The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1867-10-25

longer than hizzen, shood rool Amer
iky. "Mv God!" sed this ardent
KepuhlIKru, "er you give em the bal
lot, wat kin prevent EN- from beir
Congrismen, Senators, Vice Presi
dents. and even Presidents ? shud
der when I think Nv it." and be hur
ried in his vote.
l didn't quite see the force NV hi:
ohjecshen, for it never okkurred to
me that bein sent to Corgris wuz the
material conscience NV votin. he,
voted for thirty yegrs. at many elec
tions four or five times. but I hey
never bin to Congris. Wher is the
constituency wich wood elect me
But it wuzn'L my biznis to controver,
his posishen 1t made no difference
to me wat his reason wuz for votin
ez I desired him to vote.
The nigger-lovers beat up one mar
to vote for the Amendment. wich,
saw by his dissatisfied look, he'd bin
over-perswaded. "Sir!" sed l, edo
VOC consider a Afrikin suffishently
intelligent to be trustid with SO po-
tent weapon ez the ballotf"
Dustin away from .hem wich he'd
him in charge, he exclaimed. " No.
don't. ] can't vote for It. They do
not know enuff. Sir, scratch off the
Yes from my ballot, and put onto
it No." a.
Here is a pensil," sed I.
"Oo it yerself," sed he, 81 can't
write"
And I did it. Sich is the effeck
Nv a word in season. Words fitly
spoken is apples Nv gold, set in pic
ters Nv silver.
One man woodent listen to me, hut
votid the Amendment. He he'd bin
a soljer, and for eleven months per
took Nv the hospitality Nv the Con
fedrits, at Andersonville. Escapin,
he wuz helped to the Fedrel lines by
a nIgger who wuz fogged almost tn
death, in his site. for not betrsying
wher he wuE hid. Unite ez we'll hev
talked to lamp post. Ez he showed
in his ballot, he remarkt suthin about
he'd ruther see niger vote than a
Id rebel. any time. From the di
reckshun Nv his eye site, L persoom
he referred to me.
lett for home ez soon ez the votes
wuz counted, and the result WIZ
made known, only waitin TILL the
poll books wuz made out, and the
Judges Nv eleckshun he'd got their
name written by the clerks, and he'd
msde their marks to em. On my
way home I wuz gratified to see how
the nateral antipathy to the niger
he'd revived. At Cincinnati the mite
Nv the eleclsshn they wuz bangin
Nv EN- about, patriotic DemOc
risy goin for EN- wherever they
Good find EN-, and the next day ez |
saw EN- at the ralerode stashens, they
he'd, generally speekin. ther heds
bandsged. Itwuz cheerin to me. and
! l gioated over it.
Full of glsdnis. I entered Ken,
lucky, and ioyfully wended my way
to the Corners. Iwuz the bearer Nv
tidins Nv great Joy, and my feet wuz
pleasant onto the mnuntins. Ez l
walked into Bascom s, they all saw
in my face suthin NV Importance
"Wat is it?' sed Deekin Pogram,
&" IL IL veal ar or-wees'=z=s :.
els the proud Caucashsn still ir
the ascendant in Ohio, or hez the
grovelin Afrikin ground him into the
dust 2" askt Issaker Gavitt.
"My frend," sed I, takin up the
Deekin's whisky, wich, in the eggs
citement NV the moment, he didn''
observe, 1.-THE Constitushnel Amend
ment, givin the nigger ekal rites
hez bin voted down by the liberty
lovin freemen NV Ohio. Three cheers
for Ohio"
They wuz givin with will. Tht
widest enthoosiasm wuz awakened
Bascom put a spigot in fresh bari
and the church bells wuz set ring
in. The niggers wore d dismayet
, look, and got OUT nv the way ez sool
, ez possible. A meetin wuz to- -wuns
organized. Deekin Pogram spoke
He felt that this wuz proud day.
Light wuz breakin. The dark cloud
, NV fanaticism wuz breakin away
We he'd now the Afrikin under ou
, feet. We hev got him IN normal po
, sishen in Ohio, and, please God. W
, will soon hev him likewise in Ken
tucky. He moved the adopshen u
, the follerin resolooshens:
? WHEREAS, Noer Gust Cannan an
. condemned him to be seryant unit
> his brethren, thereby cleerly indiks
: tin the status Nv the race for all tim
, to come to be one nv inferiority
!. aud. a. as
.NWHrRKAs. TO further show to th
eyes Nv the most obtoose that s di
4 ference wuz intended, the Almight
. gave the nigger a different anatom
: ole struckter, for full partikelars u
wich see the speeches Nv the Demt
. kratic stumpers doorin the late can
!, paign; and,
= WHEREAs, The attempt to plat
: the nigser. on an ekality with Il
|. white in yotin ez we'll ez taxashul
we consider the sappin Nv the yer
!. foundashun nv civil liberty, ez we
. ez NV the Crischen religion, ther
g fore,
Resolped, That the Constitooshn
. and Bihiikle Democracy Nv Kentuch
I, send greetin to their brethren I
Ohio, with thanks for their prom
and effectual squelchin Nv the id,
It NV nigger superiority.
= ResoIped, That to the Republican
! nv Ohio, who, risiu above party CO.
y siderashuns, voted agin suffrage, o.
n thanks is due, and we congratula
70 EN- that now they, ez we'll ez US, a
70 saved from the danger Nv marryil
: niggers,s and likewise do We assho
70 EN-, that in q spirit Nv mutual fc
70 bearance, we care not wat particul
in creed they perfess, 80 long ez th
a vote our principles.
~ Re,olped, That the will Nv the pc
pie havin bin clearly indikated,
-vi demand the insershun Nv the wo
= "white' in the Constitution Nv t
h Yoonited States.
ii Resolved. That we ask the color