Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1867-02-12
NASBY.
Mr.. Nasty Essays Sermon, but is in
terrupted by Niger who is Aided
and Allotted by the Peryerse Joe Big
From the Toledo Blade, January 49,
Posr 0FFIs, CONFIDENT Y ROADS !
(Yieh is in the Staff Nv Kentucky !
January 10 1861

witch Is in the Staff Nv Kentucky )
January 10, 1867.
wuz rekested week ago to preeeh
a discourse from the text witch the
noble and high-minded Govner Bran
lette used with SIGH crushin force in
his last annual message, to-wit Ky.
the Leopard change his spots or the
Ethiopian his skin ~ and alluz feelin
anxious 10 do wat / kin tor the cause,
| did it last mite, or rather essayed to
do it.
And hear let me remark, that there
amt a more devoted people in Ken
than them lambs ez compose my flock.
1t wuz a tetchin site, and one witch
filled my sole with joy to see EN- pour
out NV the groceries at the first tootin
nv the horn, and to see Pennebacker,
witch owns the distillery, stoppin
work to come but the most cheerin
an encouragin sign to me wuz to see
Deekin Pegram, he wuz u playin /
up for the drinks with Elder Slathers,
at Bascom's, } lay down his hand when
he he'd high, low, and jack in it, and
he'd only three to go. elder" sed
he, has voice tremblin at the sacrifice
he wuz a maxim, and tear steelin
down his cheek, elder, them s the
horn. Let us to our dooties, 'Ligion
must take the front seat Of temp raj
matters, and sighin ez he cast a par
TIN glance at his hand he strobe out,
resolootly to the sank troary.
opened by readin the follerin
from Governur Bramlette's message
The niger is the inferior Nv the
white-he lacks the power to rise,
Ontil the leopard kin change his spots,
or the Ethiopian his skin, all efforts to
repeal or nullify Gods laws will be
unavailin."
Ny bretherin these words is words
Nv wisdom, and fur EN- let us be
thankful. The skin NV the Ethiopian
wuz inflicted onto him for the express
purpose Nv distinguisbin him from
his bretherin, whose servants he wu2
condemned to be, for all time, ez q
punishment for the sin NV Cain or the
improodence NV Ham, witch, Demo
ocratic divines heven't settled on
With the black skin he wuz given al
the other marks Nv inferiority. He
wuz Gust with long arms, immense
hands, fiat nose, and bowed legs, and
that Their mite be no mistake in the
matter, he wuz given roolinstead w
hair, halleleOgyl
"Ah, my brethren, wat q blessid
thing for us is this Ethiopian! What
consolation it must be to 700 all tc
know that Their is race below 700
and how blessed the refeekshuE that
they can't change Their skin, and by
that means git above 700. That.
the comfort we draw from the skrip-
ters. Wat a horror it wood be To-
Deekin program, who is snorin 81
peacefy,
'Dreauin, sweetly dreamin the happy hours away,
Eff when the Soopreme Court de
cidet the Ablishn amendment uncon
stooshnl, and he gifts his niggers bacl
agin; eff Their shood be a new dispen
sashunan niggers shood be permitte,
to change ther skins Wat sekoorit,
wood we hev for our property
Some morning he'd wake up and fin
EN- all white persons witch it wood b
unconstoeshnel to wollop.
"My brethren Their hez bin man,
efforts to change the skin nv tn
Ethiopian, or rather Their hez BIZ
many who wanted to. The Bosto
Ablishnists hev tried it, but wat he
bin the result? Amt they niger
yet, and amt they still the degrade
wretches they allus wuz? paw
for reply
| made this latter remark becO
and only becoz, it sounded well, no
that | he'd any idee that nybod
wood reply. Imagine my surpris,
ut seein gray headed niger, wicl
he'd bin doorin and after the fratrisdI
struggl, employed in the Freedman
Bureau, rise, and remark that he he
a word to say onto that pint. Their
wuz o storm of indignashun, and th
inpudent niger who wuz 50 sasse
ez to prcsoom to speak il a whit
mectin, wood hev bin sacrinced o
the spot, he'd not Joe Bigler, VIII
wuz half drunk, drawd a ugly looki
navy revolver, and remarkin that h
knOwd that nigger-that he be
more sense tnan the hull bilin Nv u:
and be shood hev his say.
Eff" said this recklis Joe, "ef
beats 700, Professor, troothis trooth
, lets hev it. Ell he don't, why, it's a
J the better foryoo. Eff yoor webster
an inteleck kivers the ground, a
rite-of his ponderous intelleck get
: the best ont, jist ez rite. Out Nv Ii
mouths Nv babes and sncklins.' FL
der, 90 my bottom dollar on til
sucklin. Speek up, venerable-ther
: wont none Nv EN- tech yoo, and /
cockt his revolver.
" Beggim perdon, E" sed the niger q
agree with 700, Perfesser, that I'll
, Ethiopian can't be change his ski
hisself, but does the Scripter say thi
, it can't be change for him?"
"Anser the venrabe babe" sai
2 Joe Bigler, pintin his revolver at M
: 4" | can't say that it dose, SEE l.
Very good, re tortod the nigge
"heEnt there q change bin a goin {
t in Kaintuck from the beginnin ? n
!. moter wuz ez black ez a crow
D constable lighter-my wifc's a BIZ
r lighter than am-my gals childei
e is half lighter than their mOthe