The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1879-05-13
THE DRAKIN AND HIS NIGGER.
A story showing the Folly of the
Exodus and the Kind and Gener-
Gus Treatment the Negroes nre
Fleeing From.


CONFEDERAfE X RoADs,
(whlchis In the State nv kentueky)f
April 22, 1919.
The North is filed with all sorts NV
absurd stories NV the treatment the
colored citizens are receiyine in the
South, the desire bein, cleerly, TO
prejoodis the North agin the Suthern
Seckshun wich wuz crushed in an un-
holy croosade agin it's rites, and wien
hez never recovered from the same.
IL is espeshly charged that the GUS
sid nigger has no rites IN the courts,
and that when opposed by q proud
Kentucky Cawcashen he is crowded to
the the wall, without the slitest chance
for his life. To show the utter nom
sense NV this statement, give truth
ful report nv case tried afore Square
Pettus. justice Nv the peace for our
township.
Simeon Claghorn, ez he calls hisself
now, tho he wuz a slave wunst nv that
sweet and gilelis saint, Deekin Pogram
(wich family he resembles TO a degree
that made the late Mrs. Pogram infoor-
lated whenever she saw his mother, he
having the ginooine Pogram nose),
wuE tenant nv the Deekins, and hez
bin for two yeers. He agreed to pay
the Deekin $40 wear per acre for the
land, and also agreed to buy his entire
stock NV supplies nv that liberal ana
Chrischen man. At the eend nv the
first yeer, the Deekin took his entire
crop aud brot him in debt suthin like
300 wich the niger tried TO work out
in the winter cuttin aud gettin out rail-
road ties, from the Deekin's wood lot,
on wich he hez lived ever since the
crooel war deprived him nv his labor.
The next season the niger found
hisself in debt about $500. aud he sub
mitted the matter 10 Joe Bigler, wich
| is pison, and Josef actin ez his attor-
ney, come down on the innosept old
! Deekin with demand for a bill ov
| items. Josef demanded that the niger
| have "A kerect account nv the grain and
stuff wich he had turned over TO the
/ Deekiu, also an itemized account nv
the supplies wich the Deekin had fur:
nished the niger, that 1t might be
made manifest ez TO how the account
stood
The Deekin was enraged. "Why
shood not my word be taken again
nigger's?' be demanded. II never
was called upon for anything NV the
kind. 1t is an outrage
But ez Josef sood him afore Squire
| Pettus for the full amount NV the crops
wich the Deekin he'd taken, the good
old man wuz forst 10 degrade hisself
/ by comm into court again Ethiopian.
IL wrung his sole, bat he submitted.
ex we oil hev he'd TO do sence the
Linkin dynasty.
/ helped the Deekin out. The two
seasons crops footed up 81 900, aud /
/ don't pay any attention TO the Deekin's
/ books. / made out bill charging the
nigger with Si00 nv bacon, 5000 worth
/ NV -four, Si00 worth NV mules, and the
balarce, TO make his claim good, in
silk dresses for his wife and sich other
| goods az seiested themselves to a
fertile imsginashun.
That bill | presented afore a Justis,
wich received it with the gravity Nv a
grand chancellor.
count ez he he'd IL made. wich cleerly
established the fact that the niger
owed him 81 300.
The nigger presented another ac-
count wich brot the Deekin in debt TO
him sumthin like $500
Joe Bigler remared that the Deekin
| he'd he'd his sware, and thet the niger
should be put onto the stand 10 sware
TO his statement.
l protested. "Is a niger an infer
rior being. TO come into the court, over
wich Justis is supposed, figgeratively,
TO be hoverin, and hev his testimony
taken agin one NV the proud Caucashen
face. "
"SquareI" exclaimed the Deekin in
agony, "am j. a white man, TO hev a
uigger brot into court 10 rob me? Ef
my bill amt big enoff to offset hisn
aud "ring him IN debt to me, kin
easily amend II. Don't let this gross
injustice be done.
1: was a critikle and sollum moment.
On the decision nv Square Pettus hung
the fate nv Kentucky. IL wuz a 500.
preme moment. One mint Of iudeci-
sion, one mint faltrin, and the white
race NV Kentucky lay grovelin at the
feet nv the inferior Afrikin, and we
wuz in chaues furever.
Square Pettus was, fortunately, eksl
10 the emergency. Risin in his sect and
stidyng himself at the desk in front nv
him. he sed he knowd the eyes Nv Ken.
tucky wuz onto him, aud that Kentucky
shood never be disappointed.
81 know suthin NV this case, said
the Squire, sippiu sip nv Bascom's
best, wich he he'd sent over TO him in
quart bottle, "afore | came into court
immeejitly antissipated that this
plaintiff wood demand to be sworn,
and that on this joodishel arena the in
/ ferrior African aud the sooperior Cav
cashun wood meet in a final conflict /
prepared myself. ] went aud got
man wich GOOD read. and had him GO
thro the statoots NV the State nv Ken
tucky, past prior (wich ez / am iu-
formed, means before,) the onholy
croosade. found there a statOot wich
! perhibits the takin NV the testimony NV
nigger in a court Nv iustis, wich this
IL. It is troo that the federal yusur.
pashen made outher laws, but Ken.
| tuckian don't recognize that. A Ken.
tucky lustis only recognizes his own
/ State, wich Is severn. Recogniziu
only Kentucky, spittin onto an obolishu
| Congress, and ignorin everything else,
it is the yoonanimus decision of this
we're court, that all federal laws
recognizin the rites nv the cussed AZ
rikin is unconstitooshnel, and that
therefore his testimony can not be al.
mitted. / stand by my State"
"Bnt my wife never had silk dress,
no anythin' but caliko one" howled
the nigger.
"It don't make no difference wat voc
say" replied the iustis. "The deekip
wich is a Cawcashun, swears that yoor
wife he'd four silk dresses nv hin, and.
ez 700 can't be allowed TO sware at all,
tha amt no testimony agin hizzin.
This is a court nv law. aud law is law,
ez 700 will fnd out. Git one white
man 10 sware that you never got them
dresses, amp / will consider il. !"
"I demand to be put on the stand,
ssd Joe Bigler.
The Court cant admit your testi-
mony, for you are a prejudisi witnis
Josef laifed and left the court much
10 the Squire's relief, wich continnered
81 may say. however, that there may
be no misunderstandin, that 1, as in
dividjile. and not ez a court, will shoot
any white cuss that dares 10 come into
this court and sware for a Niger. f"
And that sturdy old Spartan cooked
his doule.barreled shotgun, and sot
down.
"I may ez well decide the case here
and now, sed the Square, after a mo-