No Chance for Honor.
'\nffle ; m6re<-M\Y,'a.t the depot-in Mason 1, waitiDg for the train to go, when a colored ' nan vnth a head a6i round as a ballet canie ! bustlirijj in,' and picked. up a friend and brother and jammed him against the wall, - and, slapanjed him on the floor,, find bea-^ toWeiiOn; bis opcoanut; spme^bibws which mnsi have made that Morgan" ache in a lively manner;; The victim was a tall, fierions-loobing man, wearing a plug hat. and carrying a~sma;H satchel. He mtrttv no resistance, .and^. when it. was aji, he Jsafc uown and 1 robbed the r ki.nk« out of his bat'- as coolly, as iff*a.i pojftnding.jW.au an ?eyeryrday ,-qacar) , rence. A" Bather suddep," J, remarked; ai | the crowd thinned out/ 5 " Werry sudden, ■ sab, an' altogether beyan precedent." he . replied. 4? i?(r'noticed ath'at' you didn't; resist.", J'iN'di'afah ;'l:didn't get over the commoshtin soon'nuflp." J^We're y^ou pot expecting,someih'ing of the sort ?*"; ; r'^No, »ahl |i am.sellin'a powder dat'makes a pint of kerosepe ile go as fur as a quart widout^it.» I sold dat pusson some.yesterday, an' I reckon* he might bare, tried it for tutbaohe^or, liber.^omplaiut, an' become disgusted."' '"tie" gave yon some hard knocks."■••«<'! 'spect he did; sah.'an'do ■Wi-rst of-it am'l'canT^it'eb^n wid' him. De pr'.'perf.Way^would'have bin fur him to . send me a vchallenge. "We'should hare met on de. field of hpnftb, an' I should * hare Wiled; him.'Tie "didn't 1, do it 1/ He ' ruslieii; fn ! an' Widput the 1' leas' regafaffu nny sense of honah he banged , ..me into abbs an', walks out widout axin' fur my cad or iekbin'^is. Dai's one r fing tbat Jam u'ke6pihC. our. race down in' dis kentry"—want ofhonahi .1 don't say dat r*.prct»e;o( duellin'/but'l rau^]j,nsist dfitc dis way of inprk a pussonwhcTkin; spealf; fo'. libg'uages,., an'-.oa^ bin to Nj^»i ,g»ry Fa IN. a' incppinf;h,i].u on d''fl >or', «m hot onlypftinful so i,k). wic(i«o, but oaf-.ts a slur on _dV archives of' de_. hull^'African . race."—Detroit Free -Press. "• ' .
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Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4385, 23 January 1883, Page 4
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324No Chance for Honor. Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4385, 23 January 1883, Page 4
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