Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1867-05-16
PosT Offs, GoNPEDRiT X ROADS,
(wich is in the Stait Of Kyo) :
April Is, 1867


April Is, 1861
We are in continyool trouble
down here with these cussed mig
gers. They are harder to manage
than pigs, Pigs don't express ther
pecoolyarities. Mule comes near
er, Ther is sich a method in their
obstinacy-sich a wilIful cussid-
mis- that / hey reely made up my
mind that ] don't understand EN- at
all. They cuddIe up to us ez a
bloomin maiden does to her first
adored, and tina fling us just ez nat
raj ez that same guileless maiden
does when number two heayes in
site. They behave well for a sea-
son, aperently for no other pur-
pose than to enjoy our discomfit-
ure when they finally throw US. l
hev bin a gittin a 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 of the whites. Why
shooden't they be? All why in
deed? Why shooden't the Niger
boy witch is now crossin the street,
which hez D3ekin Pogran S feechers
ez like eza photograf, hev ez much
sense ez the Deellin? l hev eggs
amined into the pedigree NV the mig
ger, and I accordingly find that his
mother had the hawtiest and best
blood NV Virginny coursin toomul-
chusly through her veins-and that
stock the Pogram mix coodn't ma
terially deprciate in one genera
ton.
I he'd the niggers nv the X Roads
very handsomely in tow up to yes
terday. Ihed EN- attendin services
last Sunday at the meetin house,
and by private arrangement he'd EN-
seated miscellaneously among the
awience. Dekin Pogram he'd
wench, wich weighed at least 250
pounds averdupois, atween him and
his wife, while four other niggers
ornamcnted his pew Bascom with
alacrity consented to three, and FL
/ Gavitt provided seats for four. 1t
wuz pleasin site! White and
black wuz alternated like the spots
on a checker -board-niggers and
whites wuz spread out together like
the fat and lean Of pork, and ez |
seed it, l Good hardly restrane my
emoshuns. There before me wuz
! the regenerashun Of the Democratic
party-there WIZ wat wrz to bring
us out NV the valley and shadder NV
death into wich we he'd fallen, up
to the high ground nv offishel life.
preached that memorable day from
two texes, to-wit: "Uv one blood
did he make all the nashens Nv the
EARTH" and "All ye are brethren"
and Grated a movin discourse. |
demonstrated with great fervor the
loonacy NV the idea that the AL
mighty wood take the trouble to
create two OF more races, when one
wood do ez well-wich idea is al
luz well received in this region. All
men form their idea of the Deity
somewhat from themselves, and |
never knowd a Confedrit Cross
Roader to make two things when
one wood answer. I refuted the
theory advanced by some writer's
that there wuz more than one head
to the race, by quotin the texes
wich treated Nv the creashen of Ad-
am and Eve, and demolished the
Ham doctrine at site. "Ef," sed l
"Noer did cuss Ham and condemn
Canaan to be a servant unto his
brethren, how do we know that our
colored brethren and sisters Is the
descendants NV Ham 'and Canaan ?
1t may be US for all we know? Is
it his color2 Is not black jest ez
convenient color ez white?
"More So" murmured Mrs. Po-
cram half asleep, "more so-lt
don't show dirt"
"Is it his shape? Oh, my breth- |
ern, l amt handsome man, nor
wood l exactly answer for a model
for Appoller. Eff beauty, or com
illness, or shape, is to beside the
pint, may the lord help us! Is it
his smell2 My brethren, the. New
York World asserts that the nigger
haint no smell, and eff he hez, why
shoodent he hev? Standin under
the common flag NV our country,
with his hand upon that magma
charta, the Delllarashen, and his