Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1866-01-06
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The Nashville Press and Tines thus dis.
courses on the action Of Tennessee 10 re.
Ffasing TO admit the colored man as witness
10 cou't, and Of the Freedpen's Bureau
II is said 10 be misfortune rather than
good fortune to draw.an elephant 10 fflc
even though The ticket may have been
ridculously cheap. Tde reason OF this is
that your elephant is good deal more able
10 manage you than you are TO manage
him. Hannibal, with his -four gigantic pc
destals rising like Doric columns, his lively
tail which switches TO aud fro like bek-
ory sopling 10 a storm, his pair of wicke
looking ivory ;usks, which might bore
hole through an iron.clad with little d ffi.
Gully, bis proboscis, which could crush you
like ah snacouda and fidalIy, his enormous
nav, which could engulf you as easily ss
he sea monster swallowed Jonah--Hanni,
bal, wesoy, with all these peculisrities, is
nota handy thing 10 have about house,
eSeu il you have won him 10 raffle. .,.i
Some Of oar good people evidently look
upon the Freedmen's BuIea as o sort Of
elephant which they have won for their
exclusive use, by the rOffle Of war. Four
years ago they purchased l4rge lot Of
Fort Sumter tickets, s,gned, admit Bear.
cr J,ff Davis" The tickets cost enor.
mously. Oar cil:z MS paid for them the
following sums
~, ,OUO lives.
10000 crpplrs for life. ,.... a..
$5,00O,000 cotton.
conn nm mn i. .I,o. '.tt 90 l-aN
-Four year, of peace.
-Four years self-governmeDt ..., .,
And other ems of incaIculable value
The tickets were obtaiued, the people oil
entered the great rsffle shop of war Mars
turned The crank ; aud after long suspense,
out came the elephant in the shape of an
enormous, highly. polished and carved.
richly ulaid Freedmen's Bureau Gra-
ciouS ! what faintiug and shriekiog aud
scamperiug away was there when the good
natured but terrific looking creature ex.
tended his sonorous proboscis into the air,
and emitted blast which sounded the
word Freedom into the ears of the trem
bling bystanders, who expected 10 draw a
GOLD watch, or rich set of diamonds. The
elephant is ours by the Legitimate lottery OF
war, and has no idea Of being run off by an
idle hue and cry. Not q bit Of it. UucIe
Sam is the Bureaus keeper, and will hot
suffer his royal animal to be maltreated -
70 drop fgurative language, we say that
we have no business to grnmble about the
presence of the Bureau. In fact, it is one
Of the necessities of the rebellion, and our
own folly made it so. The United States
will protect its citizens, without regard 10
their color. The colored man has as good
g right to claim its protection as the fairest
Caucasian 10 the land.o If our barbarous
laws permit a man 10 be outraged because
his skin is dark. bow dare we complain if
the United States step in and ihterpose It's
all protecting shield !? The laws of Tenn es-
see insult the colored man with prelense
of justice, and inairt terrible reality of
wrong while we shock the moral sense Of
the nation by this injustice iu our courts,
the Freedmen's Bureau will interppse as
the true friend aud advocate of The op-
pressed. Do not our citizens see the simple,
easy aud only remedy for this, in the en-.
actment of impartial laws, and the .dspen
saton of justice Go to work, without
delay, citizens of Nashville, TO reform youT
State laws. in this respect Let petition
be circulated without delay, asking the
Legislature to admit the colored man as
witness in court, aud to give him his rights
as a citizen of lbe. United States. Who
are better 6tled TO take the lead in this
work than the officers of our municipal
government Let them set The example,
aud it will be followed throughout NJ dde
Tennessee.