Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1867-01-30
PosT OFFICE CoNFEDRIT Y ROADS,
(which is in the Stait NV XVI
January 10, 1867.

| HDTu- Leu US 10 our OOOllSS, LlglOI
must take the front seat NV temp'ral
matters" and sighin ez he cast part
in glance at his hand, he strobe out,
resolootly to the sanktooary.
5 opened by readin the follerin from
Gov. BRAMLETTE's message:
"The niger is the interior Nv the
white-he lacks the power to rise
0ntil the leopard kin change his spots,
. or the Ethiopian his skin, all efforts TO
; repeal or nullify Gods laws will be un-
: availin"
my bretherin thes, words .is words
Nv wisdom, and fur EN- let US be thank
, ful. The skin Nv the Ethiopian wuz
= inflicted onto him for the express pur
pose NV distingishin him from his
bretherin, whose servants he wuz con
demned to be, for all time, ez punish
ment for the sin Nv Cain or the improo
dence Nv Ham, wich, Democratic
divines heven't settled on. With the
black skin he wuz given all the other
marksuv inferiority. Hewuz Gust with
long arms, immense hands, fiat nose,
and bowed legs, and that ther mite be
no mistake in the matter he wuz given
wool instead NV hair, halleloogyi
''Ah, MY brethren, wat a blessid thing
for us is this Ethiopian Wat a conso-
lation it must be to 700 all to know
that ther is a race below yoo, and how
blessid the reheckshun that they can't
change ther skin, and by that means
git above yooi That's the comfort we
draw from the skrIpters. Wat a hor-
ror it wood be for Deekin Pogram, who
is snorin so peacefy,
'Dreamin. sweetly dreamin the happy hours
away"
Efwhen the Soopreme Court decides
the Ablishn amendment tunconstooshnl,
and he gifts his niggers back agin eff
ther shood be a new dispensashun and
niggers shood be permitted to change
ther skins! Wat sokoority wood we
hcv for our property? Some mornin
he'd wake up and find EN- all white
persons Wich it wood be unconstatoo-
shnel to wollop.
my brethren ther hez bin many
efforts to change the skin Nv the Ethio-
plan, or rather ther hez bin many who
wanted to. The Boston Ablishnists
hev tried it, but wat hez bin the result?
Aint they niggers yit, and amt they
still the degraded wretches they alluz
wuz? | paws for q reply"
made this latter remark becoz, and
only Decoz, it sounded well, not that
he'd any idee that anybody wood reply.
Imagine my surprise at seein a gray
headed niger, wich he'd bin doorin
and after the fratrisidle struggle en-
ployed in the Freedman's Burow, rise,
and remark that he he'd a word to say
onto that pint. There wuz a storm Nv
indignashun, and the impudent niger, |
who wuz SO sassey ez to presoom to !
speek in a white meetin, wood hev bin !
sacrificed on the spot, he'd not Joe Big |
Ter, who wuz half drunk, drawd ugly.
lookin navy revolver, and remarkin |
that he knowd that nigger-that he
he'd more sense than the hull bilin Nv |
us, and he shood hev his say.
Eff" sed this recklis Joe, ''ef he
beats 700, Professor, trooth is trooth /
lets hev it. Eff he don't, why, it's all 7
the better for yoo. Eff yoor Websteri- |
an intelleek kiVers the ground, all rite |
EFF his ponderous intelleck gets the
best ont, jist ez rite. Out NV the
mouths NV babes and sucklins.' Elder,
l go my bottom dollar on this sucklin.
Speek up, venerable-there wont none
Nv EN- teech yoo," and he cockt his
revolver.
"Beggin pardon" sed the niger, 81
agree with 700, Perfesser, that the
Ethiopian can't change his skin hisself,
but does the Scripter say that it can't
be changed for him?"
''Anser the venerable babe" sed Joe
Bigler. pintir lis revolver at me.
81 can't say that it does" sez !.
Every good" retorted the niger,
"hezn't there a change bin a goin on in
Kaintuck from the beginning? NV
mother wuz ez black ez a crow-I'm
considerable lghter-my wife's half
lighter ihan l am-my gals children is
a half Lighter than their mother, and
L want to know wat Guvner Bramlette's
got to say to that. The white man
amt got no cuss onto him, hez her"
'Speek up Periesser-Jhe. sucklin
wants 700 to be prompt" sed Joe Big
ler.
answered that he had not-that it
wuz piled onto Ham or Cain and their
descendants and nobody else"
Very well then," sed the niger,
chucklin all over, ''ez l am only half
Ham or Cain, (wich, yoo hevn't decid-
ed J, then Nv coarse there's only half
cuss onto me, only aquarter onto my
wife, only an eighth onto my daughters,
only a sixteenth onto my daughters
children, and there's lots nv niggers in
this yer visinity wat hezn't got the I
or the thirty fourth {
part Nv it hangin to EN-. Gunner '
Brsmlette also sed sutbin bout niggers '
bein degraded coz twuz their nacher, q
didn't he, and that edducashen wood l
not do for emf" S
'Perfesser," sed the tormentin Big i
Ter, wich he'd just whisky enuff onto v
him to be ugly, 81 must remind VOC '
that the partikeler babe and sucklin t
put Nv whose mouth yoor bein i'm c
condemned, expex prompt a
ansers, or rather l, his guardian and
pertector do" T
81 anserei that sich wuz the tenor q
Nv the Guvner's remarks. /
EFF that's troo, why don't the mulat- I
Loes come up faster? Eff its the material a
Nv the niger, the white man 7
aint effected by it, and the mulatto t
only half. | are 'quainted with the @
4Ois Nv bAO pSOplS dioI6 me- ana II o
bet my last years wages, wich Deekin a
Pogram amt paid yit, that half Nv EN- S
amt read any morn l KIN. Pears to e
ne I'd like to heV Guvner Bramlette b
axe the load off US for year or two d
ind see whether we'd rise or not. We
noutn't and then agin we mout But s.
rather think its leetle too much to p
1ut a millstone on top Nv a man and u
hen kick him for not gettin up. 8,
"Bullyp sed Joe BIgler. $50 on e
20 onp o
sit amt just square playin to make h
il sorts uv laws agin our risin, to fog g
Is for hevin spellin books, to make it a
offence to learn to read is
nd to burn our skool-houses, and then q
because we aint just ready to enter c.
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