Hanover; Or The Persecution of the Lowly: A Story of the Wilmington Massacre.Thorne, Jack
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Hanover; Or The Persecution of the Lowly: A Story of the Wilmington Massacre.
Thorne, Jack
African Americans -- North Carolina -- Wilmington -- Fiction; Wilmington (N.C.) -- History -- Fiction
"Well, les git ter bizness, gentermen," broke in Teck Pervis "There's er
lot befoe us ter do; Hell is ter begin at ther Cotton Press under Kurnel
Moss, while Cap'n Keen'll kinder peramerlate er roun in ther middle er
ther town with thet everlasting hell belcher uv his ter keep tings in
check. Kurnel Wade, Tom Strong, Hines an uther big uns will sortie er
roun' to'ards Dry Pond an blow up ther print'n press; thets ter draw
ther Niggers out frum ther Cotton Press, so thet Kurnel Moss kin git at
um, an mow em down. We uns will canter to'ards Brooklyn holdin' up
Niggers as we go. Then we air to jine Hill, Sikes, Turpin, Isaacs an'
others, an' raise hell in thet sexion. We uns air ter take no chances
wid theese Wilminton darkies. I ain't ferget Seventy-six. Let nun git by
without bein' sarched, uman er man. Shoot ef they resiss. Them's the
Kurnel's orders." "Who is this man Isaacs?" asked a stranger from
Georgia. "A Jew?" "Thet name's Jewey e'nuff fur yir, ain't it?" replied
Dick Sands. "He is er Jew, an er good un, I tell yer. I never took much
stock in er Jew, but this here un is er bo'n genterman, mo fit ter be
Christun. No church in hard circumstance is ever turned away from Ole
Mose; he he'ps em all, don't kere what they be, Jewish, Protestan er
Caterlick, white er black. He throde his influence with ther
Prohibitionists some years er go, an foute hard ter make er dry town
outer Wilminton, but ther luvers uv ole ginger wair too strong an jes
wallop'd ther life out er ther cold water uns. Ole Mose tuk hit cool, he
died game, took his defeat like er bon fighter, bekase he'd done an
fill'd his jugs an' stowd em up in de house afore ther fight begun, so
he cu'd erford ter be beat. Takin er drink in public was ergin his
creed. Nice ole Jew tho. Keeps er paint store down street, and deals in
painters' merterial, but never buys er baral er biled oil wonc't in five
yers; but, like de widder in the Scripter, he alers has er baral ter
draw frum when er customer wants biled oil. Ole Mose is er fine man tho;
jes go in his stoe ter buy sumthin, pat him on his back, and tell him he
is er bo'n genterman, an thet you b'lieve he kin trace his geneology
back ter Moses an ther prophets, and thet his great-granddaddy's daddy
was ther only Jew thet sined ther Dicleration of Independance; thet he
looks like Napolyan, and he'll jes go inter his office an fetch yer ther
fines' segyar yer ever smoked an foller yer all over ther stoe. Nice ole
Jew Isaacs is. Ter see him stridin down ter bizniss ov er mawnin, yer
air reminded uv ther prophets uv ole jurneyin toards Jarusalum ter read
ther law." "What is the feller's name?" soliloquized a sallow-looking
chap who stood with his back to the stove scratching his head in
perplexity. "Name?" returned Dick Sands. "Why is you bin er listenin ter
me all this time an dunno who I'm talkin erbout?" "Excuse me," returned
the sallow man; "I no powerful well who yer ware talking er bout, and I
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