The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1868-11-06


them.
i l!ASBY.
"CUssED BE CANAAN"
AIr. Nasby's popularity in Phila-
idelphia wa long ago established
but the audience, laes night, at Hor
ticultural Hail, must have astonished
THE reverend gentlemRa hlm5elf no
Hess than the vaTme5! Of his admirers.
The weather was wTotched - the
worst OF the sesson-yet the spacious
room vas crowded in every part,
many persons Standing il the aisles
the whole evening, Ihe fayorite
lhumorist was introduced 10 this fine
Iaudiance ut the time appointed, ana
spoke to the following effect:
We arc al descended from grand
fathers; Jefferson, however, was the
only grandfather of political party
which denied in toto its ancestors.
So lar has this deEia, gone, IL fact,
that this party considers It essential
10 insert Che word white in every
lplace where man IS concerned, II the
Intention I5 to do hin honor. The
ilocturar gave q number Of readings,
improved after Democratic models,
which excited great laughter, for
| instance: "Breathes there white
man, with soul SO deep, etc. - or
"She wished that Heaven had made
her such a white mau or "Mark the
perfect white man, for the end OF that
white man is peGce or ''Suifer little
white children to c0mG unto ne, and
forbid them rot"
Mr.. Nasby said be should proceed
80 the investigation Of tho niger
lie had looked into tie dictionary
book i0r which he had q profound
respect, though ne may not have ap
peased to use it nuch-but nc could
there could find no solution Of his
doubts. The negro is laan-the
inigger is an idea. Jefferson knew
all about the negro, but nothing OF
! the nigger. In fact, if that worthy
were alive now, he would be reyIleod
IS Phillips and Garrison Gra, even II
no did not share the fate OF poor
LOvcj0y. He could not now be
elected to Congress III some districts.
Tho trouble is thai Democrats won't
take the 'DeclsTatiOn OF Independ-
ence,' as they co whisky, straight,
but they want 20 doctor il out Of re-
semblance 20 What it's great protector
intended.
The lecturer then, rs approaching
the immediate subject OF his oratiOn,
detailed the manner in which Canaan
was cursed. This WAS excessively
drcll, and conyulsed the audience
with laughter. He told how Noah
had been, IS one might say, on q
pretty still bender, and getting some
of his clothes torn OF him, lay down
to sleep while Ill that condition, and
that his sons looking in upon him, he
straightway commenced to lay about
him in his wrath, and cursed poor
Canaan, condemning him ever after
TO be 8 servant 20 his brethren. This
conduct of Noah's IVES very repre-
hensible TO start with if he hed been
only an infant Of hundred or so, i |
would not have been SO bad, bat for
q mature individual of six hundred !
or more, such an exhibition to HE
children Was very unbecOming. Il
would have made anybody laugh TO |
see the old navigator stretched outs |
and the boys were not to blame
And the worst OF it was, that poor
Canaan had not seen his fathers dis
graceful condition at ALL Nimrod
and all the rest we're guilty, II guilt
there Was, but the very one who
caught It had done nothing. And
thus a cup OF wine and curse afteI
it had made 6 great difference in the
history OF the world. Il hoah had
planted corn instead of grapes or il
twenty other things had happened,
there would have been no curse, no
niger, 10 democracy. The Canaan
ties, the Shemasites, the GuTgusite5,
the sights of other tribes would I'll
have been one if Noah had not gone
on that little bender. The reverend
gentleman dwelt upon the ridiculous
features of the curse for sometime TO
the intense delight Of the irraYeTeRt
people present, and then passed to
the consideration of the descendants
OF Canaan Wiihering under this
blight.
The first settlers Of Virgins 10y
the way, General Grant vas the last
settler Virginia had had never Il
bored ST home, and Why, thoy I
thought, should they bere< The +
curse was floating around loose, aud |
nov vas their chance. They we're
willing to do the eating. bat tie ne
gro must do the sweating. Here
followed most scathing review OF
The system OF slavery. No more
biting argument has ever
been heard from the platform IN this
city. The seriousness, that was as
severe as its subject, was lit up every /,
other moment by some miTth pro
vokiDg OF sarcastic side remark. Ol llt
Seward ne said-"The distance from
Lincoln to Andrew Johnson
was so great that the leap broke his
moral back he has never stood
straight up since" Again, "It is no
wonder the blacks are degraded
Could Weston have walked from
Portland 20 Chicago, in twenty six
DAYS, in shackles p Or, is is the
ballot ignorsntly cast which hurts US.
not the color Of the man who casts
it," Or, "Any drunken wretch may /
vote, hut Fred Douglass, the orator,
statesman, philosopher, man, may
not. Now, friends, for ny own part.
l would gladly swsp OF Morrissey for
Douglass interrupted by laughter, +
and rather than spoil tie bargain /
would throw in Fernandy Wood and
Benjamin his brother.'
He passed then to the considers
ton of the bugaboo of negro equsli-
ty. Upon which point the audience
waited in vain for single serious
argumentatiye word. He would
lo,.1.t, ,,-;eb tborn ht1e no g4-0riid NOS =