Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1867-04-17

heyin sick wife la a shanty near by, who
wuz sufsun tor medicine, (wich he coodn't
git wlthout money he accepted
Al this pint an idee struck me. | remem-
nered PhilAdefy, aud determined to hev a
scene ryahn the Couch and Orr biznis.-
Another thing, Cuff, understand that It's a
part NV the bargain that when in my speech
turn to 700 and stomp, 700 must rise and
embrace mo"
Wat? soz he.
Fall into my arms, lovin-like-you under.
staod--i'st as tho we wuz long lost broth
ersl'
5cuse me Z" sed he Use a nifty low
nigger, and wants to buy de old woman some
qlIaIae, aud wood no Aj5 aayunk foah dat,
blJ. goly, dAt- tJ mach"
"NDt cent, ,..t l., sternly assomin my
most pisfc,nost $500, "onloss this is inclu-
ded ="
"Wel," retltisd he. sulxily, " ef must,
1 spsc6 1 mast, but. goty-'
Tho mite ait.y. 8 and the mselin house wuz
luu. We taot fast Of holding it in the chap
ei av the College, but give a. the idee ez i'm
practicable, sz owin to the dillytorinis NV our
Nouhorn irieuis in flrwArdin sich subscrip-
shens e1 they hey raised, we heven't got no
furnsf with the oldin than layin the corner
stuu. La The front wuz che flur niggsrs, all
ia clean shirts, aud on the stand wuz the mig
ger | hei engaged. Over ,hs platform wuz
tne tollsrin notices:
In Ho1ni1u tner is strens.h-Flr Pred-
dent ir 1869, Fernando Wood-For Wee
President, F,ednck DugHs."
La the nigyer, strength n the Jaucass-
hen, oeauty-ln the muatter, who is trooly
the no5.est Nv the human species-ooth."
la addishsn to these, we dug up all the old
notices which J sf3fson writ, about yoonver-
sci liberty and sich, wich hedn'. Din quoted
in Kentucky for twenty years, and postid EN-
up IN brief he'd Wendell Phillips blessid
spsrit bin a hoverin over that meetin- house,
10 would hev smiled a)proyialy.
/ spoke to sm elokenty on the yooniversel
brotherhood Nv mankind, holdin that whatev-
er else Good be aed, Adam wuz the father NV
all mankind, and that the only difference be-
tween white man and niger wuz sun
burnt. The niger, l remarkt, wuz ondoubt-
eily, ORIGINALLY white, bu, hevin bin, sence
his arrival in this country, addicted to agr-
oultpora perscots, he ned become tanned to
degree wich, tho It marred his physikle
beauty, did not interfere wish his sterlin
goodnis NV heart. Their ned bin difrsnces
between the races--at times ther he'd bin on
pleasantnises wich NJ one regretted more
than /. The whites NV the Corners he'd not
alluz bin ez considrit ez | Good hey wished
They he'd A1gged several NV EN-, and hung
many more, and in times past he'd held EN- in
slavery and sich, but that shood not be thot
Nv at this happy time. 1t wuz constooshnel
to do these things then, aud Kentucky wuz
eminently a law-abiding Stais Here sez
J. on this platform, with the flag NV our
common country over me, | declare eternal
friendship to the colored man, and to seel the
declarashen thus embrace"
The obstinit niggsr did'n. stir a step.
"Come up and fling yoor arms around me,
you black eusa," sed l, ia stage whisper,
"come up,"
"No 700 don't boss =" sed the niger, in
loud voice, wich was audible all over the
church, and holdin out his hand. 81 can't
trust yoo a Dressed mint. Glib me de S5
flst Yoo owe dis chile foah dollars now
for sawin wood for yoah post offs, aud If wes
gwine to nab our rites. defust yoose | shell
put mine to will be gittin dat money. Pay
up fls aud de brace afterward I can't do
sich disagreeabe ting widout de cash in ad-
vance
This ruther destroyed the effect. The uni
ties wuzn't preserved. The niggers in front
burst out in a torturing laf. and Pollock and
Bigler rolld in commissions of laiture, in wich
half NV our people Joined Me standia pet
rifed, in the athtood Of embracin, and that
cussed niger standin with his hands exten.
ded for the money, with the Dsekin and Bas.
com horror-struck iist behind, formed tab
loo wich wuz more strikin than pleasant.
The meetin wuz to-wunst adjourned, for it
wuz evident to the dullest comprehensen that
nothin m1re cooient be don that mite. Ez
yoosual failed for want OF capital. He'd l
bin possest-uv the paltry sum Nv five dol
lars now difrent wood hev BIN the result -
Perchance we may, thro that def shenoy, lose
Kentucky. It must never occur agin-my
salery must be raised. | can't make brix
without straw.
Joe Bigler met me next mornin and re-
msrkt that he regretted the occurrence ez he
ardently desired to see the two races pullin
together. "The fault, Perfesser," sed he
' wuz not m lnagin properly. The next time
yoo want spectacle niger to sit on the
platform with you and the Dsskin, or kiss
and embraces yoo-g,t him drunk.
He'll do it then, probably-I know he
will. Ef he's drunk enuH, he'll hurrih for
Johnson, aud its possible TO git EN- down to
the pint NV votin with 700. Lord how
whiskey drags man down See what it's
brot yoo % ' aid the lnsultin wretch rolled
of lafiil ooisterously. "dit en- drunk, Per-
fessor," he yelled At mo ez iong ez he Good
soc me.
We don't intend to give il up. Bigler's
advice wuz given in jest, but nevertheless
shell act upon il. Whisksy is wat brings
white men to us. and et white man ken be
thus capohered, why not niger: The Az
a.. 4.
our level, and itl take less to bring him.
B ,scom ordered five barrel, to-day, wieh 1
spose the Administration will pay for. We
hev yet the Moo York Custom House, and
more NV the pefkesits must be used Ter polis-
ikle purposes.
PETROLEUM V. NAsBY, p. NJ.
Wch is PostmAsser,) and likewise Profess
scr NV Biblikle Politcks in the Southern
Classikle and Military lnstitoot.
" WALK INTO MY pARLOR, SAID