Mineral Point weekly tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1859-1868, 1862-04-30
A Kensuckian on the Negro Question


Col l.. MErcALF, of Kentucky, addressed
Union meeting at Carlisle Nicholas Co,
in that State, on the l4th inst. In the
course of his speech he took up the negro
question. A few extracts below will show
his style of treating it.
THE CRY OF gIGGER."
I had started to pay my respects to the
niger lovers of the South There has Lcen
no election since | can remember but the
cry OF Niger was raised \ constable.
coroner, Judge or president could not be
nominated but the same old tune was
I ground. Law after law was passed to
tighten the tenure by which we held them
! Slave laws, fugitive laws territorial lepis-
latures might legislate a white man to the
devil If they choose, If he had NARY a ,,ig-
/ ger; Out laws were passed to prevent them
from legisiating on the subject of niggers.
n republican Congress passed laws to
prevent themselves from leeislating on mir
gers IN the territories, still the cry was
more security, more concessions until they
require all II kneel to Gesslers cap, or else
they are not the Simon pure. or at least
they are not the Simon Buckner pure
| They swear that it is God s institution and
that in his sublime wisdom he instieated
the trader to the pious calling of catching
and claiming the wild African in the hold
OF some gloomy ship to transport him from
/ his native hills where his soul is in danger
to the cotton fields of America all for the
glory OF God and the increase OF his king
| dom; that their pursuits and pleasures in
Africa are loathsome t. God; but when
they are transported to the cotton fields
and learned to raise six bales to the hand
great is his reward for he now pleaseth
the Lord and shall have a seat in Heaven
while traitors who have so long been pro-
tected in making black angels, quietly
! pocket the proceeds of the cotton. To all
this YOU must soemnly promise and swear
or goa are an o5ohtionist And some Of
these traitors are helping to populate heav-
en- with angels only hatf black
BIT OF HISTORY.
They must have the Missouri Compro-
mise, or they will break up the Govern
ment. Then the Missouri COMPROMISE
must be repealed, it amt fair, or thew will
knock all the underpinnings from under
| Uncle Samuel Kansas must be allowed
TO do as she pleases-no Intervention
| Our sweet scented Beriah, who lives in the
! Governor palafe and don't rule the desti-
MES OF kentucky exa' tly as he would wish
| to, made speech IN our county town when
he was candidate, in which be said that
Congress bad no power to legislate on sla-
very, and must not intervene in Kansas
affairs; that he would draw his sword and
! fight before he would ask Congress to pass
pro-slavery or anti-slavery law for Kan
sas, for hat would be setting the example,
| that Congress had a right to intervene and
ii mi @ht hereafter pass some law that we
| did not like, and if we complained thew
| would tell us we must put up with it, be-
cause we ask them to open the door of
intervention and the point was settled
| but, behold achen Kansas herself attempts
to settle her o'ca business, they shift round
and attempt to force her to be q sIqre State
| against her will
TIRE CRY OF ABofIrIoxIsT."
The cry Of Abolitionist is the whip that
is continually held up to scare the ignorant
into the Democratic, and now the ScceSs-
ion ranks. If You look at things with com
mon sense, you are an Abolitionist If
you are tor your country, and for the ma
| J03tty futtHg, y0u are A6OEtti0HiSt 1t
! Is time we put a stop to these insults They
cannot listen to reason The only thing
you can beat common sense into them with
is green sycamore club that will not
bounce, or Il bullet
WHO AMALGANATF
a few wholesome truths NAV be bitter.
but nevertheless true The accusation is
very common that tee North fayors ANAL
gdmation. Now to tell the truth, and shame
old Nick, it is practiccG to fearful extent
throughout the South and Kentucky GO
into any of our towns and see the different
shades and colors
Jet black buff, and brown,
Mongrel, puppy, whelp and hound
But we will not speak loud on this Some
body might be listening. You can know
every traitor in the land as plainly as YOU
can your hogs, by the ear marks They
have pass word, by which you can know
them in the night well as in the day
time-the word is Abolitionist That is
the sum total Of all their arguments
VIRGINIA IDEA OF \ 'NIGGER.
| viii relate an anecdote that shows a
| Nirgnian idea on the Niger question and
it is true. / heard it. Travelling in Viz
GINA, ! stopped ut night at a house where
they were holding meeting, and any one
seemed to have u right to tell what he knew.
n spry young man took the pulpit, and let
out on the crucifxion, as follows: My
brethren how meek was our Saviour
they crucitied him they put a crown of
thorns on his head; they stuck spear in
his side, and they drove nails through his
hands, and he never said word, bit
more than If he had been Niger"
CLEAN OF COMMON SENSE
Fellow citizens, you all know that mig
ger is the raw head and bloody bones the
scarecrow, that is continually held up to
your view with never ceasing agitation
GU must stand sentinel all night, YOU
must stand sentinel all day, with your
musket, over your darling black angels,
while they work in the field, to keep some
body from stealing them. And you must
stand watch to keep down instruction
eternal Uigttance is the price Of niger
All OF this hue-and-cry is kept up when
there is not any danger.
Well, gentlemen, does not this suggest
to your mind CLEAN of common sense
Does not the weary sentinel begin to ask
himself, when will the rcicf come around
But no reeif ever comes All, me when,
when or how shall | e CIR find time to e l.
JOY myself with my loved ones? Where
is that happiness which this sacred insti
tuition Is to produce When shall | rest ?