Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1871-01-18
CLEARFIELD, PA
Cadet Smith.


This charming lad is boy and
brother of African extraction, who
was sent to West Point last summer
to shame the young Caucasians of the
Military Academy into proper respect
for the Fifteenth Amendment. Mas
tor Smith, strange to relate, was not
received with open arms by his broth
er cadets. These naughty and un-
reasonable youngsters failed utterly
TO recognize the fraternal relation de-
cIared TO subsist between Master Smith
and themselves by our renovated Con.
stitution. The obsolete word "nigger
was freely whispered about the parade
ground when Smiths cleaning bayo
net and woolly head were discovered
in the ranks Nobody could be found
loyal enough TO accept him MS u tent
mate The aflabe damsels who herd
at the Point in the dog. days, and make
love to the infant warriors at nurse
on the bosom of that benignant plain,
turned up their noses in emphatic
scorn when the lad Of Guinea display.
ed his shining worries and sought 10
simulate the conquering and coquett
ish smile of his brethren In vain
did tho Professors, who are q servile
pack of old noodles, attempt, by dis
play of unusual Difference TO Cadet
Smith, TO invite an imitation of this
unwonted courtesy on the part Of
the young gentlemen in gray Smith
was "cut,' deaf. He was not even
honored with the attention of being
ducised, kicked, or hair pulled-a pro.
cess of initiation never omitted in the
case of newooming white. He was
severely ignored.
For a considerable time Master
Smith confined himself to the business
ofposfing into the ears of sympathetic
Congressman the story of his wrongs,
and, in this way, became quite no.
ticcatle person in the newspapers. 2
Bat when, at last, the M. C.'s" wearied
of wording Che bad grammar and spell.
ling out of his letters to make them
fit for publication, the amiable youth
in a moment of capricious wrath, ap-
piled heavy tin dipper to the head
of a whito boy and brother named
Wilson who encountered him in the
vicinity of the pump. Unluckily for
Wilson the vengcful Smith over esti-
mated the power of resistance Of the
Caucasian pate, and fancied that all
heads were like the one which he had
oftentimes butted against cheeses and
stone walls for the trihng recompense
of a penny. Hence it came to pass
that blow which would doubtless
have reboundcd harmless from hisow
woolly Uranium did Wilson dire mis-.
chief and laid him fast in the hospital.
The Faculty-precious toadies though
they are--could not quite overlook
this misapplication of The Academic
dipper and Smith was Court Martialed
Double o, Howard presided over the
tribunal which tried him, and this
amiable body, after hearing the case,
sentenced him to promenade one or
two hours a week for one or two
weeks, on the parade ground under
the escort of u guard This prepos
terous sentence having been submitted
TO the Secretary of War, that func-
tionary pronounced the punishment
wholly inadequate to the oflense and,
therefore, RENTED it altogether. The
Court Martial not having given Smith
enough, the War Department rebuked
its neglect of duty, by giving him
nothing. And so he struts at his post
once more, rampant and victorious.
MoRAL.-White Cadets who feel
thirsty had better in future postpone
refreshment until Smith has had his
turn at the pump or else steal the dip.
per.-EdSt0R Argus.