Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1865-10-26
Niger Mass Meeting In the
south.


According to the reporter of the N. Y.
lNtropolitan Record, the niggers have been
holding tremendous mass meeting away
down South, and it was the funniest thing
Of these dry times There is a quaintness
Of burr lesque running through the proceed
ings which shows that it was a wit who got
up the report, at all events. We have not
room for the whole, but give such portions
as will interest the white-skinned Sambos of
the North, 10 whom it is most respectfully
dedicated They had a great deal Of dis
cussion in this mass meeting of "culled men
and brethering." Two or three of the last
speakers contended that the negro should
rule the South, and in glowing terms de-
scribcd the advent Of the millennium, when
every negro could marry a Yankee wife
when black man would sit in the chair Of
Washington, and when the colored people
would live on the fat of the land. A coin
mittee on platform was then appointed, and
after the usual absence the following was
reported:
PLATFORM.
Whereas, De Constitution OBJ de Benipht-
ed States am a mockery, a delusion and a
snare; and, moreover,
Whereas, 1t am league wit def and
cobenant wild hell, we yarby denouhce and
condem dat same; and,
lVhoeds, Secumly, dis land is dc Lord s
and he hab gibn it to his saints, we are his
saints and,
/ Wheroas, For de next time, we am de
equals in ebby spec OBJ de white folks, we
must hab equal representation in de Con-
gress, and ebbry whars else and,
/ Whereas, fourthly, we am gwine to vote
at de mex lection, dat we mus hab a Pres
mn ont oh L.
| ResOHed, Dat a niger am as good as
any man dat am no better dan him, dat it
makes no matter bout pints oh difference,
and dat he's bown to get his proper persi-
shun in scty.
ResotJed, Dat it is de unanimous sense OBJ
| dis meetin dat we ought to cotton no more
to de white folks
ResolJed Dat as Vandal Phillips, Loud
Garrison, Charles Sumner and oders OBJ our
frens; ant de frens OBJ Africa, hab plenty OBJ
money, dat dey be quested to scribe for de
wancement OBJ dis mobement
ResolJed Brudder Beecher be wited down
South to take charge OBJ congregation OBJ
freemen OBJ color, an dat dis convention
hereby gibs him a call
ReSolbed Dat haben gibn dc subjec our
calm deliberation, and careful consideration,
we am unanimously OBJ de pinion DIT de
Nungland race, oderwise de progeny OBJ de
| Pilgrim Faders would be improved by Mis-
segeneration wild de progeny OBJ Ham.
ReSolJed, Dat we am much bleged to
dem for argifyin dat we am der equils, and
zee Geltere lce an.
ResolJed, Dat dis convention do now
nomerate De Honorable Salmon Pea Chase
for Presumdent and Vandal Phillips for
Vice
ResolJed Dat dey be 'lected when dc
proper time comes. dat de colored people
am titled to ten fit presenteration for seat'
in de Cabinet one-half de 'presenteratior
abroad in de foreign courts, and specially il
dat OBJ de King OBJ Dahomey.
ResOlJed, Dat we approbe Vandal Phil
lips plan OBJ 'pudiation, and we'll 'dopt i
in case we don't get all we want.
There were many other resolutions, bu
the foregoing contained the principal planks
in the platform should state that the
Convention was nearly broken up in row
between the friends of Salmon Pea and Fred
Douglas, each side insisting that its candi-
date should be nominated. The adherents
of the Chief Justice, however, carried the
day, and after singing the following spirit
stirring effusion, entitled the Lay of the
Miscegen," the Convention adjourned:
Bress de Lord dat made us freedmen,
Bress de Norf an Massa Chase;
We are gwine to be de secd-men
| oh de great mScegen race.
White folks now, shall feel de sasters
Dat hab drapped unto de Souf;
We am gwine to be dcre masters,
Take dere land an stop dere mouf.
| 'Semble, darkies; brudders, 'semble
| shout and vote for Solomon Pea:
Make de spiScd white trash tremble.
Bress de Lord dat we are free.
! De Tribune and Parson Beecher
Am our trens an we are deres;
MaSSa Phillips am our teacher,
Brudder Douglas makes our prayers.
We are bound to rule de nations
| An improve de Yankee lives;
MaSSa JonSing CUBS us rationS,
Massachusetts will CUB wives.
'Semble, darllies; brudders, &c.
Rally, den, ye darkies, rally,
Bress de Mort an Massa Chase
BresS him, sam, an Glen an Sally,
He's de Moses oh our race.
Nebber mind de white folks CANNON,
Dey am born to cheat an lie;
Vote for Nandal p and salmon,
OATS de fish dat we must fry.