The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1867-03-28


Of the Legislature Of Ohio to strike the 1coFd
"Whjte' from their Constitution.
Posr OFFS, CoNFEDR1r X ROADS, }
(Which is in the State of KentuckyD
March 10, 1861
The glorious intelligence nv the glorious
ackshcn NV the Legislacher nv the now trOOly
GREAT State NV Ohio, in yotin down the propo-
sishen to strike the word "WhitG' out NV her
Constitooshen, reached us last pite a precise
" 9p. m. I am pertikeler az to the eggsact
date-the importance NV the event justiiies it.
| need not skasely remark that the sed news
sent thrill NV satiSiackshen, nay, NV eXquisit
Joy through the Corners, thrill skasely less
eXcuisit than that experienced on the reject
NV the news NV JOhnson'S 4th NV March speech
Ammo Domino 1865. ] shell be better under
stood, probably, eff / state that our thrill NV
Joy at this troOly unexpected triumph NV the
proud Caucasian NV Ohio over the inferior
sons Nv Ham, went Jest as far in the dirccshen
heerin NV Vallandgham's defeat in 1868 in the
dreckshen NV utter misery. In short, we thrill
now perclsely ez much as we banged then.
OF course a meeting was called to rejoice
over this unexpected deliyerance NV our breth-
rem NV Obi 0 from the unendoorable disgrace
NV niger equality,uv wich wuZ at first made
chairman ; but this wuz recOnsidercd, ez, bein
the only one in the Corners educated TO the
extent Nv writin,I wuz forced to act ez sekre-
tary and Dekin Pogram wuz made chairman.
LII uOD take u nelly lllGllCGlA 10 DC CHILL ma
NV a Democratic Conyenshun, but talent is ne
cessary at the secretary's table.
The Dekin on takin the chairremarked that
this wuZ the prOudest moment NV his life, by
all odds. Ohio he he'd given over to hardnis
NV hart and reprobacy NV mind long ago. He
he'd made up his mind sOrrowtully but GER
tainly, to the fact that Ohio wUz Ablishen, and
believed that the fanatics in charge NV that
State wood fOller out their ayoWed principles
to their legitimet endin; and, ez they he'd de
clared the Niger man would give hlm the
rights NV man. He he'd bin happily disap-
pointed-they he'd paused in their mad career,
and now, heving taken one step in the direck-
shun Nv Dimocrisy, is Their not, he wanted to
know, reason to hope that they will continue
in weil-dooin ontil-he dared to hope it-they
wood pull down the Niger from the pinnacle
onto which they he'd placed him, and make
him agin, wat he RELY ought to be, n servant
unto his brethren? He hoped the brethren
| wood speell their minds, briefly though, ez he
and Dekin Gavtt he'd game Of seven up to
| finish, and time is Winging herself away to
her eternal home at rate fearful to contem-
plate.
Elder Gavit blessed the Lord for this day
He felt like sounding the loud timbrel o'eI
I Egypt's dark sea. When he remembered that
his niggers run away from him and ENLISTED In
! the Federal army, and that SIGH OF en- e2
wuzn't killed at Fort Piller and Petersburg
and Fort Wagner and Port Hudson, where theil
cussid blood was split that the same quantity
of pure white blood mite be saved, settled i'll
/ Ohio and that, Notwithstanding all this, they
met there jiSt about the same treatment they
wood have experienced he'd they staid in Ken
lucky, his sole eXpandid, and he Good only re-
| lieve hisself by hollerin hallelOOgy Its more
than he he'd hoped for. His cup was sloppin
! over with blessin, and eff he shoOd be taken
hentz to might he wOodent complain.
| ResOlooshens bein in order riz, cz is the
regler thing here, and presented the foierin,
to wit
WHEREAS, The Dimocrisy NV Ohio with a
glorious company NV Ablishnists tOllerin NV
| EN-, hev, for the time at least, squelched the
impious proposition to give the Niger, witch
amt fitted for it by edjucashen, the ballot
therefore be it
ResoIued, By the Dimocrisy NV the Confedrit
X Roads, wich is in the State Nv Kentucky,
| that we send greetin to our brethren nv Ohio
and extend to EN- our hearty congratulations
| on the result, and earnestly hope that ere long
the few remaining points Indifference between
us and them may be sottenGd down, and that
| we NAV vet live and love together.
| ResO1Ued That after this manifestation NV
returnin reason, we are satisfied That there aint
SIGH cussed site Nv difference after all between
| a modrit Ohio Republican and X Roads Dem
| Ocrat not enuff TO keep EN- from fraternlZlL
| on almost anythin.
| Res0lced, That ez Ohio hez very properly re
! foosed to give her niggers the ballot, how kin
her Representatives in Congress insist on fore
in us in Kentucky to do it? We ask this il
| thunder tones.
RESOLVED, That the thanks NV the DimOcrisy
Nv this seclshun Nv Kentucky be extended to
| the Republican members NV the OHIO LegIsla
| cher who so nObly came to the reskOO nv ouI
| more immGjit friends in that body, ez from
! this time out we shell be able to keep our mig
GERS here, ineZmuch ez the niger who would
| run from Kentucky to Ohio after this ackshen,
| would prove himself most egrejis lunatic.
| 7 he'd sevral other resOlooskens, but Bascom
| cut EN- short by movin the adOpshen NV slch
| ez he'd bin red, and the nOn-readin NV the bal.
ance, which wuz vocifFerously adopted. Bias
com don't like Dimecratic meetins-they ok.
kepythe attenshun NV his customers, and there
| by interferin with his bizness.
| After the meetin adjourned, a trOoly affectir
| scene transpred at his grOssery. announced
| to EN- nv una terable determinashen to change
nv habitashen. felt, I remarkt, that Ohio
offered a more profitable field for my labors
and that sence the egislacher nv That STATE
he'd spoken, he'd determined to locate the in
| stitoot in Ohio, it bein, in my honest opinion
a better pint therefor. The Dlmocrisy w
| Ohio are, it is true, minority, bur how long
will they be so a.? They are positive in then
| beleefs, while their enemies amt TO any alarm
| in extent. The war-the danger witch threat
| ened em-held EN- together, and after fash
ion give EN- backbone, and for time they
| conkered, but now-them bands bein broken
| that stimulus bein taken away-thcy are just
| about as timid as so many rabbits. They
| started on a principle witch they are aieerd NV
| they are traveln road they amt got no love
| for and air startin a the shaddera NV the Ii
ons on either side, they are livin on butter
milk when roast beefis jest as easy % git
hey longed, and yearned, and agonized fOI
wears for civilized State, rich in the means
| Nv subsistence, whose pOlitishens subordinate
| principles to county Offices. cich state Is
| Ohio, and sich a field and sich people ] shell
never be able to find agin, and go. There
will | erect the Institute.
Bascom objected He coodent go, nor
| shoodent He had an interest in the establish
ment Nv the institoot at this pint-he wanted
the populashen NV the Corners increased, bein
certin nv gittin the heft NV the inkum NV every
man who shOod settle there. He Good not de-
nv that sence the event we WIZ ceiebTatin
he'd transpired, that the InstitOOt wood do jest
as well in Ohio ez in Kentucky, and perhaps
! better ez while they were gOin on the same
principles, they he'd more money, and ct he
| Good leave he WoOdent mind changing the To-
cashen, but that wuz impossible. In the pur-
suit NV his calm he had absorbed the heft Nv
the real estate Nv his,seckshun, and he'd mort
cares on the balance, and them he must stay
| to take care NV. He didn't like to assert his
power, but he begged the Protiessorto remem-
| her that he cOOdent leave without scttlin at
| his bar for his six months sustenance, and
| tibet there wuz a law in Kentucky givin cred
| itors poWor over abscondin debtors. Wood 1t
be convenient for any one NY the Directors or
Professors to settle their accounts Ha ha
saw the pint, and wuz forced to take the
| back track. l can't go. Is it not a burnin
shame that paltry bill, at the bar Of paItry
croserv. sbood keep me from locatin in State
where the Democracy, by sheer impudence, kin
bully Abilishen majority NV sixty thousand
in 10 ooin hack on their principles and into ac-