Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1867-10-12

discharge, wood hev taken charge Nv
his affairs. | wood-my son Jimlel and
1-hev managed his fdrth and his stock
and sich. Alas Jimuel menshuned the
matter to the Ethiopian, sir, and with
what result? He wuz ignominiously
klckt out Nv the house, sir. He wuz id,
sir, for drunken broot, by nigger
wich threatened if he ever showed his
pimple-pimple wuz the word-face
about there agin, he'd brake every bone
in his body. Sir, this is becomin insup-
portable. They must be dragged down
to our level. My proud Oaucashen
blood revolts. There must be an infer
ior race, and its us or the Niger The
Injun is out of the question, ez. there
amt any Nv them here to he inferior. l
woodn't mind the Injun, but there amt
none. It's the nigger OF nothin. Give
him the ballot, sir, and what'll distin-
guish us? Speek with an angels tongue
on this theme, | beg. 80 q. .-t + b
The meetin wuz a glorious one, and
my speech one NV my most moyin efforts.
My perorashen moved me to tears. 1t
wuz on nigger suffrage. Depictin its
untold horrors, I begged EN- to organize
to rally wunst more agin this common
enemy. | 30. -.-G 81 .
''There is" sed I, 'sseven thousand
nigger males in the Stait NV Ohio. Shell
we peril the liberties NV the ballot box ?
Shel we rails EN- to the pint NV bein our
ekals? Shel we marry EN- and give EN-
i'll marriage? Shel we contaminate the
pure streem NV Anglo Saxon blood, bv
muddling it with the turbid streem
uY-" trH y. -.
At that pint 1 stopt. My eve balls
wuz scared. Joe Bigler, wiell disposed
wuz hundred miles away in Kentucky =,
wuz up in the 5ujoIice. .l3- p :.
"Agreein," sbli9 he, "with wat the
speaker is sayin, beg to ask question
for enlightment. am,a Kcntuckial."
'Ror for Kentucky"
Bowin Bigler proceeded. There wuz
a lurkin devil in his eye which afflicted
me. .1@.-.~5 .f.i...
( "Ef understand the speaker, he holds
that the nigger, eff permitted to vote, be-
comes as mach our soshel ekal that we
must take hun to our buzzums-that we
must marry the females, and our gushin
daughters forthwith tie themselves to the
males NV that accusid race. Is it sO?"
cit is" retorted H. z-- +
"My blood biles when think nv it.
Eff l recollect. arite,- the laws NV Ohio
permits all niggers to vote that are only
half black. Ez there are good, many
mulattos in this region, the produx NV
the loose skalitY NV the races over the
river, there must have bin, ever since
that law passed, much nv that kind NV,
marryin here. May [ be permitted to
ask the oppressed people, who have suf-
fered so from this unnatural, stait NV af-
fairs, how they like it? Is your wife
nigger, sir 2" said he, addressin the Sex
retary' "and eff SO, don't yoo feel the HI
miliatin poslshen yoor i'll, compelled oz
yoo wuz, by the force of Demekratic
circumstances, to marry her, to take her
to yoor buzzum, the mint her father got
a vote? Its enuff to drive man into
Ablishnism tosescape it. My brethren"
sed this Bigler, 'Pd advise yoo all to alb
joor Dimocricy. Up North the mint
the nigger gifts vote 700 are forced to
legal messegenashun-down South, the
affinity Democrisy hezI for niggeTs, hez
bleaced out the rrce to the color OF mo-
lasses. There's no hope for yoo, save in
Ablishinism, wich hez the happy fakulty
NV doin justis to EN- without marryin
emp And he stalkt out.
1t didn't make no diference. They
didn't know what he was tatkin about
The word '..missegenashen," struck en-
with amazement, from witch they didn't
recover till we left In speakin to sich
men must be keerful Nv the
words they yoose. I'D "a. /
l finished my speech. The meetin then,
resolved they WIZ better'nniggerS; that
they never wood konsenti to be taxi fur
the benyft nv purse-proud afistokrats;
that the bonds shood be taken up with
greenbaX that there shood be Il return
to specie payment to wunst; that they
were willin to give millions, ef need be,
to resist usurpashen, but not one cert i'll
a Unconstitutional manner. II
The resolooshn wuz passed, when a
.wuz taken up to pay for the
candles But alas There wuzn't nary
cent in the house, and l he'd to pay, for
EN- myself Another little insident didn't
please me. The Stait Central Kommitte
furnisht me, ez it does allits speakers,
with a twenty dollar gold piece and a
fifty dollar bond, wieh Iwuz to exhibit
to show the difference atween Ablishin &
Demekratic money. l showed EN- at the
people, and it excltid EN- to nadnis IL
laid EN- ON the table .,afore me- Whend
the meetin .wuz adjourned, they WIZ
gone! Who took en-? know not 8 but,
this do know, that the eheerman, NV the
meetin he'd, next mornin, a ne W pare NV.
shoes and a hat, and WIZ a talking
NV the propriety NV taxin
bonds. l go from here to Pennsylvania, 4
to fill some appointments in that Stait.
PETROLEUM " NAsBY, p. NJ. 4
(Which is Postmaster.)
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