The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1867-10-10

but farm. My son sores.
Labor he despises as o occu7ashen
only fit for serts. He proposed to
WOO this niggers daughter. 1t wuz
q struggle with me. My son mar
ryin female wich he'd the accursed
blood Of Ham in her vains! But Sam
uel, my son threw dirt in my ewes
About sixty akcrs Nv dirt. |
thot Nv the pleasant time | could
hev Twin on that farm-uv two
days devoid NV labor, and the evcnins
filed with ease, and after severe
chronological struggle with my feelins
l consented. / want to talk keer Nv
that nigger. Pityin him ez aninferior
bein-loaded in his abnormal con-
dishen with responsibilities wich he
coad not be expected to discharge. !
would hev taken charge ofhis affares.
| wood-my son Jimnel and I-hevr
managed his farm and his stock and
sich. Alas! -Jlmuel menshuned the
matter to the E hiopian, sir, and with
vat result? lie wuz ignominiously
kickt out nv the house, sir. He wuz
id sir, for drunken broot, by a
nigger witch threatened eff he ever
showed his pimplcd -pimpled wuz
the word-face about there agir, he'd
break every bone in his body. Sir,
this is becomin unsupportable. They
must be dragged down to. our level.
MY proud Caucashcn blood revolts.
There must be an inferior race, and
It's Us or the nigger. The injen is out
Of the que ,tion, ez there amt any Of.
them here to be interior. | woodn't
mind the Injen, but there amt none.
It's the niger or nothin. Give him
the ballot, sir, and what'll distinguish
us? >peek with angels tongue unto
thcn | beg"
The mcetin wuza glorious one, and
my speech one w my nost movin
efforts. My perorashen moved me to
tears. 1t wnz on niger suffrage
Depic,in its untold horrors begged
EN- to orgar ize-to rally wnnst more
asin this common enemy. There is."
sed !, '.seven thousand niger males
in the State nv Ohio. Shell we peril
the liberties Of the State by pcrmitin
them to approach the ark NV our
safety--the ballot box? Shell we raise
en-, to the pint NV bein our ekals !?
Shell We marry en- and give EN- in
marriage? Shell we contaminatc the
pure stream NV Anglo Saxon blood
by mudd!in it with the turbid streem
w"
At this pint / s:opt NY eye balls
wuz ceared. Joe Rigler, wich sposed
NSF isks handsSd M9 @ a Mills lsa aNas sa,sode s Ken
"Agreein" sed he, "Aith wat the
speeker is sayin. | beg to ask qnes-
ton for enlitenment. l am Ken
tnckian.'
.'Ror for Kentucky"
Bowin. Biglcr proceeded. There
wnz a lurkin devil in his eye wich
afflicted me.
EFF understand the speeker, he
holds that tho Niger, ef permitted to
vote, becomes so mnch our sOshel
ckal that we must take him to our
buzzums-that we must marry the
females. and our gushin daughters
forthwith tic themselves tothe males
of that accussid race. Is it SOP
at is.." retorted I.
"My blood biles when think Nv
it. IF recolect arite. tie laws nv
Ohio permits all niggers to vote who
are only half black. Ef there are a
good many mulattos, in this region,
the produx nv theloose ckality w the
races over the river. there must have
bin, ever sense the 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 NV affairs, how they
/ like il? Is yoor wife niger, sir?'
sed he addrcssin the Sekretary, and
if so, don't you feel the humiliatin
posishin yoor in, compelled. ez you
wuz, BY the force of Dimokratic cir
cumstances. to marry her, to take
her to yoor buzznm, the mint her
father got vote? It's enuff to drive
man into Ablishnism to accept it.
NY brethren, scd this Bigler. 'Idad
wise yoo all to adjoor Dimocrasv. Up
North, the mint the nigger gifts u
vote 700 are forced to legal message
nashun-down South, the affinity Di
mocracy has for niggcrs, hez bleach
cd out the race TO the color NV mol
asses. There's no hope for yoo. save
in Ablishnism, wich hez the happy
fakuity Nv doin justi~ to EN- without
marryin em!' And he stalkt out.
1t didn't make no difference. They
didn't know writ he wuz talkin about
The word .messcgenashen' struck em
, with amazement from wich they
didn't recover till we left. In speakin
to such anjences, men must be keer-
fnl ov the words they yoosc.
finisht my speech. The meetin
then resolved they wuz better than
niggers; that they never wood con-
sent to be taxed for the benefit NV
purse proud aristocrats that the
bonds shood be taken up with green
bax; that there shood be return to
specie payment to wunst; and that
they were willin to give millions; ef
need be, to resist usurpashen, butnot
! one cent in taxes in unconstitoosh.
mel manner.
This resolooshn wnz passed, when
q collekihn was taken up to pay for
the candles. But alas /! There wnz'nt
nary cont in the house, and ! he'd to
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