Mineral Point weekly tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1859-1868, 1867-07-31
From the Toledo B.ade. I


PosT OFFICE, CoSFrDERIr Y RoADs.
Wich is in the Stait Nv Kentuky,)
July u, lS67l
IN castin nv eve carelesslv over
the politiklc field, which Seward and
me do every sixty DAYS, | think | can
spy in the horizon bud wich is swell
in into a most hopeful flower. 1t is
spredin itself into hurricane which
threatens to sweep away the fabric NV
Ablishnism and purify IT, politikle
atmosphere. The sRadikle party hey
bin at last forced to adopt the legiti-
nit endin uv their sooicidle principles,
niger suffrage, and from that the
Dimockrisy, Of they are wise. viii
snatch triumph, litrally, from the
Jaws Nv death. We hav EN- now
In Ohio that question is to be voted
onto this fall-in Moo \ ork and Mich
igan its raisin Il breeze in their Con
venshuns and Pennsylvania, Illnov
and lndiany it can't be long put off
The proud Caucashun wich votes the
Dimecratic ticket has no objeckshun
to bein jossled by the Niger in the
rush to pay taxes, but his hawtv sole
recoils at the idee NV bein elbowed By
him at the polls Besides, the Dime
kratic voters don't want the ballot
given any other lower class. 1t wood
make undoo compensashcn Wat the
Dimockrisv want now is so to handle
this dclikit subIict as to maik the most
uy it.
The CRATE trouble with the party
is that there IS no uniform style uv
meetin this question. On the name
question we ar awl agreed. We OPP
pose njggcr suffrage. It's a part and
parcel NV a Dimekrat's nacher to OBJ
pose niger suffrage. Tie leaders u
the party opposed it at the beginnin,
for seciu how the ballot was abused BY
ther followers they trembled for the
Republic ef it wuz entrusted to the
hands nv any more NV ckal capassitv,
and the masses ny the organization
opposed giyin it 10 the nigger, becoz
that one privilege. and color, was all
that distinguished en- Its a pccooli-
arity of unrcgenera ted human nacher
that it must alIus bear down on sum
Iody. The poet sez:
= Even the lie. hev smaller ones to bite en-,
And they stiIi smaller ones, al infnitum."
Fortunately, the Dinocracy hev
the nigger for ther smaller lice. The
sturdy yeomanrv felt it to be a sooth-
in thing to find, wunst each veer, that
in one thing at least he wuz superior
to sumboddv, and so it will be, so long
ez ther is a Dimockrasy. The true
Dmecrat promotes hisseIf, not by lift
in hisself abuv the level onto wich he
finds hisself, but by shuvin sum wun
down to a lower levil, and thcr wuzn' t
anybody else on this continent which
tha Good git hold uv, the niggcr wuz
long ago selected for that purpose.
The CRATE trouble Is, we oppose mig
ger suffrage now from too menv stand
pints. Some oppose it on the skore
NV the inferiority nv the Afrikin, but
that never wuz a popular idea with
our people They may hev assentcd
to it outwardly. but in ther minds tha
objekted. " Fl. scz a reliable Dime
crat TO hisself, . cf that's the rool,
wat in thunder is to become of me-
Like wise the idea of onfitness wich
others nv our appossels advance
" They can't read nor rite - shricks
a injoodishus cuss. speakin to an aud
ience two-thirds NY which 90 to him
reglerly TO reed their ballots to EN-.
and who, when tha sign prommissory
notes, put an = atween ther first and
last names.
Anuthcr spcekcr quotes Noah to
EN-, and boldly asserts that the nigger
is the defendant uv Ham, and that he
is the idcntikle indivuilc which wus
Gust By Noah, but he runs agin the
fact that the rest nv EN-, which Is IN
/ 4 frika vet, hcv managed to dodge the
cuss. ez they amt servin ther white
/ brethren. and them wich wuz brought
/ here to be chrischinized hev busted
ther bonds, and are jest about ez free
/ so fur ez servitood goes, ez enybody.
/ There Is. as | hav showed, all these
conflicting ideas that air working
| Iagin Us. Therefore. | want a Ma
/ shunal Konvenshun. | want kon
Ivention uv the lights uv the party to
set forth authoritatively why We op
pose nigger suffrage-to give a rec
son for it, that all our people NAV allt
together. az do 6ther we'll regulated
machines. Let US kun together anC
4 ishoo our maniistoe. that we may uc
presiseiy the partikler line ny argu
msnt to Pursu.
I shall be at that konvenshun anc
l hav made up my mind what plat
form to Ia down on. | shall 60 bach
on Ham, Hagar and Onesimus-I sha
turn from the inferority idee and TAX
the broad ground, that THE NIGGER u
4 BEAST. THAT HE AMT 4 WHITE Man
At AL. and konsekently he hez NJ
more rights than any other animal
l put my foot on him By the authorl
tv uv the dekree that unto man WIZ
given the doeminiou over the beasts
that We are men and they air tn,
beastses. IF they admit the fers
proposition. thev viii the last ] sEa
assert. boldly and brodlv. his onftne
to mlncle with Us bekoz hiz hzikI'
strukter. hiz muscles. nerves. fbers
bein different. 20 to show that he wul
uv different origen. l shall plant
myself on the stupenius vet simple
,,-.------ f,,,r .I+ tha ! Unity made HIM