The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1867-08-15

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4Hr. Nasty and his Followers Decide
to 90 Back on Him "A Meeting, the
Effect OF ,cAich rds Spoiled By Pol
lock, the Illinois ,St0re-kecper, and
Joseph Bigler. late G. s. A.
From the Toledo Blade.
POST OFFICE. CONFEpRIT x ROADS.
(Which i, in The Staff nv Knntues<y.
July 20, l 81.
The speculashcn in wool, into
witch the Dimocrisy nv the South
cmbarkt some months ago, hez, l re-
grct to say resulted disastrously.-
The niger fitted for co-operashnn
with the Democracy. Instid NV
hangin onto us like the ivy onto the
the oak, he discovered that in the
South at least he wuz really the oak
and we the ivy instid nv looking
upto US, lie contracted a disagreca
bic habit uv lookin down onto u.s.
There wux other reasons why he
coodent be made available for uses,
and therefore it wuz decided to GO
back onto the Afrikin, and to agin
attempt his rednskshen to ez near
MS normal spheer ex the abornal
condishcn NV the time wood admis
Tho directors NV the college met and
changed The name NV the institoo-
shnn back TO tho "Souther Military
and Clasikle Institoot," and the Con-
ners wuz itself agin.
Dcekin Pogram lookt ez tho ten
years he'd bin lifted off him. How
pleasant it's" sod he, g to walk erect
:lgin IN front nv 4 niger, and to pass
en- ez tho they wuz niggers! Oh Of
l Good only wallep one wnnst more,
,nethinks I Good die happy!"
We he'd q mcetin last mite to con.
slider this niger question, wich hev
RESULTED in great good and he'd a pow
crfal infiooence toward strengthcnin
the hands NV our brethren in the
North, who are fightin the hercsy az
niger suffrage, he'd it not bin for
that irritashen, Pollock, and that
pest, Joe Bigler. I he'd made my
regler speech on The niger and with
much effect. / he'd quoted from sum.
boddy's quotashun from Agassiz,
witch Demonstrated tie radicle differ.
ence there is atween the Afrikin and
tho proud CAqynaA>Aasa.. aryuin from
thesIength Nv his heel and arm, %Ao
thickness NV his skull, and SO forth,
that the nlgger wuz totally unfit TO
exercise the rites NV free men.
wuz applauded vociferonsly, and by
mono moro than Pollock and Joe
Bigler. Ez | took my scat and wuz
a wipin the peispirashnn from my
classikle brow, seelin that I he'd set.
tod that question, Pollock rix and
desired to say a few words and make
suggestion. Sed he:
~ hev listened with interest to the
elokent speaker, end am happy to say
] hev learned fax witch is now to me.
sf / hsy ever doubted the interiors
~ Of the niger them doubts are 70.
moved, pervidin alluz, that the state.
mcnts NV the speaker is troo, NV
WITCH | hey no doubt, ez the caracter
NV the speaker is sufiicshent guar.
rantee for the trooth Of whichever be
seq
bowed statoly-like, with the ali
nv one to whom sich compliments
wuz every day affair, witch they
Amt by no means, on the contrary
quite the reverse.
But I want it demonstrated ia
tho satisfacshen Of the most obtoose
Il want rite here q measurement,
NV the average white man, that all
the world may know tho difference
move it be did"
/ accedcd, Let it be done,'' sed I
Chat the vcxed question may DO set
tied forever"
Several niggers were askt 10 sub
NIT TO the measurement, but all refns
ed. Finally. Joe Rigler scd he saw
Napoleon johnson, % niger wicl