The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1884-01-19
whites" Reply to minstrel

WHINE hepiy 20 minstrel
PARaYviLLE. Jan. 10, 1924.
Mr.. EDiToH; The pseudo aristocracy Of
Parryville have arrogantly exhausted their
polite vocabulary, and have now, them
selves, gwen the public an idea Of a motor
i'us Characteristic Of their private social
gatherings. They think they hsye com.
pletely buried us in the mire Of their yitu-
purstion, but the odor OF their silly person
nlities is sitting them in their isolation and
long after the patient marble shall mark
their graves, chiseled with records Of their
assumed virtues, will the vapors Of their
innate degenemcy rise and psrmeate the
clay above them,s that the green grass will
be sunocated in its germ. Nature will re
fuse 10 soften aud relieve the abiding sup
ulchre Of the great al am" To minstrel"
we, would tain address this question, ado
you consider that II bestowes either dignity
or crdibiity upon scribe TO be employed
by others to give to the public certain mis-
representations Of fellow citizen whose
side Of the case is personally unknown 10
ycu2" AS to your reply 10 our article, il
willfully preveris our statements, misrep-
resents our motives, and futher confirms its
weakness by calling ridicule and falsehood
TO its aid.
This CIRCLE Of cultured society is very
small, with q sadly decreasing tendency.
Yet several specimens Of il are unique. Let
us speciy' Our late letter greatly aroused
tue latent eloquenee OF the Prof He, who
each Sunday within the sanctity Of one OF
our churches, so able and earnestly reviews
the Sunday school lesson did, in like mai
ner within the much frequented halls Of
the hotel barroom discuss the late effort Of
yours respectfully, "Willie." How varied
the scenes of his rhetOric2 This leader Of
our sophists, expounder Of Holy Righteous.
ness, haranguer OF the bar room elect in an
atmosphere OF beer, besides being the intel
lectual representative OF the Parryville
Dutch Minstrels. Now for another choice
mOrsel out OF this immortal society. Wherrt
On where is the pride Of the dignlfied pill
man, member of the Carbon county Medi j.
cal Society, and great soloist of a Dutch
negro show? Not so bad for the man, but
devilish bad for the society and dignity of
the profession. OF the other specimen or
two Of this cowardly aristocracy who are so
ashamed Of their filthy concoction as TO re-
fuse TO append their name, of these we say,
we confess, 10 feelings Of charity for we do
not hold blamable any one who is not in =
teilectually responsible.
No, "Minstrel," we did not covet your
characters in the show, nor were we the
only one discarded by your learned mana
gers. We declare we felt mean enough to
witness such an illustration of your self
lauded taste, pitied you and spared you
in our hurried report OF your exhibition;
yet how nobly you have inspired us to bet
ter ourselves SO that we too may figure as
burnt cork artists. You also failed TO call
any attention To our criticism proper, be
cause you found in it q more generous spirit
than you dared to acknowledge in US, but
not eager TO vent personal spleen, through
pa tient scribe whose position merits our
sympathy.
You would like To declare us a citizen by
fraud and disiranchize us, but "Willie"
stays with you, gentlemen, and thus abides
by the opinion of the true and better aristo-
cracy, whose loyal expressions have been
rendered as privately and unsolicitedly.
We are able TO pay our debts slowly and
fully, and have not yet tried to go back on
an accommodation note; the elector from
Slabtown still withstands the statesman
ship OF the hill, and "Willie," boy, still
stays. We don't want to 'jne" your So
citty, but wouldn't mind hiring the aristo-
cratic portion of the minstrel "concarn" for
novelty, aud with great show bills, red /,
white aud blue, advertise it highly. Say,
boys, how would, it look? "BIG MIN
| STREL SH0Wi Proceeds for benefit of
church. Dutch Negro Minstrels of Parry.
vile. Leading characters" Prof Kutz
town, scriptural deleneator, and bar room
haranguer,. will produce his poetical effu.
sions. and present the compound medley Of
Dutch Niger Show. And the Parryyille
| pill-Inan and physician TO the court of the
Kingdom Of Parryville, attenuated stump
speech orator. Gnshl wouldn't it take, I'm
mense enthusiasm Trochsville, Stemlers-
yille, &C., would go wild in exstacy.
! Yours afiectionately
| "WILLIE."
| P. s. No. l.-"Willie" your notice will
yet make "grand achievement" of the
Parryville Minslrels.
| P. S. No. 2.-"Willie" again rises to re-
mark that he will continue to stay and
| meet his friends at No. IA Shutdown.
| LATER-Tbe Minstrels will not show at
| TrochsVille as was intended.
Still kindly yours,
| "WILLIE."