The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1867-02-09
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Mr.. Nasty says a Sermon but is INTERRUPTED
dy niger, ,rho is aided and aJJetted by
Meperrerse Joe Bigler.
Posi- OFFS, CoNFEDRIT X ROADS,
(Which is in the Staituv Kentucky,
JANUARY 10, 1867.
wuz rekested week ago to preech a
discourse from the text witch the noble and
highminded Gunner Bramlette used with
such crushin force in his last annual mes,
sage, to wit. "Kin the leopard change his
spots Or the Ethiopian his skim" and alluz
feelln anxious to do wat kin for the cause,
! did it last mite, or rather essayed to do it..
And here let me remark, that there amt n
more devoted people T Kentucky than them
lambs ez compose my flock. 1t WIZ n
tetchin site and one witch filled nv sole with
Joy to see EN- pour out NV the groceries at
the first tootin NV the horn, and to see Pen.
nebacker, wich owns the distlery, stoppin
work to come; but the most cheerin and en-
courag'n sign to me wuz to see Dekin Po
gram, wdo WIZ playin seven up for the
drinks with Elder Slathers, at Bascom's,
lay down his hand when he he'd high, low
and jack in it, and he'd only three to co.
ELDER . said he, his voice trimbln at the
sacrifice he was maxim, and tear stealth
down his cheek, "Elder, there's the horn.
Let us to our dootes. 'Ligon must take
the front seat nv temp'ral Matters and
s'ghln ez he cast apartain glance at his hand.
he strobe resolootly to the sankooay
j opened by readin the follerin from Gov.
Bramlette's message:
1.-The niger is the inferior NV the white
he lacks the power to rise. Ontil the leo.
pard kin change his spots, or the Ethiopian
his skin, all efforts to repeal or nulliiy God
laws will be unavailn."
My brcihrin these words is words NY
wisdom, and fur em letus be thankful The
skin NV the Ethiopian wuz inflicted onto him
tor the express purpose NV distingushin him
from his brethrin, whose servants he WIZ
eondemed TO be, for all time, ez punish.
ment for the sin of Cain or the improodence
NV Ham which, the Democratic diyines
hcven' settled on. With the black skin he
wuz gwen all the ether marks NV nferiori,y,
He wuz Gust withlorg arms, immense hands,
flat nose, and bowed legs, and that Their mite
be no mistake in the matter, he wuz given
wool instead nv hair-halleoogy.
"Ah, my brethren, wat blessid thing for
US in this Ethiopian What consolation
it must be TO 700 all to know that ther Is a
race below 700, and how blcssid thoreneck
shun that they cant change thcr skin and
by that means git above yool That's the
comiord we draw from the skripters. Wat
a horror 1t wood be for Dcehin Pogram, who
Is snorin so pcaccfy,
"Dreanin, swccty drc,min' the happy hours aways',
OF when the SooprCmc Court decides the
Ablishn amendment unconStooshcl aud he
gifts his niggcrs back agin, if ther shood be a
new d'spcnsashun and niggers shood be per.
mtIed TO change Their skins Wat sckoori,y
wood we hay for our property? Some
morniu he d wake up and find EN- all white
persons, which it would be uuconstoosEuncl
to wollop.
"My brethren Their hcz bin many efforts
to change the skin Nv the Ethiopian. or
rather Their hoz bin many who wanted to-
The Bostop Ablishnists hey tried it, but wal
hcz bin the result? Amt they ,.isgcrs yit,
and amt they sull the degraded wrctches
thcy alus wuz? paws for reply"
made tins latter remark becoz, and only
bccoz, ii sounded we'll, not that | he'd any
dcc that anybody wood reply. Imagine my
surprise at sccin gray headed niger, witch
he'd bin, doorin and after the fratrisidle
struggle, employed in The Freedmcns Blu
row, rise, and remark that he he'd Il word to
say onto that pint. There WIZ a storm of
indiguashun, and the mpudent niger, who
wuz so sassy CT to rresoom to speek in a
white mcetln, wood hev bin sacrificed on the
spot had not Joe Bigler, who wuz halfdrunk,
drawd ugly lookin navy revolver, and re.
markin that he kpowd that nigger-that he
he'd moro sepse than the hull blin NV us,
and he shood hev his say.
"Ef" sel this recklis Joe, "ef he beats
700, Professor, trooh is treeth let's hev it.
El he don't, why it's all the better for 700.
Eff yoor Wcbsterian intclleck kivers the
ground, all rite-ef his ponderous nteleck
gets the best on iiist ez rite. Out NV the
mouths NV babes and sucklins. Elder, Il go
my bottom dollar on this suckin. Spcek
up, venerable-thcr won't none NV EN- tech
yoo,' and he cocht his revolver,
"Begsip PARDON sed the niger, II
agree with 700, Perfessor, that the Ethio-
plan cant change his skin hisself, but does
the scriptcr say that it can't be changed for
him ?"
"Anser the vcnrablo babe sed Joe Big
Ter, pintin his revolver at me.
~ can say that it does sea
''Nery good retorted the niger; "heznt
there a change bin goin on in Kaintucky
from the beginnin? My mother wuz ez black
ez crow; I'm considerable lighter; my
wile's half lighter than | am my gal S
children is half lighter than their r,other,
and / want % know wat Gunner Bramlett' S
got TO say to that? The white man ain got
! no cuss onto him, hez he?'