The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1867-11-21
HsborOugh Highland County, Ohio Thursday November 81 8(

| "Give him a chancetO rise? That's
wat you are gettin at, I see. 1 am,
and always Wuz a DimOkrat ez yoO
know, but I don't shudder from that
cause-not any. 1 hev faith in the
Lord, wich 700 appear to lack, wich
is strange, COnsiderin your prOfeshun.
Eff my colored friends here wuz or
dained by the Almighty to alluz ok
kepy an inferior posishen to us, why
| they'll do itany how, Onless indeed,
we degrade ourselves below their level.
Eff understand yOor idea, it is that
the proud Caucasian is the only IA
vored race, wich fixed its own posi-
shen itself, but that all the other races
he'd places assigned them, wich God
almity hevin fixed they can't pass
That being the case, watts the yOose,
! Perfesser, NV our fOOlin away our
time a trying to strengthen his laws
by any act Nv ours ? Eff the Almighty
| fixed it so, kin we do it any better than
he ?' t.-
s'But spOsn the niger, eff we don't
keep him down by law, shOOd rise
above US ?"
81 shOOd unanimously cOnclOOd that
ther he'd been a mistake in the figgers,
and that we wuz, after all, the SOILS Nv
Ham, and they the sons of Japheth.
How wood 700 like that? But that
aint what ails US. There, Perfesser,
amt where our danger is. DimOcrisy,
like man with a tape-wOrm, carries
the elements Nv its own destruckshen.
NIissegenashun is watts sappin the
foundations NV the party. Agreein
with 700 that the nigger's place is
fixed, and that the Dimocrisy cOOdnt
git along a mint without the nigger,
I here utter my solemn warning agin
the cOntinyOOal lessenin NV the race,
becOz that race is our rock, and on
to that we stand. Wat sense is there
in wastin our capital, or ruther dilut-
in it?"
'Wat do you mean o. .askt I, not
gettin at the drift NV wat he was driv-
in at.
"Mean! My meanin is plain. The
| blacker the niger is, the further he is
below uS-the whittier he is, the nearer
our ekal he is. In this calculashun
we don't take intelligence, or virchoo
or anything into account, but proceed
upon the hypothesis that a devilish
mean white man is considerable bet
ter than a smart and honest niger
! Therefore, any drop Of white blood in
a nigger's veins makes him just one
drop less Objectionable. Look at the
specimens which I hev brought with
; me to illustrate my pint. The light
colOred nigger5 will rise"
And every cussid one Nv EN- got up
ez ef by majic, and 1 saw tO-Wunst wat
he was goin for.
''YOI see, Perfessor, I hev here TWEEN
/ ty-tWO spilled niggers. Every one Nv
them ought to heV bin the son or
daughter Nv two pure niggers; but they
aint. This ones mother, for Instance"
| and he laid his hand upon the shOul-
der NV a likely quadrOOn NV eighteen
years; ''wuz wunst the property NV
Deekin Pogram, wich circumstance ac-
counts for her hevin the POgram nose.
and general cast Nv countenance to an
aIarmin degree, and"
Their wuz a piercin shreCk heard.
and Mrs. POgram was carried out
faintin, and the Deekin turned ez red
ez lobster, while Bigler, eZ solemn
ez a Judge, went on
"This girl wuz wunst the property
NV Deekin McGrath, who is, T notis,
here tO-nitc. NIiIissy, stand up" sadl
he, and a likely mulattO woman ariz.
"YOu will nOtis, >" sed he, "that Mel
issy is rather dark, wich her girl wich
you see afOre yOO, is quite half light
er. The race bIeached out cOnsidera-
ble on Deekin McGrath's place, con-
siderable. I hev in my recollection,
ten or fifteen more, NV varius shades,
who hev the McGrath's face, but"
Mrs. Deezin McGrath utterin a
shreek Nv rage, swung out NV the
church, and the Deekin tO-wunst as
soomed the color NV his feller, Deekin
Pogram.
81 mite go on, but wherefore? Yoo
all see the pint. I can show yOO inI
this cOlleckshun wich 1 hev picked
the pecoolyer teachers Nv the Dingeses,
the McPeIters, the Basconns, and every
family around these parts-that is, !
the feechers Nv the male members Nv
EN-. But since the emancipashun,
hev nOtist that this thing hez come to-
sudden endin. 1 hev notist that
sense the niggers hev owned their
selves, there aint no more of this mix
ter. Yoo purpose, / suppose, agin re-
dOosin EN- to their normal condishun
and make NV EN- men servants and
maid servants. Eff this is done, let
me entreet 700 brethren to stop this
bleachin process. Eff 700 hev respect |
for the Dimokrisy don't tolerate it no
more. The moment a half white
nigger is born, yOO can't enslave only |
half Nv EN-, for only half comes under
the cuss and only half under the laws
agin niggers. That one half keeps /
down to the Ham level, but tOther
half sores to the Japhet place in ma
cher. YOO can't whale mulattO |
with only half the intensity yoO kin
clear blooded nigger, and when they
keep bIeachin out, and out, and out, !
until they are almost white, what
then? When the nigger is Dine-tenth
Pogram and only one tenth nigger,
what then? Kin the Deekin be so
deaf to the voice Nv nacher-so
bare Nv impulse ez to oppose so
much Pogram for the sake Nv gettin
his foot on so little nigger? I can't
believe it. Besides, when its all run
out-when the nigger don't show at
all-then wat is to prevent EN- from
waIkin off alone and settin up in biz
ness for themselves, ez white men p
Wat will become Nv the DimOcrisy
then
All this time the niggers wuz litter
in, and the white women wuz gaspin
for breath, and the men wuz turnin
red and white by turns. I arose to
rebuke him, when Bigler remarkt that
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