The Ripley advertiser. [volume] (Ripley, Miss.) 1843-1897, 1881-01-08

Fascals, We're wanting To know who.
struck BILLY Patterson" Carpet
Tags were again in demand; the
Governor got home.sick and fed
Those who had escaped from the
fenitentiary in Illinois and Ohio,
we're taken ont of the Mississippi
Legislature and carried back to
their old quarters. Stove.pipe hats
and mean whiskey went down over
one hundred per cent. A negro is
as hard to fool now as a white man.
The present Governor is a citizen
0fthe State. The negroes voted for
him and haven't regretted it yet
Carpet bags are out Of fashion; and
quadroon girls don't bank on white
husbands worth a cent. Dixie and
Yankee-doodle have some how got
very much mixed; and both races
are living together in peace and
harmony, and every body is happy.
The trade in striped sticks has be-
ONE Improbable, and lightning
hair straightner has "gone glimmer'
ing through the dream Of things
that were-like a school boys tale,
the wonder of an hour"
Well, Captain Burk,'' said Scot
tie, 'don't you think it was very
wrong to hold human beings in bon.
dage"
"Ofcourse / do; and | believe that
j. the sentiment of all nations"
Were you not the owner ofma' /,
Slaves before the war;"
"Certainly."
"I'lease explain, if you car. why
you were guilty OF this great
wrong9'
"9cottie, as we arc in love with
each other, we can d'.scuss thil
question impartially. l believe
You we're born in the State of New
York@
AtS1 NNH uSHy IL"
Every wei; that was a slave state
sixty years ago."
$50 it was; but / did not own
slaves; for that was before l was
hurn."
"True enough; but your grand
fat Ter owned a large number of ne
gro slaves
"Yes, | admit it; but he helped to
! abolish tt le institution long ago."
"No doubt he did; but not until
he had ent his slaves down South
and sold, them, and put the money
u his llocket. Slavery was gradu-
ally abolished in the northern
states, alFording the owners plenty
pf TINE TO sell their slaves, so as to
sust in no loss"
dow was the institution OIL
asia very introduced in the United
states at first?'
II was done by The New England
States, who sent shlpsto Africa and
stole little children from their par
ents and brought them from their
colonies, and made slaves Of them.
Ii it was a sin for the South to hold
them in bondage, what a crime was
il to for the north to bring them
iro Il their homes In Africa. / was
horn among slaves; | sucked the
#. sustaining milk from a negro
woman's breast; | loved her as a
j lother; | playedlmarbles with little
s,aves during my boyhood;I partic-
lpated in all their joys and sympa-
thized with all their sorrows; | loved
1nen, and would have died to defend
rhem from harm. My grand father
originally bought his slaves from a
Ilorthen man, who brought them to
mississippi to sell, in order to es-
guape the loss that was about to fall
--.in him by reason OF the abolition
statutes that had been passed in his
State. Now Scottle, who knows
but what that was your grandfather
who sold the slaves to my grand
1athe?'
"lndeed that would be another
cAe Of those condolences that we
were talking about; and it would
go to prove that nay grandfather
was sharper than yours"
perhaps it would; but let us
look a little farther into the case.
] believe your father told me that
lie inherited thirty thousand dollars
~ cash from your grandfather"
@Yes, that is true, whether he
nohl you SO or not"
eVsrv good; that money was the
proceeds Of the sale Of negroes,to my
grandfather. Now, Scottie, your
father will give you some of that
money When you marry; but my
flther has nothing to give me, be-
,cause bis father gave all Of his mon