Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1867-05-09
Posi- OFFS CoNFEDRIT X ROADS.
witch is in the Stait Nv Kentucky,
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Posi- OFFIs CoNFEDRIT X ROADS. !
(Which is in the Stait Nv Kentucky
April Is, 1867.
We are in continyooal trouble down
here with these cussid niggers. They
are harder to manage than pigs. Pig
don't express Their pecoolyarities. Mule
comes nearer. Their is SIGH method in
their obstinacy-sich willful cussidnis
that | RELY hev made up my mind that
don't understand EN- at all. They
cuddIe up to US ez kind e. q bloomin
maiden does to her first adored, and
they fling us just ez natral ez that same
euilelcss maiden does when number two
heavCs in site. They behave well for a
season, apparently for no other purpose
than to enjoy our discontinue when
they finally throw us. hev bin git
tin 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 i?
Why shooden't the yooth witch is now
crOssin the street, witch hez Deekin
| Pogram's feechers ez like ez a photo.
graft, hev ez much sense ez the Deekin 4?
heV eggsamined into the pedigree Nv
that Niger and | find that his mother
he'd the hawtiest and best blood Nv Viz
! ginny coursin toomulchusly thro her
veins-and that stock the Pogram mix
cooden't materially depreciate in one
generashen.
he'd the niggers NV the X Roads
very handsomely in tow up to yister.
day he'd EN- attendin services last
sunday at the meetin house, and by pri-
yate arrangement he'd EN- seated miscel
Ianeously among the awjence. Deekin
Pogram he'd wench, witch weighed at
least $50 pounds averdupoise, atween
him and his wife, while four other mig
gers ornamental his pew. Bascom with
alacrity consented to three, and Elder
Gavitt provided seats for four. 1t wuz
pleasin site White and black wuz
alternatid like the spots on checker
board-niggers and whites wuz spread
out together like the fat and lean in
pork, and ez l seed it l Good hardly re-
strane my emoshuns. There before me
wuz the regenerashun Nv the Democra-
tic party-there wuz wat wuz to bring
us out NV the valley and shadder Nv
death into witch we he'd fallen, up on
the high ground Nv ofishel life. 1
preached that memrable day from two
texts, to wit: GOV one blood did he
make all the nashens Nv the earth" and
Cali ye are brethren" and l GRATED a
movin discourse. l demonstrated with
great fervor the loonacy Nv the idea that
the Almighty wood take the trouble to
create two or more races when one wood
do ez well-wich idea is alluz well re.
ceeved in this region. All men form
their idea of the Deity somewat from
themselves, and never knowd a Con.
fedrlt Cross Roader to make two things
when one wood anser. refuted tSe
theory advanced by some writers that
there wuz more than one head to the
race, by quotin the texts witch treated
Nv the creashen Nv Adam and Eve. and
demolished the Ham doctrine at site
EFF, sed l, "Noer did cuss Ham and
condemn Canaan to be 8 servant unto
his brethren, how do we know that onr
colored brethern and sistren is the de.
sendants Nv Ham and Canaan7 1t NAV
be Us for all we know Is it his color7