Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1867-10-25
Nasty.
MIR. Massey ASSISTS IN THE OHIO ELECTION
THE DEFEAT or THE AMENDMENT -
HOW 1T WAS RECEIVED AT THE CORNERS.

THE DEFEAT OF THE AMENDMENT -
HOW 1T WAS RECEIVED AT THE CORNERS
Posi- OFFS, CoNFEDRIT X ROADS, ]
Which is in the Staff NV Kentucky
October II, 1867.
sFcelin that the time he'd arrived wicl
wuz to beside whether 1000 degraded mig
gers wuz to grind 1000 proud Caucash
ems into the dust, felt that eff l should
fail in my dooty now, | shood be forever
disgraced. Accordingly, [ put in the elek
shun day at Dimocrat town in Ohio-tbt
battle field the identikle place into witch
/ made speech doorin the campane.
arrived ther on the mornin NV the cleo
shun, and found that comprehensive ar
rangements he'd bin made for deteatin this
most nefarus and dangerous proposishen
Paradin the streets ez early CIT A. M. wuz
wagon containin 25 virgins, runnin from
81 to Al, the most of en- ruther Wiry in
texture, and over their heads wuz banners
with the follerin techin inscriptions
Fathers, save us from Niger. Ekality J"
"White Husbans or NUM-" 1t wood hev
younger. Their Wuz suthin prcposCerous
in the ijea of females NV that age calm
upon fathers 10 save EN- from anythin,
when in the course of nacher their fathers
must have bin lyin in the silent toomb
for sevral consecutive years, onless, indeed,
they marrid young. Eff still livin I judgd
from the aged appearance Nv the damsels)
their parents must be too far advanced in
yeers to take an activ part in biznis. In
anuther wagon wuz coleclzshun NV men
witch he'd bin hired from the rail1Ode,
twelve miles distant, whose banners read,
g. hn1 Tn 1nff
gint Wife men ~ and the fOllerin verse
"Shel niggcrs black this land possess
And rool us whites up here?
Oh no, my friends, VIC ruther guess ! -ft}
Wen never stand that ere"
1t okkurd to me that it wood hev done
better he'd their spellin bin more akkerit,
but upon inquiry / found that it, didn't
make no difference. That wuz the prevalin
way of spelling things in that vicinity.
Hangin over the polls wuz broad peece
NV white muslin, onto WITCH was painted in
large letters, Caucashuns, Respeck your
Noses-the niger stinks!" Then knowd
it wuZ safe. That Odor hez never yet bin
resisted by the Democracy, and it hez Its
infooence over Republicans. al3j5taf,
| never saw SIGH enthoosiasm, or more
chcerin indicashuns NV the pride NV race.
Ez evidence Nv the deep feelin that per-
yaded that community, | state that nine
paupers in the poor house demanded to be
taken to the polls that they might enter
their protest agin bringin the niggers up
to q ekalisy with EN-. witch wuz nine gain
with no offsets, az their wuzn't an Ablish-
mist in the nstitooshun-Twom men in the
county Jail for petty larceny wuz, at their
own rekest, taken out of doorance vile by
the Sheriff Nv the county, that they mite,
by the ballot, protest agin bcin degraded
by bein compelled, when their time wuz
out, to acknowledge thenigger as their ekal
One enthusiastic Dimekrat who cost us
S., he'd to be carried to the polls. He he'd
commenced early at one Nv the groceries,
and had seccumbd afore votin, We found
him sleeping peacefully in barn. We
lifted the patriotic man, and in procession
marched to the polls. We stood him ON
his feet, two men supportin him-one on
either side. / put a straight ticket into
his fingers, and takin his wrist with one
hand, held his fingers together with tother
and guided his hand to the box. Ez it
nearcd the winder, he started as IL an
electric shock he'd struk him, and straight.
enin up, asked: Is it the shtrate ticket ?
Is Constooshnel Amindmint No onto it, /"
Ashoorin him that it wuz all rite, he
Judge NV Elccshun, who took the ballot
and deposited it in the box. "Thank
Hivin - SGD he, the nagur is not yet nv
ayquil," and doublin up at the thigh and
knee Joints, he sank timber like and gently
onto the ground Ez he had discharged
the dooty NV an Amerikin freeman, we
wher the drippin of the rain from the rool
wood do suthin toward soberin him off,
and left him alone in his glory. III -,
The Amendment got but very, few
votes in that locality. The Republicans
lined us in repudiatin it, mostly upon eth
nologikle grounds. One asserted that he
he'd bin in favor NV emancipashen in time
Nv war, becoz the Afrikin Good thereby be
indoost TO fite agin their Southern masters,
and it wood hev the effeck NV maxim the
drafts come lighter in his township. He
wuza humanitarian likewise. Heopposed
crooelty toward EN-. He wcpt when he
heerd NV the massacre at Fort Piller, be-
coz in the army the niger wuz ez much q
man ez anybody, and SIGH wholesale slaugh.
tiers tendid to make calls for "50O,0OC
more" more frekent. But, when it come tC
givin NV EN- the privilege NV votin beside
him, it coodent be thot Nv He Good never
consent thai race whose heels wuz longer
than hizzen, shood rool Ameriky. MY
God!" sed this ardent Republican, "ef you
give en- the ballot, wat kin prevent en-
from bein Copgrismen, Senators, Vice Pre-
sidents, and even Presidents? | shuddel
when think Nv it," and he hurried in his
vote.
didn' quite sec the force NV his objec
ton, for it never Okkured to me that beir
To ha otow ok
NV vOtin. | hev voted for thirty years, al
many elections four or five times, but hex
never bin to Congris Wher is the constit
ooency witch wood elect me But il
wuzn't my blznis toJcontrovert his posi-
shen. 1t made no difference to. me wat his
reason wuz for votin ez desired him tc
vote. Sc to0is 4glel b5fi53o7 +
The niggcr-lovcrs beat up one man tc
vote for the Amendment, witch, | saw by
hisdissatisfied look he'd bin over persuaded
"Sir," sed /, edo 700 consider Afrikir
sufficiently intelligent to be trustid will
so potent a weapon ez the ballot ?"
Dustin away from them witch he'd him il
charge, he exclaimed, "No, / don't.
can't vote for it. They amt intelligent
enuff. Sir, scratch off the Yes from IN,
ballot, and put onto it MOI" :
"Here is a pensi," sed |. q ~
"Doit yerself," sed he, 81 can't write"
And | did it. Sich is the effeck Nv
word in season. Words fifty spoken is ap
pies NV gold, set in picters Nv silver.
One man woodent listen to me, but votif
the Amendment. He he'd bin solier, anc
for eleven months pertook Nv the. hospi
tality NV the Confederits, at Andersonviiie
Escapiu, he wuz helped to the Fedora
lines by a niger who wuz logged almos
| to death. in his site, for not betraYin Mhe