Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1867-08-09


DECIDE TO GO BACK ON HiM---A MEET
lNG,THE EFFECT OF WHICH WAS SPOIL
ED BY POLLOCK, THE ILLINOIS STORE
KEEPER, AND JOSEPH BIGLER, LATE c.
S. A.
PosT OFFIs, CoNEEDRIr X ROADS, }
(Which is in the Stait Nv Kentucky
July 2S, 1867.
The speculashen in wool, into which the
Dimocrisy NV the South embarkt some
months ago, hez, l regret to say, resulted
disastrously. The Niger ain: fitted for
co-operashun with the Dimocrisy. Instid
Nv hangin onto us like the ivy onto the
oak, be diskivered that, in the South at
least, he wuz really the oak and we the
ivy; instid Nv lookin up to US, he contract
ed disdgreeable habit Of lookin down on
10 US. There wuz other reasons why he
coodent be made available for our uses,
and therefore, it wuz decided to go back
onto the Airikin, and to agin attempt his
reduckshen to 81 near his normal speer ez
the abnormal condishn of the times wood
admit. The directors NV the college met
and changed the name Nv the Insitooshn
back 10 the Southern Military and Class
ikle Institoot," and The Corners wuz itself
agin.
Deekin Pogram lookt ez if ten years
he'd bin lifted off him. " How pleasant
it's" sed he, "to walk erect agin in front
of niger, and 70 pass EN- ez tho they
wuz nisgersl Oh eff Good only wolop
one wunst more, methinks l Good die hap
pyp
We he'd meetin last mite to consider
this niger question, witch wood hev result
ed in great good and he'd powerful in
flooence toward strengthenin the hands NV
our brethren in the north, who are fightin
the heresy of niger suffrage, he'd it not
bin for that irritashen, Poll ock, and that
pest, Joe Bigler. he'd made my regltr
speech on the Niger and with much effect.
| he'd quoted from somebody's quotashen
from Agassiz, which demonstrated the rad
icle difference there is atween the Afrikin
and the proud Caucasian arguin from the
/ length Nv his heel and arm the thickness
Nv his skull and SO forth, that the niger
wuz totally unfit to exercise the rites Nv
free men. / wuz applauded vociferously
and by none more than. Pollock and Joe
Bigler. Ez | took my seat and wuz a
wipin the perspirashen from my classikle
brow, feelin that he'd settled that ques-
ton, Pollock riz and desired to say few
words and make suggestion. SEED he:
/ hev listened with interest to the
elokent speaker and am happy to say Z
hev LEARNED fa~ .";~i. = 49, Izr L
hev ever doubted the inferiority NV the
niger them doubts are removed, pervidin
alluz, that the statements of the speaker
is troo, Nv witch | hev no doubt, ez the
caraeter of .he speaker is sufficient guar
antee for the trooh Nv whichever he sez."
| I bowed stately-like, with the air Nv one
to whom SIGH compliments wuz every day
affair, witch they amt by no means, on the
contrary quite the reverse.
" But | want it demonstrated to the sat-
/ isfackshen NV the most obtoose-I want
rite here measurement Nv the average
Afrikin and the average white man, that
all the world may know the difference. L
move that it be did,"
| acceded. Let it be done,' sed T.,
that the vexed question may be settled
forever"
Sevral niggers were askt TO submit to
the measurement, but all refused Finally
Joe Bgler sed he saw Napoleon johnson,
a niger which wunst belonged to Deekin
Pogram, in the audience. % Napoleon -
sed he, will 700 contribbit yoorself to the
great science of ethnology? Amt 700
willin to let us yoose yoo awhile &c demon
strate the crate and GROWN trooth that
yoor grandfather wuz monkey? Step
up, Napoleon"
Napoleon, nothin basht, slept up, and
Pollock, Baseom, Bigler and | measured
him with the following result:
IIeighth, . fl inches
Weight, $50 lbs. averdupose