The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1867-04-24
From the Toledo Blade.
The Nasty Papers.

(W1cn Is IN the Sta1C OF hcntuChyD
March %, 1867.
have made many sudden and rather
stordinary changes in politix-some SO very
sudden that the movement perdoost comes
ton Nv the Conscience rekollect wunst
Nv advokatin free trade and high protective
tariff, all within twelve hours Il made
speech in agricultural deestrick nv Moo
York in the forenoon at 10 a. M, and In q
manufacture town in Pennsylvany In the
evenin, our platform bein so construktid
that both sides Good find a endorsement IN
it, and hev performed many other feats Nv
moral gymnastics; but this last change
hev been called upon to make is probably
the suddenest. Last week Toodsy, Deekln
Pogram, Capt. McPelter and wuz engaged
in riddin the Corners Nv nlggers. we hed
endoored EN- ez long az we thot possible,
and determined on standin it no longer
Scleetin three witch we wuz satisfied he'd too
much spellin-book into EN- to be ensaved
agin, we wuz preparin notises TO be served
onto EN-, Orderin EN- to leave in twenty-four
hours, when reserved in the Northern mail
letter marked "Free-Alex. W. Randell,
P. NJ G." I knowd it wuz offishel TO wunst
that blessid signatoOr is on my commits
shun, and I've contemplated it too often to
be mistaken in it. Its contents wuz brief,
and run thus:
"To all Postmasters in the Southern
States: The niggers hev votes-consiliashen
is our best holt See to it."
This breef tho not hard to he understood
order wuz seeled with he offishel seel Nv the
Post Offs Department stampt into putty in
std Nv wax. to wit loaf of bread, under
n roll nv, l,ffar with fa,, bop flr him If
it. comprehended the situation at site. and
set about dom my dooty with both Roman
and Spartan frmness. "Deekin," SEE l,
tearn up the notises. these niggers we hev
misunderstood. They are not Il inferior race
they are not descendants nv Ham and
Hagcr-it wuzn't Pauls idea in sendin back
Onesimus to condemn him to servitude-we
hev misunderstood the situashion, and must
make amends"
"The niger is devoid Nv smell, and is
trooly man and brother!"
"Wat? 2" said the Deekin, tippin back in
amazement.
'Jest wat say" SEE I, "read that" and l
flung him to the letter. '3'.t
Tie upshot NV the conference wich foller-
| ed wuz the calm Nv ameeting the next nite
at WITCH all the Philippians NV the corners
wuz invitel and urged to be present
The trouble wuz to git the niggers to at
tend the meetin. The fust one spoke to
afft in my face, and askt me how long it
wuz sence he'd helpt hang coupe NV mig
gers, by way Nv finishin off celebrashen-
Pollock, the Illinois store keeper, got hold
Nv it, and told Joe Bigler. and Joe swore
that eff the niggers hedn't any more sense
than we give EN- credit for, in sposin we
Good hamboozle EN- so cheep, he shood 90
back to the old bel eff, to wit: that they wuz
only sooperior race Nv monkeys. after all /;
and by mite every niger in the visinity, WIZ
postld thoroughly, and out Nv all Nv EN- 1
Good only git four who would promise to at
tend, and them the Deekin he'd to pay 50
apiece TO. To give it eclaw I promised one
NV EN- So Ito be paid at the close Nv the
meetin) to sit on the stand with me, witch,
bein a very poor man, and hevin sick wife
in a shanty near by, who wuz sufferin for
medicine (Which he coodent git without
money! he accepted.
At this pint an idee struck me. I re-
membered Philadelfy, and determined to
hev scene rivaln the Couch and Orr biznis.
Another thing, Cuff. understand that its a
| part Nv the bargin that when in nv speech
l turn to yoo and sto'up, 700 must rise and
embrace me-"
| "Wat ?" seq he.
"Fall into my arms, lovin- like-you unp
derstand-jist as tho we wuz long lost broth
ere!"
"'Scuse me! !" sed he. "Ise nifty low Mig
ger and wains to buy de old woman some
quinine, and wood do most anything foah
dat, but, goly, dat's too much ~
| Not a cent" sed l. sternly assoomin nv
most piercinest gaze, unless this is inclu-
ded p
"Well," returned he, sulkily, EFF must
| speck must, but, golly-"
The mite arrived and the meetin-house
wuz full. We thot fust nv holding it in the
chapel Nv the College, but give up the idea
ez impracticable, eZ. OWN to the dillytorinis
NV our Northern friends in forwardin SIGH
subscripshens ez they hev raised, we heven't
got no further with the buildin than lawn
the corner-stun In the front wuz the four
niggers all in clean shirts, and on the stand
wuz the niger l he'd engaged. Over the
platform. wuz the follerin notices:
In 1oonion ther is strength-For Presi-
dent in 1868, Fernando Wood. For Vice
President, friedrich Duglis."
g In the Niger. strengthen the Caucash-
en-, beauty-In the mulatter, who is trooly
the noblest NV the human species-both"
In addishen to these, wedug up all the old
notices witch Jefferson writ, about yooniver-
sci liberty and SIGH, witch hedn't bin quoted
in Kentucky for twenty years, and postid EN-
up; in brief, he'd Wendell Phillips's blessed
spcrit bin a hoverin over that meetin-house,
it wood hev smiled approvingly.
| spoke to EN- elokently on the yooniver-
sci brotherhood NV mankind, hodin that
whatever else Good he sed, Adam wuz the
father Nv all mankind, and that the only
difference between white man and mig
ger wuz the niger wuz sun burnt The
niger, remarkt, wuz undoubtedly, origen-
ally white but hevin bin sence his arrival
In this country, addicted to agricultural per-
| SCOTS, he he'd become tanned to degree
witch, tho it married his physkle beauty, did
not interfere with his sterlin goodnis Nv heart.
| Their he'd bin differences between the races
at times ther he'd bin onpleasantnises witch
no one regretted more than /. The whites
Nv the Corners he'd not alluz bin ez considrit
ez Good hev wished They he'd floyd sew
NV EN-, and hung many more, and in 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" SEE l. g on this platform,
with the flag Nv our common country over
me, declare eternal friendship to the color.
ed man, and to seel the declaration thus
embrace" sti ru...
The obstinit niger didn't STIR a step.
"Come up and fling your arms around me,
700 black cuss," sed |, in a stage whisper.
Come up!" 43 ..; sa..r