Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1867-01-31

4
the spot, he'd not Joe Bigler, who
wuz half DRINK, drawd a ugly-lookin
navy revolver, and remarks that he
knowd that nigger-and that he he'd
more sense than the hull bilin NV us,
and he shood hev his say.
"Ef," sed this recklis, Joe, "efhe
beats VOC, Professor, trooth is trooth,
lets hev it. Eff he don't, why, its all the
better for 700. Eff your Websterian
intelleck kivers the ground all ate
efhis ponderous intelleck gets the
best ont, jist ez rite. Out NV the
mouths NV babes and sucklins.' Elder,
l 90 my bottom dollar Oil this suck
lin. Speek up, venerable-there
wont none Wv EN- tech yoo," and he
cockt his revolver.
'Beggin pardon" sed the niger,
Il agree with you, Professor, that
the Ethiopian can't change his skin
hisself, but does the Scripter say that
it can't be changed for himy"
'-Anser the venerable babe" seJ
Joe Bigler, pintin his revolver at
me.
"Ican't say that it does" SEE l.
Every good" retorted the niger,
''heznt there change bin goin on
| in Kaintuck from the beginin? My
mother wuz ez black ez a crow-Im
constable iighter-my wife's a half
lighter than | am-my gals children
is half fighter than their mother,
and | want to know wat Gunner
Bramlette's got to say to that. The
wife man amt got no cuss onto him,
hez he?'
"Speek up Perfessor-the sucklin
wants 700 to be prompt sed Joe
Bigler.
answered that he he'd not-that
it wuz piled onto Ham or Cain and
their descendants, and nobody else.
Every well then," sed the niger,
chucklin all over, "ez am only half
Ham or Cain, (Which, you heven't de
cided) J, then NV coarse there's only
half a cuss onto me, only a quarter
onto my wife, only an eigth onto my
daughters, only a sixteenth onto my
daughters children, and there's lots
Nv niggers in this yer visinity vat
hezen't got the thirty sekkund or the
sixty fourth part NV it hangin to EN-.
Gunner Bramlette also sed suthin
about niggers bein degraded coz twuz
their nacher, diden't he, and that ed
ducashen woodent do for emf"
"Perfessor," said the tormentin
Bigler, witch he'd just whisky enuff
into him to be ugly, Il must remind
700 that this partikeler babe and
sucklin out NV whose mouth yoOr
bein immensely condemned, expex
prompt ansers, or rather l, his guar
dian and pertecter do"
/ ansered that SIGH wuz the tenor
ny the Guvnear's remarks.
'.Ef that's troo, why don't the
mulattoes come up faster! Eff its
the material stoopidity NV the niger,
the white man amt effected by it,
and the mullatto only half are
| 'quainted with the heft NV the people
afore me, and I'll bet my last years
wages, witch Deekin Pogram amt paid
yit, that half NV EN- cant read any
MORN l kin.-'Pears to me I'd like to
hev Gunner Bramlette take the load
off us for year or two and see
whether we'd rise or not. We
mount and then agin we mout. But
| rather think its a lettle too much to
put mill stone on top Nv man and
then kick him for not gettin up.
Bully" sed Joe Bigler. go
on, gor'
1T amt just square playin to make
all sorts NV laws agin ouc risin, to fog
us for hevin spellin books, to make it
penitentiary offence TO learn to read
and to burn our skool houses, and
then because we amt just ready to
enter college, to insist ont that we
are materially incapable. And above
all Amt it presoomin little to charge
it onto the lord? Amt 700 mistaken
your own work for hizzen? 'Praps
eff GUNNER Bramlette's father he'd bin
floggid for wantin to learn to read,
and Gunner Bramlette's mother he'd
bin brought up ez a field hand, and
the same strategy he'd bin practised
on Guvner Bramlette's grandfather,
and great grandfather, and great great
grandfather, and great great great
grandfather, and his great
Hold on. venerable" sed Joe
Bigler, don't enumerate. Jest say
his ancestors. back to the identicle
time they wuz slaves to them Nor
mans, witch held his projenitOrs jist
ez yoo've bin held, and it'll be sufii-
shent. But go on.
II plead guilty to the big hands,
fiat nose and how'd legs. Possibly
the first niger he'd em-possibly not.
Eff Gunner Bramlette's father, and
his granddaughter is to say ances-
tors, he'd bin kept at the hoe, his
hands wood hev bin ez big ez mine;
eff they he'd borne burdens forever
his legs wood be how'd, and eff ther
noses he'd bin perpetooally smasht
hizzen wood be fatter than it is.
"Hev 700 eny more questions to
put to the Perfessor?" sed Joseph.
mo" replied the Ethiopian, II
hev sed my say"
"Then," sed this Bigler, witch wuz
gettin more and more reckless every
minnit, II dismiss this congregashun,
with this remark, that that niger is
under my protectin care, and eff
single lock NV his wool is disturbed
/ shell feel it sollum but painful
dooty devolvin upon me, to put a ball
into the carcuss nv each Nv the Of
fishls Nv this Church, commencin