The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1867-10-03

nigger or nothin. Give him the ballot, sir, and
Whatll distinguish us? Speek with an angels
tongue onto this theme beg"
The msetln was glorious one, and my speech,
one NV my most moovin efforts. My perorashen
moved me to teers. II was on meyer suffrage.
Depictin Its untold horrors / legged em to or
ganize-tO rally wunst more agin this common
enemy. There IL sed |, ''seYen thousand mig
ger males In the State Nv Ohio. Shel we peril the
liberties Nv the State by permittin them to ap-
prOuch the ark Nv our safety-the ballot box
SIel we raise EN- to the pint Nv bein our ekals
Shell we marry EN- and give EN- in marriage2
Shel we contaminate the pure stream of Anglo
Saxon blood, by mudlin 1t with the turbid streem
uv-
At that pint Stopt. Ny eve balls wuz scared.
Joe Bigler, wich / spoZed wuz hundred miles
away in Kentucky, wuz up in the aujunce
'Agreein, sed he, with wat the speeker is
sayin, ! beg 70 ask question for enlltenment.
am q Kentuckian."
"'Ror for Kentucky"
Bowin, Bigler perceeded. There wuz lurkin
devil in his eye wich afflicted me.
''Ff understand the speeker, he holds that the
nigger eff permitted to vote, becomes 80 much
our soshel ekal that we must take him to our bo-
sOms-that we must marry the females, and our
gushin daughters forthwith tie themselves TO the
males NV that accursed race. Is it SOP"
'It is !" retorted l.
NY blood biles when think nv It. Eff recoect
arite the laws NV Ohio permits all niggers to vote
who arc only half black. Ef there arc good
Many mulattoes in this region, the produx Nv the
loose ekality Nv the races over the river there
must hev bn ever sence that law passed, much
nv that kind NV marry in here. NAV | be permit
ted to ask this oppressed people, who hey suffered
so from this unnatural state of affairs, how they
like it 2 Is yoor wife nigger, sir ?" sed he ad-
dressin the Sekretarv, land ef so, don't yoo feel
the humatin posishen yoor in, compelled. ez
VOC wuz, by the force Nv Dimekratc circum-
stances to marry her to take her to yOor bosom,
the mint her father got vote Pits enutf to drive
a man into Ablishnism to escaped 1t. Ny brethren !"
sed this Bigler, "Id advise 700 all to aboor Dem
ocrisy. Up North, the mint the nigger gifts
vote yoo are forced to legal messegenashun-
down South the affinity Dimocrisy hez for Mig
gers. hez bleached out the race to the color NV
molasses There's no hope for yoo, save in Alb
lishnism, wich hez the happy takulty Nv doin
justs to EN- without marvin em!" And he
stalkt out
1t didn't no make difference. They didn't know
what he wuz talkin about. The word "messe-
genashen" struck EN- with amazemCnt from wich
they didn't recover till we left. In speekin to
sich aujences, meu must be keerlul Nv the words
they yO0se.
finisht my speech The meetin then resolved
they wuz better than niggers that they never
wood consent 50 be taxed for the benefit Nv purse
proud aflSLOcraGS; LndJ buo JULIUS shOou uS Ihhcu
up with greenbax; that there shood be return
to specie payment to wunst and that they were
wiln to give millions, ef need be, TO resist
usurpashen, but not one cent in taxes In uncon-
sttutional manner.
This resolooshn wuz passed, when q coek sim
wuz taken up to pay Tor the candles. But alas!
There wuznt nary a cent in the house, and he'd
10 pay for em myself. Another little incident
didn't please me. The State Central Committee
he'd furnished me, ez it does all its speakers, with
q twenty dollar gold piece, and fifty dollar bond,
wich was to exhibit, to show the difference be-
tween Abolishn and Democratic money. Ishov-
ed en- at the people, and it excited em to madnis
laid EN- on the table afore me. When the
meeting wuz adjourned, they wuz gone Who
took EN-? | know not; but this do know, that
the Cheermau Nv the lneetin he'd, next morn in,
new pare NV shoes and hat and wuz talkn
doublfully Nv the prOpriety NV taXin bonds.
go from here to Pennsylvania, to fill some ap-
pUintments in that State.
PETROLEUM V. Nasty, P. NJ.
(Wch is Postmaster)