Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1867-08-14
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WITCH is in the Stait of kentucky
July 2S, 1867.

! (Wich is In the Stalt of kentucky
July 2S. 1867.
The speculashen in wool, INTO wich the
Dimocrisy NV the south embarkt some
months ago. hez, regret to say, resulted
disastrously. The nigger amt fitted for
co-operashen with the Dimocrisy. Instid
NV hangin onto US like the ivy onto the oak,
he diskivered that, in the south at least,
he wuz really the oak and we the ivy; in
Std Nv lookin up to us, he contracted
disagreeable habit Nv lookin down onto us.
There wuz other reasons why he coodent
be made available for our uses, and there
fore, it wuz decided to go back onto the
Afrikin, and to agin attempt his re-
duckshen to ez near his normal speer ez
the abnormal condishn Nv the times wood
admit. The directors NV the college met
and changed the name NV the Institooshn
back to the & Southern Military & Ciasi-
kle Institoot," and the Corners wuz itself
agin.
Deekin Pogram lookt ez tho ten years
he'd bin lifted off him. How pleasant
| it's sed he, to walk erect agin in front
Nv niger, and to pass EN- ez tho they
wuz niggers! Oh eff Good only wallop
one wunst more, methinks | could die
happy"
We he'd meetin last mite to consider
this niger question, wich wood hev re-.
suited in great good and he'd a powerful in-
hooence toward strengthenin the hands Nv
our brethren in the north, who are fightin
the heresy NV niger suffrage, he'd it not
bin for that irritashen, Pollock, and that
pest, Joe Bigler 1 he'd made my regler
speech on the niger and with much effect.
| he'd quoted from sumboddy's quotashen
from Agassiz, which demonstrated the rad
icle difference there is atween the Afrikin
and the proud Caucasian arguin from the
length Nv his heel and arm the thickness
Nv his skull and so forth, that the niger
wuz totally unfit to exercise the rites Nv
free men. | wuz applauded vociferously
and by none more than Pollock and Joe
Bigler. Ez | took my seat and wuz
wipin the perspiras hen from my classikle
brow, feelin that he'd settled that ques-
ton, Pollock riz and desired to say a few
words and make suggestion. Sed he:
Il hev listened with interest to the elo-
kent speeker and am happy to say | hev
learned fax wich is new to me. Eff hev
ever doubted the inferiorty Nv the nj gger
them doubs are removed, pervidin alluz,
that the statements NV the speeker is troo.
NV wich | hev no doubt, ez the caracter Nv
the speeker is sufhshent guarantee for
the trooth Nv whichever he sez.''
[ bowed stately-like, with the air uy one
to whom sich compliments wuz every day
affair, wich they aint by no means on the
contrary quite the reverse
= But | want it demonstrated to the sat
isfackshen NV the most obtoose-l want
rite here measurment NV the average Af-
rikin and the average white man, that all
the world may know the difference |
move that it be did"
/ | acceded g Let it be DONE" sed [,
- that the vexed question may be settled
| forever
Sevral niggers We're askt to submit to
the measurement, but all refused. Final
| ly, Joe Bigler sed he saw Napoleon John
son, a niger which wunst belonged to
Deekin Pogram, in the audience. Ma
poleon," sed he, Twill 700 contribbit yoor-
self to the great science NV ethology ?
Amt 700 willin to let us yoose yoo awhile
to demonstrate the CRATE and CROWN trooth
that yoor grandfather wuz Il monkey
Step up. Napoleon"
Napoleon nothin basht, slept up, and
Pollock, Bascom, and Biger measured him
with the followin result
Ileighth, ) it 8 inches
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