Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1867-04-20

one NV EN- $5 Ito be paid at the close ul
the meetin) to sit on the stand with me
wleh beln very poor man, and hevin:s
SICK wife IN shanty near by who wuz
suferin for medicine {wich he coodent
git without money! he accepted.
AT this pint an idee struck me. / re
pasmbered Philadelfy, and determined tc
hev scene rivalin the Couch and Orr
bizness. "Another thing, Cuff, under.
stand that its part Nv the bargain that
when in my speech turn to you & stamp
700 must rise and embrace me-
?n sez he. ,@ 81 1ss
"Fall into my arms, lovin like-you un-
derstand-just as tho we wuz long lost
''Scuse !" sed he. aI'se nifty
low niger, and wants to buv de old
woman some quinine, and wood do most
anything foah dat, but dat is most too
much !" So a 5a9 o6s hat
2eNot cent" sed sternly, assumin
my most piercinest gaze, ''onless this. is
includedp %
"Well." returned he, sulkily, eff I must
I speck | must, but golly-'"'r ..f Isf
The mite arrived and the meetinhouse
wuz full We thot fust NV holdin it in
the chapel NV the college, but give up the
idee ez impractible, ez, OWN to the dilly-
torinis Nv our Nothern trends in forward
in sich subseripshens ez they hev raised,
we hevent got no further with the bildin
than layin the corner stun. In the front
WIZ the four niggers, all in clean shirts,
and on the stand wuz the nigger L he'd
engaged. Over the platform wuz the fol
lerln notices: sd So
''1n Yoonion ther is strengthen
President in 1868, Fernando Wood. For
Vice President, Frederick Duglas." :" e3
"In the nigger, strength--in the Cau-
easshen heauty--in the mulatter, who is
trooleys the noblest Nv human Species
both" a @ s3gHogz9 suos
In addishen to to these we dug up all
the old mottos witch Jefferson writ about
yooniversel liberty and sich, wich hedn't
bin quoated in Kentucky for 90 years,
and postid EN- up; in biref, he'd Wendell
Phillips bleessid spirit bin hoverin over
that meetin house, it would hev smiled
approvinly. 70 sfsas i .i ~
I spoke to EN- elokently on the yooni-
versal brotherhood NV mankind, holdin
that whatever else Good be sed, Adam
wuz. the father nv all mankind, and that
the only difference between white man
and a niger WIZ, the niger WIZ sun
burnt. The nigger wuz undoubtedly or
riginally white, but hevin bin, since his
arrival In this country addicted to agri-
cultooral persoots, hs he'd bin tanned to
a degree witch tho it marred his physical
beauty did not interfere with his sterlin
goodnis Nv heart. There he'd bin differ
ences between the races-at times there
he'd bin onpleasatinss wich no one regret
ted more than /. The whites NV the Cor
ners he'd not alluz bin ez considrit ez |
Good hev wished. They he'd fogged sew
raj NV EN-, and hung many more, and in
times past he'd held EN- in slavery and
sich but this shood not be thot NV at this
happy time. 1t wuz constitooshnel to do
these things then, and Kentucky lwuz
eminently law abidin State. s'Here,"
sez ], son this platform, with the flag
Nv our common country over me, | de-
clare eternal friendship with the colored
man, and to seel the declaration / thus
embrace" Isssr sa5Ltt
TIL. obstinit nigger didn't stir step.
Come up and fling yoor arms around
me, 700 black cuss,'' said | in stage
whisper, "Come up"
'No 700 don't, boos'' sed the nigger,
in loud voice, which was audible all
over the church and holdin out his hand.
81 can't trust goo bressid mint Glib
me de S. fust. You owe dis chile foah
dollars now fo' sawin wood TO- yoah post
offs, and eff we's gwine to hab bourerites
de fus yoose / shell put mine to will be
gettin dat money. Pay up fus, and Gle
brace afterward. / can't do sich a dis
agreeable thing without the cash IN ad-
vance" ls.sHeu hfa 90 IS
This ruther destroyed the effect. The
unities wuzn't preserved. The niggers
in front bust out in a torturin laff, and
Pollock and Bigler rolled in convrilsions
NV lafture in wich haff NV our people
joined. Me a standin petrifcd, in the
attitude of embracin, and that cussid mig
ger standin with his hand extendid for
the money, and the Deekin and Bascom
horror Struck just behind, formed tab
loo wich wuz more strikin than pleasant.
The meetin wrz to wunst adjourned
for it wuz evident to the dullest compre-
henshen that nothing coodent be done
that mite. Ez yoosual I failed for want
NV capitile. Heidi bin possessed vthe
paltry sum NV $5 how different wood hev
bin the RESULT Perchance we may thro
that defshency, lose kentucky. 1t must
never occur agln-my salery must be
raised. l Icant make brixi without straw.
Joe Bigler met me the next mornin
and remarkt that he regretted the oc
currence, ez he ardently desired to see
the two races a pullin together. 'eThe
fault, Perfesser," sed he, "wuz in not
managin properly. The next time 700
want respectable niger on the plat
form with, you and the Deekin, to kiss
or emcrace yoo-git him drunk. He'll
do. it then, probably know he will
Eff he's drunk he'll hurah for johnson,
and it's possible to git EN- down to the
pint NV votin with yoo. Lord, how whls-
XIV drags a man down. See wat it's brot
VOC too !' and the insultin wretch rolled
off latin boisterously. "Git EN- drunk,
Perfesser," he yelled ez long ez he Good
see me. r.i55z b..
We don't intend to give it up. Big
lers' advice wuz given in jest, but never
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