Indiana American. [volume] (Brookville, Ind.) 1865-1872, 1867-02-22

able lighter--my wife's halflighter than
am--my gals children Is half lighter
than their mother, and j want TO know
wat Gunner Bramlette's got to say to that.
The white man aim got no cuss onto
him, hez hep"
"Speek up perfessef--the sucklin wants
yoo to be prompt" SAD Joe Bigler.
answered that he he'd not--that ID wuz
piled onto Ham or Cain and their descend
ants, and nobody else.
"very we'll, then,' BED the nieger,
chucklin all over, "ez ! am only half Ham
or Cain, (wicb, you heyn't decided ttsn
Nv coarse there's only half a cuss onto me,
only n quarter onto my wife, only an
eighth onto my daughter, only a sixteenth
onto my daughters @jIdren, md there's
lots NV niggers In uis ye(<> nifty wat
hezn't got the thirty - - aixty.
fourth part Nv Il hangln 70 em. Govnor
Bramotte also scd ,uthin bout nggcrs
bcin degraded coz twuz their nachor, didn't
heY and that edducaihen woodcnt do for
emf"
"Perfessor," sed the tormentin Biglcr,
wich had just whisky enuff iuto him to
be ugly, "I must remind 700 that the par.
tikeler babe and suckln out Of whose
mouth yoor boin immensely condemned,
expex prompt ansen. or rather l, his
guardian and pertecter, do"
| anscred that sioh wuz tho tenor Nv the
Guvnor's remarks.
Ef that's troo, why don't tho mulat.
toes come up fastcrs Ef It's tho natcral
stoopidity NV tho niger, the white man
Amt effected by IL, aud the mulatto only
half. are 'quainted with tho heft of the
people aioro me, aud III bet my last years
wages, wich Deekin Pogram amt paid yit,
that half NV EN- can't read any morn
kin. Pears to me I'd like 10 hev Guvner
Bramletto take the load oil US for year
or two aud see whether we'd rise or not.
We MOUNT and then agn we mout But
| ruther think It's lectle too much to
put milestone on top NV man and then
kick him for not gettin up.
Bully" sed Joe Biglcr. "Go on 30
onl'
at amt just square playin TO make all
sorts NV laws agin our risin, to fog US for
hevin spellin books, to make il peniten-
tiary offence TO learn to read and to burn
our skool houses, and then because we
Amt just ready to enter college, to insist
on it that We are materially incapable
And above all, aint il presoomin little
10 charge il onto the Lord? Aint yoo
mistakin your own work for hzzen p
P'raps ef Guvner Bramlett's father he'd
bin hoggid for wantin to learn TO read,
and Guvher Bramlett's muther had bin
brought up ez feeld hand, and the same
strategy he'd bin prsehced on Guvner
Bramlet's graadfarhef, and great grund-
father, and great great grandfather and
great great great grandfather, and his
great"
"Hold on, venerable" sed Joo Bigler,
"don't enumerute. Jest say his ances-
tors, back to the identicle time they wuz
slaves &c them Normans, wich held his
prcjenitors jst ez closely ez yoo've bin
held, and it'll be sufisheut But 60 on"
81 plead guilty to the big hands. fat
nose and how'd legs. Possibly the first
nigger he'd em-possibly not. Eff Guvner
Bramlett's father, and his grandfa-which
is TO say ancestors, he'd bin kept at the
hoe, his hands wood hev bin ez big ez
mine if they'd borne burdens forever,
his legs would be bowed and eff ther no.
ses bed bin perpetooally smasht, bszen
wood be fatter than il is.'
"Hev 700 cny moro questions to put to
the Perfessor?" sed joseph.
"No." replied the. Ethiopian, al hev
sed my say"
"Then," sed this Bigler, wich wus get
tin more and more reckless every minnit,
Il dismiss this congregashun, with this
that that nigger is under my pro-
tectin care, and ef a single lock NV his
wool is disturbed | shell feel it sollum
but painful dooty devolvin upon me to put
\ ball into the carcass nv each NV the Off
shells Nv this Church, commencin with the
Paster, and continuin all the way dowE to
The scribe. Git!'
And pell.mell the congregashun piled
out-one over another.
Ii will be necessary to dispose of Joe
Bigler somehow. He lost what property !
he he'd in the war and is becoming exceed
ngly loose in his talk. He cant be tol-
Grated long. /
PETROLEUM Y. Massey, 2. NJ,
>Wich is Postmaster,) and likewise Pro
fessor Nv Bibikle Politicks in the South
ern Classikle & Military Institoot.