Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1867-05-02

POST OFFts CONFkDktf n hoAboi 4
witch liz in the Staff Nv Kentucky, :
April 90 1867. J
Fumes change, aud men change jist ez
fat eg times I shood like 70 see the
tim, witch kin change faster than kin,
bat tits last shifr | hev bin forced to
make rather 'uk mya breath. 1t wuz
sudden The Connecticut election didn't
do us much good after all. We felt well
over 1t for perhaps day, but ez we
begun to git other indications from the
North, we didn't Jest see how that little
spirit wuz q goin TO help US. oincln-
natl went Ablishin stronger than ever
Chicago ditto, and most everywhere the
Dimocratic rooster wuz fiattened. The
cabinet, when they heerd Nv Deekin Po-
grams assault upon the niger, on the
reject NV the eleckshun news, notified
me oflishelly that a REPETITION of SIGH
loonacy wood be equivalent to a reject
nv my resignation, even tho the post
offs shood be discontinyood. "THR MIG.
CIR VOTE MUST BIZ CAPoHBRD. It's rs.
sENsHRL. WADE HAMPTON sEy So"
wrote Randall to me, and reprmanded
the Deekin for his recklessness aud bor-
rowed four dollars nv BasCOm, who is
the only man in the vicinity who hez
any ready money TO make 1t right with
him.
We held meetin NV the Drekters and
Faculty nv the Southern Military and
Classikel Institoot, last evenin, to decide
wat course that instooshn VIM to take
in the CRATE work Nv surroundin the
Ethiopian and attachin Nv him to us.
In SIGH time ez this, ez menshend
to Capt. McPelter, it won't do for our
instooshns NV learnin to stand back.
These great levers, the moulders of pub
lie opinion, must be ez progressive ez
the progressivest, and must change like
other things to meet the requirements
Nv the times. We hev commenst our
march into Afrika, and thus far hev we
gone into the bowels NV the land with
out impeachment, to speak uv-let US per-
severe. Let Us capcher the Ethiopian,
stink and all
The meetin wuz held in the back
room NV Bnscom's, OWN to the fact that
it wuz rainin and the post offs leaks. l
he'd an appropriashen some time since
from the Department, for repairs; but
bein ia doubt whether it wuz intended
for repairs on the post offs or for the
Postmaster, l gave the primer the bene.
fit Nv the doubt and got new pair Nv
boots. / Good better endoor the slight
inconvenience nv occasional rain than
TO go barefoot.
made q statement Nv the case and
sejestid a radical change at the Insti-
foot. Captin McPelter agreed with me.
He felt that there hedn't bin that COM
plete, hearty recognition of our Afrikin
brethren witch they ought to be. He
had on several occasions allowed his
material vivacity to git the better nv his
PRECEDENCE, and he'd waded into EN-
alarmin. The old lice Nv Ham and
Hager and Onesimus he'd bin so drilled
into him in his yooth that he he'd to
wrassle with it to keep 1T in control,
and in spite NV himself it frekently got
the better NV him. He sejestid that the
name Nv the institoot be changed from
'The Southern Military and Classicle
Institoot,'
to
1.-THE Ham and Japheth Free Academy,
for the development NV the in
tellek nv all races irres-
pectve Nv color"
That he thOt wood anser the required
end. The colored gentlemen who choose
to avale themselves Nv the privileges
afforded by this instit0oshun, when it is
finished, kin fnd in this no cause nv
complaint. They are recognized. They
are given the precedence. They stand
first In the matter and foremost. Wat
more kin they AK !
Bascom he'd a series NV resolooshuns
witch he desired to present. He sed it
mite be looked upon ez strange that he
shood favor the. COncentrashun Nv free
niggers at the Corners, but he he'd good
and sufiishent reasons. First he he'd
faith that constant contact with the
Board wood bring EN- to the pint of pat.
ruuiz'ug hiz bar, but If he didn't he
kuOwd Perfectly well that the Board
Fakulty wood manage to git all they
he'd, for board and tooition witch he wuz
perfectly certin he'd git in the end, Wat
he waited wuz people hereto yoose a
illustration borrered from his biznis
the otiishels Nv this lnstltoot Wuz the
funnel through witch the wealth NV all
NV EN- wood be conducted to his Golfers
fell onto his neck In rapcher and then
vowed that | wuz wilin to die for his
good-that I cared not how much Nv
other peoples money run through me tC
him, eff 'twuz thus dilooted. The reso
lusheps presented read ez follows:
Resolsea That the name of the South
erH Military aud Olassikle Institoot be
changed TO "The Ham and Japheth
Free Academy, for the development u,
the inteilek Nv all races, irrespective w
color"
Resolved, That 10 maxim this change
we the Board and Directors, do so
assertin
1. That in this emergency we ar,
justified In doubtin whether Noer go
lite at all, the Statement in the Skrip
tiers to that effect be inondoubtedly al
error nv the translators.
2. That eff he did gt titc, he didn'
cuss Ham at all
3. That eff he did cuss Ham, the Gus
wuzn't intended 70 extend beyont
Canaan at the furthest, and hence hi
4aorandanta on sppt frpp