Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 May 1887 — Pickaninny Abe and Picaninny Jeff. [ARTICLE]

Pickaninny Abe and Picaninny Jeff.

An old colored woman stood at the station waiting for the Jacksonville train. Beside her stood two little pickaninnies with faces as black as the inside of a stove-pipe. When the old mammy’s train arrived she exclaimed: “Kress de Lor’!” and then, looking down at her children, remarked: “Here, you Abraham Lincoln, take hold of Jeff Davis’hand and come along here, quick!” And the namesakes of the two great statesmen of the war joined hands and walked away together as though their names had not expressed such a dissimilarity of purpose. —Palatka (Fla.) Herald.