The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-04-04
A STAND-OFF.
Fun in an Ohio Colored Debating Society.
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Fun in an Ohio Colored Debating Society
From the Editors Drawer in Harper for April
! The "Colored Debating Society,"" Of
Mount Vernon, Ohio, must have hac
some very interesting meetings this
winter. Your correspondent, happening
to pass through Mount Y. about Christ.
mas time, was invited by friend to &C.
company him to one Of the debates. .
Your correspondent went. The object
Of the argument on that particular even
ing was the settlement at once and for
ever of the question, (Which am de
mightiest, de pen or de swoard %
Mr.. Laukins said about as follows
"Mr. Chairman, what's de use OBJ a
swoard unless you's gwyne to WAR !
Who's hyar dat's gwyne to WAR? I
isn't, Mr.. Morehouse isn't, Mrs. More
house isn't, Mr.. Newsome isn't; I'll bet
no Teller wot speaks on de swoard side
is any ideer oh gwyne to WAR. Den,
what's de use OBJ de swoard I don't
tink dere's much show for argument in
de matter"
Mr.. Lewman said whats de use
oh de pen less you know how to write /?
| How's dat +? OATS what wants to know.
Look at de chillun oh Isr'l-wasn't but
one man in de hole crowd gwyne up from
Egyp' to de Promis' Lam Good write,
an he didn't write much" A voice in
the audience, "Wrote de ten comman' :
ments, anyhow, you bet." Cheers from
the pen ride. Wrote 'em ? q0rote 'em i?
Not much; guess not; not on stone,
honey. Might p'r'aps cat 'em wild a
chisel. Broke em all, anyhow, fore he
got down de hill. Den, when he cut a
new set, de chillun Oh Isrl broke 'em all
again. Say he did write 'em, what good
was it? So his pen no count nohow.
No, saar. De sWo0rd's what fotched
'em into de Promis' Ian, saar. Why.
saar, it's ridiculous. Tink, saar, OBJ
David a.cuttin' off Goliah's head wild a
pen, saart De ideer's altogedder too
'posterous, saar. De suO0rd, saar, de
sacoGrd mus win de argument, saar."
DR.. Crane said Ct tink Mr.. Lew
man leetle too fas'. He's a-speakin'
oh de times in de dim pas, when de
mind oh man was crude, an de ham OBJ
man was in de ruff state, an not tone
down to de refinement OBJ cibilized times.
Dey wasn't educated up to de use OBJ de
pen. DER hams was only fit for de ruff
use ob de swoard. Now, as de modern
poet says, our swoards rust in DER cub
bards, an peas, sweet peas, covers de
IAN. An what has wrot all dis change !?
De pen. Do [ take a swoard now to get
me peck oh sweet taters. a pair oh
oh oh oh r
jess take my pen an write order for
'em. Do [ want money? I don't git it
by de edge oh de swoard writes
check. ] want suit OBJ clothes, for in
stance-a stroke oh de pen, de mighty
pen, de clothes is on de way. rs done"
Mr.. Newsome said "Wid all due
'spect to de learned gemman OATS JUS
spoke, we mus all agree dat, for smoov-
in tings off an a-levellin' tings down,
dere's noting equals de swoard."
Mr.. Hunnicut said: ct agrees en-
tirely wild Mr.. Newsome; an, in answer
to what DR.. Crane says, would jess
ask what's de use Oh DRAWN a check
unless you's got de money in de bank,
or a. DRAWN de order on de store unless
de store truss you? S'pose de store do
truss, amt it easier to SEN boy as to
write a order? If you got no boy handy,
telegraf. No use for pen-not bit.
Who ebber heard Of Mr.. Hills pen
Nobody, saar. But his sWoord, saar-
de swoard oh ole Bunker Hill, saar-is
known to ebbery chile in de lam. II it
madden bin for de swoard oh ole Bunker
Hill, saar, WIZARD we niggers be to-
night, saar? whaar, saar? Not hyar,
saar. In Georgia, saar, or wuss, saar.
No cullud man, saar. should ebber go
back, saar, on de swoard, saar."
Mr.. Hunnicut's remarks seemed to
carry good deal of weight with the
audience. After speeches by number
of others, the subject was handed over
to j." the committee" who carried it out
and "sot on it," In due time they re-
turned with the following decision:
"De committee decide dat de swoard
has de most pints an de best backin'
and dat de pen is de most beneficial, an
dat de whole ting is about stan of"