The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1867-10-04

proud Caucashen blood revolts.--
There must be a inferior race and its
Us or the niger. The Injen is out
NV the question ez there amt any Nv
them here to be inferior / wouldn't
mind the Injen, but there amt none.
Its the niger or nothin. Give him
the ballot sir, and what'll distinguish
usS Speek with a angels tongue on
to this theme, l beg"
The meetin wuz glorious one,
and my speech .one NV my most
movin efforts. My perorsshen moved
me to tears. 1t wuz on nigger suf-
frage. Depictin its untold horrors
| begged EN- to organize--to rally
wunst more agin this common ene-
my. "There is" sed l, "seven thou
'and niger males in the State NV
Ohio. Shell we peril the liberties
NV the State by permitin them to ap-
proach the ark NV our safety--the
ballot box? Shel we raise EN- TO the
pint nv bein our eksls? Shell we
contaminate the pure streem Nv Anglo
Saxon blood, by muddlin it with the
turbid streem W."
At that pint l stopt. My eye balls
wuz scared. Joe Bigler, wich l
sposed wuz a hundred miles away in
Kentucky, wuz up in the anjence.
"Agreein" sed he, "with wat the
speeker in sayin, beg to ask a ques-
ton fer enlitenment. l am Ken
tuckian"
"'Ror for Kentucky"
Bowin, Bigler proceeded. There
was lurkin devil in his eye wich
afflicted me.
"Ef 1 understand the speker, he
holds that the nigger eff permitted to
vote becomes so much our soshel
ekal that We must take him to our
buzzums-that we must marry the
females, and our gushin daughters
forthwith tie themselves to the males
NV that accussid race. Is it so?"
cit is ~ retorted i.
"My blood biles when ] think NV
it. Ef 1 recollect arite, the laws NV
Ohio permits sll piggers to vote who
are only half black. Ez there a good
many mulattoes in this region, the
produx NV the loose ekality NV the
races over the river, there must have
bin, ever sence that law passed, much
Nv that kind Nv marryin here. May
| be permitted to ask this oppressed
people who hev suffered so from this
unnatural state of affairs, how they
like it? Is yoor wife a niger, sill
sed he, addressin the Secretary, "and
eff SO, don't yoo feel the humiliatln
Iposishen yoor in, compelled, ez you
wuz, by the force Nv Dimokratic cir
cumstances, to marry her. to take her
to yoor buZzum, the mint her father
got vOteP It's enuff to drive man
into Ablishnism to escape it. My
brethren" sed this Bigler, "Pd ad-
wise yoo all to abjoor Dimocrisy.-
Up North, the mint the niggor gifts
a vote 700 are forced to legal mes
segenashun--down South, the affinity
Dimocrisy hez for niggers, hez
bleached out the race to the color Nv
molasses. There's no hope for 700,
save in Ablishnism, wich hez the
happy fakulty Nv doin justis to em
without marryin eml" And he stalkt
out.
1t didn't make no difference. They
didn't know what he wuz talkin
about. The word "messegenashen"
struck EN- with amazement, from wich
they didn't recover till we left. In
speakin to sich aujences men must
be keerful NV the words they yoose.
l tlnisht my speech. The meetin
then resolved they wuz better than
nlggers; that they never wood con-
sent to be taxed for the benefit Nv
purse-proud aristocrats; that the
bonds shood be taken up with greep-
bax; that there shood be a return 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 unconstitoosh-
This resolooshn wuz passed, when
a collection wuz taken up TO pay lor
the candles, but alas. There wuzn't
nary cent in the house, and / he'd
to pay for EN- myself. Another lit
tie insident didn't please me. The
State Central Committee he'd furnisht
me, ez it does all its speakers, with
twenty dollar gold piece, and a fifty
dollar bond, wich l wuz to exhibit,
to show the difference atween Alb
lishn and Democratic money. i
showed EN- at the people, and it ex-
cited EN- to madnis. | laid em on
the table afore me. When the meet.
in wuz -adjourned, they wuz gone!
Who took emf / know not, but this
/ do know, that the Cheerman NV the
meetin he'd, next mornin, new pare
of shoes and hat, and wuz a talkin
doubtfully NV the propriety NV taxin
bends. l go from here to Pennsyl-
vania, to fill some appointments in