Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 88, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 July 1909 — Wanted to Get Even. [ARTICLE]

Wanted to Get Even.

A correspondent sends us the following extract from the pious petition of a good old colored brother In a Georgia settlement: “Lawd, we wants a blessin’ fer ever’ one, ’cept one; en dat one Is a yaller nigger, what boarded de railroad train, en runned off wld de whole collection what wuz took up ter pay my salary wld; Lawd, please make de train Jump de track —don’t hurt de yuther passengers, but take off one leg sum dat nigger.”