Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1867-02-06

the caracterlstIks Nv human nacher, eZ
developed in men and niggers. While
contemplatin a parsel Nv niggers one
day, l follered EN-, and overheard their
conVersashen. l Wuz astonishedl They
Wuz notifyin one another " a meetin
to be held that mite in Pennibacker's
barn, to wich all Wuz expected to be
present. Here, thot l to myself, is Guy
Fawkesi Here is conspiracy! Meetin!
Wat rite hev niggers to meet, And
fastened to Deekin Pogram and told
him wat 1 he'd heerd.
"Nasby," sed he wringin my hand,
"ef l ever doubted the eternel ftnis of
things-the complete and entire adapt
ability Nv one class to another-that
doubt is removed. Here am / a niger
owner-here are 700, a Northern Dino
crat-a bloomin eggsotic ez l may say,
wich hez took root in Southern sile. l
never wood hev overhead them niggers!
no Southrner wood hev thot Nv
sneskin after em-for all SIGH work the
Northern Dimocrat is precisely fitted.
It's wat they've alluz done for US! alluzl
alluz! slluz!"
And he wTung my hand agin, and
thanked me. l Wuz too much over
come with emoshen st the compliment
he paid me, to reply. But we arranged
the programme. WeWent to the Barn,
and overturned a wagon 80 ez we Good
git under it and hear all that wuz sed
without bein seen, and jist at nite-faIl
the Deekin and me ensconed ourselves
in our hidin place.
The niggers gathered, 'praps thirty
on 'em, and opened the meetin with
prayer, in wich exercise they he'd the
profanity to pray for the Government
Nv the Yoonited States and SIGH, and
then the biznis commenst. 1t appeerd
that they'd sent a man North to find a
locashen for EN-, ez they he'd made up
their minds to run away from the bless
ms Nv slavery wich we are preparin to
reopen to EN-, and this niger he'd ar
rived, and they wuz assembled to hear
his report.
Brother Lee" sed the ring-leader
to the returned niger, witch 1 knowd;
he III nearly white and wuz raised in
Virginia, and he'd bin four years in the
army, on the Fedral side Nv course,
"are 700 ready to report? HeV 700
found the promised land?"
Brother Lee replied, that eff he IN
derstood wat Muz the Ethiopian idee
Nv the promised land" he. Good safe
ly and certinly say that he hedn't. He
landed first in Philadelpby, and bein
sumwat wearied by the long ride, he
took a seat in a street-car wich TuZ
empty. The condukter ordered him
out, but sposin he wuz in a State where
ther wuz ekal rites, he insisted on stay
in, when the condukter and the driver
bundled him out by force. His coat,
he observed, shown wher the bloc
blouse he'd bin unskilfully mendid,
Wuz sumwat frakterd in the skuf1e.
At this narrashen the niggers groan-
ed, and it wuz all 1 Good do to keep
the Deekin from hollerin halleloogyl
In Moo York state he didn't fare so
well. He diskiVerd that 3 decent mig
ger there isn't quite ez good ez a very
ornry white mar. He happened there
on 'leckshen day, and narrated that he
saw white men carried up to the poles
so eggstremely drunk that them ez he'd
EN- in charge he'd to put the ticket
atWeen ther fingers and anser to ther
names, while 'spectsble niger he'd to
show that he wuz worth some property
afore ne wuz allowed to vote, and then
a number Nv gentlemen with red faces
and clubs made it so unpleasant that
but few attempted it.
The Deekin punched me in the ribs
vociferously.
Next he went to Ohio, 'sposin Nv
course, that a State so extremely op-
posed to bondage, wood be the place he
wuz in search Nv. Agin he wuz disap-
pinted. 1t wuz worse than it wuz in
Moo York, for the Ablishnists Wuz a
goin on the principle, he rather guess
ed, Nv doin justis without runnin agin
anybody's prejudises; or rather, Nv let
tin justis do herself, for they don't
make any move towards helpin her
There the niger Nv no grade, no mat
ter how much he pade taxes onto, or
how long he served in the army, Uuz
allowed a vote. The Ablishinists, ez
he understood, tho 'praps he wuz wrong, |
carried the State on the niger question,
but Wuz now sfrade to fetch it for fear
they'd lose it agin. They've he'd it, he
II years, but hedn't, ez yit,
got all the people edjicated up TO the
pint Nv doin wat all the people knowd
wuz rite.
His experience in the West Huz very
the A~blishnists wuz every
where very strongly in the majority,
and every wun Nv EN- he talked with
Buz in favor Nv giVin the niger his
rites, but they wuZ all afrade eff they
took hold Nv it, they'd be laid out by
the democracy, witch wuzn't in the ma
jority at all. In Washington, where
Congress hez give the niggers a vote,
he Wuz well treated, and it wuz the
only place. A gentleman who wants
to run for Mayor next spring, Civ him
dinner, and quite a number Nv
who wanted small o%fises, did
likewise, but he woodent advise emf
there, for the reason that Their
wuz too many there now and besides
its possible that before the next cleo
shun, Congress may conclood that suf-
in the Deestrick will run I'm into
the ground in the States, their constit-
IeLts, wich are all Ablishnists, not
oein educated up to the pint, and re-
peel it.
The Deekin nudged me agin.
Hat SAoA we QOG Iuen seu tue ulS-
gers, all IN korious.
"Dop sed the niger, Wich his name
t WIZ Lee, do! grin and bear it wher
700 are. Ez to me, eff 1 he'd my five
Years back sgin, 1 shood do different.
Liberty is a gift hoss wIch, eff dis mig
he'd 1t to do ober sgin, he wood
ook in de mouth, shoah. l shood
want TO know whedder, 1 bein a beg
gar, ef mounted it | shoodent ride TO
devil. When | turned sgin Msssa
when into de serVis, l wuz promis-
I'd eff l behabed like q man, I shood be J
counted = man. l bshabed like . man,
put wat now? Oars de cibbsl rites bill, +
Tich reads good, but uha's de sogers TO j
put it froo7 Oars all sorts OBJ laws, :
wha's de yoose OBJ en- so long ez no. c
boldly pays any tenshun to emf l go :