Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1867-01-24


WI rekrsted week ago TO preech
q discourse from the text witch the noble
al high.muded Guvner Bramlette used
Wa sich C.lshin force in his last an
nus message 10 wit "Kln the Leopard
char ye his spots or the Ethiopian his
skin and aluz feelin anxious to do
wat Kin for the cause, | did IL last mite,
or rather essayed to do 1t.
And let me remark, that there amt
moro devoted people in Kentucky than
them lambs ez compose my flock. 1t
wuZ q tetchin site and one witch filled
my sole with JOY TO see EN- pour out 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 ercourag-
n sign 20 me wuZ TO see Deekin Pc
gram, who wuz playin seven-up for
the drinks with Elder Slathers, at Bas-
CONS, lay down his hand when he he'd
nigh low and jack in it, and he'd only
three 10 70. Elder" sed he his voice
trenholm Q, The sacrifice he wuza maxim
and s .eSt steelju down his cheek, "El-
Der thems the horn. Let us TO our
dooties. 'Ligion must take the front
seat Nv temporal matters" and sighin
e. he cast a partin glance at his hand,
ne strobe out, resolootly to the sanktoo-
ary.
/ opened by readin the iollerin from
GOV. Bramlett's message.
The niger is the inferior Nv the
white-he lacks the power to rise. Ontil
The leopard kin change his spots, or the
Ethiopian his skin, all efforts to repeal
or nulify Gods law will be unavailin."
"Mv betherin these words is words NV
wisdom, and fur EN- let US be thankful,
The skin Nv the Ethiopian wuz inflicted
onto MIN for the express purpose NV
distingnishin him from his bretherin,
whose servants he wuZ condemned to be,
Tor all time; en- q punishment for the sin
Nv Cain or the improodenCe Nv Ham,
witch, Democratic divines heven't set
tied on. With the black skin he wuz
given al the other marks Nv inferiority
He wuZ Gust with long arms, immense
hands, fat nose, and bowed legs, and
that there mite be no mistake in the
matter, nc wuz given wool instead NV
hair, halleioogy
"Ah, my brethren, wat blessid thing
for us is this Ethiopian Wat conso-
lation it must be to 700 all to know that
there IS a race below 700, and how
olessid the reheckshun that they can't
change Their skin, and by that means git
above 700 That's the comfort we
draw from the skipters. Wat horror
it wood be for Deekin Pogram, who is
snorin so psacefy.
'Dreamin, swcetly dreamin the happy hours
away
Ef when the Soopreme Court decides
the AOlishn amendment unConstoOshnl,
and he gifts his niggers back agin, eff
ther shood be new dispensashun and
niggers shood be permitted to change
ther skins Wat seCoority wood we hev
for our property Some mornin he'd
wake up and find EN- all white persons
WITCH +. wood be unCOnstOOshnel to wal
Top,
My brethren ther hez bin many efforts
TO change the skin NV the Ethiopian, or
rather Their hez bin many who wanted
TO- The Boston Ablishnists hev tried
It, buc wat hez bin the result? Amt
Chey pig2ers yit and amt they still the
degraded wretChes they alluZ wuz ? |
paws for a reply"
l made this latter remark beCoz, and
only beco2 it sounded well, not that
ned any idee that anybody wood reply,
Imagine my surprise at seem ii gray
headed Niger which ned bin doOriu
and after She Gratrisidle struggle, en-
DOved in The Freedman's Barrow, rise,
and reluart- nat he he'd a word to say
onto that pint There Wuz a storm Nv
ndlgnaShun, and the impndent nigtier
who wul SO Sassyez to presoom to speek
n a white meetin, wood hev bin sacri-
deco On the spot, he'd not Joe BigleT, who
wHZ Aal< drunk, drawd a ugly-loOkiu
navy revolver, and remarkin that he
nuuUed lha. nigger-that he he'd more
seuse hen the hull bilin NV Us, and he
SnJo 0ev his say.
e." said this racklis Joe, "ef hG
beats yco, Professor, trooth is trooth
cts Dey it. IF be don't, why, its all The
better TO- 700. IF yOOr Websterian in.
celleck kivers the ground, all Iight--et
mis- pOnderous intelleCk gets the best
ont list ez rite, Out NV the mouths Nv
babes and sucklins. Elder, 60 my
bottom dollar on this suCklin. Speeb
up, venerable-therc won't none Nv
EN- teech yoo," and he cooked his re-
vOlver.
Begin pardon" sed the Niger, "a
agree with 700, Professor, that the ETH,
.opian can't change his skin hisself but
does the Scripter say that it can'C be
changed for him?"
"Anser the venerable babe" sed Joe
Bigler, pintin his revolver at me.
Il can't say that it does" seq l.
Very good" retorted the niger,
'heznt there change bin goin on in
Kaintuck from the beginin? My mother
wuz e. black ez crow-Im considera-
bic lighter-my wice's half lighter than
/ am-my gals children is half lighter
than their mother and / want to know
wat Gunner Bramlett's got to say to
that. The white man amt got no cuss
onto him hez he o.
"speek up Professer-the sucking
wants you to be prompt" said Joe Big
Ter.
answered that lie he'd not-that it
wuz piled onto Ham or Cain and their
descendants and nobody else.
every WELL" sed the niger, chucklin
all over, ''ez l am only half Ham or
Cain witch Won havn't dpcidedN then