Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1867-07-26
NASBY.

Mr. Nasby Insists that the Democracy hold
a Natioaay Conoe1tion at once, to Define
tile Position Of that Party upon an I'M
portGnt Question:.
PosT OFF1s, CoNFEDRIT X ROADS,
(Which is in the Staff Nv Kentucky
July 10, 1867.
In castin my eye carelessly over the
noljtikle field, witch Seward and me do
every sixty days, think kin spy into the
horizon q bud which is swellin into most
hopeful flower. 1t is spreadin itself into
hurricane witch threatens to sweep away
the fabric Nv Ablishnism and purify the
politikle atmosphere. The Kadikle party
hev been at last forced to adopt the leglti-
nit endin Nv their sooicidle principles,
Niger suffrage, and from that the Dmok-
risy, eff they are wise will snatch triumph
litrally from the jaws OF death. WE HEV
EN- NOW. In Ohio that question is to be
voted onto this fall--in Moo York and
Michigan its raisin breeze in their Con-
venshuns; and in Pennsyvany, llllnoy and
Indiana it cant be long put OIL. It's our
best holt--the proud Caucasian wlch votes
the Dimercratic tikkit hez no obJecShun
to bein jostled by the niger in the rush
to pay taxes, but his hawty soul recoils at
at the idee Nv bein elbowed by him at the
polls. Besides the Dimercratic voters
don't want the ballot given TO eny other
lower class 1t would make undue compe-
tishen Ez | remarked, WE'VE GOT EN-.
Wat the Democrisy want now Is to han
die thus delikit subject 30 ez to make the
most Nv it.
The great trouble with the party is that
there is no uniform style Nv meetin this
all agreed We all oppose Niger Suffrage.
Its part and parcel NV the Dlmokrats
nacher to oppose niger suffrage. The
leaders Nv the party opposed it at the be-
ginnin, for seem how the ballot wuz abused
by ther followers they trembled for the
Republic eff it wuz entrusted to the hands
uyrany more Nv ekal capacity, and the
masses NV the organization opposed givin
it to the niger, becoz that one privilege,
and color Wuz all that distinguished EN-.
It's pecoolyarity Nv unregenerated human
nacher that it must alluz bear down on
somebody. The poet seq:
g Even the lice hev smaller ones to bite EN-,
And they still smaller ones, dd tntinitNm.'
Fortunately, the democracy hev the mig
Ger for their smaller lice. The sturdy yeo-
manry felt it to be soothin thing to find,
wunst each year, that in one thing at least
he wuz sooperior to sumbocdy, and 30 it
will be so long ez ther is q Dimokracy.
The troo Dimocrat promotes hisself, not by
liftin hisself above the level onto witch he
finds hisself, but by shovin some wun down
to a lower level, and ez there wusnt any
boldly else on this Continent witch they
Good git hold NV, the niger wuz, long ago,
selected fur that purpose
The great trouble is we oppose nigger
suffrage now from too many stand pints.
Some oppose it on the score Nv the inferi
ority Nv the African, but that never wuz o
popler idee with our people. They may
hev assented to it outwardly, but in their
own minds they objected. Eff SEE a
reliable Dimocrat to hisself, "ef that's
the rool, WAT IN THUNDER is TO BECOME
Nv ME?"
Likewise the idee NV onfitness, witch
others Nv our apossels advance. "They
cant read not ritei" shreeks inioodi-
sinus cuss, speekin to audience two thirds
Nv witch go to him reglerly to reed the bal
lots to EN-, and who when they sign prom
1nissory notes, put an ID atween their first
and last names.
Anuther speaker quotes Noah to EN-,
and boldly asserts that the niger is the
descendent NV Ham, and that he is the
identikle indlvijjle witch wuz Gust by
Noah; but he runs agin the fact that the
rest NV EN- WITCH is in Africa yet, hev man.
aged to dodge the cuss cz they amt servin
their white brethren and them witch wuz
brot here to be christianized hev busted
their bands, and are jes' about ez free, SC
far ez servitoood goes, ez ANYBODY.
There is, ez hev showed, all these con
f1ictin idees that work agin us. Therefore
I want Nashnell Convenshun. l want q
convocashen Nv the lights NV the party to
set forth authoritively WHY why we oppose
niger suffrage--to give a reason for it.
that all our people may act together, ez dc
other well reglated machines. Let us cum
together and issue our manifesto, that We
may know perclsely the pertIkler line uN
argument to pursoo.
/ shell be at that convenshun, and hey
made up my mind wot platform to lay down
I shell 90 back on Ham, Hager and Onesi
and take the broad ground that THE MIG
GER Is BEAsT-THAT HE Amt A MAI
AT ALL, and consistently he hez no NOR,
rites than any other animal / put nay
foot onto him by authority of the deere,
that unto man wuz given dominion owe
the beasts-that we are men and they ar,
beasts. Eff they admit the first PROPOSE
shen, they will the last. / shell assert bold
ly and brodly his onfitnis to mingle will
us becoz his fizzikle structure, his muscles
nerves, fibres, bein different, go to shoy
that he wuz NV different origin and Nv
lower origin. | shell plant myself on tn
stoopenjus yet simple proposishen that tn
Almity made him, probably, but at differ
ent time and for different purpus, witch
shell show by citin the color nv his Skin
the length NV his foot, the shape Nv hi
head and SIGH other matters as kin 81
together in time for the convenshen.
Nv course this doctrine will meet wit
directors We hey few thin-skinne
perfessers NV religion, whose piety servic
in our ranks hezn't quite obliterated, VIII
will saw that these dogmas undermines tn
Christian religion, ez 1T destroys the doc
trim NV the unity Nv the races onto vic
orthodoxy is built. To this | she, answe
that sposen it does, wot thens Wv We
comparison is any religion a Orthodo
Dimocrat hez, to a triumph Nv the party
Wot hez Dimocrisy to do with religion an
how? 1t hez never permitted 1t to mix
in its poliytix. Dimocrisy bleeves in keel
in Church and State ez far apart ez poss
BILE.
Shood the Ablishnists pint to niggel
witch reed and write, I shood say towun
that there is different degrees NV instink-
that ez one dorg hez more instink tina
another, so one Niger hez more instin
than another, and then / shood wind tn
answer up by askin him, Sir, wood yo
force yoor dawter to marry niger, eve
eff he Good reed and write" This hi
alluz done good service, pertikelerly eff ye
walk hurridly away before there is TIN
for an answer.