The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1867-08-01
OTTUMWA, IOWA, THURSDAY AUGUST l. 1867.

wich others of our apostles advance
"1hey can't read nor ritc!" shreeks
a injoodishus cuss, speaking to au.
dience two thirds NV wich 90 to him
rcglerly to reed their ballots to en-
and who, when they sign promissory
notes, put an n atween their first
and last names.
i Anuther speekcr quotes Noah to
EN-, and boldly asserts that the mig
ger is the defendant Of Ham, and
that he is the idcntikleindivijile wich
wuz Gust by Noah, but he runs agin
the fact that the rest NV en-. witch is
lin Afrika yet, hev managed to doge
the cuss, ez they aint servin ther
white brethren, and them wich wuz
brot hero to be chrischinized hcv
bustid ther bonds and are Jest about
ez free, SO fur ez servitood goes ez
ennvbod y.
There is, ez / hev showed, allthese
confictin ideas that work agin u.s.
Therefore, / want q Nashnell Con-
vcnshun. ] want Convcnshun nv
the lights nv tho party TO set forth
authoritively why We oppose nigger
suffrage-to give reason for it, that
all our people may act together, ez
do other well-regulatcd machines
Let us cum together and ishoo our
manifesto, that we may know pre-
tisely the pertikler line NV argument
to pnrsoo.
shel be Mt that convenshen, and
! hcv made up my mind wat platform
to lay down. l shel go back on
Ham, Hagar and Oncsimus-I shel
turn from the inferiority idea and
take the broad ground that THE
NIGGER is A BEAsT-THAT HE Amt A
MAN AT ALL, and consckently he hez
no more rites than any other animal.
| put my foot onto him by the au-
thcrity of the decree that unto man
wuz given the dominion over the
beasts-that we are men and they
arc beasts. fthcy admit the first
proposition, they will the last. / shell
assert boldly and brodIy his confirms
to mingle with Us becoz his fizzikle
structure, his muscles, nerves, tibres,
bein different, go to show that he
wuz ur different origin and NV q
lower origin. | shell plant myself on
the stoopenjus yet tsimple proposishen
that the Almity made him, pre- baby,
but at different time and for diff
ent purpus, wich | shel show by citin
the color Nv his skin, the length nv
his foot, the shape NV his head, and
sich other matters as / kin git to-
gether in tima tor the convenshcn.
Wv course this doctrine will meet
with objectors. We hcv few thin.
skinned perfessers Nv religion, whose
piety service in our ranks bezn't
quito .obliteratcd, who will say tnat
dogmas undermines the Christian re-
ligion, ez it destroys the doctrin nv
the unity Nv the races onto wich or
thodoxy is built. TO this I shell an
swer, that sposin it does, wat then ?
Wv wot comparison is any religion a
Orthodox Democrat hez, to a triumph
NV the party? Wot hez Dimocrisy to
do with religion anyhow? II hez new.
er permitted 1t to mix in it's pollytix.
Dimocrisy bleeves in keepin Church
and State ez far apart ez possible.
Shood the Abiishnists pint to Mig
gers wich reed and rite, l shood say
to wunst that there is different de-
grees Nv instinck-that ez one dorg
hez more instinck than another, that
SO one niger hez more than another,
and then | shood wind this anser up
by askin him. "Sir, wood you force
yoor dawter to marry a niggcr, even
ef he Good reed and rite?' This hez
aliuz done good service, partikclerly
ef 700 walk hurridlv away before
there is time for an answer.
Their is ono pint wich is a stumper,
but only one. One man to whom l
unfoldel this theory asked me SINGER
inly wat | wuz a goin to do with n
mnlattcr who WIZ half white and
half bIack-half man and half beast
half instink wich dies with him.
and, half sole wich wuz to be saved
and fitted tor the skies, orlost. When
. mulattcr dies wat then? Does the
half sole NV the half man drag the
instink nv the beast behind it in o
limpin, lop-sided fashion into heaven,
or does the instink drag the sole into
the limbs for animals Z? "Ef this hat
ter idea be correct sed he, 'in that
iimboO how much Southern sole is
floatin about, held in solooshcn in an
imal instink!"
| An old friend NV mine in Kentucky
become indignant wen | propounded
the beast theory to him, and he
threatened me with corporeal pun
ishment eff didn't quit his presence,
w:ch / did to wnnst. Alas for tho
imprudence Of jealous men Before
speekin to him on the suhjcck
didn't notis the scores NV brito yeller
children all about the place, rangil,
from the infant inv six months to the
boy Nv sixteen, and'all Nv en- with
his nose!
But, notwithstandin these draw.
backs it's the most healthy doctrine
we've got, and the only ground upon
wich we kin standsekoorly. 1t kivers
the gronnd, and besides it don't in,
tcriere with any body else's idea. The
orators wich implore the people 81
they want to marry niggers kin make
the appeal with more force after as
sertin that the niger is a beast, and
y the anshent virgins, who will this