The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1867-01-24

bein degraded coz twus their nacher,
didn't he, and that eddu cashen wood
ent do for en- ?" aE -l aa
.sPerfessor," sed the tormentin Big
Ter, wich he'd just whisky enuff into
him to be ugly, 'I must remind You
that the partikeler babe and sucklin out
NV whose mouth yOor bein immensely
condemned, expeI prompt ansers, or
rather ], his guardian and protector
do.n '-., .ar
I ansered that sich wuz the tenor NV
the Guvner's remarks.
"Ef that's troo, why don't the mulat-
toes come up faster? Ef its the material
stooPidity NV the niger, the white man
amt affected by II, and the mulatto
only half. L are 'quainLed with the heft
NV the people afore me, and pIl bet my
last years wages, wich Deekin Pogram
amt paid yit, that half Nv em can't
read any MORN kin. Pears tn me I'd
like to hev Guvner Bramlette take the
load of us for a year or Two and see
whether we'd rise or not. We moutn't
and then agin we mout. But 1 ruther
think its leetle too much to put a
milestone on top Nv man and then
kick him for not gettin up.
Bully! ~ sed Joe Bigler. go on!
go on!"
sit amt just square playin to make
all sorts NV laws agin our risin, to fog
US for hevin spellin books, to make il a
penitentiary offence to learn to read,
and TO burn our skool houses, and then
because we aint just ready to enter col
| lege, to insist ont that we are materially
incapable. And above all aint it pre-
soomin little to charge 1t onto the
Lord? Amt you mistaken your own
work for hizzen? 'Praps eff GuVner
Bramlett's father he'd bin fogged for
wantin to learn 20 read, and Guvner
Bramlett's mother he'd bin brought up
ez field hand, and the same strategy
he'd bin practiced on Guvner Bram-
let's grandfather, and great grand
father, and his great, great grandfather,
and great, great, great grandfather, and
his great
"HoId on venerable" sed Joe Bieler,
tors, back 10 the identicle time they
wuz slaves to them NormHns, witch held
his projenitors jist es closely es yoo've
bin held, and it'll be sufishent. But
go on"
81 plead guilty to the big hands, fiat
nose and how'd legs. Possibly the first
nigger he'd em-possibly not. Eff Guv-
| ner BranIlett's father, and his grand
fa-wlch is to say ancestors, he'd bin
kept at the hoe, his hands would hev
bin ez big ez mine; eff they'd borne bur-
dens forever his legs wood be bowed,
and ef their noses he'd bin perpetooally
Bmasht hizzen wood be fiatter than it is.
'Hev yoo eny more questions to put
to the Perfessor?'' sed Joseph.
MO-" replied the Ethiopian, ST hev
sed my say
''Then," sed this Bigler, which wuz
gettin more and more reckless every
minnit, "I dismiss this congregashun,
with this remark that that nigger is un-
der my protectin care, and eff single
lock NV his wool is disturbed, L shell feel
it a sollum but painful dooty devolvin
upon me, to put boil into the carcass
NV each NV the offishls NV this Church,
commencin with the Faster, and con-
tinuiu all the way down to the scribe.
Gitr'
And pell nell the congregashun piled
out-one over another.
1t will be necessary to dispose of Joe
Bigler somehow. He lost wat property
he he'd in the war, and is becoming ex-
ceedinly loose in his talk. He can't be
tolerated long.
PETROLEUM V. NAsBY, P. NJ,
(Which is Postmaster), and likewise Pro-
fessor Nv Biblikle Politicks in the
Southern Classikle q Military Insti-
tOOt.