Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1873-08-05
ON SPECTATOR AND GENERAL ADVERTISER
"Zidin in de Sennit.'

Walking out Brook Avenue the other even
ing, our attention was drawn to an old negro
man seated on couple of bricks on the shady
side of grocery, with black bottle, bag of
meal, and section of raw middling by his side.
His eye-lids were heavy with whiskey, and,
unobserved, we listened to his soliloquy, which
ran somewhat thus:
Us niggers is fools. pintedly ar, eff de rest
amt, which dey is, all IN um. Lem me sea
Seben an fo' is tn ee-no, fo' and thee '' ar
seben, and seben to one make eight-gwine on
eight year sence de war buss aud sot me and
all un um free. An an an VIII VIII VIII whar
is | now? Settin' on desc bricks, and drunk at
dat. Is any better off den wuz fo' de war
No STREE. Coz why? Coz we is all fools? l
say dat. an swar to it.
l vote de Publikin tickit cherry time-all I'm
US votes it-wotes it cherry year; and whar is
we? sittin on desc bricks, wild a peck O. meal,
and drunk at dat. A hundud niger vote de
Publkln tlckit to one white man, an de white
man git all de good things, while the niger git
nothln. Us niggers do de work an de white
man Bet back and reap de reward White man
git de lean meat, white man git de fat meat, an
tn ow niger de rine, and spec him to be thank
ful fur dat-de likes OBJ dat Is dat far Is
dat squar? Is dat 'vidin de profits cordin to
'rithmetic an de Bible? No, sir you can't
find no SIGH doctrine like dat no whar in de
Bible, nor outen it, sep in de Publikin party.
Servatlvs don't do no SIGH cheatin' like dat.
Dey say gin and take, eben Steben, Ant'ny
ober, up one side and down de oder, is far play,
EVn vote one, amt git but one, an ev'n
you votes 'leven, you gifts leven Oats Bible
'rithmetic. In de Servative party, de Irishman
git dis, de Jummun git dat and de ole fashun
white man gifts de oder. Oars Mars Kelley fur
one, and dis little Lovinstun, fur de oder, and
den dar s Billy Gilman fur de baance-far and
squar. But 10 de Publikin party, de niger
whar votes a hundred gifts de hunduth part oh
nuthin. while de white man, which he votes
but bar one, he git de whole hunduth part oh
cherry thing cherry time hand runniu
Us niggers has scented odat foolishness long
'nuf faint in de Bible, faint in rithmetic,
faint In jogrefy, faint nowhar in Gawd's earth
but 10 de Publlkin party and we amt gwine to
stan 1t no longer: Leastways 20 Uncle lsham
Higgins Amt. He is gwine to eide in de
Sennit. Mark me dat.
An, an an what sort of men does us mig
gers up an glib de lobes and fishes to? dun
no who is listnen to Isham Higgins, an
don't keer, but mark me dis-dar amt one
IN um dat us niggers would like to be our mas
ter, FIVE waz to be sold agin-no, mar single
one I'D, mar single time Pears to me dat us
fool niggers de least ca ickter white man got
de mo office we gwine glib him. What be done
loss 10 spectabllity us niggers make up to him
scrapin, f1attrin and 'fusn OBJ our minds by
calling US "Mista," and den us fools list GIBBS
him whatsomever be axes, while we works and
tolls on same like we did all de time, I'm a
Citing tired oh dat kind OBJ bizness-it don't
pay-and I'm gWine to solve de partnecy and
set up new consurn. Hencefoth I'm fur de
niger, and 'speshly for Hoggns. Higgins
wants to eide in the Sennit, and he is gwine
to do it.
don't call no names, but Bob Hews-I amt
no mo feerd of Bob Hews dan is OBJ dis mid
dlin--dar hit. right dar-(sapping it with his
hand y but Bob Hews knows de time ar come
for de niger to be recognise ON de State ticket.
Ambly Smith may say what he darn please, but
de niger ar boaon to be dar; and Hoggins is a
gwlne to eide In dat Sinnit, sho's 20 born.
Stick pin dar, Ambly. an keep 20 finger on
it.
As fur dis new man. Mack Name, I don't
know him, never heerd Nv him twell the other
day, lie Is raleroder, spec, and if he's fur
de niger on de State ticket, den I'm fur him.
Efnot, IN agin him, del, pint blank.
Dey say de niger ain t got sence huff to be
Left tender Governor which dat be ar called
coz he ar left to tend to der guvment when de
fuss man done gone. But all he got to do is to
eide iu de Sennit. [ bin dar and seed how he
dun it. Mr.. Jack Meree he ar as nice man
as eber sot il a cheer; (but he ar dark com
plected man az dats de reezun he tides wild so
much dignity; Now | 10 darkder complecte--
der man dan Mr.. Jack Meree ar, an hoccum
cant eide in de Sennit good as he or any man
[ kan eide, an I'm gwine to eide, too.) Mos
any common sence niger kin. All he got 10
do ar to look sollum and fierce, rap wild yo
hommer and boiler " 'tention comp ny !''-
''Silunce in de kote !" Den de gent man fun
Dunwoody, he git up an be say:
Mr.. Presydunt, rises to piut OF odder"
Den you says,
Pint it.
He pint it, an den you leans ober to Sheltin
Davis and whispers,
Watts de meann' OBJ dat r.
He telin' you dreckIy, coz be knows all &c
pollytnentury lor in de worl' aud mo too, and
things goes on slick and smooth as simmon.
Ef not, you rops wild yo' BONNER tell de
and Wut Hsrrysum be gethers him by de col
lar an glib him nine an thutty 10 de lobby
'cordn to de stachewt, made an purwidid in
dem dar SIGH cases.
An OATS 'Zidin In de Senuit, an OATS all IN
it and de hole un it. An ef'n niger earn
do dat he earn do nu.hin, an be earn vote
fur no white man futto do it fur him. Dat s
de sense OBJ de fack OBJ de premyses OBJ de case,
eff you beeve Hogglns.
Now what US fool niggers gwne do bout it :?
Whatsumuver we all does do, we got to do it
in hurry. No time ar to be loss, coz de
'ventchum 'sembles in Lynch's Ferry mex
Weady. An yo' Uncle Higgins he will be
dar, far an sQuar, Charley at de cat hole, a
claimin Of his rights, which be is a gwine to
git um, eff one grain of sense ar left in dem mig
gers.
Higgins ar gwine to git off'n desc brick,
an wosh my he'd in cole water an git sober,
an 90 to Lynchbug an git de nomination OBJ
Left tender Guv' ner, an git 'lecktid, sartn
sho. An den IN gwine to eide in dat Sen
nit wild de dignity of fo-hoss muel team wild
bells and all de brillyuncy of a skeerosehn
lamp"
Accordingly Uncle Isbam "riz' with difficult
ty from bis brick seat, took up his bottle, his
bag and his middliag and went wabbling away.
-Eaquirer.
WHITE MEN AND BLACK MEN AS "a
LABoRING CLASS I'VE find the following
utterance in Mr.. Hughes's speech on the occa-
sion of lis nomination at Lynchburg:
Study the character of the laboring popu-
lation and all over the world, and where will
laboring class anywhere be found so exemplary
in their conduct or so elevated in their morale,
all things considered, as the negro population
of Virginia When people of such approved
character flock in body to political party,