The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1867-11-07

Of the Hous.. How are
you Reaction I!
Let the rooster be trottcd out for
another Democratic victory.
Nasty.
Mr. Nasty assists In the Ohio Election
The Dtfeatc5 the 1mendmeat Hoe
II ,cas Receiuea at tie Corners.
from The Toledo Bla6a.l
Posi- OFFICE. CoNFEDRRIT X RoADs.
{wich is in the Stait OF Kentucky, !
Oct. II, 1857.
Teelin that the time he'd arrived
wich wuz to decide whether 1000
degraded niggers was TO grind $780,
900 proud Cancashens into the dnst,
I felt that cf l shood fill in my dooty
now, shood he forever dis.raced.-
Accordingly. | put in the elcckshun
day at a Dimocratic town in Ohio
the battle field-the identilSle place
into which l made speech doorin
tho campane.
] arrived Their on the mornin of the
eleckshun, and found that compre-
hensive arrangements he'd hin made
for deteatin this most nefarus and
dangerous proposishen. Paradin the
streets ez early ez Z a. M, wnza wag.
on containin Is virgins, runnin from
q to Al, the most NV EN- rather wiry
in texture, and over their heads wuz
banners with the follerin techin in
scmpshcns: "Fathcrs. save us from
Niger ekality y "White husbands
or num- 1t would hev bin better, I
thot, efthcy he'd bin somewhat young
err. Their wuz snthin preposterous
in the ijea nv females nv that age
calm upon fathers to save EN- from
eny thing, when in the course nv
nacher their fathers must hev biz,
lyin IN the silent tomb for several
consecutive years, onless, indeed, they
married young. IF still Twin q
judged from the aged appearance nv
the damsels) their parents must be
too far advanced in veers to take an
active part in bizznis, In another
wagon wuz colleckshnn NV men
witch he'd been hired from the rail.
rode, Il miles distant, whose ban
ncrs read, " Shell ignerent niegers
vote beside Intelligent wife menu" and
and the follerin verse:
"Shel niggers black this land possess
And rool us whites up here
Oh. no, my friends, wa ruther guess
Well never stand that ere
It okurred tn me that it wood hex
done better he'd their spcllin beer
more akerit, but upon inquiry found
that it didn't make no difference =
That wuz the prevailin way of spc'iir
things in that vicinity. Hanging
over the polls wuz broad peece u,
white muslin, onto wich wuz painted
in large letters, " Cancashuns, Re
spcck yer Noses-the Niger stinks!'
Then l knowed it wua safe. Tha
the Dimocracy S and and il Iez its $ ihoao'
ence over Republicans.
; i never saw sich enthusiasm, o
more cheerin indicashuns Nv tb
pride Nv race. Ez evidence Of th,
deep feelin that prevailed that com
munity. ] state that 8 paupers in thu
poor honse demanded to be taken t
the polls that they might entes thci
protest agin bringin the niger up Il
an clsality with them, wich wuz min,
gain with no offsets. as there wuzn'
an abolitionist in the institonshun.-
Two men in the county jail for petit,
larceny waz at their own rekest, Ia
ken out nv doorance vile by tn
Sheriff NV the county, that they mite
| By the ballot, protest agin bein de
graded by bein compelled, when thei
time wuz out. to acknowledge TIL
nigger ez their ekal. One inthoosi
ystic Dimokrat cost MS FIVE dollars t.
be carried to the polls. He he'd com
j menced early at one nv the groceries
and had succumbed afore votin. w
found him peacefully sleepin in barn
We lifted the patriotic man, and il
percession marched to the polls. w
} stood him mp on his feet, two mel
supportin him-one on either side
I put straight ticket into his fingers
and takin his wrist with one hand
held his finoers together with tothel
=, and guided his hand to the box. q
it neared The windcr, he started ez
) a elecrric shock he'd struck him, and
, straightenin up. asked: Is it tn
sthrate ticket Il Constiooshne
f Amindmint No! onto it?"
Ashoorin him that I wuz all rite, b
suffered me to hold his hand out t,
the Judge ny eleckshnn, who tool
tho ballot and deposited it in the box
Thank Hivin!" sed he, "the nagnr i
not yet my ayqnll," and douhlin u
at the thigh and knee joints, he sank
Timber like and gently, onto tn
ground. Ez he had discharged tn
J dooty NV an American freeman, "
rolled him out to one side NV til
house, whcr tho irippin Nv the rail
from tho roof would do snthin towar'
sobe,.in him off, and left him alone il
his glory.
| The Amendment got but vor,
| few votes in that locality. The Re
publikins jined us in repudia,in il
mostly upon ethnologikle grcnnds.-
4 One asserted that he had bin in favo
\ Of emancipashen in time NV war, be
lcos tho Afikin could thereby be in
doost to fife agin their Southern mas
tiers and it wood hev the effeck u
\ \