The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1867-01-26
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SIGH crushin force in his last annual message,
to wit, kin the Leopard change his spots OF
the Ethiopian his skim aud alluz feelin anx-
ious to dowat kin for the cause, 1 did it last
night, or rather essayed to do it.
And here let me remark that there amt o
more devoted people in Kentucky than them
lambs ez compose my flock. 1t wuz techin
site, and one wich filed my sole with JOY TO
see EN- pour ont NV the groceries at the first
tootin Nv the horn, and TO see Pennebacker,
witch owns the distillery, stoppin work to
come, but the most cheerin and encouragin
sign to me wuz to see neekin Pogram, who
wuz a playiu seven>up for the drinks with
Elder Slathsrs, at Bascom's, lay down his
hand when te had high, low and Jack in it,
aud he'd ouly three to go. Elder sed he,
his voice tremblin at the sacrifice he wuz a
maxim, aud tear steelin down his cheek,
Elder. them S the horn. Let us to our doc
ties. 'Ligion must take the front seat NV
temporal matters. and sighin CT he cast a
partin glance at bis hand, he strobe out reso-
iooily to the sanktooary.
| opened by readin the follerin from Guy-
ner Bramettes message
"Ihe niger is the inferior NV the white
he lacks the power to rise. EMIL The leopard
Kin change his spots, or the Ethiopian his
skin, all efforts to repeal or nulify God $
laws will be unavaiiin."
My bretherin, these words is words nv
wisdom, and fur EN- let US be thankful. The
skin NV the Ethiopian wuz inflicted onto him
ior the express purpose Nv distnguishin him
from his bretherin, whose servants he wuz
condemned to be, for all time. ez punish
ment for the sin Nv Cain or the impr oodenee
nv Ham, wich, Democratic diviues heven't
settled on. With the black skin he wuz Civ,
all tho atfar rnortS inf. Ia
wuz Gust with long arms, immense hands, Hat
nose, and bowed legs, and that Their mite be
no mistake in the matter he wuz given wool
instead nv hair, halleloogy
" All, my brethren, what blessed thing
for us is this Ethiopian Wat a consolation
II must be to you all TO know that Their is
race below yeo, and how blessid the refeck>
shun that they cam change Their skin, and by
that means git above VOC! That's the com.
fort we draw from the skripters. Wa: hor.
ror II wood be for Deekin Pogram, who is
snorln so peaceliy,
"Drsauin, eeiiy drean.in the hspry hours away
ef when the Soopreme Court decides the
abhshn amendment upconstooshnl aud be
gifts his niger back agin, ef Their shood be
new dispeasashun and niggers shood be per.
mitted 10 chsnee Their skins Wat sekooriiy
wood we hey for our property Some morn
in he wake up and find en all white per.
sons wich ii wood be uneonstooshnel TO VOL
Top.
:" My brethren. Their hev been many efforts
to change the skin NV the Ethiopian, or rath
er Their hez bin many who wanted. to. The
Boston Ablishnisls hev tried it, but wat hez
bin the result? Amt they niggers yet, and
amt they still the degraded wretches they
alluz wuz' paws for reply"
l made the latter remark becoz, and only
beeoz, it sounded we'll, not that | he'd any
idee that anybody wood reply Imagine my
surprise at seein a gray headed Niger. wich
ned been doorn and after the frairisidle
struggle employed in the treedmeus Barrow,
rise, and remark that he he'd word to say
onto that pint. There wuz storm nv indg-
nashun. and the impudent niger. who wuz
so sassy ez 10 presoom to speek in white
meetin. would hey bin sacrificed on the spot,
he'd not Joe Bigler, who wuz half drunk
drawd ugly -lookin navy revolver, and re-
markn that he knowed that ngrer-that he
he'd more sense than the hull bilin NV US, and
he should hey his say.
''Ef, said this recklis Joe, ''ef he beats
You. Perfesser, trooth is trooth: lets hev Il.
IF he don't, why, It's all the better for 700.
Ell your Websterian iutelleck kivers the
ground, all rite-et his ponderous intelleek
gets the best ont, iist ez rite. .Oat NV the
mouths OF babes and sucklings. Elder. 90
my bottom dollar on this sucklin. Speek
mp enerable--tbere wont none Nv en- tech
yon and be cocAt his revolver.
''Beggin pardon, sed the Niger, II agree
with 90. Professor, that the Ethiopian can
change his shia hisself, but does the Scripter
say that It can be changed for him z
..Anser the venerable babe, said Joe Big
Ter, piniin MS revolver at me.
II IL !, 4 7
sNery good retorted the niger, 'heznt
there change bin gon on in kaintuck from
the bepinnint My mother wuz ez black ez
crow m constable lighler-my wife a half
lighter than am-my gal children is q nal,
lighter than their mother, and | want to
know wat Guvner Bramlette got to say TO
that The white man amt got no euss onto
him. hez he -
"Speek up Professor the sucklin wants
700 TO be prompt. sed Joe Bgler.
- answered that he he'd not--that it wuz
piled onto Ham or Cain and their descend
ants, and nobodody else.
Very well then, sed the niger, chuck
lin all over, ez | am only half Ham or
Cain, ,wich. you hewitt decided, then NV
coarse there only half a cuss onto me, only
a quarter onto my wife, only an eighth onto
my daughters, only q sixteenth onto my
daughters children, and there's lots NV mig
gers in this yer visinity wat hezn't got the
thirty sekkund or the sixty fourth part nv it
haugin TO EN-. Gnvner Brarniette also sed
suthin bout niggers bein degraded coz twuz
their nacher, didn't he, and that edducashen
woodeet DO for em ~
l" Perfessor,H sed the tormentin Biger.
wich he'd Just whisky enuf into him TO be
ugly, = | must remind 700 that the partikler
babe and suclshn out NV whose mouth your
bein immensely condemned, expex prompt
answers. or rather |, his guardian and pro-
tector, do.
ansered that sich wuz the tenor Nv the
Gunner remarks.
.'Ef that's troo. why don't the mulattoes
come up faster? IF us the material stoopidi>
" Nv the Niger, the white man amt effected
by 1t. aud the mulatto only half are
iquainted with the hett Nv the people afore
me, and III bet nv last years wages, wich
Deekin pogram amt paid yit, thai half Nv
EN- can't read any MORT kin Pears to me
I'd like tn hey Gunner Bramette take the
load off us for year or two and see whether
we d rise or not We mount and then agin
we mout But ruther think its a leetle too
much to put milestone OF top nv man and
then kick him for not gettin up.
Bally T. sed Joe Bigler. % Go on +! go
on r.
at Amt Just square playin to make all
sorts NV laws agin our risin, to fog us for
hevin spellin books, to make il penitentiary
offence to learn TO read and to burn our skooi
houses, and then because We amt just ready
to enter collage, to insist ont that we are
materially incapable. And, above all, amt it
presoomiu "a little to charge 1t onto the Lord?
Amt YOU mistakin your own word Tor hizzen?
'Praps ef Gunner Bramettis father he'd ben
hoggia for wantin to learn to read, and Guy-
ner Bramlett's mother he'd bin brought up ez
a fieeld hand. and the same strategy he'd bin
practised on Guvner Bramlett's grandfather,
and great grandfather, and great great grand
father, aud great, great, great grandfather,
and bis great
=. Hold on, venerable sed Joe Bigler,
"don enumeraie. Jessssy hisancestors, back
back to the identicle they wuz slaves to them
Normans, witch held his projenitors, jst ez
closely ez you've bin held, and i'll be sath
silent. But go on"
~ plead guilty 10 the big hands, fiat nose
and how'd legs. Possibly the first niger bed
em-possibly not Ell Gunner Bramletts
father, and bis grand fa-wich is to say an
cestors, he'd bin kept at the hoe. his hands
wood hev bin ez big ez mine ef they borne
burdens forever his legs wood be how'd, and
II lie