The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1880-07-10
A oo1oREp PATRIOT PUZZLED.


An unsophisticated, but very clear
headed colored fellow-citizen of ours,
from the country, encountered yester-
day one of our town wlse-acres of the
same complexion.
"Kin you told me-" said he, "what
fur dey denominated dat man After,
which Mr.. Sherman kicked outen de
Custom House fur bein' a leetle too free
wild de government plumber? Pears
to me dey had big enough dose wild
Garfst; but to put After, de Custom
House pal, ON top of him, its calker-
lated to turn de nigger's stomach. Kin
yer glib me de true in'ardness OBJ dis
proceedin'?"
"Well, now, my friend" rep led
Wise-acre, "hevn't you studdid dc
filosofy of DR.. Joshuar Billin's? An
don't you know dat dat great man lays
it down as one OBJ de fust principles OBJ
moral ethics, dat when Teller starts
down hill, eberyting am polished an
slickened up for de 'scursion? Now de
melancholy fact am-which, prehaps,
you have observed dat de publican
party hez been goin' down hill fur
sum time. 1t pears as eff de hand OBJ
judgment had iron grip on it. Dey
hev been dom nothin' but blunderin'
for several years back. Dey tied on to
de Returnin' Bord of Luzeanner, and
darby glib unto de inemy Il sledge-
hammer to flatten out dair numskulls
wild. Den dey started de Exodus
movement, forgittin' dat de niger WIS
Ell human, wild appetltes, wants an
kerpassities sides de mere taste fur
votin'. Eff yer want to 'fluence de
Niger talk to him when he amt
hongry. Dis Exodus bizness hez bin
regular boomerang, an hits de party
dat invented it squar in de formed.
An it ort ter, fur it wuz jist de boss
raskilly perceedin' ] eber hearn OBJ.
Den, when dey all got together at
Shecargo, dey fust an swore, an swore'
an fust, for siveral days, jist as dey
used to do in dis kintry fore dey went
up dc spout. De ham oh fate was lade
on 'em. Dey got der backs upan' turn'd
aginst de only man what had saved de
party befo, an de only one what
Good save it agin. Follerin' de fatality
ob de doomed, dey voted down Gin
raj Grant, an put up Mr.. Garfish, a
Teller dat nobody cher hearn tell OBJ,
'ceptin' dar was Degobbler contrack,
wild a back grab in il, or a big credit
to be stole from Mobile down here on
de gulf. Not satisfide wild dis tremen-
jus outrage, dey sot to work to make
it sentimentally impossible for any
decent man to vote for dair burned
ticket by putin disrepurable Custom
House rat on it.
"Now my colored fren 'scuse de di-
gresshun, but less gravitate back to de
'riginal propersishun. Yer see, par
ties are not onsimilar to individuals.
When you sees a niger hangin' roun'
de corners, lookin' pale an detected,
ez if he thort his mule was dyin' wild
de consumption, an you hears OBJ raids
on neighborin' chicken-roosts o'nights,
you may spot dat niger. You may
set him down as havin' a good pros
pect to be elected to de penitentiary,
or to hev inserted in de rear OBJ his
fundament an indefinite number OBJ
an it won't take him long, unless he
changes his ways, to git dar. Eben
so, when party forgits its honor am
integrity, an tries to slip in by de-
vious ways, an to hol' on by stealthy
tricks an hipercritical dissimmerla-
shuns, it starts down hill, am the way
is creased fer it. De denominashun
OBJ After, OBJ de Custom House, wuz
dun to fasillertate de movement.
OATS ALL"