Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1867-02-12
White man amt got cuss onto him

White man amt got cuss onto HIM,
hez he?
"Speek up Perfesser-the sueklin
want 700 TO be prompt" Joe Bigler.
l answered that he he'd not-that
it wuz piled onto Ham or Cain and
There descendants and nobody else. +"
Very well then, sed the niger,
Z chueklin all over " ez | am only half
Ham or Cain, (Which, you havnt deci
ded), then nv coarse there's only half
cuss onto me, only quarter onto
my wife, only an eighth onto my
daughters, only sixteenth onto my
daughters children, and there's lots
Nv niggers in this yer visinitity wat
hezn't got the thirty -sekkund or the
sixty fourth part Nv it hangin to en-.
Govner Bramlette also sed suthin
bout niggers bein degraded coz twuz
their nacher, didn't be, and that ed
ducashen wcodent do for emp
"Perfessor," sed the tormentin Big
Ter, witch he'd just whisky enuff in him
to be ugly, " | must remind 700 that
the partikeler babe and sucklin out ov
whose mouth yoor BEEN immensely
condemned, expex prompt ansers, or
rather |, his guardian and pertector,
do"
ansered that sich wuz the tenor
Nv the Govner's remarks.
Eff that's troo, why don't the mul-
attoes come CD faster? Eff it's the
material stoopiiity Nv the niger, the
white man aint effected by it, and the
mulatto only half | are 'quainted
with the heft Nv the people afore me-
and I'll bet my last years wages, witch
Deekin Pogram amt paid yit, that
half nv EN- cant read any morn | kin.
Pears to me I'd like to hev Govner
Bramlette take the load off US for a
year or two and see whether we'd
rise or nut. We MOUNT and then
agin we mout. But | ruther think
it's little too much to put mill
stone on top nv a man and kick him
for not gettin up"
Bully!' sed Joe Bigler. Go on |
90 on |"
at amt just square playin to make
| all sorts nv laws agin our risin, to fog
us for havin spellin books, to make
it pcnitentiary offense to learn TO
read and to burn our skool houses,
and then because we amt just ready
to enter college, to insist ont that
we are materially incapable And
above all amt it presOomin a little to
charge it onto the Lord ? Amt 700
mistaken your own work for hizzen ?
Praps eff Govner Bramletts father
he'd been doggid for wantin to learn
to read, and Govner Bramlette's
mother he'd bin brought mp ez field
hand and the same strategy he'd bin
practiced on Govner Bramlette' 8
grandfather and great grandfather,
and great great grandfather, and bis
great
Hold on venerable" sed Joe Bigler,
don't enumerate. Jest say his an
, cestors, back to the identicle time
they wuz slaves to them Normans
: witch held his projenitors jist ez close
, ly ez yoo've bin held, it'll be suf1-
silent. But 90 on"
81 plead guilty to the big hands
fat nose aud how'd legs. Possibly
the first Niger he'd em-possibfy not
Eff Govner Bramlette's father, and
his grand fa-wich is to say ancestors
!, he'd been kept at the hoe, his hands
! wood hev bin ez big ez mine; efthey'
: born burdens forever his legs wooC
; be how'd, and if Their noses he'd biz
perpetooally smasht hizzen wood b'
fatter than it Is"
Hev you eny more questions t.
put to the Professor" sed Joseph.
No" replied the Ethiopian, q
hev sed my say"
"Then, sed this Bigler, witch wu7
gettin more and more reckless every
; minnit, :" l dismiss this congregashue
! with this remark, that that niger i
under my protectin care. and eff
single lock nv his wool is disturbed,
I shell feel it solum but painful dooty
: deyolvin upon me, to put a ball int
the carcass NV each of the offishls w
this church, commencin with the r as
ter and continuin ali the way dowi
to the scribe. GitP
! And pell-mell the congregashul
! piled out-one over another.
q 1t will be necessary to dispose 0
: Joe. Bigler somehow, He lost wa
e property be had in the war, and
b becoming exceedinly loose in his talk
0 He can't be tolerated long.
q PETROLEUM Y. Massey, P. NJ,
e Wich IS Postmaster, and likewis
d Professor NV Biblkle Politicks in th
J, Southern Classikle 4 Military Insti
toot.