Greensborough Patriot

Sep. 25, 1862

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            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.”