Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1867-04-20

| From the Toledo Blade.1
POST OFFICE, CoNFEDRIT X ROADS
(Wich is in the Stait Nv Kentucky,
March %, 1867.
| have made many sudden and rather
'stordinary changes in politix-some so very
sudden that the movement perdoost comics
tion Nv the Conscience. | rekollect wunst
NV advokatin free trade and high protective
tariff, all within twelve hours, Il made q
speech in agricultooral deestrck NV Noe
York in the forenoon at 10 A. NJ, and in q
manufacturin town in Pennsylvany in the
evenin, our platform being so construktid
that both sides Good find endorsement in
it,) and hev performed many other feats NV
moral gymnasticks; but this last change ]
hev been called upon to make is probably
| the suddenest. Last week Toosdy, Deekin
Pogram, Captain McPelter, and l wuz en-.
gagged in riddin the Corners NV niggers.
| We he'd endoored EN- ez long ez we thot
| possible, and determined on standir it no
longer. Selecting three which we wuz salts
| fed he'd too much spellin- book into EN- to
be ensaved agin, we wuz preparin notises
to be served onto EN-, orderin EN- to leave
| in twenty-four hours, when / reserved in the
Northern mail letter marked "Free-Alex.
| w. Randall. p. NJ. G." knowd it wuz Off
shel to wunst-that blessed signatoo. is on
my commisshun, and I've contemplated it
too often to be mistaken in it. Its contents
wuz brief, and run thus.
ITO all Postmosters in the Southern
States The niggers hev votes-consillashen
| is our best holt. See to it."
This breef tho not hard to he understood
! order wuz sealed with the offshel seal NV
the Post Offs Department, stampt into put
fv 1Cii tn Npit Loot Of hrnn Il
under a roll NV butter, with ten hands a
grabbin at it. l comprehended the situa-
tion at site, and set about doin my dooty
with both Roman and Spartan firmness.-
"Deekin," sez |, tearin up the notiscs, "Tnese
niggers We hev misunderstood. They are
not inferior race; they are not descend
ants NV Ham and Hager it wuznt Paul's
idea in sending back Onesimus to condemn
him to servitood. We hev misunderstood
the situation, and must make amends. The
nigger is devoid of smell, and is trooly u
man and brother"
"Wats 2" said the Deekin, tippin back in
amazement.
"Jest wat say" sez !; read that" and
| flung him the letter.
The upshot of the conference which fol-
Tered wuz the calling Nv a meeting the next
mite, at wich all the Philippians NV the Cor
ners wuz invited and urged to be present.
The trouble wuz to git the niggers to at
tend the mectin. The fust one ! spoke to
latlt in my face, and askt me how long it
wus sence ] he'd helpt hang a couple Nv
nggers, by way Nv tinishin off a celeDrashcn.
Pollock, the Illinois storekeeper, got hold
NV it, and told Joe Bigler, and Joe swore
that ef the niggers hedn't any more sense
than we give 'em credit for, in sposin we
Good bamboozle EN- so checp, he shood 90
back to the old belief, to wit that they wuz
! only sooperior race Nv monkeys, after all,
and by mite every niger in the visinity wuz
postid thoroughly, and out Nv all Nv EN-
Good only git four whoswoud promise to
attend, and them the Deekin had to pay So
apiece to. To give it eclaw Ipromised one
NV en- So Ito be paid at the close Nv the
meeting to sit on the stand with me, wich,
being very poor men, and hevin sick
wife in shanty near by, who wuz sutferin
for medicine (Which he coodent git without
money!, he accepted.
At this pint an idea struck me. remem-
bered Philadelfy, and determined to hev a
scene rivalin the Couch and Orr biznis. "An-
other thing, Cuff, understand that its part
NV the bargain that when in my speech
turn to yoo and stomp, you must rise an en-
brace me-"
"Wat ?" sez he.
''Fall into my arms, loviu-ike-you un-
derstand-just as tho we wuz long-lost
brother ~
"'Scuse me-" sed he. Use a nifty low mig
ger, and wants to buy de old woman some
quinine, and wood do most anything ioah
DAT, but, golly, dats too much !"
Not cent" sed !, sternly assomin my
most pieIcinest gaze, "uuless this in iuClu-
ded!"
"Weli," returned he, sulkily, "ef must, l
speck must, but, goly-"
The mite arrived and the meetin house
wuz full. We thot fust NV holding it in the
chapel Nv the College, but give up the idea
ez impractcable, ez OWN to the dillytorinis
NV our Northern friends in forwardin sich
subscripshens ez they hey raised, we haven't
got no further with the buildin than layin
the corner stun. In the front wuz the four
niggers, all in clean shirts, and on the stand
wuz the niger he'd engaged. Over the
platform wuz the fOlleIin notices:
1T ioonin ther is strength-For Presi-
dent in 1868, Fernando Wood. For Vice
President, Friedrich Dugis."
"ln the niger, strength; in the Caucash-
en-, beauty; IN the mulatter-who is trooly
( the noblest uy the human species-5oth."
In addshen to these, we dug up all the
old notices wlch Jefferson writ, about
yooniversal liberty and sich, wich hedn't
bin quoted in Kentucky for twenty years,
and posted um up in brief, he'd Wendell
Phillips blessed spert bin hovcrin over
that lneetin house, j; wood hey smiled ap-
! provingly.
spoke to EN- elokently on the yOoniver-
sal brotherhood of mankind, holdin that
whatever else Good be said, Adam was the
father Nv all mankind, end that the only
difference between white man and mig
ger wuE the niger wuz sunburnt The
niger, remarkt, wuz undoubtedly, ori'
| ginally white, but hevin bin, since his arri-
! val in this country, addicted to agricultooral
| persoots, he he'd become tanned to degree
which, tho it marred his physickle beauty,
| Gid not interfere with his sterin goodness
Nv heart. There he'd bin differences between
the races-at times there he'd bin onplea-
santness wich 20 one regretted more than l.
The whites wv the Corners he'd not alluz
been ez considrit ez ] Good hey wished =
They he'd fogged several nv EN-, and hung
EN- in slavery and sich, but that shood not
be thot Nv at this happy time. 1t was con-
stooshnel to do these things then, and Ken
lucky wuz emilently o law-abidipg State
J - I fhia vala xyifh