The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1895-11-09
YE CANNOT ENTER
WHAT THE JUDGE SAID To
RAIN@IN.THE-FA AND
HIS LORDS.
LEAzARlTES STILL IN THEIR TENTS

What the Ancient Records Say of Cn1ef
ACKNOWLEDGMENT and His Failure
to Make Connection With The Pie
Counter-But He Girds Up His Loins
and Will Carry His Parchments Up
to the Court that is Called Supreme.
And in thoze days came one called
Rain-in. e-face, mighty chief of the
tribe of Fusion, and he was athirst and
hungered for office, and when he found
it not in the land of the Democrats he
sought pastures new, and wandered
away into the land of the Philistines,
Joining the tribe of the Mixed Breeds.
And 10 he became great man among
them, ana was accounted leader in
Philistia. And when the Mixed Breeds
waxed strong in numbers and conquered
the neighboring tribes, they began to
divide the spoils they found in the Ind
of Office, giving to some one slice of pie,
and to others, another. And Rain-in
the Face they made Chief of the Prison
House, and made him lord over the
stockade in the city called Raleigh, and
of the lands along the Nile, in the pre-
vince of Weldon, and he was al 0 ruler
over the diggers of phosphate at
Castle Hayne Bat the tribe of Demo
Gratis held the Prison House, and refused
to give up the keys thereof. Rain-in-tne
Face'and his eight assistant lords wen to
the Prison House, and sat down in front
of the gates. And thu rains poured and
the floods descended upon them, and
they got very damp. Aud, though they
showed their parchments with the Great
Red Seal stuck Oh the corner thereof,
those inside the gate needed not their cries
and meanings. So when they have re
ceived their rewards, where the chicken
is commonly reported to have got the
axe, they returned into the city. And
they gather together the seribes and
brethren, and after comforting one with
another, said: "We will bring these
children OF the Leazarites to justice, that
we, the Only Unadulterated Mixed
Breeds, may come into possession of our
Slice of the Pie"
And when the day of judgment is
come, Scribes Day, McRae and Whitaker
stand up in the court called Superior
for the Mixed Breeds, and against them
stand Scrbes Shepherd and Busbee for
the tribe of Democrats. And the scribes
argued long, and brought in many
parchments. And the judge heard all
that the scribes said.
And he pondered long over the lay
out, and meditated. And he looked into
the volumes of the Law, for he was
learned in its mysteries.
AID nf@ Ln hal IA s1 I'D
he summoned the scribes to appear be
fore him This was in the eighth day of
the month called November, in the year
of Fusion, one.
When all the scribes stood before him,
he saiG unto them Wherefore did
these Mixed Breeds, who were a hun
gered tor office, demand the keys of the
Prison House?' Tor words to that effect J
For they are not the lawful holders
of the keys of the Prison House. But
say unto the tribe OF Leazarites, hold
fast the keys, for the Law saith that
thou are the rightful holders. And say
unto Rain-in the Face and his lords, go
hence, tor We cannot enter the ranch you
thought you had corraled.
And when the scribes told Rain in the
Face and his lords what the Judge had
said, they straightway girded up their
loins, and said to one another, "We will
make one more dive for the Pie. For
there is court called Supreme that sit
teth in large brick building on the
street Edenton, and we will appeal unto
the men who sit in Judgment there
And straightway the scribes of the
Mixed Breeds began to write another
parchment
But the tribe of the Leazarites still sat
ia their tents.
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