Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1867-11-09

where the drippin Nv the rain from the
roof wood do suthin towards soberin him
off, and left him alone in his glory.
The Amendment got but very few
votes in that locality. The Republicans
iined us in repudiatin it, mostly OH eth
nologikle grounds. One asserted that he
he'd bin in favor Nv emancipashen in time
NV war, becoz the nigger Good thereby
be indooced to fite agm their Southern
masters, and it wood hev the effeck NV
maxim the draft come'lightet in his towp-
ship, He wuz humanitarian likewise.
He opposed crooelty towards EN-. lie
wept when he heered ay the massacre at
Fort Paler, becoz in the army the nigger
| waz az much man ez anybody, and sich
wholesale slaughter tended to make calls
for $500, 900 more" frekent But when
it cum to givin EN- the privilege Nv votin
beside him, it coodent be thot nv. He
Good never consent that people whose
heels were longer than his shood rool
Ameriky. Only God," sed this ardent
Republican, get yol give them the ballot,
wat kin prevent EN- from bein CoRgris-
men, Senators, Vice Presidents, and even
Presidents? | shudder when l think ny
it." and he hurried in his vote.
l didn't quite see the force NV his OBJ
;ecshen, for it never occurred to me that
bein sent to Congress WIZ the material
conscience Nv yotin. | hev voted for
thirty years, at many elections four or
five times, but hev never bin to Con-
girls. Where is the constituency wieh
wood eject me? But it wuzc't my biznis
to controvert lis posishen. 1t made no
difference to me wat his reason wuz for
yotin ez | desired him to vote.
The nigger-lovers beat Up one man to
vote for the Amendment, wicil, saw by
his dissatisfied lock, he'd bin over per
swa,leG. ''Sir!' sed |, "do you consider
the Atrikin suffishently intelligent to be
trusted with so potent weapon ez the
BALLOT"
Dustin away from ttem which he'd him
in charge he exclaimed, mo | don't. |
can't vote for it. They don't know enuf.
Sir, scratch off the Yes from my ballot,
and put onto it 'No!'
''IIere is a pensil," sed l.
''Do it yersclf," sed he, a can't write"
And did it. Sich is the effeck NV Il
word in season. Words fitly spoken IL
apples NV of gold, set in picturs nv silver.
One man woodent listen to me but
votid the Amendment. He he'd bin
-soier, and for eleven months partook NV
the hospitalities NV the Contedri;s at An
dcrsonvilr. Escapin, he wuz helpt to
the Fedril Lines by nigger who wuz
fogged almost to death, i'll his site, for
not bctrayin where he r~z hid. mite
ez well hev talked to a lamp post. Ez
'he showed in his ballot, he remarkt suthin
about he'd ruther see Il nigger vote than
a ID rebel, any time. From the dirck-
shen nv his eye site, | presoom he refer
red to me.
left tor home ez soon ez the votes
wuz eoanted, and the result made known,
only waitin till the poll books WIZ made
out, and the Judges nv election he'd got
their names written by the clerks, and
he'd made their marks to EN-. On my
way home | wuz gratified to see how the
Datural antipathy to the niger he'd re-
vivcd At Cincinnati the mite NV the
clekshun they wuz bangin nv en- about,
the patriotic Democrisy goin for EN-
wkeEeyer they could find EN-, and the
next day cz I saw them at the raleroad
stashenS, they he'd, generally speakin,
ther he,Is banGagcd. 1t wuz cheerin to
me, and | gloated over it.
Fall ny gladnis, | entered Kentucky,
and joyiully l wended my Way 80 the
Corners. wuz the bearer Nv great IL
dins NV Joy, and my feet wuz pleasant
onto the mountins. Ez | walked into
Bascom's they AL SAW in Ry face suthin
Nv Importance.
"Wat is it?H SAID Dcekin Pogram. "Is
it veal or xoe?'
"Is the proud Ca~casApea SILL in the
ascendant i'll Ohio, or hez the grovelin
Afrikin ground him into the dust?" asked
lsaker Gavitt.
''My friend" sed I, takin up the
Deekin's whisky, wich in eggsitement
NV the moment, he didn't observe, Con
stitooshnel AmendlmGSenit, sgivia t:he nigger
ckal rites, 4ez bin votid down by the lib
erty-lovip freemen NV Ohio. Three
cheers for Ohio"
They wus given with n will. The
Widest enthoosiasm WIZ Awakened
Bascom put in fresh spigot in fresh
bari, and the church bells WIZ set q ring
in. The niggers wore dismayed look,
and got out NV the way ez soon ez posi-
ble. A meetin wuz to wuntz organized.
Deekin Pogram spoke. He felt that this
wuz a glad day Light wuz breakin.-
The GarL cloud NV fan ,ti, ism wuz break
in away. We hel now the Afrikin un-
der our feet. We hcv got him i'll his
normal condishcn in Ohio, and please
God we will soon bev him likewise in
Kentucky. He moved the adoption NV
the resolooshens.
WHEREAS, Noer Gust Canaan and con-
demned him to be a servant unto bis
brethren, thereby elecriy indicltin the
status to be one NV interiority; and 2.
WHEREAS, To further show to the eyes
nv the most obtoc Sc that a difference
wuz intended, the Aimighty gave the
nigger different notwithstanding,
for full partiklers wv wich sec the speeches
NV the Democratic stumpers' doorin the
campane; and
WHEREAS, The attempt TO place the
nigger on an ckality with the white in
votin ez we'll ez taxashen, we consider
the sappin NV the very foundashens w
civil liberty, ez well cz NV the Christshen
religion, therefore.