American citizen. [volume] (Butler, Butler County, Pa.) 1863-1872, 1867-10-23

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es We don't pay any taxes here. The
Assessor came here two years ago, and
hndin nothin to assess, hez'nt considered
it worth while to come since, But, good
Lord, our hearts bleed for these unforti.
nit victims Nv Ablishn policy, wich hey
suthin, and is forced to pay onto it The
people is bein ground Into dust by taxa
shen.P And the old man, wept bitter
tears at the miseries Nv the sitooashen NV
the people What techin beneyolenceI! /!
On the question Nv nigger ekality,
found EN-, at most delitefui heat. They
he'd seen terrors NV it,, and knowfd where.
Of they spoke, Niggers he'd come frum
Kentucky across the river to em, and in.
stead nv acceptin their normal speer, and
yieldin quietly to the irresistibler DEGREES
NV Heaven, wich made em the interiors
Nv the, white, they he'd, the moment they
he'd accumulated suthin to live on, as--
soomed the airs Of ekality. They refoos-
ed to keep their places, The Cheermau
remarkt ez showin the stubborn cussed>
ness NV the race, that one NV en- lived
some months next TO him. :. He, .(the
cheermanl borrowed pork on several ocs
cashens NV him, tWict Q bakin nv flour,
and, on one occashet, nine dollars NV the
miserable rags wich we are forst, by a
tyraniklec Government tu accept ez mon
eyl That niger he'd the soopreme i'm
pudence to insist on beiug pade and
eyenntalked NV sooin for it, But ON con,
sultin lawyer, he didn't OWN the onoet.
tainty ez TO who wood hev to pay the
costs. Another instance. A nigger,
wich wuz nearly white, settled in the yi>
cinity. He he'd not only adaughter, but
farm. My son sores. Labor hesdespi>
ses ez occupashen only fit for serfs.-
He proposed to woo this nigger's daugh,
ter. 1t wuz struggle with me- My
son marryiu female wich he'd the ao-
cursed blood NV Ham in her vanes. lio But
Jimuel, my son, sir, threw dirt in my
eyeso' About sixty akers NV dirt i thdt
NV the pleasant TIME | Good Ihev livin
on that farm--uE the days devoid of la
bor and after severe sthnologikle strug
gle with my feelins, ] consented. want
ed to take keer Nv that nigger. Plying
him as an inferior bein--loaded in his
abnormal condishen with responsibilities
wich he Good not be expected to dis
charge, | wood hev taken charge of his
affares. | wood my son Jimuel and L
-hev managed his farm and his stock
and sich. Alas Jimuel menshuned the
matter to the Ethiopian, sir, and with
wat result2 Hewur ignominiously kickt
out uy the house, sir. He wuz d-d, sir,
for drunken broot, by a nigger wich
threatened eff he ever showed his pim-
piled = pimpiled wuz the word - face
there again, he'd break every bone in his
body. Sir, this is 'beeomin unsupporta-
BILE. They must be dragged down to our
level. My proud Caucashen blood re-
volts. There must be a inferior race, and
its us or the nigger, The Ibjen is out of
the question, ez there amt any NV them
here to be infegior. / wouldn't mind the
Injen. but there amt none. It's the
niger or nothin, Give him.the ballot,
sir and what'll distinguish us !? Speek
with a angels tongue onto this theme, |
beg d9'dT 81 saIz m .a,bi.ei
The meetin wuz glorious one, and my
speech one Nv my most movin Efforts
My perorashen moved me to tears. II
wuz on niger suffrage Depictin its un-
told horrors l begged en- to organize Ito
rally wunst more agin this common enc
my. "There is" said I, " seven thous>
and nigger males in the State NV Ohio.
Shel we peril the liberties NV the State
by permittin them to approach the ark NV
onr safety-the ballot box3 Shel we
raise EN- to the pint Nv bein our eka!s.
Shel we marry EN- and give em in mars
riage Shel we contaminate the pure
stream NV Anglo Saxon blood, by mud
din it with the turbid stream Wv"
AT that pint stop My eve balls wuz
scared. joe Bigler, which supposed wuz
a hundred miles away in Kentucky, wuz up
in tue aujence.
"Agreein sed he, "with wat the speek
er is saying, l beg to ask questirn for en-
litement. lam a Kentuckian.,
"Ror for Kentucky" grg1HiIL
Bowin. Bigler proceeded. There wuz a
lurking devil in his eye which afflicted me.
II understood the speaker, he holds that
the niger if premited b vote becomes so
much our soshel ekal that we must take
him to our buzzums-that we must marry
the femais and our guhin daughters forth,
with tie themselvs to the males Nv that ac-
cussid race. Is it so 1..3 .liss.aa 4,,fri
ut isp retorted /. u a beselqg
'.My blood bills when think nv it,
Eff recolect arite, tho laws NV Ohio pre-.
mits all niggers toivote who are only half
black. Ez there are a good many mulsttoes
in this region the produx Nv the loose ckal-
ity Nv the races over the river, there must
have bin, ever since that law passed, much
uy,that kind nv maryin here.u Nay l. be
permitted to ask this oppressed people who
hev suffered so from this unnatural state NV
affairs, how they like it7 Is yoor. wife a
rigger sir? sed he, addressin the Sekretary
land efso. don't 700 feel the wuz, by the
force Nv Dimokratie circumstance, to marry
her, take her to your buzzum the mintit her
father got q vote Its enuf to drive man
into Ablishism to escape it. My brethren" I"
sed this Bigler. nd advise 700 all to abjoor
Dimocrisy. Up North the mint the Niger
gifts vote you are forced TO legal messeg-
egengashun-downS South, the affinity Dim>
ocrisy hez for niggers, heg bleacned out the
race to the color NV molasses. There's no
hope for yoo. save in Ablishnism, witch
hoz the happy fakulty Nv doin justis to EN-
without marryin EN- p And he stalked out.
1t didn't max emo difference. They didn't
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