Indiana American. [volume] (Brookville, Ind.) 1865-1872, 1867-08-02
[WHOLE NO. 292.

flictin ideas that work agin as. Therefor
| want NashnelI Convenshun. Iwant
conyocnshen Nv the lights Nv the party I.
set forth why we oppose negro suffrsge--
TO Civ reason for 1t, that all our people
may act together. ez do other we'll regua
ted machines. Let US come together and
ishoo our manifesto, that We may know
percisely the pertikler lire Nv argument
TO pursoo.
shell bo at that Convenshen, and
hey made up my mind wot platform to laJ
down. / shell 60 back on Ham, Hagel
and 0nesimus; shell turn from the 10.
ferioriiy idea aud take the broad ground
that the niger Is beast. that he din
man Mt all, and consistently he hez nc
more rites than any other animal. / pul
my foot unto him by authority Of the de.
cree that unto man wuz given dominion
over the beasts-that we are men and the,
are beasts. Ef they admit the first propo.
sishen, they will the last. l shell assert
boldly and brodly his onfitness to minglc
with us becoz his fzzikle structure, his
muscles, nerves, fibres, bein different, 20
to show that he wuz NV different origin
and lower origin. shell plant myself
on the stoopenjus yet simple proposishen
that the Almity made him, probably, but
ut different tine and for different pur.
pus, wieh shell show by citin the color
Nv his skin, the lengLt Nv his foot, tho
shape NV his head, aud sieh other matters
as kin git together in time for tho con.
ycnsnen. .
n
Wv course this doctrine will meet with
objectors. We hev few thin skinned
'Perfessers Of religion, whose pieiy service
In cur ranks hezD't quite obitefa ted. who
will say that these dogmas undermines
the Christian religion, es 1t destroys the
doctrin OF the unity Nv tho races unto
which orthodoxy is built. TO this / shell
answer that sposin IL does, wot then? Nv
wot comparison in any religion Orthodox
Dimocrat hez, 10 atriumph Nv the party?
Wot hez Dimoerisy TO do with religion,
any how2 II hez never permitted Il TO
mix In its pollytix. Dimocrisy believes
In keeping Church and State as Car apart
cz possible. 's'''
shood the Ahlishnists pint 10 nirrers
wioh reed and write. should say to. wunst
that there Is different degrees Nv instinck
That as one dorg hez moro ins,ink than
another, that so one nigger has more than
adother aud then shood wind this An.
swer up by askin him, "Sir, wood YOU
force your dawter TO marry Niger. oven
ct hc Good reed and writer This has
alluz done good service, partickelerly eff
700 walk hurridly away before thcre is
time for al answer
There Is one pint wich Is stumpcr,
but only one. Ono man TO whom un.
folded this theory asked mo sneeringly
wat wuE goin to do with n mulatter
who wuz half white and half blaok-half
man and half beast--half instiuk wich
dies with him, and haf sole wich wuz TO
be saved and fitted for the skies or lost.
When a muatter dies wat them? Does the
half sole Nv the half man drag the instink
Of the beast behind IL in limpin, lop
sided fashion into heaven, or does the In.
stink drag the sole into the limbo for an.
imals? "Ef this latter idea be correct"
sed he, ''in that limbo how much Southern
sole is foatin about, held In solooshen in
animal nstinkl'
An old friend NV mine in Kentucky
become indignant wen | propounded the
beast theory to him, and ho threatened me
with corporcal punishment eff didn't
quit his presence, wich did to wunst.
Alas for the imprudence of jealous men
Before speekin to him on the subjeck |
didn't notis the skorcs Of brite, yeller
children all about the place, rangin from
the infant uv six months to the boy Nv
sixteen, and all Nv en- with his noze
But, notwithstandin these drawbacks,
it's the most healthy doctrine we've got,
and the only ground upon which We kin
stand sekoorly. 1t kivers the ground,
and. besides, il don't interfere with any
body else's idea. The orators wich i'm
plore the people ef they want TO marry
nlggers, kin make the appeal with more
lorce after asscrtin that the niger is
BEAST and the anshent virgins who will
thif fall bear the banners onto wich will
be proudly inscribed, "We want no mig
gers for husbands" will bear EN- still
more de6antly; for il they rccly bleeve the
doctrine they will be in earnest in it,
At all evence, let the Convenshun be
called, that this question may be settled.
Let us all stand on one platform. that VIC
may make the most Nv this god sen. Let
us inscribe onto our banner the inskrip-
shen. "Ameriky fur white men, "Eter-
mel hostility TO Animel Suffragel" aud go
in to win. Eff the Amerikin people don't
shy at Niger Suffrage now, they never
will.
PETROLEUM V. Massey, PM.
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