Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 April 1884 — A Maternal Warning. [ARTICLE]

A Maternal Warning.

“Whar’s you bin, William Henry?” “Jess down yer.” “Who’s you bin playin’wid?” “Kurnel Joneses and Judge Green’s boys.” “How many times has I tole yer not; ter play wid po’ whites ? Look heah, Willyum Henry, Fze a mind to baste you. Do yo heah me ?” “Yes’m.” “You gwine ter run wid dem anv mo?” “No’m.” “Den let me gib you solemn warnin Es you doan’ stay away from dem, I’ll jess take de hide clean off*n you. ?Ef you keepj on dis way, fust thing you'll want to be disgracin' yo’ sex like Fred Douglass did, by marryin’ a w’ite woman.”— Texas Sifiings.