The Tiffin weekly tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1859-1868, 1867-01-31

biSiois piuuu uls ltNotNtT " I1c.
81 cant say that it does, ser I.
Every good" retorted the niger,
''hernt there change bin goiu on
in Ksintuck from the beginuiu9 My
mother wuz es black cz a crow-lm
considble lighter--my wife's half
lighter than am-my gals children
is half lighter than their mother,
and l want to know wat Guvuer
Bramlette's got to say to that. The
white man aint got no euss onto him,
hea hep
"Speck up Porfessor-the sucklin
want yoO to be prompt" sed Joe
Biglor.
| answered that he he'd not-that
1t wnE piled onto Ham or Gaia aud
their descendants, and nobody else"
Every woll then" sed the niger,
ohucklin all over, "eI l am only half
Ham or Cain, (Which, you bovnt de-
oided )theu nv coarse there's only
half a cuss onto mo, only a quarter
onto my wife, only au eighth onto my
daughters, only a sixteenth onto my
daughters, children, aud there's lots
NV niggers ia ,his yer visinity wat
hezn't got the thirty sckkund or tho
sixty -fouth part Nv it hangin to em'
Guyner Bramlette also sed suthin
bout niggers bein degraded cor twuE
their nacher, didn't no, and that ed
ducashen woodent do for emp"
Periessor," sed the tormentin
Bigler, which hod just whiskey euuff
into HIM to be ugly, IL must remind
700 that the partikeler babe and suck
lin out Nv whose mouth yoor beinim-
mensely condemned, expex prompt
ansers, or rather l, his guardian and
perteotor do"
answered that sich wuz the tenor
Nv the Guvnor's remarks.
"Ef that's troo, why don't the mu.
lattoes come up faster2 Ef its the
material stoJpidity Nv the niger,
the white man aint effected by it, aud
the mulatto only half. Iare quaint
ed with the heft NV the people afore
me, and I'll bet my last years wages,
wich Deekin Pogram amt paid yit,
that half NV em cant read any morn
| kin. Pears to me I'd like to hev
Gunner Bramlette take the load off us
for year or two and see whether
We d rise or not. We moutn't aud
then again We mout. But l rather
think its leetle too much to put n
milestone on top NV man aud then
kick him for not gettin up.
BulIyr' sed Joe Biglor. "Go
ronl so on ~
1t aint just square playin to make
all sorts NV laws agin our risin, to
fog us 70. hevin spellin. books, to
make it penitentiary offence TO learn
to read and to burn our school hous-
es, and then because We aint just
ready TO enter college, to insist ont
that wo are materially incapable. And
above all aint ii presoomin little to
charge it QUITO tho Lord Aint yoo
mistaken y,ur own work for hizzen ?
'Praps eff Guvuer Bramlette's father
he'd bin aoggid for wantin to learn to
read, and Guvuer Bramlett's mother
he'd bin brought up ez feeld hand,
and the same strategy he'd bin prac-
tised on Gunner Bramlett's grand IA
ther, and great grandfather, and
great, great, great grandfather, and
his great--ia1 as- 9giu pI.aai
Hold on venerable" sed Joe
Bigler, don't enumerate. Jest say
his ancestors, back to the ideuticle
time they wuz slaves to them Nor
mans, which held his projenitors jist
ez closely ez yoo'ye bin held, and
it'll be sufhshent. But go on"
~ plead guilty 20 the big hands,
fat nose and bowed legs. Possibly
the arst niger he'd em--po,sibly not.
EfGuvner Bramletts father, and his
grandh-wich is to say ancestors,
he'd bin kept at the hoe, his hands
wood hey bin ca big ez mine ef they
borne burdens forever his legs wood
be bowed, aud eff ther noses he'd been
perpetOoally smasht hizzen wood be
Aatter than il is, ,rr er
| "Hev 700. eny more questions to
put to the Perfessor2 r. sed Joseph.
Z" No. replied the Ethiopian, "II
hev sed my say,
HThen, sed this Bigler, wich wuz
gcttin more and more reckless every
minnit, 81 dismiss this coIgregashum,
with this remark that that Niger is
under my protectin care, and Of
single lock NV his wool is disturbed
| shell feel il a sollum but painful
dooty deyolvin upon me, to put ball
into the carcass Nv each NV the oiishls
NV this Church, comineneiu with the
Faster, and eontinuin all the way
down to the scribe. Gitl"
And pell-mell the congregashsn-
piled oHt--one over another.
twill be necessary to dispose of
Joo. Biglsr somehow. He lost wat
property he he'd IN the war, and is
becoming exeeediply loose in his
talk. He can't be tolerated long.