The Vermont transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1864-1870, 1867-05-17

in discourse. l demonstrated with
great fervor the loonacy NV the idea
that the Almighty wood take the
trouble TO create two or more races
when one wood do ez woll--wich idea
is alluz we'll received in this region.---
All men form their idea Of the Deity
somewhat from themselves, and new
err knowd Confedrit Cross Reader to
make two things when one wood ans
CT. refuted the theory advanced by
some writer's that there wuz more than
one head to the race, by quotin the
texts wich treated NV the creashen NV
Adam and Eve, and demolished the
Ham doctrine ~ site. "Ef," sed |,
"Noer did cuss Ham-and condemn Ca
man to be servant unto his breth
rem, how do we know that our color
ed brethren and sistren is the descend
ants of Ham and Canaan ? 1t may be
us for all we know IL it hiz color
IL not black jest ez convenient col
or ez white?
More so" murmured Mrs. Pogyam
half asleep "more soft don't show
dirt"
Us it biz shape? Oh, my brethren,
| amt handsome man, nor wood |
exactly anser for n model for Apoller.
Ef beauty, or comelness, or shape, or
style, is to decide the pint, may the
Lord help us Is it his smell My
brethren, the New York World asserts
that the niggar haint no smell, and eff
he hez, why shoodn't he bev? Stand
in under the common flag nv our
country, with hiz hand upon that mag
ma chartar, the Deklarashen, and hiz
beaming eye turned exultinly toward
our nashncl emblem, the eagel, shall
not our Afrikin brother be allowed TO
smell Jest ez he choices? Ef smell
must be uniform, then let our Govern
mtnt establish Burrow of Perfoom-
cry to wunst. Besides, take high
religious grounds in this matter. Ell
he hez material odor, the Lord give
it to him. Let us not fly in the face
of the Lord by condemnin it. Judge
not lest we be judged. The odor nv
the colored gentleman or lady is the
work of the Lord the odor Of your
unwashed feet IL your own wich
shood stand the highest?
My brethren and sistren, acknowl-
edge that have not long held these
views. | hev showd the common
preiudis, and hey condemned our
friends nv color; [ hey despitefully
used 'em--I hev gone for 'em and
banged 'em like old boots But it
wuz becoz | didn't know EN-. didn't
see the kernel NV meat under the
rough she'll didn't recognize the
glitterin diamond in the ebony coal
My eyes hev been opened. Like
Saul of Tarsus, l see lite. Sence
the passage NV the Military bill, l hev
diskivered many things too tejuus to
1 mention. hev mostly found out all
these things sence that occur
renee. But let us accept the situa-
shen and bless the Lord that eff we
wuz resisted, it hez resultedin devel-
oping excellencies where we didn't
expect to find EN-.
There wuz an affectin scene after
service wuz over. Deekin Pogram, Capt.
McPhelter and Elder Gavitt shook
hands with EN- with degree nv corr
atty | didn't expect. Trooly them
are great men. They develop de-
gree NV adaptahility to circumstances
wich ! didn't look for. l really bIeeve
if I'd told 'em that it wood hev q
effeck to kiss the niger babies al
around, that they'd done it. But ]
spared EN- this. There is such q
thing ez layin on too thick.
But all this WIZ spilled the next day
There wuz an extraordinarily heavy
mail that day. In addition to the pa
per Pollock, the Illinois store keeper,
takes, there WIZ eight others, and to
my surprise they wuz all directed to
niggers "Wat is this ?" thot to
myself. "Hev the Ablishnists NV the
North determined upon Proselytin
these men, and are they going to flood
this country with their incen 1iary
reading ? Ez Federal officer it's my
dooty to look into the matter p Jist
imagine my dellrious JOY at finding
that they wuz Dimokratic papers from
from Moo York and Ohio "Thank
Heaven !" sed /, "our people hev ava
kened to sense nv the necessities NV
doin suthin," and l handed the pa-
pers out to EN- with impressive words
exhortin NV 'em to read EN-, ca they
wuz trooth, and nothin but tho trooth
| ruther think they read EN-, foi
from that time ont they avoided me
ez though | he'd the plague. Ef | wu7
agoin' down the street and one NV EN-
wuz a comm up, he'd cross the street
and the pecoolyer expression NV his
countenace INDICATED that it wuzn't WY
maiesticky resence witch AVID him.
They he'd loathin depicted on theil
classick feechers. Unable to endool
this | seezed one of EN- and asked him
why | wuz treated thus
Delibil;tly, he pulled out NV his
pockit one nv them cussid Northern
papers, and openin it pinted, indig-
nantly, to editorial article. 1t WIZ
perfoosly headed in this wise:
Shet myers cote !--snei NE promo
Ciucasea he redoost 10 ekuluy ,c;th M
disqua,s Afrik.ia ?--ks ms a sch.t
mans government or pot p Amer1ly ion
achite pen!
Sed this Ethiopian, with his fingers
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