The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1874-11-28

W 'U"I (OttOu liz LtSU
WAS not gravis marte when he was matched
"r Uttered There is no look Of Mars, bu
there is inf1nite speculation in his eyes
A reward Ms lasg. rs that offered by TIN
Roman Emperor for new and savory
dish. could not tempt the most abandoned
p.'j",ed negro to swear. that he has -vr
known carpet b~ggrr to face the fir
which h~ has =" often drawn bv his incen
diary work Ills courage ocz-s out at hi,
departing heels. Du'.ng any little nn
pIr~s~"tn-ss" this phasi~e. becomes. as By
magic, publican, for hs takes bis stand
'af.r If" He is no product Of war. H.
is ''the ra"kcr II "a qnie. world - and Of Il
p~sce which is d,sp"t'sm enforced by bay
onrts. H. vaIc' is discretion his indus
try. perpetual STRIFE; and his eIoquence
the p.sce! Of a reckoning" Of chances a.
he smells nut Il path which may lead from
the White House to \ custom house, a
post "ffir-, the internal revenue bureasx
or, p-rcLance, to either wing Of the Ed
ersl capitol. His shbboleth is ''the Re
publican party" From that party he
sprung As naturally as maggots from pu-
trifaction. His relation t. that party il
that of pump to a b~wl, for his meri,o-
rious service is rewarded 10 proportion to
the number .f innocent negro victims
BE- inv~ig!es 10 g'a'ify its lust for power.
Like Wanda and Ge,,b hr never trays
without wearing his masters collar; and
he is equally confetti whether turned loose
to chase like sleuth .h"uud the monarch
of Southern so,l, or called by snap oi
the fingers TO eat the garbage Of his party.
His collar is his passport to rosm st large,
and il matters not with what persistence
h- may hresk into Southern gs",l~man's .
closet, bis MASTER will not permit him to
BE- muxzled. Tor he is ",hs OF thst trsadsth
out The corn" ~ we'll as 1.-THE ass that
knoweth his masters crib"
- Wherever two Or three or more negroes
are gathered together in the name of
Gr."t, h., ike = 'rprous spot is seen. and
lie csy, like the daughter Of ,h- horse
i-rch !. always "giv-, give" me Office.
Without Office he is nothing; with Of
Zee he is nuisance. Oat Of "ffice he 10
/. beggsr; j" Office he grows rich ill hia
eyes stick out with fa,nes. Out of Office
be is, hat in haad, the outside orna-
meut of every negro's cabin u plantation
losf.s and the n.,ion'- lns.rooe; 10 Office
he is an adept in addition, substraction
aud sil~uc-." Out # .fBse he is the CT
phan ward Of th~ adm n'nis,ration and the
general sig"post "f p~"o'y; in office h- is
the complaining s"pp''s", for social equal.
ity with Southern genil-mrD.
HE former neighhors in the unknowo
region whence he f-d. wonder, not n his
fight. but At his escape and conceslm~nt
But when. ~ sometimes happens. he
reaches Washington labelled Ms Senator or
R preventative from the province Of Lon
isana, or South Carolina, or A!sbn,na. or
and invoic~d and consigned to
Psesiden, G,.nt OF come Of his henchm-n.
the romance Of The TRANSPORTATION 40 veil.
hi. identity. that those nrighhors gather in
the Capitol. and with field glasses in hand
lh-y wraog!e and swra. (!) in the galleries
in angry dispute whether the official MI
lo,Dsion b.; Tichborne or his counterfeit.
e. il At best, but Cinderella II the ball
We wonder at bic slippers, his face, clothes and
hair,
But the greatest wonder is. how he ever got
there.
Oar wonder, however. is not as great or
=. his own. For, when he
thinks II the fairy reconstruction. which
wrought this msrve'ous change in him.
and then see the familiar pumpkin which
h-, from early. and fond association had
come to rrgs'd as an cider brother, sud
,i-n'y Transmitted into y carriage and gay
II cspasison+d horses, and examines his
gln.. slippers, and then t;'n"ro"-'y ven.
tured to look down. d"wn into I'll. depth
where l,is fairy found him among the Gin
iess sad aches If Southern des.,!ation. his
head sw,ms aud he ,"stinciively leans
hesyily .n President Ulysses ann. and.
douhtng h'. own identity. b.gs not I" BE-
called Senator 0, Representative. but I"
bs called hy his old name =" familiar in
Sleepy Holow-Schnrisler
A .u.n mao h.at d,,wn the hitter fru;t