The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1867-10-22

v hat younger. Their wuz suIhin pre-
posterous in the lea nv females Nv that
age, calm upon fathers to save em from
, auythin, y hen in the course of nacher
their fathers must hev bin "a lyin in the
silent tomb for seyral consecutive
years, onless, indeed, they mRrrtd
Young. Eff still liyin II judged from
the aged appearance NV the damsels)
their parents must be too far advanced
/ IN yeers 70 take an activ part in bizuts.
/ In nnuther wagon wuZ q colleckshun
NV men witch he'd bin hired from the
TniIrode, twelve miles distant, whose
banners read, "Shel ignerent niggers
vote beside intelligent ~ lite men!" aud
the follerin verse:
"shel nigZeH black this land posses
And Tool us whites up heTeT
ON no, my friends, We ruther guess
Wen never stand that ere"
1t okkuTd 10 me that il would hey
done better he'd their spellin bin more
Hkkerit. but upon inquiry found that
it didn't make no difference. That wuz
the preVailin way OF speliin things in
that vicinity. Hangin over the polls
wuz n broad peece Nv white muslin,
onto witch WAS painted in large letters,
"Caucashuns, Respeck yer Noses-the
niger stinksT Then 1 knowed it wuz
safe. That odor heZ never yet bin re-
sisted by the Democrisy, and it hez its
Inhooence over Republicans.
never saw SIGH enthOosiasm, or
more cheer.u indicashuns NV the pride
NV race. EZ evidence OF the deep feel
ing that Pervaded that community,
state that nine paupers in the poor
house demanded TO be taken to the
polls that they mite enter their protest
agin bringin the niger up to a ekaiity
with em, witch wuz nine gain with no
offsets, eZ there wuZnt an Ablishnist
in the institooshun. Two men in the
tagx iala taFpanU
iheir own Tekest, taken out of doorance
vile by the Sheriff NV the county,
that they mite, by the ballot, pro-
lest agin bein degraded by bein
compelled. when their time wuZ out,
In acknowledge the Niger ez their
ekal. One enthusiastic DImekrat who
cost US s., he'd to be carried to the polls.
He he'd commenced early at one NV the
gruseries, and he'd succumod afore
Votin. We found him sleepin peaceful
ly in barn. We lifted the patriotic
man, and in procession marched to the
l.polls. We stood him ON his ieet, two
men supportin him-one on either side.
put straight ticket into his fingers.
and tRkin his wrist with one hand, held
his fingers together with tOther, and
guided his hand to the box. EZ it
neared the winder, he started eZ ef a
electric shock he'd struck him, and
straighteUin up, nsked: sis il the
SIlLfnte tlCkelG Is COQSIOOHnDtl
mint, MOL onto it?"
AshoOIin him that IL wuz all rite, he
suffered me 10 hold his hand out to the
Judge NV Elecsbun, who took the bal
lot and deposited 1t in the box. THANK
Hivin says he, 1.-The nagur Is not yet
my ayquil," and doubIin up the thigh
and knee joints, he sank limber-like
and gently onto the ground. Ez he he'd
discharged the dooty NV AN AmeTikin
freeman, we rolled him out TO one side
NV The house, wher the drippin Nv the
rain from the roof wood do suthin to-
ward soberin him OF, and left him
alone in mis- glory.
The Amendment got but a very few
voleS in that locality. The Republi-
kins jined US in repudiatln it, mostly
upon eihnologikle grounns. One as
serted that he he'd bin in favor nv
enancipasheu in time nv war, becoz the
Afrikin Good be indoost TO tits agin
their Southern masters, and hey the
effeck NV maxim the drafts come light
er in his township. He wuz u humani-
tartan likewise. He opposed CrOOelty
towards EN-. He wept when he heard
Nv the massacre at Fort Piller becOZ, in
the army the niger WIZ ez much a
man eE anybody, and SIGH wholesale
slauRhters tendid to make calls for
800, 900 more" more Irekent. But,
when IL come to given EN- the privilege
NV vOtin beside him, it coodent be- thot
nv. He Good never consent that a race
whose heels wuz longer than hiZzen,
shood rooI Ameriky. "My GodI" sed
this ardent Republican, "sf you EN- give
| the ballot, wat kin prevent EN- from beiu
ConRrismen, Senators, Vice Presidents,
and even Presidents? l shudder when
think NV it," and he hurried in his
vote.
IdIdn't quite see the force NV his OBJ
jeGshen, for it never okkurred to me
that bein sent to Congris wuz the nat
eral conscience nv votin. hev voted
for thirty years, at many elections four
or i've times, but 1 hev never bin to
Congris. Wher Is the constituency
witch wood elect me7 But it wuzn't my
biznis 10 controvert his posishen. It
| made no difference to me wat his reason
wuZ for votin eZ l desired him to vote.
The nigger-lOvers beat up one man to
| vote for the Amendment, wich l saw
by his-dissatisied look, he'd bin over
persuaded. "Sir" sed 1, "do 700 con-
slider a Afrikin suffishently intelligent
to be trustid with SO potent weapon
ez the ballot?"
Dustin away from them witch he'd
him in charge, he exclaimed, mo. 1
don't. can't vote for 1t. They amt
INTELLIGENT enuff. Sir, scratch Off the
Yes from my ballot, and put onto 1t
'Nop"
"Here is a pensil, sed l.
10 II yeTSell, sea ne = can I write.
And did IL. Sich is the effack NV
word in season. Worms fifty spoken is
apples Nv gold, set in picters nv silver.
One man woodent listen to me, but
voted the Amendment. He he'd bin u
soljer, and for eleven months pertook
NV the hospitality Nv the Confedrits, ut
AudersonviIle. EseApin, he wuZ helped
| to the Fedrel lines by niger who wuZ
logged almost to death in his site, for
not betrnyin wher he wuz hid. mite
as we'll hey talked TO lamp post. EZ
he showed In his ballot, he remarked
suthin about he'd rnther sec a niger
vote than id rebel, any time. From
the direckshun Nv his eye site, per
SOON he referred to me.
| left for home ez soon ez the votes
wuZ counted, and the result wuz made
| known, only waitin till the poll books
WOE made out, and the Judges NV eleck-
shun he'd got Their names written by the
clerks, and he'd made their marks to
| EN-. On my way home wuz gratified
to see how the material antipathy to the
niger he'd revived. At Cincinnati the
mite NV the eleckshun they wuz bangIn
NV EN- about, the patriotic Dsmocrisy
goIn for em wherever they Good find
| em, and the next day eE saw EN- at the
ralerode stRshens, they he'd, generally
speekin, their beds bandaged. It wuz
! cheerin To me, and j g1oated over It.
| Full of gladnis, / entered Kentucky,
and joyfully wendid my way to the
Corners. 1 wuz the bearer Nv tidins nv
great joy, and my feet wuz pleasant
onto the mounLins- EZ / walked into
Bascom's, they all saw in my face suth-
IN Nv Importance.
"wst is itR" sed Deekin Pogram, sis
It veal or woe?n
as the proud Caucashen still in the
ascendant in Ohio, or heE the grovelin
Afrikin ground him into the dust p