The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1867-02-14
NO. Al.

very well, then, sed the nigger,
chucklin all over, "cz | am only half Ham
or Cain (Which you heven't decided } than
Nv coarse there's only a half a cuss onto
me. only quarter onto my wife, only an
eight onto my daughters, only sixteenth
onto my daughters children, an there's
lots w nlgsers in this yer visinity wat
hezent got the thirtysekkund or the six
ty;fourth part of it hangin to EN-. Guv-
ner Bramlette also sed suthin bout mig.
gers being dcgraden coz twuz their ma
chur, did't he that eddicashen woodent
do for em 2"
"Perfessor," sed the tormentin Bigler.
wich he'd just wsky enufF into him to be
ugly, 81 must remind 700 that the par
tikeler babe and sucklin out NV whose
month yoor bein immensely condemned,
expext prompt ansers, or rather | his.
guardian and pertector do"
! L ansered that such was the tenor NV
the Guver's remarks.
"Ef that's troo, why don't the mula-
tres come up faster? EFF its the natural
stoopidity Nv the nigger, the white amt.
effected by it, and the mullato only half.
| are 'quainted with the heft of the peoA,
pie afore me, and I'll bet my last years
wages, wich Deekin Pogram amt paid
yit, that half Nv EN- can't read any morn
L kin. Pears to me I'd like to hev GUY
nor Bramlette take the load off US for o.
year or two and see whether we'd rise or
not. We moutn't, and then agin we
mout. But | ruther its leetle too much
! to put millstone on top Nv a man and
then kick him for not gettin up"
Bully p sed Joe Bigler. "Go on 60
on r'
at amt just square playing to make
all sorts Nv laws agin our risin, to fog US
for heving speelin books, to make it a
penitentiary oifense to learn to read, and
to burn our skool houses, and then, be-
cause We amt just ready to enter college.
/ to insist ont that We are materially incap-
able. And above all, amt it preesoomin
a little to charge it cnto the Load Amt
700 mistakin your own work for hizzen !
| 'Praps eff Guvner Bramlett's father he'd
bin hogged for wantin to learn to read,
and Guvner Bramlett's mother he'd him
brought up ez field hand, and the same
strategy he'd bin practiced on Gunner
Bramlett's grandfather and great-grand
father and great-great-gre grandfather
and his great"
"Hold on, venerable" said Joe Bigler,
"don't enumerate.. Jest say his ancestors,
back to the identical time when they wuz
slaves to them Normans, which held its
prcjenitors jist ez closely ez yoo've bin
held, and it'll be sufishent. But 60 on.
81 plead guilty to the big hands, fat
nose and bowed legs. Possibly the first
niger he'd possible not Eff Guv-
nor Bromlett's father, and his grandfa-
which is to say ancestors-hei bin kept
at the hoe, his hands wood hev been ez big
ez mine cf they'd borne burdens forever
his legs wood be how'd, and ef her noses
he'd him perpetooally smashnt, hizzen
wood be fatter than it is"
''Hev 700 eny more questions to put to
the Perfesser p sed Joseph
"No," replied the Ethiopian, "I hev
sed my say"
"Then," said this Bigler, wich wuz get
ting more and more reckless every mint,
81 dismiss this congregashun, with this
remark, that that niger is under my pro-
lection care, and eff single lock Nv his
wool is disturbed | shell feel it sollum
but painful dooty deyolvin upon me, to
pat a ball into the carcass Nv each Nv the
ofishils Nv this church, commencin with
the Paster, and continuin all the way
down to the scrible Git! !"
And pell NELL the congrcgashun piled
out-one over another.
1t will be necessary to dispose of Joe
Bigler semewhow. He lost what proper
ty he he'd in the war, and is becoming
exceedingly loose in hiz talk. He can't
be tolerated long
PETROLEUM V. Massey, p NJ
(Wich is Postmaster,) and likewise Pro-
fessoruv Bibhkle Politicl,s in the South
ern Classiklc Military Institoot.
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