The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1867-11-08

. iii W OiuOCiioy. OuiO SNCo
the niggers NV that State, certain IA
cilities for learnin to reed and write,
Accomplishments wich no laborin
class wich is to be guided, controlled
and worked exclusively by q SCOPE
rior class, needs or hez any biznia
with. So soon ez man begins to
reed he begins to hev an inquirin
mind, and begins to Feel a dissatis'
faction with his speer. Let Ohio re.
peel these laws to-wunst, that the
niggers may not"
"Reverse the arrangement" SEQ
Joe Bigler risin, sand git to be the
sooperior nv the white. Is that il
Perfesser?"
"Not eggsackly that" returned
mot KNOWN wat hc wuz drivln at
"but ez Hevin ordained the niggert
to be inferior to US, and serve us, i,
looks rather dangerous to"
"GIve him chance to rise? That's
what Yoor gettin at, I see. I am
and always wuz a Dimocrat ez VOC
know, but l don't shudder from that
cause-not any. / hev faith in the
Lord, wich yoo appear to lack, wich
is strange, considerin yoor profesh.
un. Ef my colored friends here wuz
ordained by the Almighty to alluz
okkepy an inferior position to US,
why they'll do it any how, onless in.
deed, we degrade ourselves below
ther level. Ef / understand yoor
idea, it is that the proud Caucashun
is the only favored race, wich fixed
its own poSishen itself, but that all
the other races he'd places assigned
them, wich Godalmity hevin fixed
they can't pass. That bein the case,
watts the yoose, Perfesser, Nv our
foolin away our time tryin to
strengthen his laws by any act nv
ours? Ef the Almighty fixed 1t SO,
kin we do it any better than he2
"But sposn the nigger, ef we don't
keep him down by law, shood rise
above us Z"
81 shood unanimously conclood
that ther he'd bin q mistake in the
figgers, aud that We wuz, after all,
the sons NV Ham and they the sons
Nv Japheth. How wood yoo like thati
But that amt wat ails US There,
Perfesser, amt where our danger is.
Dimocracy, like a man with q
tape worm, carries the clemens Nv
IFS own destruckshen. Missegena-
shun is watts sappin the foundashuns
NV the party. Agreein with 700 that
the nigger's place is fixed, and that
the Dimocrisy coodent git along q
mint without the niger, / here utter
nv solemn warnin agin the contin.
vocal lessenin nv the race, becoz tina,
race is our rock, and onto that We
stand. Wat sense is there in wastin
our capital, or ruther dilutin it?"
"What do 700 mean ?" askt, l, not
pettin at the drift Nv wat he wuz
drivin at.
"Mean {! My meaHin is plain. The
blacker the nigger is the further be
is below us-the whittier he is the
nearer our ekal he is. In
this calculashun we don't take intel
ligence or virchoo or anything of the
kind into account, but perceed upon
the hypothesis that devilish mean
white man is considerable better than
a smart and honest niger. There
fore, any drop NV white blood in q
nigger's veins makes him just one
drop less Objectionable. Look at the
specimens wich ! hev brought with
me TO illustrate my pint. The light
colored niggers will RISE"
And every cussed one Nv EN- got
up ez eff by majic, and ] saw to wunst
wat he wuz goin for.
"Yoo see, Perfesser, hev here
spilled niggers. Every
one NV them ought to hev bin the
son or daughter NV two pure niggers,
but they amt. This ones mother,
far inatanaA ~ end ha laid bis hand
upon the shoulder Nv q likely quad
room NV eighteen years; "wuz wunst
the property Nv Deekin Pogram, wich
accounts for her hevin
the Pogram nose and general cast Nv
to an alarmin degree,
and"
Ther.wuz o .piercin shreek heard,
and Mrs. Pogram was carried out
'aintin, and the Deekin turned ez red
sz a lobster, while Bigler, ez solemn
,z a Judge, went on
"This girl wuz wunst the property
Nv Deekin McGrath, who is, notis,
lere to mite. Melissy stand up" sed
he, and likely mulatto woman ariz.
8 You will notis," sed he, that Me-
issy Is rather dark, while her girl
yich 700 see afore you, is quite a
lalf lighter. The race bleached out
on Deekin McGrath's
,lace considerable. / hev in my
ten or fifteen more, NV
'arious shades who hev the McGrath
ace, but"
Mrs. Deekin McGrath utterin a
hreek NV rage, swung out NV the
hurch, while the Deekin to wunst
ssoomed the color Nv his fellow
)eekin, Pogram. i
II mite go on, but wherefore
90 all see the pint. Ifkin sho yoo
/ this colleckshun wich ! hev pick
up, the pecoolyer teachers NV the
'ingeses, the McPelters, the Bas-
oms, and every family around these
arts--that is the feechers Nv the male
lembers NV EN-. But sence the
1 hev notist that this
ling hez come to a sudden endin. II
ev notist that sence the niggers
ev owned themselves, there amt no
Iore NV this mixter. Yoo purpose,
suppose, agin redoosin NV EN- to
leir normal condishen, and maxim
v em men servants and maid SER
ents. Eff this be done. let me en-