The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1867-10-03

'Agreein,' sed he, with wat the speeker is
sayin, beg to ask question fur enlitenment
/ l am Kentuckian.'
'Ror fur Kentacky!' shouted the auience.
Bowin. Bigler perceded. There wnz lurkin
devil in his eye wich afflicted me muchly.
/ EFF understand tie speaker, he holds that
the nigger of permitted to vote becomes 20
much our soshal ekal that we must take him to
our buzzums-that we must marry the femails
and our gushen darters forthwith tie theirselves
| to the mails Nv that cussid race Is it sof
/ 1t is retortid /. go 6s
My blood biles when l think nv it. Ef I
recollect arite, contnood Bigler the laws Nv
Ohio permits al! nggers to vote who are only
half black. Ez there are . good many mulat-
toes in this regin, the produx NV the loose ekal-
ity Nv the races over the river, there must hev
bin, ever sinse that law passed, much Nv that
kind Nv marryin here. May l be permitted to
ask this oppressed people who hev suffered 30
from this unnatural state Nv affares, how they
like It! Is yoor wife niger. sir sed he, adj
d:essin the Secretary. and ef so. don't yoo feel
the humiliatin posishen yoor in, compelled ez
yoo iwuz. by the forse Of Dimokratic crcum-
stances, to marry her, to take her to yoor buz-
zum. the mint her father got vote? It's enuf
to drive . man into Ablishnism to escape it,
Ny brethren sed this Bgler, .Pd advise yoo
all to abjoor Dimocrisy. Up North, the mint
the nigger gifts a vote yoo are forsed to legal
HSSSS6CuASnuu-OoWu COuIn, the 4mn1ty Oim.
ocrisy hez for niggers, hez beached out tho raoe
to the color molasses. Thei e;s no hope fur
700. save in Ablishnism wich hez the happy
kkulty NV doin justis to em without marryin
emf And he stalkt out
It didn't make no difference. They didn't
Know what he wux talkin about. The word
'messegenashen' struck em with amusement
from wich they didn't recover till we left. In
speakin to SIGH aujences, men must be keerful
Nv the words they yoose. @
hnisht my speech. The meetin then re-
solved they wuz better than niggers; that they
never wood consent to be taxed fur the benefit
Nv puss- proud aristocrats; that the bonds shod
be taken up with greenbax; that there shud Be
return to speshe payment to wunct, and that
they were willin to give millions, Of need be, to
resist usurpashen, but not one cent in taxes in .
unconstitooshnel manner @
This resolooshen wuz passed, wen . collec-
shen wuz taken up to pay fur the candles. But
alas! There wus'nt nary . cent in the house,
and he'd to pay fur 'em myself. Another lit
tie incident didn't please me. Tho Stait Cent
raj Committee he'd furnisht me- ez it does all its
speakers. with twenty dollar gold piece. and
nifty dollar bond, wich wuz to exhibit, to show
the difference between Abishen and Dmokrat-
&c money. showed em at the people, and il
excited ,em to madnis I laid EN- on the table
afore me. Wen the meetin wus adjurned they
wus gone! Who took EN-? know not; but
this do know. that the Cheerman NV the mee-
TIN he'd. next mornin, new pare of shoes and
. new hat, and wus talkin dor btfully Nv the
propriety Nv taxin bonds. l go frum here to
Pennsyivania to fill some appointments in that
Stait.
PETROLEUM V. NASBY, PM,
(Which is Postmaster.)