Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1867-10-03


He wuz id sir, for drunken broot, by
a niger witch threatened ef he ever
showed his pimped-plmped wuz the
word-face about there agin, he'd break
every bone in his body, Sir, this is
becomin insupportable. They must be
dragged down TO our level. NV proud
Caucashen blood revolts. There must
be inferior race and its US or the
niger, The Injen is out nv the ques.
ton ez there amt any Nv them 20 be In
ferior. wouldn't mind the Inien, but
there amt none, TIA the niger or
nothin. Give him the ballot, SIR, and
whatll distinguish US? speek with a
angels tongue onto this theme, beg"
The msetin wuz a glorious one, and
my speech one nv my most movin ef.
forts. My perorashen moved me to
tears. 1t wuz on niger suffrage. De-
pictin its untold horrors | begged EN- to
organize-to rally wunst more agin
this common enemy. There u.s." sed !,
"seven thousand niger males in the
State nv Ohio. Shell we peril the liber-
ties nv the State by permitn them to ap.
proach the ark nv our safety-the bsl.
lot box ? Shell we rise EN- to the pint NV
being our ekals 2 Shell we marry EN-
and give EN- in marriage? Shell we
contsminate the pure streem NV Anglo
Saxon blood, by muddlin 1t with the
turbid streem Nv"
At that pint stopt. My eye balls
wuz scared. Joe Bigler, witch sposed
wuz hundred miles away In Kentucky,
wuz up in the au'ence.
'Agreein' sed he, with wat the Speaker
is sayin, beg to ask question for en-.
lghtenment. am Kentuckian.'
'Ror for Kentucky
Bowin, Bigler perceded. There wuz
lurkin devil in his eye witch afflicted me.
'Ef understand the speaker, he holds
that the niger ef permitted to vote be-
comes so much our soshel ekal that we
must take him to our buzzoms-that we
must marry the females, and our gushen
daughters forthwith tie themselves TO
the males Nv that accussid race. l. it
so?
1T is = retorted /.
My blood biles when think Nv it. Ef
I recolect arite, the laws nv Ohio per-
mits all niggers to vote who are only
half black. Ez there are a good many
mulattos in this region, the produx Nv
the loose ekality Nv the races over the
river, there must have bin, ever since
that law passed, much Nv that kind nv
margin here. May be permitted to
ask this oppressed people who hev suf.
fered so from this unnatural state Of at
fairs, how they like it? Is yoor wife a
OF "a bo : 10 OIL
tary, and if so don't 700 fee1 the humili-
attn posishen yOOr in, compelled, ez you
wuz, by the force NV DimoSratiC circum-
stances, to marry her, to take her to
yoor buzzum, the mint her father got
vote? It's enutrt to drive man into Alb
lishnsm to escape it. My brethren, sed
this Bigler, IN advise 700 all to ahjoor
Dmocrisy. Up North, the mint the
niger gifts vote 700 are forced to legal
messegenashun-dOw South, the affini.
ty Dimocrisy hez for niggers, hez bleached
out the race to the color Nv molasses.
There's no hope for 700, save in Ablishn-
ism, witch hez the happy fakulty Nv dom
justis to EN- without margin emr And
he stalkt out.
1t didn't make no difference. They didn's
know what he wuz talkn about. The
word messegenashen struck EN- with
Amusement, from witch they didn't re.
cover till we left. In speakin to sich au-
jences, men must be keerful nv the words
they yOOse.
fnisht my speech. The meetin then
resolved they wuz better than niggers
that they never wood consent to be taxed
for the benefit Nv purse.proud aristo.
Gratis that the bonds shood be taken up
with greenbax, that there shood be re-
turn to specie payment to wunst; and
that they were willin to give millions, eff
need be, to resist usurpashen, but not
one cent in taxes in q unconstitoOshnel
manner.
This resolooshn wuZ passed, when q
collekshn was taken up to pay for the
candles. But alas There wuz'nt nary
a cent ia the house, and he'd to pay for
EN- myself. Another little insident
didn't please me. The State Central
Committee he'd furnisht me, as it does all
its speakers, with twenty dollar gold
piece, and fifty dollar bond, witch | wuz
to exhibit, 10 show the difference atween
Ablishn and Democratic money. | showed
EN- at the people, and 1t excited EN- to
madnis. l laid EN- on the table afore me.
When the meeting wuz adjourned, they
wuz gone! Who took EN- ? | know not,
but this do know, that the Cheerman
Nv the meetin he'd, next mornin, new
pare of shoes and a hat, and wuz takin
doubtfully Nv the propriety Nv taxin
bonds. go from here to Pennsylvania,
to fill some appointments in that State.
PETROLEUM V. NAsBY, P. Nj.
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