Greensborough Patriot
Sep. 25, 1862
Page 2
CUFFEE
AND THE YANKEES—The Richmond correspondent of the Charleston Mercury gives the
following amusing account of the contempt for the Yankees manifested by the
negroes of that city. Cuffee’s idea of
the value of the yankee’s toes is capital:
“Some
Yankees are employed in the Commissary Department, at 75 cents a day, cleaning
bacon. Negroes who work with them always
assume superiority over them. The other
day a yankee, seeing a negro helping himself to crackers, bawled at him to let
them alone. The negro looked at him
defiantly and said: “You jest shet yo’ mouf.
You got nothin to do wid dese crackers.
Dese is Confed’rit crackers—dese is.”
The next day this same negro accidently ran a truck over the toe of a
yankee, who complained somewhat. The
negro said coolly, “Take keer of you’ toes. Toes is toes to dem what runs away
mos’ly all de time.”