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A Distinguished Law Maker.—A•f • * *•tew days ago a gentleman who was formerly in the furniture business in this city, and who is now a resident of New Orleans, met in the latter city a real simon pure black nigger, who formerly drove his furniture wagon here, and the darkey looked so sage and stylish, armed, as he was, with a formidable law book, and dressed in the height of fashion, that his former employer ventured to ask what the “loyal gemman” was doing, and received In answer that he was a member of the Legislature of Louisiana, and was making laws for the people.The facetim of this will be apparent when it is considered that the nigger can neither read nor write! “Bully!”—Evansville Courier.
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Aurora Peoples Advocate
Aurora, Indiana, US
Thu, Jan 21, 1869
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