He wood say--
Pollock, the Illinoy store-keeper, put in. Ef the Elder wood work ez
them niggers wuz workin, and not loaf over half the time at Bascom's
grocery, he mite possibly hev a hull soot uv close, and now and then a
dollar in money. It wuz here, ez it wuz in all strikly Dimekratic
communities, the grocery keepers absorb all the floatin capital, and--
He wuz not allowed to proceed. Bascom flung a chair at him, and four or
five uv his constitooents fell on him. He wuz carried out for dead.
Bascom remarked that he wuz for the utmost freedom uv speech, but in the
discussion uv a grate Constooshnel question, no Illinoy Ablishnist shood
put in his yawp. The patriotic remark wuz cheered, but when Bascom ask't
the whole meetin out to drink, the applause wuz uproarious. Bascom alluz
gets applause; he knows how to move an audience.
Deekin Pogram sed he'd bore with them niggers till his patience wuz gin
out. He endoored it till last Sunday. After service he felt pensive,
ruther, and walked out towards Garrettstown, meditatin, as he went, on
the sermon he hed listened to that mornin on the necessity uv the spread
of the Gospil. Mournin in sperit over the condition of the heathen, he
didn't notis where he wuz till he found hisself in the nigger
settlement, and in front uv one uv their houses.
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