Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1868-01-22
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! (Wich is in the Stait NV Kentucky
December 23d, 1867.
When the Almighty made niggers he
ought to- hev made EN- so that mixin with
the sooperior race wood hev bin an impos-
sibllity. The cuss Nv missengenashen. and
the hatrid Nv the Dimocracy NV Ohio for
niggers, hez, between EN-, left me in con-
dishen wich [ hardly supposed | shood ever
find myself in | rite these lines propped
up in bed at my boardin house, my face
beaten to a jelly and perfectly kivered
with stickm plaster; my nose, aluz the
beauty and glory of my face, is enlarged
to twict its fair proporshens my few re-
mainin teeth hev bin knockt down my
throat, my lips resemble sausages, my left
ear is forever no more, and wat little hair
wuz hangin about my venerable temples is
gone-my head is ez bald es billyard
ball, and twlct its normal size. 1t come
about thus:
There wuz trouble in one NV the South
ern counties Nv Ohio. In a reliably DEM
ocratic township in that county is a settle
ment of niggers, who, in the old time, ran
away from Kentucky, and settlin here
where they GOOD hov wat they earned, wich
wuz JEST so much swindled out NV Ken
tucky's accumulated wealth. Uv course,
comm from Kentucky, these niggers are
many NV EN- ez near white ez they can be.
One NV EN- who carried with him the name
NV his master, and ez he says, father, Lett,
is ez near a white man ez may be, and ez
he married a wench who wuz a shade
whittier than he, their children are Jest a
touch winter than both uv EN-. Cv these
he he'd three daughters, rangin from six
teen to twenty.
Now this Lett is a disturber He he'd a
farm NV perhaps 200 akers, and wuz taxed
heavy for skool purposes, but his children
wuzn't uv course allowed to attend the
skool None NV the niger children were.
But this Lett got the idee into his he'd that
there wuzn't no propriety in his payin tax
without enioyin some NV the benefits arizin
from EN-, aided and abetted by the other
niggers, who were wicked enough tn COM
plain NV payin taxes to the support NV
white skools, he sent his three daughters
to the skool, directin en- tu present their
selves boldly, take their seats quietly, and
study perseverinly. They did so. The
skoolmarm. who wuz young huzzy, with
D-sAth - - liitN iAulIl
uv Moo Hampshcer, where they persekoot
the saints. not only aSsented 10 reseevin
en-. but joyfully gave EN- seats and put
EN- into claSses-thnk NV that-with white
children.
There wuz trouble in that township. |
wuz sent for III wun>t, and gladly | come.
| wuz never 80 gratified in my life. He'd
smallpox broken out in that skool, there
woodent hey bin half the eggscitement in
the township. 1t wuz the subtle NV yooni-
verSal talk everywhere, and the Dimocracy
wuz bilin like pot | met the trustees
NY the township, ami demanded eff they
intended tamely to submit to this outrage.
| asked EN- whether they intended tu hev
ther children set side by side with the de-
scendants ny Ham, who wuz condemned tn
a posishen uv interiority forever. Kin
VOC, asked, 80 degrade yourselves, and 50
blarst the Self-respecG ny yoor children !?
And bilin up with Indignation they ar
swered Never! and yoonanimously re-
quested me to accompany EN- tu the skool
house that they mite peremptorily expel
these disgustin beins who he'd obtrooded
themselves among those NV 4 sooperior
race
On the way tn the skool house, wich
wuz perhaps a mile distant. | asked the
Board ef they knowd those girls by site
No, they replied, they he'd never seed EN-.
:. hev bin told" sed |, that they are
nearly white.
They are" sed one Nv EN-. quite
white
1T matters not" sed [, feelin that
there wuz good opportoonity for improvin
the occashen, ii matters not" There is
suthin in the niger at wich the instink Nv
the white man absolootly rebels, and from
wich it instinctivelv recoils. So much ex-
perience hev | he'd with EN- that eff 700
put me in dark room with one NV EN-, no
matter how little niger there is In EN-,
that unerrin instink wood betray EN- tu me,
wich, by the way, goes to prove that the
dislike we hev to EN- is not the result of
prejudis, but is a part Nv our very nachers,
and one Nv its highest and holiest attriboots.
Thus communin, we reached and entered
the skool house. The skoolmarm wuz
there, ez brite and ez crisp ez Janooary
mornin-the skolers wuz ranged on the
seets a studyin ez rapidly ez possible.
Miss sed [, we are informed that
three niger weuches, daughters of one
Lett, nigger, are in this skool, a minglin
with our daughters ez ekal. Is it so ? .
The Misses Lett are in this skool,"
sed she, ruther mischeeviously, 8 and [
am happy to state that they are among my
best pupils
Miss" sed |, sternly, PINT EN- OUT
To Us,''
Wherefore sed she.
That we may bundle EN- OUT" sed |.
Bless me-! sed she g [ RELY coodent
do that Why expel em?"
"Becoz," sed l, ''no niger shell con-
taminate the white children Nv this dee
strick. No such disgrace shell be put onto
en-
We'll" sed this aggravatin skoolmarm,
wich wuz from Moo Hampsheer, put EN-
out"
But show me wich they are
Cant yoo detect EN- sir? Don't
their color betray EN-? Ef they are so
neer white that 700 can't select them at
glance, it strikes me that it can't hurt very
much to let EN- stay"
[ wuz sorely puzzled. Their wuzn't
girl in the room who looked at ali niggery.
But my reputashen wuz at stake. NOtlcln
three girls settin together who wuz some
wat dark compected, and whose black hair
waved, | went for EN- and showed EN- out,
the cussid skool marin almost Dustin with
latter.
Here the tragedy okkered. At the door
| met a man who rode four miles in his
zeel to assist us. He he'd alluz he'd an
itchin to pitch into Niger, and ez he Good
do it now safely he proposed not to lose the