Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1867-02-16

WHOLE NUMBER s9l.


onto thet pint There wuz a storm NV
dignashun and the impudent nigger,
who wuz SO sassy ez to presoom to
speek IN white meetin, wood hey bin
sacrificed on the spot, he'd not Joe Bigler,
who wuz half drunk, drawd ugly look
In navy revolver, and remarkin thet he
knowed that nigger, thet he he'd more
sence than the hull bihn of as, and he
shood hev his say.
''Ef," said the reckless Joe, sef he
beats 700, Perfessor, trooth is trooth. :
lets hev it. EFF he don't why it's all the
better for 700. Ell yoor Websterian in-z
tellek kivers the ground, all rite--et his
ponderous intellek gets the best ont,
jest ez rite. Oat NV the mouths nv
babes and sucklins. Speek up, venerable
there won't none of them tech your
and he cockt his revolver. -.
''Beggin PARDON" sed the nigger, Il
agree with yoo, Perfessor, and the Ethlo-
plan can't change his skin hisself, but
does the Scripter say that it can't be
changed for him % A
"Answer the venerable babe, - sed Joe
Bigler, pintin his revolver at me.
81 can't say that it does" seq I.
every good" restorted the nieger.
''heznt there change bin a goin on in
Kaintuck from the biginnin? Ny moth
er wuz ez black ez a crow-rm con-
sidble hghter-my wife's half lighter
than am-my gals children is half
lighter than their mother. and / want to
know wat Guvner Bramlette's got to
say to that. The white ivan amt got
no euss onto him, hez he?
"Speak up, Perfesscr-the sueklin
wants you to be prompt" sed Joe Bigler.
/ answered that "he he'd not-shat il
wuz piled onto Ham or Cain and their
descendants, and nobody else.'
''Very well then, !" sed the nigger, chucka
lin all over, "ez ] am only half Ham or
Cain (wich, you hewitt decided) then nv
course there's only half cuss onto me-,
and only quarter onto my wife, only an
eigth onto my daugters, only sixteenth
onto my daughters children, and there's
lots of niggers in this yer vicinity wat
hezn't got the thirty-sekkund or the six
ty forth part NV it hanging to em. Guv-
ner Bramlette also sed suthin bout nic-
gers bein degraded coz twuz ther nachur
didn't he, and that edducashen woodent
do for EN- 20
"Perfesser," sed the tormentin Bigler,
wich he'd jest whisky enuff into him to
be ugly, 81 must remind 700 that the
partikeler babe and sucklin out Nv whose
mnuth yoor bein immensely condemned,
expex prompt ansers, or rather i, his gar
dian and pertector do"
| ansered that sicb wuz the tenor NV
the Guvner's remarks.
''Ef that's troo, why don't the mulat-
toes come mp faster? Eff its the material
stoopidity NV the nigger, the white man
amt effected by it, and the mulatto only
half. ] am 'quainted with the heft Nv the
people afore me, and I'll bet my first
yeer's wages, wich Deekin Pogram amt
paid yit, that half NV EN- can't read MORN
kin. Pears to me I'd like to hev
Gunner Bramlette take the load off US
for year or two and see whether wed'e
rise or not. We mountn't and then agin
we mount. But | Tuther think its lee
tie too much to put milIstun on top NV
man and then kick him for not gittin
up"
"Bully!" said Joe Bigler. Go oni go
on!'
sit aint inst square playin to make all
sorts of laws agin our risin, to fog us for
hevin spellin books, to make it a peniteD-
tiaty offence to learn to read, and to burn
our skool houses, and then because we
amt just ready to enter kollege, to insist
ont that we are naturally incapable
And above all aint it itpresoomin leetle
70 obaroro if rrt., The o.I %, A,os -
mistaken yoor own work for hizzen pa
'Praps eff Guvner Bramlett's father he'd
bin foggid for wantin to learn to read,
and Guyner Bramlette's muther he'd bin
brought up ez feeld hand, and the same
strategy he'd bin practised on Guvner
Bramlett's grandfather, and great grand
father, and great great grandfather, and
great great great grandfather, and his
great
"Hold on venerable sed Joe Bigler
'don't enumerate jest say his ancestors,
slaves to them Normans, wich held his
profemters jest as you've bin held, and
it'll be sufficient. But go on"
81 plead guilty to the big hands, fat
nose and bowed legs. Eff Guvner Bran.
let's father and his grandfa-that is to
say his ancestor, he'd biz kept at the hoe
his hands wood hev bin as big as mine: eff
they'd born burdens forever his he'd legs
wood be bowed, and eff his nose
been perpetooaly smasht, it wood be fat
ter than it is"
"Hey yoo eny more questions to put to
the Professor?a sed joe
no. replied the Ethiopian, 81 hev sed
my say" -
'"Then" sed Bigler, dismiss this con-
gergashun with the remark that that mig
ger is under my protectin care, and eff
single lock Nv wool is disturbed, shelput
a ball through the carcass nv each NV the
offishels NV the church, kommencin with
the pastor, and kontinuin down to the
scribe. Git" Nj
And pell nell the eongergashnn piled
out--one over another.
1t will be necessary to dispose nv Joe
Bigler somehow. He lost wat property
ne he'd in the war, and is becomin exceed
inly loose in his talk. -,
PETROLEUM V. Massey, p. M.
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