The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1867-02-07

his ponderons 1ntelleck gets the best
,ss7 ont, iist ez rite. sOut Nv the mouths
i5s7-3 uv babes and sucklinst Elder, 20
lSs7-- ~ my bottom dollar on this suckin, Speek
is07--1 up veherable-there won't none nv em
lssI- tech yoo," and he cockt his revolver.
iSS7 iSS7- "Beggin pardon" Sed the niger, II
1904 agree with 700, Perfesser, that the
Rox Ethiopian can't change his skin hissef
Jan. but does the Scripter say that it cant be
- changed for himf'
NaD "Anser the venTable babe" sed Joe
IIHI BigleF, pintin his revolver at me.
- II can't say that it does" sez /.
'Very good" retorted the niger,
~ "hesnt there a change bin goin on in
Kaintuck from the beginnin7 My
Il mother wuz ez black ez crow; Pm
{ z considble lighter my wife's half light
y er than / am; my gals children is
half lighter than their mother, and /
want to know what Guvner Bramlette's
got TO say to that The white man
The amt got no cuss onto him, hez he o.
ape spe m rS "Speak up, Perfessor-the suckhn
the md wants yoo to be prompt" sed Joe Big
laritiesl Ter.
acne 9siue answered that he he'd not--ihat 1t
whites wuz piled onto Ham or Cain and their
pIlh pShicb descendants, and nobody else.
every well, then,". sed the niger,
chucklin all over, "ez am only half
Ham or Cain, (Which, you hevn't deci-
me1t wss t ded,) then NV coarse there's only half
conslgn cuss onto me, only quarter onto my
male nnd SSwife, only an eighth onto my daughters
erai hea only a sixteenth onto my daughters
finest plchildren, and there's lots Nv niggers in
tbu thus od this yer Vsinty wat heznt got the thir
that ydty-sekkund or the sixty-fouth part Nv it
MALE NJ II y hangin to EN-. Guvner Bramlette also
sed suthin bout niggers being degraded
COZ twuz their nachur; didn't he, and
,.ro that eddicashen woodent do for em %
years, ''Perfessor," sed the tornentin Big
for, all Ter, wich he'd just whisky enuff into him
ty t1aSIs ne! to be ugly, 81 must remind yoo that
thousai the partikeler babe and sucklin out Nv
90 oss .o N whose mouth yoor bein immensely con-
ca. demned, expex prompt ansers, or ratb-
Exp er l, his guardian and pertector do"
Boy. G o ansered that such was the tenor nv
Pills. the Guvner's remarks
e" "Ef that's troo, why don't the fnulat-
loi toes come up faster7 Ef its the material
. pas hod stoopidity NV the niger, the white man
me-, nTu amt effected by it, and the mulatto only
,";nI oGay half i are 'quainted with the heft of
LIZ the people afore me- and I'll bet my last
aHI' .'1vI years wages, witch Deekin Pogram amt
FL paid yit, that half NV EN- cant read any
c.ouI ~. morn kin. Pears to me I'd like to
!" i.ouV hev Guvner Bramlette take the load off
~ I us for year or two and see whether
p we'd rise or not. We moutn't and then
agin we mout. But ruther think its q
4toiu leete too much to put milestone on
AZ top NV man and then kick him for not
~ ~ gettin up"
;. On- ~ "Bully!" sed Joe Bigler. "Go on!
! - 70 ~ go onp' 5H
,,Ie re- SIT amt just square playin to make
'u""- all sorts NV laws agin our Iisin, to fog
"a: us for hevin spellin books, to make it a
'olI' rI penitentiary ofense to learn to read,
Gun and to burn our skool houses, and then
l - IN because we amt just ready to enter col
,poSe lege, to insist ont that we are materially
nrin' incapable. And above all, amt it pre-
= De, soomin little to charge it onto the
I sln Lord? Amt yoo miStakin your own
Ian, Ian, work for hizzen7 'Praps ct Gunner
YEN Bramlett's father he'd bin fogged for
Wu1 wantin to learn to read, and Gunner
'tt'y. Bramletts mother he'd bin brought up
lepse ez field hand, and the same strategy
, sa. anu he'd bin practised on Guvner Bramlett's
lla.' ln: grandfather, and great grandfather, and
i'"ii' great great grandfather, and great great
great grandfather, and his great"
mug "Hold on, venerable" sed Joe Bigler,
con, con- ''don't enumerate. Jest say bis ances-
now tors, back to the identicle time they wuz
how slaves to them Normans, wich held bis
eau proienitors jist ez closely ez yoo've bin
leanS held, and it'll be sufishent But go
- 80 We on" af
1rrcr 2 81 plead guilty to the big hands, fiat
no is nose and how'd legs. Possibly the first
nigger he'd em--possibiy not Eff Guy
houFs ner Bramlette's father, and his grand
: .bo fa-wich is to say ancestors, he'd bin
7 IA 'n kept at the hoe, his hands wood hev
',bor bin ez big ez mine; ef they'd borne
~ burdens forever bis legswood be how'd,
tbssr s and eff ther noses he'd bin perpetooally
To- smasht hizzen wood be fatter than it Is"
ba,d "Hev yoo eny more questions to put
80 ~ to the Professor7" sed Joseph. eFf
4 Ito TO- ''No," replied the Ethiopian, Il hev
- sed my say" lar ang
- oe "Then," sed this Bigler, wich wuz
;;oSS; gettin more and more reckless every
1YPa inho mint. II dismiss this congregashen,
,n;sts with this remark, that that niger is un-
s,,ItS der my prOtectin care, and eff single
: 80 s.;, lock NV hiz wool is disturbed shel feel
,vnza S it a sOllum but painful dOoty devOlvin
- upon me, to put ball into the carcass
ord Nv each Nv the ofishils NV this Church,
RAIL commencin with the Faster, and con-
enly tinuin all the way down to the scribe,
drS,, Git!'' e3 $ s5sf adt saa = - IS iaol. 3
aori1 s5 lAndp pell NELL the congregashen piled
oy,. out--one over another, nJ I0l +. i
r;sa tt will be necessary to dispose Of Joe
! sssv, son Bigler somehow. He lost what proper
- : = ~ ty he he'd in the war, and il becoming
,,raT - exceedinly loose in hiE talk. he can't
;no ~ be toleratedlopg. ~ y 81. 81
!. =, IA Ia, PETRokEuM Y. NAsBY, 7. 7. N.
~ witch is Postmaster,) and likewise
e..a, Professor uv Biblikle Politicks in the
ukv EotfthaTn Classikle q Military Insti-