Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1867-08-03


| -- July I2, 1867
In castin my eye carelessly over the po-
litikle field, wich Seward and me do ev-
cry GO days, think can spy into the
horizon bud which is swellin into a
most hopeful flower. 1t is spreadin itself
into a hurricane wich threatens to sweep
away the fabric Nv Ablishnism and puri-
fly the politikle atmosphere. The radikle
party hev bin at last forst to adopt the
Elegitimit endin NV ther suicide principles
nigger suffrage, and from that the DIM
okrisy, et they are wise will snatch a tri-
umph litraly from the jaws nv Death
We hev en- now. In Ohio that ques-
ton is to be voted onto this fall-in
Moo York and Michigan its rasin a
breez in ther Conversions; and in Pen
sylvania, Illinoy, and Indiany it can't be
long put off Ez | remarked, we've got
'em. What the Demokrisy want now is
to handle this dtlikit subject ez to make
the most NV it. -......,.... ....-
The great trouble with the party is
that there is no uniform style NV meetin
this question. On the main question we
are all agreed. We all oppose nigger suf-
frage. Its part and parcel NV Dino
krat's nacher to oppose nigger suffrage.
The leaders Nv the party opposed it ut
the beginnin, for seein how the ballot
was abused by their followers they trem-
bIed for the Republic efit wuz entrnst-
ed to the hands Nv any more nv ckal ca
passity, and the masses Nv the organiza-
ton opposed givin 1t to tie nigger ecoz
that one privilege, and color, wuz all that
disgusted EN-. Its pecoolyarity NV un-
regenerated human nacher that it must
alluz bear down on somebody. The po-
ct seq:
Even the lice hev smaller ones to bite en-,
And they still other ones I'D ninitum.'
Fortunately, the Dimokracy hev the
niggers for their smaller lice. The stur-
dy yeomanry felt it to be soothin thing
to find once each yeer, that in wun thing
at least, he WIS sup, r.or to sumboddy
and so it will he so long ez there is a
Dimokracy. The troo Dimokrat pro-
notes hisself above the level onto wich
he finds hisself, but by shown some wun
down to lower level, and ez ther wuznt
anybody else ON this continent, which
they Good git hold ny, the nigger wuz,
long ago, selected fur that purpose.
The great trouble is we oppose nigger
suffrage now from two many stanC-. ints.
Some oppose it on the skore NV the infe-
fariority NV the Afrikin, but that never
wuz a popler idee with our people They
may have assented to it outwardly, but
in their own minds they objected. "Ef,'
seq reliable Demokrat to hisself, "ef
that's the rool, wat in thunder is to becum
Nv me?" .
Likewise the idea Nv onfitnes wich 9th
ers NV our apossels advance. "They can't
read nor rite 20 shreeks injudishus Gus,
speekin to auience two-thirds nv wich
60 reglerly to him to reed ther votes to
EN-, and who when they sine promissory
notes, put an X atween ther furst and
| last names.
Anuther speeker quotes Noah to EN-,
and boldly asserts that the nigger is the
defendant NV Ham, and that he is the
identikle midwife wich wuz Gust by No
ah but he runs agin the fact that the
rest nv EN-, wich is in Afraka yet hcz man
aged to dodge the cuss, ez they amt SER
vim ther white brethren, and them witch
/ WIZ DGOJ HcIC 10 ISN
busted ther bonds and are Jest about ez
free so far as servitood goes ez anybody.
There is, ez l have showed, all these
confictin idees that work agin u.s.
! Therefore | want Nashnell Conren-
shun. / want convot n>hcn NV the lites
NV the party to set forth autioritively
why we oppose nigger sutfiage-to give
a reason for it that all our people may
act together, ez do all other wcII-regula-
ted machines. Let us cum together aud
ishoo our manifesto, that we may know
perciseIy the pcrtikler line Nv argument
to pursoo. s.a,. .f...i II r
| shel be at the conversion, and hev
made up my mind wat platform to lay
down. / shell 60 back on Ham, Hagel
and Onesimus-I shell turn from the inte
riority idce and take broad ground that
the g.iqqey. as o. 6east-thdt lie amt q
man at all, and consistently he hez
no more rites than any other animal.
put my foot onto him by authority of thC
decree that unto man wuz given domin
ion over the beasts-that we are men an6
they are beasts Ef they admit the tirst
proposition, they will the last. shell as
sert boldly and broadly his onftnis tc
mingle with us becoz his izzikle struct
ure, his muscles, nerves, tibres, bcir diff
ferent, go to show that he wuz Nv differ
ent origin and of lower origin. l she
plant myself on the stoopenjus yet sim
pie proposition that the Almity made
him, probably, but at different tim'
and for different purpus, which L she
show by citin the color NV his skin, tn,
length of his foot, the shape of his heat
and such other matters as l kin git to
gether in time for the convenshen.
e. Wv course this doctrine will meet will
obiectors. We hev a few thin-skinneC
perfessers nv religion, whose piety SCI
vice in our ranks hezn't quite obliterateC
who will say that these dogmas under
mines the christian religion, ez it destroy
the doctrine nv the unity of the races on
to wich orthodoxy is built. To this
shell answer, that supposin it does, wo
then? Uv wat comparison is any reli
gion an orthodox dimokrat hez to a tri
umph of the party? Wot hez democra
} sy to do with religion any how ? 1t he
never permitted it to mix in its politix
Dimocrisy bleeves in keepin church an,
state ez fur apart ez possible.
Should the ablishEists pint to niger
which reed and rite, should say to-wuns