Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1867-05-23
Posi- OFFS CoNFEDRIT X ROADS,
(wich is in the Stait Nv Kentucky =
Anril Ok 1897 l

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| Posi- OFFS CoNFEDRIr X ROADS,
| (wich is in the Stait Nv Kentucky
April rs, 1867.
We are in continyooal trouble
down here with these cussed niggers.
They are harder to manage than
pigs. Pig don't express ther pecool-
yarities. Mule comes nearer. Their
is sich a method in ther obstinacy-
sich wilful cussidnis---that | reely
hev made up my mind that | don't
understand EN- at all. They cuddle
up to us ez kind ez bloomin maiden
does to her first adored, and they
fling us Just ez natral ez that same
guileless maiden does when number
two heaves in site. They behave
we'll for season, apparently for no
other purpose than to enjoy our dis
comfiture when they finally throw us.
| hev bin a gittin suspishen thro
me that they amt half ez stoopid ez
they look, and that, after all, we are
not fur from the trooth when we say
in our resolooshens that they are the
ekals Nv the whites. Why shooden't
they be? All why indeed? Why
shoodent the yootk wich is now eros
sin the street, wieh hez Deekin Po-
grams feechers ez like ez a photo
graph, hev ez much sence ez the
Deekin? | hev examined into the
pedigree Nv that niger, and | find
that his mother he'd the hawtiest and
best blood Nv Virginny coursin too
mulchusly thro her veins-and that
stock the Pogram mix cooden't ma
terially depreciate in one genera
shen.
he'd the niggers NV the x Roads
very handsomely in tow up to yister-
day. | had EN- attendin services
last Sunday at the meetin house, and
by private arrangement he'd EN- seat.
ed miscellaneously among the aw-
jence. Deekin Pogram he'd wench,
witch weighed at least $50 pounds
averdupoise, atween him and his
wife, while four other niggers orna-
mented his pew. Bascom with alac-
rity consented to three, and Elder
Gavitt provided seats for four. 1t
wuz a pleasant site White and
black wuz alternated like the spots
Nv a Observation-Disclosures and
whites wuz spread out together like
the fat and lean in pork, and ez l
seed it l Good hardly restrane my
emoshuns. There before me waz the
re.generashun NV the Democratic
party--there wuz wat wuz to bring
US out of the valley and shadder Nv
death into witch we had fallen, up on
the high ground Nv ofishel life. |
preached that memrable day from
two texts, to-wit: "Uv one blood
did he make all the nashens Nv the
earth," and "All ye are BRETHREN"
and ! Grated a movin discourse. l
demonstrated with great fervor the
loonaey Nv the idea that the Al
mighty wood take the trouble to
| create tive or more races when one
would do ez well-wich idea is alluz
| we'll received in this region. All
men form their idea nv the Deity
somewat from themselves, and l never
knowd a Confedrit Cross Roader to
make two things VIXEN one wood an
ser. refuted the theory advanced
by some writers that there wuz more
than one head to the race, by quotin
the texts wich treated NV the crea-
shen Nv Adam and Eve, and demol-
ished the Ham doctrine at site "E,"
said !, "Noer did cuss Ham and con.
demn Canaan to be servant unto
his brethren, how do we know that
our colored brethren and sistern as
the descendants Nv Ham and Canaan?
1t may be as for all we know? Is it
his color? Is not black just as con-
venient a color ez white 2"
"More So" murmured Mrs. Pogram
half asleep, "more so-it don't show
dirt"
ais it his shape? Oh, my breth-
rem, I amt a handsome man, nor
wood l exactly anser for a model for
Apoller. Eff beauty or comeliness,
or shape, or style, is to decide the
pint, may the Lord help us Is it
his smell? My brethren, the New
York World asserts that the nigger
hain't no smell, and eff he hez, why
shooden't he hev? Standin under
the common flag Nv our country,
with his hand upon that magma char
ia, the Deklarashen, and his beamin
eye turned exultinly toward our nash
mel emblem, the Eagle, shall not our
| Afrikin brother be allowed to smell
ez he chooses? Eff smell must be
uniform, then let our Government es-
tablish a Burow NV Perfoomery to-
wunst. Besides i take high religious
grounds in this matter Eff he hez a
natural odor, the Lord give it to him.
Let us not fly in the face Nv the Lord
by CONDEMN it. Judge not lest we
be Judged, The odor Nv the colored
gentleman or lady is the work Nv the
Lord-the odor Nv yoor unwashed
feet is yoor own--wich shood stand
the highest?"
my brethren and sistren, &C
knowledge that | hev not long held
these views. | hev showed the COM
mon prejudis, and hev contemmed
our friends NV color; hev despite
fully used 'em--I hev gone for 'em
and banged 'em like old boots. But
it wuz becoz l didn't know 'em. |
didn't see the kernel Nv meat under
the rough she'll didn't recognize
the glitrin diamond in the ebony.
Ny eyes hev bin opened. Like Saul
Nv Tarsus, l see a lite. Sence the
passage Nv the Military bill l hev
diskivered many things too tejus to
menshun. l hev mostly found out
all these things sence that occur