Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1867-01-31

terrupted by Niger whoi Aided
and Allotted by the Perverse Joe
Bigler.
PosT OFFS, CoSFEDgIT y RoADs-l
(Which is in the State Nv Kentucky.)
JAN 10, 1867.
/ wuz rckested Il week ago TO
preach a discourse from the text
witch the noble and high minded
Gunner Bramlette used with sich
erushin force in his last annual mes
sage, to-wit: kin the Leopard
change his spots, or the Ethiopian
his skim" and alluz feclin anxious TO
do wat / kin for the cause, | did it last
mite, or rather essayed to do it.
And here let me remark, that there
amt a more devoted people in Ken
tuck than them lambs ez compose
my flock. 1t wuz a techin site, and
one which filled my sole with JOY to
see EN- pour out NV the groceries at
the first footing NV the horn, and to
see Pennebacker, wich owns the Dis
tillery, stoppin work to come, but the
most cheerin and encouragin sign to
me wuz to see Deekin Pogram, who
wuz playin seven-up for the drinks
with Elder Slathers, at Bascom's,
lay down his hand when he he'd high,
low and jack in it, and he'd only three
to go. ''Elder, sed he. his voice
tremblin at the sacrifice he wuz a
maxim. and a tear steelin down his
cheek, Elder, them's the horn. Let
US to our dooties. "Ligion must take
the front seat NV temp'ral matters,
aud sighin ez he cast partin
glance at his hand, he strobe out,
resolutely to the sanktooary.
/ opened by readin the follerin
from Gov. Bramlett's message:
1.-The niger is the inferior Nv the
white-he lacks the power to rise
Ontil the leopard kin change his
spots, or the ethiopian his skin, all
efforts to repeal or nullify Gods laws
will be unavalin."
my bretherin, these words is
words NV wisdom, and fur EN- let us
be thankful. The skin NV the Ethio-
plan wuz inaicted;onto him for the ex-
press purpose Nv distinguishin him
from his bretherin, whose servants
he wuz condemned to be, for all time,
ez punishment for the sin NV Cain
or the improodence ov Ham, witch
Democratic divines heven't settled
On. With the black skin he wuz
given all the other marks NV inferior
ity. He wuz Gust with long arms,
immense hands, fiat nose, and bowed
legs, and that Their mite be no mis-
take in the matter he wuz given wool
instead NV hair, halleloogy.
"Ah, my bretherin, wat a blessid
thing,for us is this Ethiopian? Wat
a consolation it must be to 700 all to
know that there is a race below 700,
and how blessid the refleckshun that
they can't change Their skin, and by
that means git above yool That's
the comfort we draw from the skrip-
tiers. Wat horror it would be for
Deekin Pogram, who is snorin so
peacefy.
''Dreamin, sweetiy dreamir the happy hours away"
Eff when the Soopreme Court deci-
ded the Ablishn amendment uncon-
stooshl and he gifts his niggers back
agin. either should be new dispen-
sashun and niggers shood be permit
ed to change their skins! Wat Sc
koority wood we hev for our proper
ty? Some mornin he'd wake up and
find EN- all white persons, witch it
wood be meonstooshnel to wollop
My bretherin, Their hez bin many
efforts to change the skin NV the
Ethiopian, or rather ther hez bin
many who wanted to. The Boston
Ablishnists hev tried it, but wat hez
bin the result? Amt they niggers y;t
and amt they still the degraded
wretches they alluz wus? Ipawsfor
a reply"
I made this latter remark becoz
and only becoz, it sounded well, not
that / he'd any idee that anybody
wood reply. Imagine my surprise at
seein a gray-headed niger, wich he'd
bin doorin and after the fratisidle
struggle employ ed in the Freedmen's
Burrow, rise, and remark that he he'd
L word to say onto that pint, There
WIZ storm NV indignashun, and the