The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1867-05-23
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Mr.. Nasby breaches Sermon on Uni.
UerSdl Brotherhood.
From the Toledo Blade.
PosT OFFICE, CoNFEDR1r x ROADS. y
(wich Is in the Stait NV Kentucky.
May, rs 81. }
We are in continyooal trouble down
here with these cussid niggers. They
are harder to manage than pigs. Pig
don't express ther pccoolyarities.- :
Mule comes nearer. Their is sich a
method in their obstinucy--sich a
willful cussidness that / reely hey
made up my mind that / don't un.
derstand EN- at all. They cnddle ur
to us ez kind ez bloomin maiden
does to her first adored, and they
fling us just ez natral ez that same
guileless maiden does when number
two heaves in site. They behave
well for a season, apparently for nc
other purpose than to enjoy our dis
comfiture when they finally throw us.
l hez bin Citing a suspishen thro
me that they amt half ez stoopid es
they look, and that after all we are
not far from the trooth when we say
in our resolooshens that they are the
ekels Nv whites. Why shoodn't thu
be? All! why indeed? Why
shoodn't the niger boy wich is now
crossin tho street, which has Deekin
Pogram's feechers ez like ez a photo.
graft, hev ez much sense ez the Dec
kin ? | hev eggsamin ed into the ped
igree nv that niger, and I find that
his mother he'd hawtiest and best
blood Nv Virginny coursin toomulch-
sly thro her veins-and that stock
the Pogram mix cooden't materially
depricate in one generashen.
| he'd the niggers NV the x Roads
very handsomely in tow up to yis-
terday. I had EN- attendin services
last Sunday at the meetin house, and
by private arrangement he'd em seat
ed miscellaneously among the awjence
Deekin Pogram bad a wench, wich
weighed at least $50 pounds averdu-
poise, atwecn him and his wife,
while four other niggers ornamental
his dew. Bascom with alacrity con-
sented to three, and Elder Gavitt
provided seats for four. It was a
pleasin site White and black wuz
alternatid like the spots on a check
er board-niggers and whites wuz
spread out together like the fat and
lean in pork, and as [ seed it l Good
hardly restrain my emoshuns. There
before me was the regenerashnn NV
the Democratic party-there wuz
wat wuz to bring us out NV the valley
and shaddcr NV death into wich we
he'd fallen, up on the high ground NV
offishel life. | preached that memra.
bic day from two texts, to-wit: eUv
one blood did he make all the nashens
nv the earth,' and All ye are breth-
rem, and [ Grated a movin discourse.
| demonstrated with great fervor the
loonacy nv tho idea that the Almighty
wood take the trouble to create two
or more races when one wood do ez
well, wich idea is alluz we'll received
in this region. All men from their
idea of the Deity somewhat from
themselves, and never knowd a
Confedrit Cross Roader to make two
things when one wood answer.
refuted the theory advanced by some
writer's that there wuz more than one
head to the race, by quotin the text
wich treatid NV the creashun NV
Adam an Eve, and demolished the
Ham doctrine at site. .Ef" sed I,
"Noer did cuss Ham and condemn
Canaan to be a servant unto his
brethren and sistern is the decend-
ante NV Ham and Canaan? It may
be us for all we know 1t is his
color? Is not black jest ez conven-
lent color ez white 2"
"More SO, o,"murmured Mrs Pogram
half asleep, "more so-it don't show
dirt"
'Is it his shape? Oh, my breth-
rem, I amt a handsome man, nor
wood 1 eggsaktly anser for model
for Apoller Eff beauty, or comeli-
ness; or shape, or style, is to decide
the pint, may the Lord help us Is
it his smell |? My brethren, the New
York World asserts that the nigger
haint no smell, and eff he hez, why
shoodent he hey /? Standing under
the common flag Nv our country with
his hand upon that magnara charta,
the Deklarashen, and his beamin eye
turned exultinly toward our nashncl
emblem, the Eagle, shall not our Af-
rilkin be allowed to smell jist cz he
choozes? Ef smell must be uniform
then let our Government establish a
Burow NV Perfoomery to wunst.-
Besides I take high religious grounds
in this matter. Ef he hez natural
odor the Lord give it to him, Let
us not fly in the face NV the Lord by
CONDEMN it. Judge not lest we be
Judged. The odor NV the colored
gentleman or lady is the work Nv the
Lord-the odor nv your unwashed
feet is your own-wich shood stand
the highest !?
"My brethren and sistern, l &C.
knowledge that | hev not long he'd
thaca vinyvs + hav chn1Cad tha nnn