Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1867-05-09
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half asleep, "more soft don't sh,w
dirt"
"Is 1t his shape7 Oh, my brethre, |
amt handsome man, nor wood lex.
actly anser for model for Apoller. Ell
beauty, or comeliness, or shape, or syle,
is to decide the pint, may the Lord ielp
US Is II his smell : My brethren the
New York World asserts that the mig.
ger hain't no smell and ef he hez, Why
shoodent he hey 7 Standin under the
common flag Nv our country, with his
hand upon that magma charta, the )ek-
larashen, and his beaming eye tuned
exultinly toward our nashnel emtem,
the eagle, shall not our Afrikin brcher
be allowed to smell just ez he choices :
Eff smell must be uniform, then letour
government establish Burow otPer.
foomery to wunst. Besides, take Ugh
religious grounds in this matter. Ef
he hez natural odor, the Lord gle It
to him. Let us not fly in the face 0 the
Lord by condemnin 1t. Judge hottest
we be judged. The odor Nv the cobred
gentleman or lady Is the work w the
Lord-the odor Nv yeor unwashed feet
is yoor own-wich shood stand the
highest?
My brethren and sistren, l ackpwl.
edge that l hev not long held tese
views. l hev showed the common )rei.
udis, and hev condemned our fren6 Nv
color; hev despitefully used Ell
hev gone for 'em and banged 'em like
old boots. But it wuz becoz 1 Cdn'E
know 'em. | didn't see the kernt Nv
meat under the rough she'll cdn't
recognize the glitterin diamond il the
ebony coal. My eyes hev bin opned.
Like Saul OF Tarsus, see lite. ence
the passage Nv the military bill, lhev
diskivered many things too tejuls to
menshun. hev mostly found OF all
these things sence that occurrence. But
let us accept the situashen and bles the
Lord that eff We wuz resisted, it hz re-
suited in developing excellencies where
we didn't expect to find 'em."
There wuz an affeCtin scene ate ser.
vice wuZ over Deekin Pogrm, APT
McPhelter and Elder Gavitt shook binds
with EN- with degree Nv cOrjality Ibid
MT expect. Trooly them are great men.
They develop degree Nv adaptaElity
to circumstances witch / didn't LOOK for.
l really bleeve if I'd told 'em th,t it
wood hey good effeck to kiss the mig.
ger babies all around, that they'd s zone
it. But | spared 'em this. Thee is
such thing ez layin it on too thick
But all this wuz spilled the next tay
There wuz an extraordinarily hevy
mail that day. In addition to the p9er
Pollock, the Illinois store keeper tales
there wuz eight others, and to my ar-
prise they wuz all directed to niggrs.
wat is this ?" thot l to myself. "Iev
the Ablishnists Nv the North determined
upon Proselytin these men, and are tey
8 going to flood this country with thir
incendiary reading? Ez a Federal offer
it's my dooty to look into the matte 2"
Jist imagine my deliriods joy at finding
that they wuz Dimokratic papers fpm
Moo York and Ohio "Thank HeaveI!"
sed |, "Our people hev awakened to q
sense Nv the necessities Nv dom suthin"
and handed the papers out to em with
impressive words, exhortin Nv EN- to
read 'em, ez they wuz trooth, and nothin
bat the trooth.
l ruther think they read EN-, for frtm
that time out they avoided me, ez thou:h
l he'd the plague. Eff l Wuz agoin' down
the street and one Nv EN- wuz a conn
up, he'd cross the street, and the pecoo-
yer expression Nv his countenance ind
catid that it wuzn't my majestick pre-
sence which AVID him. They he'd loathil
depicted on their classick feechers
Unable to endoor this l seized one Of en-
and asked him why l wuz treated thus
Debility, he pulled out Nv his pocki,
one Nv them cussid Northern papers
and openin it pintid, Indignantly, to q
editorial article. 1t wuz perfoosly headed
in this wise;
Shd ringers vote ?-SheE the proud Cat
cashen be redoost to ekality sih the d.
g,t,tn Afrikm 2-B this 10hite mans got
ernment or not ?-Ameriky for Whits men. :
Sed this Ethiopian with his fingers on
this headin, "Pears like ez eff dab wuznt
jist dat good feelin towards US colorel
men on de part of the Dimoc'sy OBJ d.,
NULL udb ldu OuSub w DC, Gals llht
as dough up dab VIVA de niggah ainj
got no vote, dat dey don't intend he shd
hab it. Pears like, eff Dimocsy's one
ting all ober de country, dar's cussii
site OBJ humbug a goin on down heah y
Wat Good l say Wat Good | do ?
There it wuz in black and white, ami
from papers whose Dimocrisy could not
be questioned. I wuz dumb.ioundid.
The niger stalked hawtily and proudly
away in one direckshen, while sneake5
off ruther sneakinly in another.
hev one word to say to our brethren
in the North. Yoo'r doublin our trol-
bles, and maxim our burdens harder 10
bear. Why can't 700 understand coz
mon sense? Wat hurt wood Niger sui
frage do 700 up there wher ther amt no
niggers, and how much wood it benefit
US down here, wher theirs millions NV
EN-? Can't 700 see it? We can't play the
same game on the niggers that we used
to play on the sturdy yeomanry Nv
Berk's County, Pennsylvania and
other localities. On all questions here.
tofore the Dimocrisy hez allow1 lihral
license. We hev bin Free Trale in Moo
York, and Tariff in PennsylVany the
same year, and we Good do it. The Di-
mr. IL