The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1867-04-18


The fust one I spoke to lafft in nv face. and
askt me how long it wuz sence he'd helpt
hang a couple of niggers, by way of inisbin off
a celebrashen. Pollock, the Illinois store-keep-
er, got hold Nv it, and told Joe Bgler. and Joe
swore that eff the nigger's hedn't any more
sense than we give EN- credit for, in supposin
we Good bamboozle EN- so cheap he shood 90
BACK 10 the old beleef to wit: that they wuz
only sooperlor race NV monkeys, after all :;
and by mite every niger III the visinity wuz
posted thoroughly, and out Nv all NV them I
Good only git four who wood promise TO at
tend, and them the Deekin he'd to paw 50
apiece to. To give it eclaw promised one NV
EN- 50 ITO be paid at the end NV the meeting to
sit on the stand with me, witch, bein a very
poor man, and havin a sick wife in a shanty
near by, who WIZ sufferin for medicine, witch
he coodent git without money! he accepted.
At this pint an idee struck me. l remem-
bered Philadelphy, and determined to hev a
scene rivallin the Couch and Orr biZniz. "An-
other thing, Cuff, understand that its part
NV the bargain that when in my speech turn
to you and stomp, you must rise and embrace
me-"
''Wat ?" SEE he.
'Fan into my arms, lovin-like-you under
stand-jist ez tho we wuz long-lost brothers, -
'"Scuse me % sed he. "Pse mity low MIC
ger, and wants to buy the old woman some
quinine, and wood do mos anything foah dat,
but golly, dat's too much"
Not cent" sed | sternly, assomin nv
most piercinest gaze, "onles this is inclooded!''
WELL" returned he, sulkiy, eff must |
'speck must, but golly-"
The mite arrived, and the meetin house wuz
full. We thot first NV holding it in the chapel
NV the college, but give up the idee ez imprac-
ticabe, ez, OWN to the dillytorinis ofour North
ern friends in forwarding sich subscriptions ez
they hey raised, we hewitt got no further with
the bildin than layin the corner stun In the
front wuz the four niggers, all in clean white
shirts, and on the stand wuz the niger | he'd
engaged. Over the platform wuz the follerin
''In Yoonion Their is strength-For President
in 1865, Fernando Wood. For Vice President,
Frederic Duglis.''
I'm the niger, strengthen the Caucashen,
beauty-ln the mulatter, who is trooly the no.
blest NV the human species both"
In addishen to these, we dug up all the old
notices witch Jefferson writ, about yooniver-
sal liberty and SIGH, witch heden't been quoted
in Kentucky for twenty years, and posted EN-
up; in brief, he'd Wendell Phillips blessed
sperit bin hoyerin over that meetin house it
wood hev smiled apprOyingly.
spoke to EN- eloquently on the universal
brotherhood NV mankind, holdin that what
ever else Good be sed, Adam wuz the father
Nv all mankind, and that the only difference
between white man and Niger wuz, the
niger wuz sunburnt. The niger, remarked,
wuz, undoubtedly, originally white, but hevin
bin, sence his arrival in this country, addicted
to agrlcultooral pursOots, he he'd become tand
to degree, which, tho it marred his physkle
beauty, did not interfere with his sterin good
mis- NV heart. Their he'd bin differences between
the races-at times ther he'd bin unpleasant
Misses which'no one regretted more than 1. The
whites Nv the Corners hev not always bin ez
considrit ez | Good hey wished. They he'd
hoged sevral NV EN-, and hung many more, and
in time past he'd held EN- in slavery and SIGH,
but that shOod not be thought NV at this hap
time constitutional In HO
things then, and Kentucky wuz eminently a
law-abidin State. Here" SEE /, con this
platform, with the flag Nv our common coun-
try over me, declare eternal friendship to the
colored man, land to seel the deklarashen thus
embrace"
The obstinate niger didn't stir a step.
Cum up and fling your arms around me you
black cuss," sed in stage whisper, Come
upH5
mo 700 don't, boss ~ sed the niger, in a
| loud voice, witch Wuz audible all over the
| church, and holdin out his hand. Il can't
| trust you Dressed mint. Glib me de So fo'
| sawin wood for your post-offis, and if ives a
| gWine to hab our rites, de fus yoose | shell put
mine to will be gittin dat money. Pay up fus,
and de brace afterward | can't do sech dis.
agreeable ting widout de cash in advance"
| This ruther destroyed the effect. The uni
| ties wuZn't preserved. The niggers in front
| bust out in torturing laff, and Pollock and
Bigler rolled in commissions NV lafture, at wIch
u.
| rihed, in the attiGOOd of embracin, and that
cusSed niger standin with his hand extended
for the money, with the Deekin and Bascum
horor-struck behind, formed q taboo more
strikin than pleasant.
The meetin WuZ to-wunst adjourned it wuZ
evident to the dullest comprehension that
nothing more coodent be done that mite. EZ
yoosual | failed for the want of capital He'd
bin possessed NV the paltry sum of So how
different wood have bin the result Perchance
we may, through that deficiency lose Ken
| lucky. 1t must never occur again--my salary
must be raised. l can't make brix without
straw.
| Joe Bigler met me next mornin and remarkt
! that he regretted the occurrence, ez he ardent
| ly desired to see the two races pulling togeth
or. The fault, Professor, wuz in not mana
gin properly. The next time yoo want a re-
spectacle niger to sit on the platform with
700 and the Deekin, or kiss or embrace YOU
git him drunk. He'll do it then, probably
know he WILL Ell he's drunk enuff he'll hur
| rah for johnson, and it's possible to get him
down to the pint of votin with 700. Lord
how Whiskey drags man down. See wat it's
brOt 700 to ~ and the insultin wretch rolled
OFT latin boisterously. Cit EN- drunk Per.
| lesser," he yelled ez long ez he could see me
We don't intend to give it up. Bigler's ad
| wee was given IN jest, but nevertheless, l she
act upon 1t. Whiskey is wat brings white mer
to us, and if a white man can be thus capcher
ed, why not niger? The African hasn't got
ez far to fall to glJ down to our level and it'll
take less to bring him. Bascom ordered five
barrels to-day, which 1 suppose the Admin
lstration will pay for We hev yet the Noe
York Custom House, and more of the perqui
sits must be yoosed for politikle purposes
PETROLEUM V. Massey, P. M.
| (Wlch is Postmaster), and likewise Professor
Nv Biblikle Politicks in the Southern Classi
| kle 81 Military Institoot.