The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1867-11-14
Nasty.

Nasty.
From the Toledo BlaGe.l
Posi- OFFICE, CoNrEDRRIT X ROADS,
(wlch is In the Staff OF Kentucky,
Oct. 80, 1867.
A meeting at the Corners to take Con-
srderation ofthe best and most Feasible
Methods no PRESCRIBING to the Democ
racy the States they ICON this Fail.
| wuz sittin in the Post offs, day
before yesterday cogitatin over the
glorious results NV the Ohio and
Pennsylvania elections, and hopin
Tor an ekally good report from Moo
York thinkln tho while that per-
haps CT my hopes wuz realized,
and such constooshnel Dimokrat cz
Pendleton or Seymour shood be elcc
ted, mite, in consideration NV my
long and I balavc valuable services
aspire to suthin higher, and better,
and more profitable than q postoflis,
SIGH ez ! All, at present holdin. do
not complain, for the posishcn hez
bin the means NV startin credit
upon witch ! hev lived thus far com.
Portable, but yet should prefer a
palace where the salary wood be suf.
ticient to give me enuff SO that Good
lay up suthin for old age. The time
is not far Off when my individooel
exertions Will not supply my wants
felt good over the victory, and il
seemed to me ez tho we ought to
speak, ez Kentuckians, to our breth-
ern North, instructor Nv EN- how to
hold the Salts witch they hev won
for us. When beside upon a pint
I always act, and SO it wuz this
time.
give motifs, by Issaker Gavit, that
tho Corners wood assemble at the
tootin NV tho horn, for the purpose
Of sendin forth the voice of Kentucky
to the Stats North. The evenir
come, the horn was footed from the
steps Nv the church, and the entire
Corners wuz there. Dcekin Pogran
was in his reglar seat, Issager Gavit'
wus in his sainted fathers place
wich hez gone hentz, Kernel McPel-
ter was there, and also the Others
who make up the male population w
the Corners, ard their wives. Il
wuz a glorious meetin, and wuz {
rubin my hands and feelin good at
the prospeck NV an improvin occa
shun, when, to my utter disgust,
saw the door open and Joe Bigler
who wuz born to be my pest, come
in, with Pollock and twenty or q
niggers, old and young male and fc-
male, white, yalIerand black, and al
NV EN- took seats together in the cor
ner of the church. / knowd by the
meek look Nv the niggers, and the
eggstreem quietood Nv Bigler him
self, that sumthin wuz up, witch wole
NV course develop itself. Bigler ant
Pollock generally develop.
] opened the meeting by remark
in that :he times wore an suspicious
look. The power Nv the niger il
Amerikin politics he'd bin demonstrs
ted. The niger he'd bin SO manipu
lated in Ohio and Pennsylvania as tt
give us these States, witch we coco
hold eff we choose. But the Dimoc
risy of Ohio and Pennsylvania he'd {
work to do, which they cannoct neg
fccr with r,rfery. Fiivy iIcsi tlecinfct
the niger inferior to the sCaucasher
which he undeniably is, and they
must keep him so. The niger mus
be kept eggsackly where he is tt
serve ez a irritant TO Democracy
OHIO gives the Niger Nv that State
certain facilities for learnin to rect
and rite, accomplishments which III
laborin class WITCH is to be guided
controlled and worked exclusively
by sooperior class, needs or hez any
biznis with. So soon ez a man be
gins to reed he begins to have an in
quirin mind, and begins to feel dis
satisfaction with his speere. lie
Ohio repeel these laws to wunst
that the niger may not
"Reverse the arrangement" sait
Joe Bigler, rising, "and git to b
sooperior NV tho the white. Is tina
it Perfesser?'
"Not eggsackly that" returned
not KNOWN what he was drivin at
E"but ez Hevin ordained the nigger
to be inferior to us, and serve us. i
looks rather dangerous to-
Give him chance to rise? That
what your gittin at, see. / am, ant
always wuz Dimocrat ez youknow
but don't shudder from that caus,
NOT any. l hev faith in the Lord
witch you appear to lack, witch j
strange, considerin yoor perfeshun
1 Eff my colored trends here wuz or
dained by the Almighty to alluz ok
kepy an inferior position to us, why
they'll do it anyhow, onless, indeed
we degrade ourselves below tbeil
level. Ell understand yoor idea, i
is that the proud Caucasian is tn
only favored race, witch fixes its owl
posishen itself, but that all othc
races he'd places assigned them, wicl
Godalmighty hevin fixed, they can
pas. This bein the case, watts tn
yoose, Perfesser, Nv our foolin ava,
orr time a tryin to strengthen hi
laws by any act Of ours? Ef the Al
mighty fixed it SO, kin we do an,
better than he?
"But sposn the niger, eff we don
keep down by law, shood rise abov'