The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-17

fur de fust time by a cullud man. but
his name has escaped my meinury
(More cheers.)
de nation had got big huff to run
things by itself De English wanted to
keep hold o. de colony, and dey would
have kept hold, and we would today
have been nation Of slaves, but fur
Peter White.
when an English solder hit him in
de back wild de butt of his musket, and
told him to go on, he got up on de
fence and begun ter talk about Lib
erty. In less'n ten minutes he had
started a row. Dat row kept CROWN
bigger and bigger, and finally resulted
IN de battle of Bunker Hill and de
emancipation of de colony. Dat Peter
White was shcrely great uncle of
mine, and I have been asked over and
over agin why 1 didn't compel de alb
squatulashun to surrender de conse-
quential concatenashun, but hab 1 cher
done it?
Don't I stand heah tonight as hum
BILE a pusson as anybody in dis hall?"
(Applause so long continued and so Wig
orous that seven joints of the stove
pipe came falling down, and three of
the lamp were extinguished.
CROSSING THE DELAWARE.
1t am one of de coolest nights in
winter. De ice am runnin' in all de
fibbers, de farmers am bui!din fires iii
DER hen houses to keep de chickens
from freezin' to death. and chen de
rabbits have chills as dey hop about
Oar am nobody abroad but a Guild
man, and he am barefut and hain't got
no coat nor cap on. He races over de
frozen crust fur mile arter mile, and he
finally reaches camp o. soldiers and
breathlessly asks:
Am Misser George Washington
present"
He am, answers a soldier.
Den tell him dat Moses White
wants to spoke to him
Moses was token into de presence
of de great man and told his story.
What he told decided Washington on
crossin' de Delaware two hours later,
and history tells US how he captured
a thousand of de enemy by SO doin'-
yes, sir, de name of dat Guild man
was Moses White, and dar' hain't de
least doubt in my mind dat he was a
cousin of mine, but kin any human
bein' charge me with prognosticatin'
de retrovershun bekase of it? Cap
plause until the door was opened by
policeman, who said there must be
less noise or he would run the whole
gang in.)
HE MAKES A FINISH.
my frens, I am glad to have met
you heah to night. I nave bin hearin'
of dis club fur many years, and have
often wished to meet its members.
You am on de right road, and appeal
to YOU to persevere. De white man
but de truth am gradually comm to
light, and we as a race am slowly but
shorely takin' de place intended from
de first.
Stand by de coon, de possum, de
persimon and de watermillion, and dey
will stand by you. Look upwards and
EDWARDS. You can't all be named
White. same as I am, but II you in
culcate a proper reprehensibility and
maintain a mundane asservashun I'M
der all circumstances you cannot help
but conker or die.
'fThankin' you fur your mel1iiious
considerashun, and hopin' to accumu
late de pomposity at some fucher time,
remain yours truly"
TOO MUCH WHITE.
The applause lasted fully ten min
utes, during which time the colonel
escaped from the hall. Then Brother
Gardner arose and said:
"Pears to me dar was a leetle too
much White in dat address, but Wen
break de meetin' in two and go home
and think it ober. Copyright, 1905,
by M. McKeon.)