The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1867-05-23
. 8. LANCASTER, OHIO, MAY %, 1867.

al IDebo thlDBb bence tnat occur
renee. But let US accept the sit-
uasben and bless tho Lord it has
resulted in developin excelIencies
where we didn't expect to find
EN-"
There wuz an affectin scene af-
ter service wuz over. Deekin Po.
gram, Capt. McPelter and Elder
Gavitt shook hands with 'em with
degree Of corjalty l didn't ex-
pect. Trooly them are great men.
They develope degree nv adapta-
bility to circumstances wich I didn't
look for. / really bleeveif I'd a
told 'em that it wood hev a good ef-
feck to kiss the niger babies all
around, that they'd a done it. But
| spared em this. There is sich a
thing as laying it on too thick.
But this was all spilled the next
day. There wuz an eggstraordina-
rily heavy mail that day. In ad.
ditioh to the paper Pollock, the H.
linois store keeper takes, there wuz
eight others. and to my surprise
they wuz all directed to niggers.
"Wat is this," thot l to myself.
"Hev the Ablishnists Nv the North
determined upon proseIytin these
men, and are they goin to food
this country with their incepdiary
readin ? Ez Federal officer ms
my dooty to look into the matterl"
Jist imagine my delerious joy at
finding that they wuz Democratic
papers from Moo York and Ohio !
"Thank heaven |" sed l, 'Our peo.
pie hev awakened to a sense av
the necessity Nv doin suthin," and
1 handed the papers out to EN-
with impressive words, exhortin Nv
EN- 10 read en, ez they wuz trooth,
and nothin but the trooth
/ ruther think they red em, for
from that time out they avoided
me, ez though | he'd the plague.
Ef / wuz agoin down the street,
and wun Nv EN- wuz a comm up
he'd cross the street, and the pc
coolyer expression Nv his counte-
nance indicated that it wuzn't my
majestick presence which AVID him,
They had !oalhin depicted on their
classick fccchers. Unable to en-
door this l seezed one Nv EN- and
asked why wuz treated thus2
Debility, he pulled out Nv his
pocket one Nv them cussid North
ern papers, and openin it, pintid, in
dignantly, to an editorial article.
1t wuz pertoosely headed in this
wise
Shel niggers uote7-Shel the
proud CducaShen be redooSt to an E.
kality ruth the disguStin Afrikm p
Is this a white mans government or
aot?-Ameriky for white menl
Sed this Ethiopian, with his fu-
gers on this headin, "Pears like ez
ef dah wuzn'L jist dat good feelin
toward us colored men on de part
OBJ de Dimoc'sy OBJ the Norf, dat dah
ought to be Pears like as dough
up dab wha de niggah amt got no
vote, dat dey ntintend he sbel
hab it. Pears like, ef Dimoc'sy's
one ting all ober de country, dar's
a eussid site OBJ humbug a goIn on
down heah u
Wat Good say? What Good do ?
There it wuz in black and white,
and from papers whose Dimocrisy
could not be questioned. / wuz
dumb: founded. The nigger stalk
cd hawtily and proudly away in
one direckshun while snoaked off
ruther sneakiDgly in another.
hev one word to say to our
brethren in the North. Yoo'r
doubIin our troubles, and maxim
our burdens harder to bear. Why
can't you understand common
sense2 Wat hurt wood nigger
suffrage do yoo up there wher ther
ain't no niggers, and how much
wood it benefit US down here, wher
theirs millions Nv emp Cant yoo
see it2 We can't play the samo
game on the niggers that we used
to play on the sturdy yeoIanry Nv
Berks county, Pennsylvania, and
other localities. On all questions
heretofore the Dimocrisy hez al.
lowo1 o liberal license. We hev
bin Free Trade in Moo York, and
Tariff in Pennsylvany the same
year, and we Good do it SiGh
Dimocrats didn't git their asshoor-
ences from papors, OWN to their
inability to peroeze EN- rapidly, it
bein so long afore they got a word
spelled out that they forgot the Que
precedin it, wich destroyed the con.
nexion, the continuity Nv the mar
rative, ef l may so speak, and wat
we told emu wuz gospel, That
won't do with the niger down
here. He reads, he docs; and il
he don't, ther's alluz everywhere
sum sich sneakin cuss ez Pollock,
who reads for him, and they know
wat they know jist ez well ez any.
body. Let EN- stop hammerin the
nigger. 1t won't do, Et he's to be a
man and brother here, he must
be man and a brother there. Ef the
Dimocrisy must hev o race to look
down to, lot EN- turn their. atten-
shun to the Chinese or the lnjuns
but from this time out the niger
is sacred.
PETROLEUM V. NASBY, P. NJ.
(Wich is Postmaster). and likewise
Professor NV Biblikle Politicks in
the Southern Classikle q Military
Instiloot.
P. S.-Ijist received a telegram
orderin me to Washington. | per
SOON it's suthinsin connexion with
the Southern excursion.