Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1867-08-09

boldly asserts that the niger is the descend
ant Nv Ham, and that he is the identikle
indiyijie wich wuz Gust by Noah; but he
runs agin the fact that the rest Nv EN-, wich
is in Afrika yet, hev managed to dodge the
cuss, ez they amt servin ther white breth
rem, and them wieh wuz brot here to be
be chrischinizeG heE busted their bonds and
are just about as free, so far ez seryitood
goes, ez enybody.
There is, ez | hey showed, all these con-
nectin ideas uhat.work agin US. Therefore,
| want NashneH Conyenshun. want a
conVocashen Nv the lights Nv the party to
set forth authoritatiyely tohy we oppose
| niger suffrage-to Civ reesin for it, that
all our people may act together, ez do other
| well regulated machines. Let US cum to-
gether and ishoo our manifestoo, that we
may know precisely the pertikler line Nv
argument to pursoo.
/ shel be at that conYenshun, and | hey
made up my mind wot platform to lay
down. | shel 60 back on Ham, Hager and
Onesimus-I shel turn from the inferiority
idea and take the broad ground that the
nigger Is q beast-thath he ant man at all,
and consekently he hez no more rites than
any other animal put my foot onto him
by authority NV the decree that unto man
was given dominion over the beests-that
we are men and they are beests Eff they
admit the first proposishen, they viii the
last | shell assert boldly and brodly his
OMIT mis- to mingle with us becoz his fzzikle
structures his muscles, nerves, fibres, bein
different, go to show that he wuz NV diff
ferent origin and nv lower origin. I shell
plant myself on the stoopenjus yet simple
proposishen that the Almity made him,
probably, but at different time and for
different purpus, wich / shell show by citin
the color Of his skin, the length of his foot,
the shape Of his head, and sich other mat
ters as l kin git together in time for the
conyenshen.
Nv course this doctrine will meet with OBJ
ieetors. We hev a few, thin skinned per-
fessers NV religion, whose piety service in
our ranks hezn't quite obliterated, who will
say that these dogmas undermine the Chris
tan religion, ez it destroys the doctrine Nv
the unity NV the races onto wich orthodoxy
is built. To this | shell answer. that sposin
it does, wot then? Wv wat comparison is
any religion to Orthodox Dimokrat, to
triumph Nv the party? Wot hez Dimocra-
cy to do with religion any how? 1t hez new
er permitted it to mix in its pollytiz. Dim
ocrisy bleeves in keepin Church and State
ez far apart ez possible
Shood the AbhshnIsts pint 20 nlggers
wich reed and write, | shood say to wunst
that there is different degrees NV instink-
that ez one dorg bez more instink than
another, that SO one niger hez more than
another, and then | shood wind this answer
up by asking him, Sir, wood yoo force
yoor dawter to marry niger, even eff he
Good reed and writer This hez alluz done
good service, pertikelerly eff 700 walk her
ridly away before there is time for an an
swer
Their is one pint wieh is a stumper, and
only one. One man to whom l unfolded
my theory, asked me sneeringly wat I wuz
goin to do with a molatter who Wuz half
white and half black-half man and half
beast-half instink, wich lie. with him, aud
half sole, wich wuz to be seized and fitted
for the skies, or lost, When molatter
dies wot then? Does the half sole Nv the
half man drag the instink Nv the beast be-
hind it in limpin, lop-sided fashion into
heaven, or does the instink drag the sole
into limbo for animals2 ''Ef this latter idea
be correct, sed he, in that limbo how
much Southern sole is foatin about, held in
solooshen in animal instinkl"
An old friend Nv mine in Kentucky be-
come indignant when / propounded the
beast theory to him, and threatened me with
corporeal punishment eff | didn' t quit his
presence, which did tu wunst Alas for
the imprudence of jealous men Before
speakin to him on the suhjeck | didn't no
tis the skores Of bright yeler children all
about the place, ranging from the infant Nv
six months to the boy Nv sixteen, and all NV
en- with his nose!
But, notwithstandin these drawbacks, it 5
the most healthy doctrine we've got, and
the only ground upon wich we kin stand
sekoor. 1t kivcrs the ground, and besides
it don't interfere with anybody else's idea.
The orators wich impIore the people eff they
ment to marry niggers, kin make the appeal
with more force after assertin that the mig
ger is a beast, and the anshent virgins, who
viii this fall bear the banners onto wich
will be proudly inscribed, 1--WE want no Mig
gers for husbands, win bear en- still more
defantly, ior, if they RELY bleeye the doc
trine, they will be in earnest in it,
At all events, let the Convention be call
ed that this question may be settled. Let
us all stand on one platform, that we may
make the most of this god-send. Let US
inscribe onto our banner the inskripshen,
"Ameriky for white men Eternal
hostility to Animle Suffrage and 60 in to
win. Ell the Amerikin people don't shy at
Niger suffrage now, they never will.
PETROLEUM V. Massey, z. NJ.
witch is Postmaster
SAID very good old man: Some folks
are always complaining about the weather