The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1867-10-31

from Niger Ekality!" White Hus-
bans or none 1t wood hev bin better,
the, ct they hed bin somewhat young
err Their wuz suthin preposterous in the
Yea Nv females Nv that age calm upon ia
theirs to save EN- from anything, when in
the course of nacher their fathers must
hev bin "A lyin in the silent tomb for sew
raj consecutive years, onless, indeed,
they narrid young. Eff still Twin /
judged from the aged appearance Nv the
damSels) their parents must be too far
advanced in yeers TO take an activ part in
biznis In anuther wagon wuz a colleck-
shun NV men wich he'd been hired FROM
the rairode, l. miles distant, whose ban
ners read, ''Shel ignerent niggers vote
beside intelligent Wife menu and the
tolern verse
"shel niggers black this land possess,
And rool US whites up here
OH no, my ri Ands, rSItiier guess
We Ii never stand that ere
1t okkurred to me that it wood hey
done better he'd their spellin been more
akkerit, but upon inquiry | found that it
dldn tmake no difference. That wuz the
prevalin way NV speiiin things in that Vi
cinltyv. Hangin over the polls WIZ a
broad peece Nv white nluzlin, onto wich
\
unS, Re~pcck yer Noses-t niger
stinks Then | knowed it was safe
That odoI hez never yet bin resisted by
the Dinocres y. and it hez it's ipf:ooence
over Republicans
| never saw sich enthusiasm. or more
cheern indicashnus w the pride Nv the
race. Ez evidence uv the deep feeling
that pervaded that community, J state
b.,r -. ! \
manded to be taken to the polls that
they. mite enter their protest aEin byingin
up the niger TO a ekaity with them,
ych wuz nine ga:n with no Offsets, ez
there wuznt an Abiishnist in the institoo-
shun. Two men in the county jale for
petty larceny wuz, at their own rekest,
taken out of doorancc vile by the Sheiiff
NV the county, that they mite, by the
ballot, protest agin bein degraded by bein
compelled, when their time was ont, to
acknowledge the niger ez their ekal =
One enthusiastic DImokrat who cost us
So, he'd to be carried to the polls. He
he'd commenced early at one OF the gro
ceres, and he'd succonlbed afore votii.-
We found him sleeDin peacefully l. a
barn. We lifted the patriotic man, and
IN percussion marched TO the polls. We
stood hlin on his feet, TWO men supportin
him-one on either side 1 ,,ut II
straight ticket into his fingers, aud takiti
his wrist sitll one hand, held his fingers
together with totAeE, and guided his
hand TO the box. Ez it neared the win
der. he started eZ ef' electric shock he'd
struck him, and, straightenin up, asked:
Is it the shrate ticaet l. Constoosh-
mel Athidtnent MOI OHIO it?''
\ ,.t,ptt, no I,
| suffered me to hold his hand cut to the
Judge NV eiek,h II, who took the ballot
and deposited it in the box Thank
Hlyin,' sed he, the nagur is not Wit
my ayquil, and doubEiu up at the thigh
and knee joints, he sank, timber like and
gently, onto The ground. liz he had dis
man, We rolled him out 10 one side Nv
the house, whef the dllppin Nv the rain
from the roof wood do suIhin towards
Sobefin him OF, ana left hitn alone iii
his glory.
The Amendment got but a very few
votes Ill that locality. The Republicans
jlned US IN repudlatin it, mostly upon
etlnoiogikle grounds One asserted that
he he'd bin IN favor Nv elnancipashun IN
time NV war, becoz the Airlkin Good
the Southern masters, and it wood
hey the eifek Of maxim the drafts
come lighter in his township. He WIZ a
humanitarian likewise. He opposed
crooelty toward en- He wept when he
heered NV the massacre at Fort Pilier,
uecoz in the army the niger wuz ez much
slaughters tended to make calls for
s.sG i,.,t-, ,,hr
CONE 10 givin Nv enl the privilege NV
voiin beside him, it coodent be thot NV.
He Good never consent that race whose
Anerlky. My God!' sed this ardent
Republican, ''ef you give em the ballot
wat kin prevent EN- from ben Congliss-
men, Senators. Vice Presidents, and even
Presidents? | shudder when think NV
it, and he hurried IN his-vote.
dldn quite see the force NV his OBJ
jecshun, torrit never okkurred to me that
bein sent to Congris was the material
consequence Nv voting. i hev voted for
! thirty years. at many elections four or
| i've times, but L have never bin te Con
| girls. Wher is the constituency wich
wood elect me? But it wusn my biznis
| to controvert his Dosiohen. 1t made no
|
tin, ez | desired him to vote.
! The niger lovers beat up one man to
vote for the Amendment, wich | saw by
| his dissatisfied look, he'd bin over perswa.,
ded.
Sir said /, do 700 consider Afri-
kin suthshently intelligent to be trusted
with so potent a weapon ez the ballot
Dustin away from them wich he'd him
in charge, he exclaimed, No, don
can vote tor it, They ain intelligent
enuif. Sir, scratehf off the Y es' from
| my ballot and Put onto 1t No!
Here is pensll, sed [.
DO it yerself, Sed he, Il can write
And / did it, Sich is the effeck NV a
word in season. Words fifty spoken is
apples nv gold, set in picters NV silver.
| One man woodeBt listen tG me. bat vo-
| It'd the Amendment. He he'd bin So
ger. and for eleven months pertook uv
the hospitality Nv the Confedrits, at An
Jacksonville. Escapin, he wuz helped to
the Federal lines by niger who WIZ
| hogged almost to DEATH III his site, for
not betrayiG wher he wuz HID. l mite ez
well hev talked to a lamp post. Ez he
showed in his ballot he rema,kt suthin
about he d ruther see a niger vote than
| a id rebel any time. From tie di-
reckshun NV his his eye site, persoom
| he referred to me.
| [ LETT for home ez soon ez the votes
wuz counted, and the result wuz made
known, only waitin till the poll books wuz
| made out, and the Judges NV elecks hun
| he'd got ther names written by the clerks,
and he'd made their remarks to en- On
my way home | wuz gratifed to see how
the material antipathy to the niger he'd re-
vived. At Cincinnati, the night nv the
eleckshun, they wuz bangin NV EN- about