The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1882-06-01
The Cruelties Of the Law!

As inflicted by Squire Bakers Court!
One day last week Squire Baker sitting upon
the Bench, brushing the dust from the Magisterial
robes, Constable Wallace entered, followed by COL
ored man with diagram of the crescent moon cut
above each eye. The officer also brought in gentle
man whom shall call jefferson Davis Rhett, hail
ing, perhaps, from the tar clad hills of Cawlny,''
and propably from the green sod of unhappy Ire
1and.n
'Bailif, open the Court" called the Magistrate.
''Earee! Earee! This Cout's now in session pur-
suant to cHURN-ment!'' cried the officer, looking at
the colored mans eyes. The Magistrate read the
complaint, and asked the defendant if he guilty
or otherwise.
81 niver in Coort before an don't know if gull
ty er not-BUT LICKED THE NAGUR!"
After hearing the plaintiff testify to quarreing
with defendant over game of seven-up for the cider
the Court assessed fine of 81 and ordered the defend
ant to Jail for twenty days. The defendant looked
Wild
Twenty days fur lickin,-s'read that agin, yer
honer.'
The sentence read again.
Twenty days fur lickin dom nagur-that's the
way with ye dommed Republicans.'' - said Mr.. j. Da-
Wis Rhet. eyeing Baker savagey. Twenty days fer
a dommed nagur. Begob cud lick livery nagur in
| the placer
''You have,' said the Court, made two assaults
upon this man-you have struck him twice.
"Av coorse did, niver hit nagur once; always
| hit nagur twice,''
This DANA platform aroused the sympathies
of an old-tfme Democratic attorney, and he made a
very sympathetic appeal to the Court. But Baker
was raised Republican, and could not be caught by
such chaf. So the attorney, failing to catch him
the Democratic PLATFORM tried the Green back plat
FORM and enlarged on the advantage of Green
backs and less Imprisonment. After hearing this
the Court concluded that, the prisoner had been
very noisy, dollar might stand for the fine, three
dollars for the costs and the wounded dignity of the
Court, and ten cents day in place of the imprison-
ment making five dollars in all. Looking toward the
colored man who stood behind the Constable, Rhett
| beloved:
"Jist stand aside yer honor, an let me see the ma.
gur So I'm to so TO Jail twinty days fur dom ma.
CUR. Begob whin git out if / don't make ye thinl
I've bin there forty days. I'll eat my head fur praty :
| ''Silence.'' ~ thundered the Court.
Dom the nagur am the dommed. Republican
Judge!' roared Rhett. II could tell by yer sna1uI
looks that ye wus Republican soon as saw ye
Five dollars fur ickin nagur! Begob I've seen thu
good old times when cud throw whole brick-yard
an a whole grocery rotten eggs at a nagur an thu
pollytfshuns wud set up fer enthusiasm. Bias
yer Republican carcuss, may whusky niver stay OF
yer stomach, an may the red niver to yer nose
May the bag-pipe niver sound at yer weddin, an th
boys niver fight at yer wake---fve dollars fer lick
| in-whoopee!
Republican Judge will give show,
But I'll lick the dom nagurs wheriver go!
VIII yer honor please read that paper agin? Fiv
dollars fer lickin dom'-
But the bailif had escorted him to the door, and a
he went away, the Court sat down and pondered upo
| the sympathetic qualities of the human heart. Th
reuttering of the ancient and time honored battle
cry of dam nigger,' sounded like the last faint
lingering echoes of a'dying melody. 1t was fna
requiem the decaying remains of departed
Democracy-but the Court cannot afford to b.
thus lost in reverie, he arouses, pockets the fv
dollars, and votes his Court success. And sa.
we, all of us.