Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1867-04-10

Venture.
PosT OFFICE CoEFEDRIT x ROADS,
(which is in the Staff Nv Ky.)
March %, 1867. J
I hey made many sudden and rathei
'strordinary changes in politix-soue Sc
very sudden that the movement perdoos'
| CONGESTION Nv the Conscience. 1 rekollec.
wunst Nv ~adyokatin free trade and higl
protective tariff, all within twelve hours
II made q speech in q agricultooral does.
trik Nv Moo York in the forenoons st 10 A.
NJ, and in a manufacturer town in Penn.
sylvsny in the eyenln, our platform bein
so constructed that both sides Good find
endorsement in it) and hev performed
many other feats Of moral Gymnastics
but this last change l hev bin called upon
to make is probably the suddenest. Last
week Toosdy, Deekin Pogram, Captain
McPelter and / Huz engaged in riddin the
Corners Nv niggers. We he'd endoord en-
ez long ez we thot possible, and determined
on standin it no longer. -Selectin three
wich we wuz satisfied he'd too much spell.
in-book into EN- to be enslaved agin, we
IA preparin notlses to be served onto EN-,
orderin EN- to leave in twenty -four hours,
when / reserved in the northern mail q
letter marked "Free Alex. W. Randell,
P. n. G." / knowd it wuz ofishel to
wunst-that blessid signatoor is on my
commisshun, and I've contemplated it toe
often to be mistaken In 1t. Its contents
wuz brief, and run thus:
"To all Postmssters in the Southern
States: The niggers hev yotes-consilia-
shen is our best holt. See to it."
This breef tho not hard to be understood
order wuz sealed with the oflshel seal Nv
the Post Offs Department stamp into put
ty lnstid NV wax, to-Tit: loaf of bread,
under a roll NV butter, with ten hands q
grabbin at it. I comprehended the situa-
ton al site, and set about doom my dooty
with both Roman and Spartan frmness.
"Deekin," SEE I, tearin up the notises,
''these niggers we hev Misunderstood
They are not a inferior race-they are not
descendants Nv Ham and Hager-it wuzn't
PauI's idea in sendin back Onesimus to
condemn him to servitood-we hey mis-
understood the situation, and must make
amends. The niger is devoid Nv smell,
and is trooly a man and a brother"
"What?" said the Deekin, tippin back
in amazement.
'Jest wat 1 say" seq I, "read that"
and I flung him the letter.
The upshot Nv the conference which fol-
Tered wuz the calm Nv a meetin the next
mite, at which al the Philippians Nv the
Corners wuz invited and urged 10 be pres
ent.
The trouble wuz to git the niggers to at
tend the meetin. The fust one I spoke to
laft in my face, and askt me how long it
wuz sence / he'd helpt hang q couple Nv
niggers, by way Nv fnishin off a celsbra-
shen. Pollock, the Illinois store keeper,
got hold Nv 1t, and told Joe Bigl T, and
Joe swore that if the niggers hedn't any
more sense than we give EN- credit for, in
sposin We Good bamboozle EN- so cheep, he
shood go back to the old belief, to-wit /:
that they wuz only q sooperior race Nv
monkeys, after all; and by mite every mig
ger in the visinity wuz postid thoroughly,
and out Nv all Nv EN- I Good only GIT four
who would promise to attend, and them
the Deekin he'd to pay 81 apiece to. To
give it eclaw I promised one Nv en- So
Ito be paid at the close Nv the meeting to
sit on the stand with me, witch, bein q very
poor man, and hevin . sick wife in q shan
ty near by, who wuZ sufferin for medi-
cine, (which he coodent git without mon
cyl he accepted.
At this pint an idee struck me. 1 re-
membered Philadelfy, and determined to
hev a scene riValin the Couch and Orr
biznis. Another thing, Cuff, understand
that It's a part nv the bargain that when
in my speech l turn to 700 and stomp, -yoo
must rise and embrace me-"
"Wat?H SEE he.
"Fall into my arms, lovin-like-yoo IN
derstand-jist as tho We wuz long lost
brothers !'
''Scuse mel" sed he. "I'se q nifty low
niger, and wants to buy de old woman
some ~quinine, and wood do mos anything
foah dat, but, golly, OATS too muchr"
''Not q cent" sed /, sternly assoomin
my most piercinest gaze, "onless this is in
clndedI"
"Well," returned he, sulkily, 'ef 1
must, I speck I must, but, golly-"
The mite arrived and the meetin. house
full. We thot fust Nv holding it in
the chapel Nv the College, but give up the
idea ez impracticable, ez, OWN to the dill
lytorinis nv our Northern friends in for
wardin SIGH subscripshens ez they hey
we heYen't got no further with the
bildin than layin the corher-stun. In the
front wuz the four niggers, all in clean
and on the stand wuz the niger 1
he'd engaged. Over the platform, wuz the
follerin notices:
sin Yoonlon Their is strength-For
President in 1868, Fernando Wood. For
Vice President, friedrich Duglis."
SIN the niger, strengthen the eau
casshen, beauty-In the Mulatter, who is
trooly the noblest nv the human species
both"
In addishen to these. we dug up all the
old notices wlch Jefferson writ, about
yooniversel liberty and SIGH, WITCH hedn't
bin quoted in Kentucky for twenty years,
and postld EN- up; IN brief, he'd Wendell
Phillips blessld sperit bin q hoverin over
that meetin- house, it wood hev smiled APP
provinly.
1 spoke to en- elokently on the yooni-
versel brotherhood nv mankind, holdin
that whatever else Good be sed, Adam wuz
the father Nv all mankind, and that the
only difference between a white man and
q niger wuz the niger wuz sun burnt
The niger, l remarkt, wuz, undoubtedly
ORIGINALLY white, but heVin bin, sence his
arrival in this country, addicted to agri-
cultooral persoots, he he'd become tanned
to a degree wich, tho it marred his physi-
kle beauty, did not interfere with his ster-
lin goodnis Nv heart. Tier he'd bin differ
between the races-at times Their he'd
bin on-pleasantLises witch no one regretted
more than L. The whites Nv the Corners
he'd not alluz bin ez considrit ez I Good
hev wished. They he'd floyd sevral Nv EN-,
and hung many more, and i n times past
he'd held EN- in slavery and SIGH, but that
shood not be thot Nv at this happy time
1t wuz constooshnel to do these things
then, and Kentucky wuz eminently a law
abidin State. Here" seq 1, ION this
platform, with the flag Nv our common
country over me, / declare eternal friend
ship to the colored man, and to seel the
declorashen I thus embrace"
The obstinit niger didn't stir a step.
"Come up and fling yoor arms around
you black cuss," sed I, in a stage
whisper. ''Come upi"
mo you don't, bossl" and the niger,
in q loud voice, wich was audible all over
the church. and holdin out his hand: al
can't trust you a bessid mint" ''Gib
de S. fust. 700 owe dis chile foar
dollars now fo' sawIn wood fo' yeah post
offs, and eff we's q gwine to hab our rites,
de fus yoose I shell put mine to be will be
gittin that money. Pay up, fus, and de
brace afterward. can't do SIGH a disa-