Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1867-08-13
From the Toledo Blade
Posi- oPFIs. CoSFEpRIT Y ROADS
(Which is in the Staff OF kentucky,)
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July Is. 1857.
The speculashen in wool, witch the
Dimocracy Nv the South embarkt in
some months ago, hez, | regret to say,
resulted disastrously. The Niger
amt fitted for cooperashen with the
Dimocracy. Instid NV hangin onto
us like the ivy onto the oak, he dis
kivered that, in the South, at least,
he wuz RELY the oak and we the ivy;
instid nv lookin up to US, he contract
ed disagreeable habit NV lookin
down onto us. There wuz other rea
sons why he coodent be made avail
able tor uses, and therefore it wuz de.
clded to go back onto the Afrikin, and
to agin attempt his reduckshen to ez
near hiz normal speer ez the abnormal
condishun Nv the times wood admit.
The directors NV the college met and
changed the name Nv the Institoo-
shun back the Southern Military
& lassickel Institoot," and the Cor
ners wuz itself agin.
Deekin Pogram lookt ez tho ten
years he'd bin lifted off him. allow
pleasant It's" said he, ''to walk erect
agin in front Nv niger, and to pass
him ez tho he wuz niger Oh, eff
| Good only wallup one unst more,
methinks Good die happy |"
We he'd meetin lastnight to cons
slider this niger question, witch wood
hev resulted in great good and he'd a
powerful influence toward strengths
min the hands Nv our brethren in the
North, who are fghtin the heresy NV
niger suffrage, he'd it not bin fur that
irritashen, Pollock, and that pest, 10
Bigler | he'd made my regler speech
on the niger and with much effect.
| he'd quoted from sumbody's quotas
shun from Agassiz, witch demonstra-
ted the radikle difference there is
atween the Afrikin and the proud
Caucasian; arguin from the length
Nv his heel and arm; the thickness NV
his skull and so forth, that the Niger
wuz totally unfit to exercise the
rights NV free men. wuz applaud>
ed vociferously and by none more
than Pollock and 10 Bigler. Ez |
took my seat and wuz wipin the
perspirashen from my classikel brow,
feelin that | bed settled that question,
Pollock riz and desired to say few
words and make suggestion. Sed
he:
81 hev listened with interest to the
elokent speaker, and l am happy to
say | hev learned fax witch IL new to
me. Eff hev ever doubted the infe-
riority Nv the niger, them doubts are
removed. pervidin allnz, that tho
statements Nv tire speaker is troo, NV
witch | hev no doubt, ez the karacter
nv the speaker IL suffishent guar
antee for the trooth Nv whichever he
sez."
bowed stately like, with the air NV
one to whom SIGH compliments liz a
evry day affair, witch they aint by no
means; on the kontrary, quite the re.
verse.
"But | want it demonstrated to the
satifacshun Nv the most Obtoose-I
want right here measurement NV
the average black man and the ave.
white man, that all the world may
know the difference. / move that it
be did"
| acceeded. "Let it be done" sed
l, chat the vexed question may be
settled forever"
Several niggers were askt to sub.
NIT to the measurement, but all re-
fused. Finally 10. Bigler said he saw
Napoleon Johnson, niger witch use
to belong to Deekin Pogram, in the
audience. Napoleon, sed he, "will
you contribbit yoorself to the sci
ence Nv ethnology? Amt you willin
to let us yoose you awhile to demon
strate the CRATE and GROWN trooth
that your grandfather wuz monkey?
step mp, Napoleon"
Napoleon, nothin dasht, slept up,
and Pollock. Bascom, Bigler and my
self measured himwith the followin
result: