The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1867-07-26

cOnflictin ideas that work ag;n US
Therefore, L want D Nashnell Con-
venshun. / want 8 convocashen Nv
the lights Nv the party to set forth
authoritatively why We oppose mig
ger suffrage-to give a reeson for it,
that all our people may act together,
ez other well regulated machines
Let US cum together and ishoo our
manifesto, that we may know per-
cisely the pertikler line NV argument
to pursoo.
! | shell be at that convershun, and
/ hev made up my mind wot platform
to lay down. l shell go back on
Ham, Hager and Onesimus--I shel
turn from the inferiority idea and
take the broad ground that the mig
ger is q beast-that he amt man
at all, and consekently he hez no
more rites than any other animal. l
put my foot onto him by authority
NV the decree that unto man wuz Civ
en- dominion over the beasts-that
we are men and they are beasts. FL
they admit the first proposition, they
will the last. / shell assert boldly
and boldly his onfitnes to mingle with
US becoz his phizzikle structure, his
muscles, nerves, fibres bein different,
90 to show that he wuz NV different
origin and NV lover origin. / shell
plant myself on the stupenjus yet
simple proposition that the Almighty
made him. probably, but at q differ
ent time and for a different purpis,
wich | shell show by citin the color
Nv his skin, the length NV his foot,
the shape NV his he'd, and sich other
matters as | kin sit together in time
for the convenshen.
Wv course this doctrine will meet
with objectors. We hev a few thin
skinned professors NV religion, whose
piety service in our ranks hezn't
quite obliterated, who will say that
these dogmas undermines the Chris
tian religion, ez it destroys the doc
trim NV the unity NV the races onto
which orthodoxy is built. To this
shel answer, that sposin it does, wot
then? Wv wot comparison is any
religion Orthodox IDemocrathez, to
a triumph Nv the party? Wot hez Di-
mocrisy to do with religion any howl
1t hez never permitted it to mix in
Its pollytix. Dimocrisy bleeves in
keepin Church and State ez far apart
ez possible.
Shood the Ablishnists pint to mig
gers wich reed and write, / should
say to wunst that there is different
degrees NV instink-that eZ one dore
hez more instink than another, that
so one nigger hez more than another,
and then l shood wind this answer
up by askin him, Sir, wood voc
force your dawter to marry a Niger
even eff he Good reed and write 2
This hez alluz done good service
pertikelerl eff 700 walk hurridly away
before there is time for an answer.
There is one pint which is STUN
iper, but only one. One man to which
l unfolded this theory asked me
sneeringly wat waz going to dc
with u mulatter who wuz half white
and half black-half man and hal
beast-half instink wich dies witt
him, and half sole witch WIZ to b'
saved and fitted for the skies or lost
When n mulatter dies wat then p
Does the half sole NV the half MAI
drag the instink Nv the beast behind
it in a limpin, lop- sided fashion into
heaven, or does the instink drag th'
sole into the limbo for animals? "E
this latter idea be correct" sed he
''in that limbo how much Southern
sole is floatin about. held in soloosh,
en- in animal instink -
An old friend NV mine in Kentucky
become indignant when I PROFOUND
ed the beast theory to him, and hC
threatened me with corporeal punish.
ment eff / didn't quit his presence,
wieh I did, to wunst Alas for the
imprudence nv Jealous men! Before
sr.akin tn him on the suhjeck ]
didn't notis the skores NV hrite weller
Children all about the place, rangin
from the infant NV six months to the
boy NV sixteen, and all NV en- with
his nozei But, notwithstandin these
drawbacks, it's the most helthy doc
trine we've got, and the only ground
upon which we can stand sekoorly.
1t civers the ground, and besides
it don't interfere with anybody else's
idea. The orators wich imploar the
people ef they want to marry mig
gers, kin make the sppele with more
force after assertin that the nigger is
beast, and the anshent virgins, who
will this fall bear the banners onto
wich will he proudly inscribed, "We
want no niggers for husbands" will
hear EN- still more defantly, for, eff
they RELY bleeve the doctrine, they
will be in earnest in it.
At all evence let the Conyenshun
be called, that this question may be
settled. Let US all stand on wun
platform, that we may make the most
nv this god-senG Let us mscribe
onto our banner the lnskripshen,
'Ameriky fur White Men T. "Eter
nal hostility TO Animile Sufrrager'
ard go In to win. Ef the Amerkin
people don't shy at Niger Suffrage
LA,