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Show SAMBO DOES HIS BEST FOR HIS FRIEND. A lady whoso position enables her to form a just estimate of the unfit-nea unfit-nea of the negroes for legislators in their present uneducated state, sendd to the Woman's Journal a specimen of one of thoix Bpeecbes, delivered in the lower bouse of a southern legislature. legisla-ture. The speech, by a negro named Dabbs, who can neither read nor write, wbb in opposition to a proposed tax on dogs, which is greatly needed to protect the ehcep. Said Mr. Dabbs : "Mr. Speaker: I amo to a point o( discussion, and to explain a few words of kind conversation to you, as bas been long my desire to do, but baa no opportunity presenting until this time of present, and which I conduct myself as a gentleman for both black and white. In all this 'lection things and specchiDg I have keeped my mouth shut; but when you talks about dogs, you can count me in yes, sab. has owned dogs got dogs now good as ever treed a coon; and when you remark about killing them fellers, you know you're steppin' on my toes, and you bound to he'ir me growl. Why fore should altacLB be instituted in this useful friend cf both black and white? Which ia the most benefit to a man a dog, or something that ain't no account? Sense is sense, an' dar ain't no foolin' about a dog. Come at me far and squar. Politics are one thing an' dogs is another. Whenever you tax dogs, you'ee bnediog up infringement on soaseugers, and you will have to swallow your own resolution, mind what I tell you. And des more wool-gatherin' wool-gatherin' in de governor's messagi; than they is dogs in the United States. Whare's de uae of dis ii.ihe-tion? ii.ihe-tion? So, sarl': |