The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1867-05-23
OTTUMWA, IOWA, THURSDAY, MAY g. 1867.

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la degree Nv adaptibility to circum-
stances which I didn't look for. ]
rearly bleeve if I'd told EN- that it
would hev good effcck to kiss the
niggcr babies all around, that they'd
a donc it. But l spared em this
There is such thing ez laying it on
too thick.
But all this was spilled the next
day. There was an eggstraordinarily
heavy mail that day. In addition to
the paper Pollock, the Illinois store
keeper takes, there wuz eight others,
and to my surprise they wuz all di.
|rected to.niggers. "Wat is this, thot
/ to myself. "Hev the Ablishnists Nv
the North determined upon prosely-
tin these men. and are they going to
flood this country with their incendi.
ary readin? Ez Federal officer it's
my dooty to look into the matter r
Jist imagins my deiirious joy at find
ing that they were Democratic pa
pcrs from Moo York and Ohio
"Thank Heavenp sed /, "Our people
hev awakened to a sense NV the me-
cessty nv doin suthin," and / handed
the papers out to em with impressive
words, exhortin NV EN- to read EN- ez
they wuz trooth, and nothing but the
trooth.
/ rather think they read en-, for
from that time out they avoided me,
as though l he'd the pleague. Eff
wuz agoin' down the street, and one
nv ON wuz coming up, he'd cross the
street, and the pecoolyer expression
Nv his countenance indicated that it
wuzn't my majestick presence wich
AVID him. They had loathing de-
picted on their classick feechers. Un
able to endoor this, I seezed one Nv
en-, and asked why wuz treated
thus.
Delibilitly he pulled out of his
pocket one of them cussed Northern
papers, and opened it, pinted indig-
nantly, to editorial article. It wuz
perfoosely headed in this wise:
Shelniggers vote?-Shel the proud
Caucashen be redoost to ekality
with the disgustin Afrikin?-Is this
a white mans government or not p
Ameriky for wife men.
Sed this Ethiopian, with his fingers
on this headin, "Pears like ez eff dah
wuzn't jist dat good feelin towards
us colored mon on the part OBJ de Di-
moc'sy oh de Norf dat hah ought to
be. Pears like as dough up dah
wha de niggah amt got no vote, dat
dey don't intend he shel hab it. Pears
like, eff Dimocsy's one ting all ober
de country, dar's a cussid site oh hum
bug goln on down heah!'
Wat Good I say? Wat Good I do /?
There it wuz in black and white, and
from papers whose Dimocrisy could
not be questioned. I wuz dumb
foundid. The niger stalked hawtily
and poudly away in one direkshen.
while sneaked off ruther sneakinly
in another.
| hev one word to say to our breth-
rem in the North. You're doublin
our troubles, and making our burdens
harder to bear. Why can't yoo un
derstand common sense? Wat hurt
wood nigger suffrage do 700 up there
wher ther amt no niggers, and how
much wood it benefit us down here,
wher Tiers millions NV EN- 2 Can't
you see it? We can't play the same
game on che niggers that we used to
play on the sturdy yeomanry NV
Berls county, Pennsylvania, and
other localities. On all questions
heretofore the Dimocrisy hez allowed
liberal license. We hev bin Free
Trade in Moo York, and Tariff in
Pennsylvany the same year, and we
Good do it. Sich Dimocrats didn't
git their inability to peroose EN- rap
idly, it bein SO long afore they got a
word spoiled out that they forgot the
one precedin it, which destroyed the
connexion, the continuity NV the mar
rative, eff | may 30 speak, and wat
we told EN- wuz gospel. That won't
do with the niger down here. He
reads, he does; and ef he don't thor's
alluz somewhere sum sich sneakin
cuss ez Pollock, who reads for him,
and they know wat they know jist
ez well as anybody. Let em stop
hammerin the niger. It won't do.
Ef he's to be a man and a brother
here, he must be man and broth
er there. Eff the Dimocrisy must hey
a race to look down to, let em turn
their attenshun to the Chinese orthe
Injuns, but from this time out the
nigger is sacred. s
PETROLEUM V. NASBY, P. NJ.
NV hich is Postmaster1, likewise Pro
fcssor NV Biblikel PoliticlSs in the
Southern Classikle and Military In
stitoot.
p. 81 jist Isceived telegram,
orderin mo to Washington. I per-
SOON its suthin in conncxion with
the Southern excursion.
A Colorado newspaper flies Grant
and Doolittle for President and Vice.
MIR. Buchanan, whose fortune ia
reckoned at 100000, is the richest
of our surviving ex- Presidents.
-Ex- Mayor Monroe and family arc
still in New Orleans, and not, as re-
ported, on the way to Canada.
An iron hatchet was found near
Joliet, Illinois, one hundred and
twenty feet below the surface. How