The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1867-09-19

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! dred niger children attend it besides
the adult niger classes"
'Enter up" sed another, CIeanin out
a shot gun, 'tthe grocer on the same
street. He is from Iowa, and teaches
q sunday skOOl class in the same chap
el. Sich incendiaries we kin never
tolerate" "There'sla nigger church
two squares from me witch must be
abated," sed another, "and by the
way, an agent NV the nigger missiOna-
ry society and two teachers from Con-
necticut boards next door. Put 'em
down." "In my part NV the city,"
sed another, Hthere's four nigger dray-
men who hev been impudent enuff to
scrape together enuff to buy ground
and build EN- houses. Don't forget to
put EN- down-don't. They are Mig
gers and hev houses. l." he added
bitterly, 'I am a white man and hev
none. Put EN- down. When Sheri-
dan goes, ha! hap
And so on. The seltretary entered
the names ez fast ez they wuz furnisht
him, Ontil the name NV every man
suspected NV Yankee proclivities wuz
registered. The niggers wuz not put
down, 'Ceptin them NV sich prominence
ez they desired to make shOOr NV it
is considered entirely safe to kill a
nigger anywhere. Some NV EN- desir-
ed to make eXcepshOns in favor NV GER
tain niggeTs who Good be depended
upon ez trOO. One NV EN- kept ke-
no, and Pother a faro bank. But they
wuz rOOled out. The niggers, it wuz
desided, wuzn't to be trusted. Their
IimpudCnce, in persumin to keep faro
banks, wuz friteful.
The next day, brite and early, I wuz
at the Club, when I received another
dispatch. The members f1Ocl1t around
me. wIs it done ?" shreekt they. els
Stanton Out?'
'He is" sed I slowly; "he is, but
"But wat? Oh relieve our sus-
Ipence!'
"But Grant is in," returned I drop
pin the message, and sinkin on a sofa
in brown study. But they wuz de-
lighted.
dts better than we hoped" sed
they. "Grant hcz come over at last.
Bless the Lord Ills name will give
the Administration strength" They
tchccred like lOonatics.
Finally one morning got n deS-
patch that Sheridan would be relieved
that day, and the enthoosiasm billed
up agin-this time [ shared in it, fOr
I felt that wuz trooly suthin. 1t wu2
impossible to restrane the gentle
lambs Nv the Club any longer. Ez a
.sUzt uv a lunch, precccdin the feast
that wuz to come, they sailed out and
made it lively for such niggers as
they Good git safely near to. AT noon
the next despatch came to me. The
entire membership Nv the Club was
gathered around, impashent to heal
me sound the glad tidings over
Egypt's dark sea. broke the seal.
sEShCridan is removed this day.
sROr! ROr! Ror!" cheered the club
Sand Thomas is appinted in his
placcp
So read this dispatch. There wu2
nary a cheer follered it. The most
death-Hke silence prevaded the rooms.
One by one the members skuIked out
to settle with the niggers whose heds
they had bustid in the morning, and
to ashore EN- it wuz all a joke. The
lists wuz destroyed, and the revOI-
vers and shot guns wuz all packed
/, away. At a meetin held Immediately,
the foIIerin resolutions wuz passed:
BeSOlUed, That it is possible for men
whose faith is bigger nor a grain Of
mustard seed to hev confidence in
President johnson, but Ourn is gin
out.
! ReSolUed, That we asked him for
bread and he gave us a stOne-we ask
ed him for an egg and he give us a
scorpion.
. ResOIUed, That a committee of two
be appointed to toss up for the differ.
enCe between Sheridan and, Thomas
, and another to fgger up wherein we
are better off under Grant than we
wuz under Stanton.
ReSOlUed, That the President, in
= awakenin hopes only to dash EN- tC
the ground, is guilty NV crOoel disre
gard Nv our feelins.
; ReSolUed, That if he is ever a GOin tC
do anything for us why don't he dc
it, and
At this another dispatch came.
wuz too much affected to read it, anC
, / past it to the President. "IIell y
scd he, "Gentle sirs hunt yer holes
Thomas is sick and won't come, and
Sheridan is goin to stay after ALL"
p ConcIudin that my Offishel duties
/ lpreVentid me from a longer stay il
Moo Orleans, l FASTENED North agiT
with all speed. Jest ez L wuz leavir
5 the city, 1 got another despatch statir
= that Hancock wuz appointed to Sheri
| dams place. 1 didn't consider tht
nOOze suffishently checrin to indOOst
. me to go back agin. I feel that mer
: az my opinions is safer in Kentucky
than anywhere else. Kentucky didn'
= secede, and therefore, within her Dor
ders secesshenists are safe. Thank tn
=, Lord for Kentucky. They don't dc
4 Johnson justice down there tho. IL
wood help cm if he Good, but he can't
+ COngris tied his hands. He kin appin
t this man or that man, but both thi
t man and that man are bound to exc
p cute the law. What kin the Presi
1 dent do?
: PETROLEUM V. NAsBY, P. NJ,
1 (Which is POstmaster.)
c In Vinton county resides a EamiI
= Of father and seven sons and stepsOns