The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1867-12-12


out partillle Nv that healthy homil-
ity wich the race he'd allnz displaid
wen in the presence NV their SCOPE
riors.
"GeodGod used / to Cutie, after
I he'd recovered from my astonish-
ment, lam l awake, or am a dreem-
in Tell me, please, who are these
niggers 7"
"Dost see that nearly white nigger
on the floor ofi'erin q resolution :?
sed Cutie, hoarse with emoshun.
That nigger is my property. His
mother wuz sold to Orleans twenty
years ago, on account uv resem-
blance which my mother fancied
she saw in him to my lamented faith
er. ] KEEP him ez my servant. and
the WALLER cuss somehow learned to
read. He owns part NV place
the old man he'd in the north part
NV the state That one to the rite
who il bizzy writin, is another Nun
nv mine-a blacksmith, wich the old
man bot on purpose to do his re-
pairin, coz the wlite blacksmith
wich wuz located near us cost too
much. He WIZ cheap at $4,000,
coz Nv his bein q soeperior work
man. and I am told that the incapa-
bic bein hez shop now Nv his own
and hez pile uv money in the Sa
wins Bank. while Ibis nateral su-
perior-hev to depend onto the
chance liberality nv comparative
stranger like VOC for the very drink
wich I am now rarched for want
Nv"
And the unfortnit Young man
busted into teers, wich we went out
and assuaged. Returnin heresoom-
ed:
THAT mullatto on the left, by the
double window. is carpenter, and
wunst my property. He bot ~ NE
fifty akers Nv land for a mere song
and when delegates wuz to be elec-
ted to this yere Convention, he rur
agin me, and beat me four to one
the ongrateful nj niggers witch he hac
worked all our lives abslootly v pre-
ferrin him to me, to legislate fol
en- and he bustid into teers agin
Eindin the excitement was too
CRATE for him, gently led him GU
Nv the hall.
"Wat," sed I, is to he tthe end u'
all this p
God only knows" sed he, 81
don't. There is nothin but room
| ahead and on each side Nv us. The:
! niggers ard the crazy whites il
leaone with EN-. hev now sole con
trai NV Alabama, and they are n, ash
in down the spectacle Old barriers
wich KEEP the races in their place
They are pass'n all sorts NV ordi
nances peryitlen for skools; the,
hev given themselves the ballot ant
hev lisfranchiseG us who servct
tie Confederacv, so that the powe
will he theirm for all time to come
The result is already fcreshaderet
in what they hev done. Out neeI
my place Just west uv Nebeel, they
hev village and a skoOl house il
wich they are Taught reedin, ritin
arithmetic and all sorts of devil
ment, by a nioger skoolman wicl
is sent by TIE Freedman. s Commis
ion in the Nolta They refooze t
work for any uv Us onless We pay il
advance. and consekently, ez W
can't git labor, our farms is runnil
to weeds And to make matters WI
the convention is q maxim labor
lien upon the crops and so hampril
us that it does seem to me that the
intend to delibretly rooin us. The.
are establishin skools, and churchc
and villages everywhere, ard wat i
pertikelerly oppressive, we havn'
the power to stop EN- in their ma
career. Politikle power we hav
none, and when it comes to force
the beast Pope stands here sekoo
behind the baynets he controls
Good Lord, I-but let's drink
NTich. we did, payin for it.
I shell leave here to morrer.
kin never bear to hev niggeTs pas
me clothed in broadcloth, with pf
pers stickin out NV ther pockits.
kin never bear the degradation u
hevin niggers pass me without t.
kin off ther hats and steppin res
pectfully off NV the sidewalk. Than
God that Kentucky did not oienl
rebel. There at least we kin lie
him in his normal sfecr.
PETROLEUM Y. Massey, P. NJ
witch is Postmaster.