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Ail Abolitouist HI faait**1 had a brother-in-law,1 enid Mesa 1'urUina, ‘who wasone of lii© ravenial, maddest, red-hottest abolitionists youever see. I liked the pesky critter well enough, and should have been very glad to tea him cum to spend a day, folchin my sister to fee me and my wife, ii#liu hadn’t 'lovsd hi-tongue to run on so 'bout niggers and slavery, and the cjuul-ity of the races, and the duty ol overthrow in the Constitution oi the United States and a lot of other tilings, nrnl the best part of cm right sick, 1 puzzled rny br/uns a good lt;Ie»l ! to think how 1 could make him diet up his nui*y head 'bjut I abolition,‘Wall, one time when brother-in-law came over to stay, on idta struck ino, 1 hired a nigger to help m# haying timeHe was tho biggest, strongest, greasiest nigger you cv«r see *l?lackestl’ ho was blacker than it slack of black eats and ond jest as shiny as a new bearer hat 1 spoke to him. ’Jake/sf-z 1, ‘when you hear the break fiMt bell ring, don’t you eny a word, but you come in the parlor and set riglil down otnong tho folks and eat youi breakfast.' The* nig*! Ter'» eyes stuck out of his head about a feet! ‘You’ie jokin' naasa/ scz he. ‘Joken!’ sez I. ‘I’m as sober as a deacon, ez I. Weil—breakfast come, and so did Jake, and he act■ghl down'long side my broiher-in-law. lie started, butjdid’nt say a word. There warn'l no mistake about it.— hut your eye* and you'd know it —for he was fond 1 tell lt;v. There was a fust rale chance to talk abolitionism, but rothai-in-law never opened his chowder head.•Jake/ sod i, ’you be on hand at dinner time/ and he wa*. He had been working in the medder all the loiv noon — brother-in-law cornea to me madder than a short-tailed bull.in hornet time.’•Mosc, said he/1 want to apeak to you/‘Sing it out/ aez 1.*1 haint but a few words to cay / aez lie, ‘but H that ’ere confounded nigger comes to the table again while 1’si stop-pin* here I’ll clear out.*Jake ate his supper that night in ths kitchen, but from that day to this 1 never mw my brother-in-law open hi* head about abolitionism. When the Fugitive Slav© bill was passed, 1 thought he'd let out some, but ho didn’t, for A# kucv that Jake ivat »tiU workin on the fmrmi
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Aurora Standard
Aurora, Indiana, US
Thu, Jul 03, 1851
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