The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1867-11-14
From the Toledo Blade.
NASBY.

A Meeting Of the Corners to
take into Consideration the
Best and Most Fashionable
Methods NV Preserving TO the
/ Democracy the States theY
| Won this Fall.
PosT OPFIs, COsFEDRIT X ROADS. \
(Wich is in the Stait Nv Ken.
lucky. Oct 30. 1867.
I ] wuz sitGin in the Post offs. day
before yesterday cogitatin over
the glorious results Nv the Ohio
and Pcnnsylvany. elections, and
bopin for an ekally good report
irom Moo York; ihinkin the while
that perhaps ef my hopes wuz re.
allied. and such u C0nstitoosbnel
Dem0krat cz PendIeton or Sey.
Inour shoOd be elected | mite, in
cOnsiderashen nv my long and /
bleeve valuable services. aspire 10.
suthin higher. and better, and.
moro profitable than Post OfIip,
sich ez ! am at present holdin. j
do not complain, for the posisben
bez bin the means Nv establisben
credit upon wicl / hey lived thus
far comfortable, but yet shood
prefer q place where the salary
wood be saffishcnt TO give me
enough so that Good lay np sutbin
for old age. The time is not far
of when my ,indiyidooel exertions
wi J not supply my wants.
! | ielt good over the victory. and
it seemed to me ez tho we ought TO
speak. ez Kentuckians, to our
brethren North, instructin nv EN-
how TO hold the Stats wich they
hey won for us. When / beside
upon pint, | alluz act, and 80 il
wuz this time. s ts o..
l give notis, by Issaler Gavitt,
thatthe Corners wood assc ID BILE at
the tootin NV the horn, for the pur-
pose uv sendin forth the voice Nv
Kentucky TO the Stats North
The eveniu come. the horn wuz
footed from the steps Nv the church,
and the entire Corners wuz there.
Deekin POgram wuz in his regIer
scat, Issakcr Gavilt Wuz in his
sainted fathers place, wich bez
gone heniz, Kernel McPelter wuz
there, and also the others vino make
up the male population NV the
corners, and their wives. 1t was
a glorious meetin, and l wuz a
rubbin my hands and feelin good
at the prospeck NV an imprOvin oc-
eashuh, when to my utter disgust,
saw the door open and Joe Big
Ter, who wuz born To be my peat,
come in, with Pollock, and twenty
or twenty-five niggers, old and
young, male and female, white,
yaller and black, and all Nv em
took seats together in the corner
Nv the chnrch. l kEowd by the
meek look NV the niggers, and the
eggstreem quietood NV Bigler his-
self, that suthin wuz up, which
would Nv course develop ITSELF.
Bigler and Pollock generally de.
vel0p.
Iopencd the meetin by remarkin
that the times wore an auspishus
look. The power Of the uiggcr in
Amerikin politics he'd bin demon.
strated. The niggcr he'd BIN so
manipulated in Ohio and Pennsyl-
vany, ez to give Us these States,
which we Good hold ef we chose.
But the Dimocrisy NV Ohio and
Pcnnsylvany had a work TO do.
which they cannot neglect with
safety. They he'd declared the
Niger inferior 10 the Caucashen,
which he undeniably is, aud they
must keep him SO. The nigge'
must be kept jist eggsackly wher
he is, TO serve ez a irritant to Dim
ocrisy. Ohio gives the niggers w
that State. CERTAIN facilities for
learnin TO read and write, accom-
plishmeuts wich no laborin class
wich is to be guided, controlled
and worked Exclusively by u 500
perior class, needs or hez any biz
mis- with. So soon ez man begins
to reed he begins to hev an inquirih
mind, and begins to feel dissat
istaction with his speer. Let Ohio
repeel these laws towunst, that the
Niger may not"
"Roverse the arrangement" said
Joe Bigler risin, land git to be the
sooperior Nv the white. Is that il
Perfesser?'
mot eggsackly that" returned
I--not KNOWN wat he wuz drivin
at, "but ez Hevin ordained the mig
ger 10 be inferior to us, and serve
US, it LOOKS rather dangerous to"
"Give him a chance to rise p
That's what yoor gettln at, see.
| am, and always wuz a Dimocrat
ez 700 know, but | don't shudder
from that cause--not any. | hev
faith in the Lord, wich yoo appear
to lack, wicL is strange, considcrin
yoor profeshun. Et my colored
| friends wuz here ordained by the
Almighty to ollez okkepy an inie,
riOr pOsishun to us, why they'll do
it any how, onless, indeed, we de-
grade ourselves below their level.
Ef uhderstnd yoor idea, it is that
the proud Caucasian is tho only
favored race, wich fixed its posish-
eu itself, but that all the other
races he'd places assigned them
wich God Almighty hevin fixed
they can't pass. That being the
case, watts the yoose, Perlesser, Nv
our foolen away our time tryir
to strengthen his laws by any ac'
NV oursl Ell the Almighty fixed
it so, kin we do it any better thar
he?
But sposn the niger, ef W.
. dnp't kaan him dovn nv law khoof