Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1875-03-27
FROM COLeRED sTAND-rOINTs'

claim to be reported literally, pu' inc
substance is given as we heard the
ideas expressed. As will be inferred,
one of the parties is an industrious
honest and sensible mantle other
progressive young buck of African
scent. whose self -conceit is equalled
only by his ignorance, and whose as
pirations keep even pace with his i'm
pudence. We produce it as a view OF
civil rights from colored standpoint
Joe, you's a fool Said Sam; faint
cibble rights, as you call'em, dat de mig
gers wants, but house to live in, close
to ware and suthing to eat. DO you
'spect to git dose by eatin at hotel and
payin for show tickets?"
mo, Sam, I don't 'spect to make
money in datway. but l 'spects to show
de white man dat Use as good as he is,
and I'm gwine to 'sert all the rights
de law dun give me"
Joe you talks like all de oder fool
niggers. De law dun gin you, fore
now. de right to work and makea hon.
est Twin; why don't you 'sert datright,
stead of loafng round town, drinkin
when you you's 'vited and eatin when
you kin git it.
Its you dat talks like fool Sam.
| know dat ives got to work; but |
argy dat de fust thing ives got to do,
istos show de white folks dat we as good
as dey, and when dey 'mits dis den We
kin work Xix gemmans and be 'ceived
like gemmans everywhere.
you'll starve Joe, fore dat day
comes, and de sooner you finds out dat
de niger amt exile to de white man,
de better til be for you. You is one of
dempuff up, 'ceited niggers dat believes
dey is most exile to de God dat made
EN-. Look at de railroads and steam
boats, Joe, and de 'odder 'chinery
what goes by steam and works like
hands, do you 'spect to exile dat soon "
mo l don't" said Joe, kase ives bin
slaves, had no edication and no white
mans chance to make SIGH provements.
But dat don't prove dat niggers amt
exile to de whites wild de same chance
does you ny dat, Sam?'
YES, | does and gwine to prove dat
you's wrong. You see when de flood
dried up, de white man, de red man
and de niger, all had even start, but
has dey KEEP even? You knows dey
hasn't, and why! Kase God made
de white man de 'sperior and he's bin
gwine ahead ever sence, de red man
next and de niger way berhind in dat
same ole Africa where God sot him
down arter de flood, and he amt moved
a peg sence. He lives in de bush,
goes start-naked, eats Lizards and SIGH
wild truck as grows doubt work, jis
like de monkeys what habits de same
country. l ANITA blaming de niger
for dis Joe, kase God made him jis as
he is, but ontwell we learn dat he made
de difference in favor of de white
man. ives 'bellin again his law and his
will"
"Some white mans bin stufin you
Sam, wild dat nonsense" replied Joe,
''and you'll git into trouble by SIGH fool
talk"
"Ef you call de Bible fool talk, Joe,
l pose Is wrong, can't read it, but |
can hear it 'splained and it 'vinces me
dat de niggers in Africa has all de Glib
bic rights dat ives got and has had
ever sence de food, but still dey is de
same lazy, fool niggers dey was when
God put 'um dar. De white folks has
larned us what little we knows, and if
t'wont fur dem wed soon be KILN
and eatin one anudder, jis like our
kinfolks in Africa. What | argy den,
is dat we ort to make friends of de
whites of de SOut, larn from dem what
is bes for us, be content wild our per-
sishun and thankful dat we live wild
people what'll perfect us agin ourselves
and teach us to be industrus and hon
est"
Il 'spose den Sam, you amt gwine
to 'sert your cibble rights and act like
white man?
Is gwine to 'sert no rights Sam,
dat's intended to raise trouble bitwixt
de whites and de blacks, and dat you
may pend on. As fur acting like a
white man-if he is gemman, Use
gwine to try to do it; if he's like de
men dat puts you up to all your fool
ishness you bet dat | takes de udder
end of de road. Did you ever see a
white gemman push he self in, where
he amt welcome? / never did, and
say furder mo-, dat de man what's
got no more 'spect for heself, dan to do
sich act, amt bit too good TO steal.
And if ever | see one of my color do
sich thing, I'll mark him as a man
dat'll steal, and wont truss him to de
vally of my ole shoe. OATS my pin
ION Joe, of cibble rights niegers."
I've hearn say you're dimikrat,
Sam, and now | knows it, We can't
gree on dis pint, so I'll tryyou on mud
der. Don't you blieve 'twould be right
for us collored gemmen to fuse to work
for whites who fuse us our cibble
rights?"
Joe, if you done made up your
mind to live by stealth, or to starve in
tense of your cibble rights, go long
and do it, dar's no use in bodderin me
wild sich questions. You go toa farm
er's house and tell him you II work for
him, pervided he let you eat at his
table and sleepin his beds, guess you'll
want all de legs you's got to git out'n
his rech. Try dat sort of fool game
and you II find out mighty quick, dat dc
Penitenchy is de only place where
you'll be exile to de white man.
Who said anything bout de Peniten-