Letters of Major Jack Downing of the Downingville Militia
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It won't hurt you ; in a word, it corresponds with natur. That's a sign it was made for you. Jest so it was with the Constitushin. It applies to white men exact- ly, and they've always got along together with it fust rate. Now, you give this wiskey to the niggers, and they get drunk on it, and cut up all sorts of scrapes, but white men, whom it was made for, know jest how to use it, and it don't do them eny hurt. Jest so with the Constitu- shin ; you apply it to niggers and it is jest as bad fo...r 'em as wiskey. They don't know how to uso MAJOR JACK DOWNING. 103 it, an they'll destroy everything, an make them- selves an everybody else ten times worse off. " "Wal, " ses the Kernel, ses he, u Mnjer, I wish I could see how it is that the Constitushin don't apply to niggers jest as much as to white men. " Ses I, •« Kernel, you don't look at the Constitu- shin thru constitushinal spectacles. That Chi- cago Platform bothers you. " Now, ses I, " Ker- nel, el' I'll make you a Constitushinal Tellskope, will you promise me to use it?
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