ON
the left, wuz Niger nv majestic presence,
with his feet cockt up onto tue desk in front
ov him, absolutely readin noosepaper and
another wuz jist comm in towards his seat
pickin his teeth with ez much composure
'ez tho ie'lled never did anything in his life
but be member nv constooshnel conyen-
slluns. ALI about the hall in varus atti-
foods s0t niggers Aur varius shades. and all
nv EN- well bresst, selfposscsst, and without
particle Nv that heartily hoomility wich
the race he'd alIuz displayed wen in the pres
ence Nv their sooperiors.
"G0dp sed I to Cutie, after / had re-
covered from my establishment "Am 1
awake, or am I.dreamin9 Tell me, please.
who are these niggcrs :" -
:" Dost see that nearly white niger on the
floor offering q resolution % sed Cutie,
hoarse with emoshnn. sThat nigger is nv
property. His mother. WIZ sold to Orleans
twenty years ago, on; account nv q. rescm-
biance wich my mother fancied she saw in
him to my lamented father. I KEEP him e.
my servant, and the yaller cuss somehow
learned to read. He owns part nv o place
the old man he'd ia the north part NV the
State. That one to the rite, who IL bizzy
writin, IL another one NV mine-a black
smith, wich the old man bot on purpose to
do his repairin, coz the white blacksmith
wfeA wuz located near US cnst too much
He wuz cheap at $4,000, COZ Nv his bein q
sooperlor workman, and | 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 hey
to depend onto the chance liberality NV q
comparative stranger like 700 for the very
drink witch am now parched for want uv.o
And the unfortunit young man busted in
to teers, and went out and asswaged. Re-
turnin, he resoomed; 49, M
The muIatto on the left, by the double
windcr, is carpenter, and wuz wunst nv
property. He bot Of me fifty akers Nv land
for mere song, and when delegates wuz to
be elected to this yere Convention he run
agin me, and beat me four to one, the un-
grateful nigers wich we had worked all our
lives abslootly preferrin him to me, to legis-
late for en-" and he bnstid into teers agin.
FiIdin the excitement was too great for
him. gently led him out Nv the hail.
Wat" sed ], = is to be the end nv all
this ~
God only knows" sed he, 81 don't.
There is nothin but room ahead and on
each side nv US. These nlggers and the
crazy whites in league with EN-, 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 pervidin
for skools; they hey given themselves the
ballot and hev DISTINGUISHED NV who served
the Confederacy, so that the power will he
therein for all time to Come. 4 The result is
already :foreshadowed in, wat they hev done.
Out near my place, just west of Moheel they
hev village and skool house in which
they are fought reedin, ritin, arithmetic and
all sorts Nv devilment by Niger skool-
man wich is sent by the Fredmens Com
mission in the North. They refooze to work
for cny Nv us onless We pay in advance. and
consistently, ez we can't git labor, our farms
is runnin to weeds. And to make matters
wus, the Conversion is maxim labor lien
upon the crops, and so hamperin us that it
does seem to me that they intend to delibe-
rately room us. They are establisllin skools
and churches, and villages everywher; and
wat is pertickerly oppressive, we hewitt the
power tn stop EN- in their mad carer. Pol
i-tik-le power we hev none, and when it |
comes to force. the beast Pope stands here
seizure behind the baynets he controls. Good
Lord. Ebut let's drink. a,s,..
WITCH we did, Ipayin for it. go
shel leeve here to norrer. kin never
bear to hey niggers pass me clothetlin brod-
cloth, with papers stickin ont Nv their pock
its. kin never bear the degradashun NV
havin niggers pass me without takin of ther
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.
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