Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1867-10-30
Written for the Toledo Blade.l
NASBY.
Mr.: Aasby Assists at the Ohio Election
-Ehe Defeat of the Amendment
How il was Received at the Corners.
PoST OFFICE CoNFEDRIT X ROADS,
Which is in the Stait Nv Ky.)
October u, 1867.

Caucashens into the dust, l felt thai
ef shood fail in my dooty now l shooc
be forever disgraced. Accordingly
put In the elecshun day at q Dimoers
town IN Ohio-the battle-feld-the
indentikle place into wich made &
speech doorin the campane.
arrived ther on the mornin Nv the
elekshun, and found that comprehen
sive arrangements he'd bin made for
defeatin this most nefarus and danger
GUS proposishen. Paradin the streets
ez early ez I A NJ, wuz a wagon con
tainin % virgins, runnin from p to Al
the most Nv EN- rather wiry IN texture
and over their heads wuz banners with
the follerin techin inscriptions =
Fathers, save Us from Niger Eksli
ty J" White Husbands or nun % Ii
wood hev bin better, l thot. he'd they
bin somewhat younger. There wu1
suthin preposterous n the ice Nv fe
males Nv that age calm upon fathers
10 save em from anything, when in the
course nv nacher them fathers must
hev bin lyin in the silent tombs for
several years, unless, indeed, they mar
ried young. If still liVin, II Judge
from the aged appearance Nv the dam.
sels,) their parents must be'too far adj
Vanced in years 10 take any active part
in biznis. In another wagon wuz 8
collecshun Nv men wieh he'd bin hired
from the ralerode, twelve miles dis
tant, whose banners red /: "Shel Ig
nerent niggers vote beside intilligint
White men ?" and the follerin verse
Shall niggers black this land possess.
And rool us whites up hereI
Oh no. my friends. we ruther guess
Wen never stand that ere.'
1t okkurred TO me that it wood hev
done better he'd their spellin bin more
akkerit, but upon inquiry found that
it didn't make no difference. That
wuz the preVailin wayug spellin things
in that vicinity. Hsngin over the polls
wuz a broad peece w muslin, onto
which wuz painted in large letters,
"Caucashens, Respeck yer Noses-the
Niger stinksl" Then [ knoWed it wUz
safe. That odor hez never yet bin re-
sisted by the Democresy, and it hez its
infooence over Republicans.
| never saw sich enthoosissm, or
more cheerin indicasnens Nv the pride
Nv the race. Ez evidence Nv the deep
feelin tina: pervsded that community,
[ state that nine paupers in the poor
house demanded TO be taken in body
to the polls that they mite enter their
protest sgin the niger up to an eksli
" with EN-, wieh wuz nine gain with
no offsets, ez there wuzn't an Ablish.
mist in the institooshen. Two men in
the county jale for petty larceny wuz,
at their rekest, taken out Nv dOorance
vile by the Sheriff, that they mite, by
the ballot, protest agin beln degraded
by bein compelled, when their time
wuz out, to acknowledge the niger ez
their eksl. One enthusiastic, who
cost us IS, he'd to be carried to the
to the polls. He had commenced ear
ly at one Nv the groseries, and sue
cumbd afore votin. We found him
sleepin peacefully in barn. We lift
ed the patriotic man, and in perces-
shun marched to the polls. We stood
him on his feet, two men supportin
hlm-one on each side. | put g
straight ticket into his fingers, and ta-
kin his wrist in one hand, held his
fingers together with tother, and guild
I'd his hand 10 the box. Ez it neared
The winder, he started ez if an electric
shock he'd struek him, and straighten-
n up asked: lis it the strste ticket? !?
Is Constitutional Amindmint No onto
/ ?"
Ashoo-in him that it wuz all rite, he
me to hold his hand out to
he Judge NV Elekshen, who took the
ballot and deposited it in the box. -
Thank HiVin !" sed he, ''the nagur is
lot yet my ayquil," and doublin up at
he thigh and knee joints, he sunk
imberlIke and gently to the ground
e. be he'd discharged the duty NV an
Amerikin citizen, we rolled him out to
me side Nv the house, where the drip
lin Nv the rain from the roof wood do
uthin towards soberin him of, and
eft him alone in his glory.
The Amendment got but very few
-otes in that locality. The Republi- |
zins lined US in repudiatin it, mostly |
IN ethnologikle grounds. One assert
d that he he'd bin in favor Nv eman-
ipashen in time nv war, beeoz the mig
.er Good thereby be indooced to fite
gin their Southern masters, and it
Food hev the etfeck Nv maxim the
lraft come lighter il his township
lie suz a Humanitarian likewise. He
opposed crooelty towards EN-. He wept /
Then heerd Nv the massacre at Fort
'iller, becoz in the army the nigger
Tuz ez much q man ez anybody, and
ich wholesale slaughter tended to
make calls for "500, 600 more" frekent.
;ut when it cum to giVin EN- the priv
ege Nv votin beside him, it coodent
9 thot uY. He Good never consent
nat people whose heels were longer
nan his shood rool Ameriky. My
cd" sed this ardent Republican, "ef
on give EN- the ballot, wat kin pre-
ent EN- from bein Congrismen, Sena-
,rs, Vice Presidents, aud even Presi-
ents shudder when l think Nv
:" and he hurried in his vote. :
| didn't quite see the force Nv his !
biecshen, for it never occurred to me {
lat bein sent to Congress wuz the I
ateral conscience Nv Yotin. | heV 1
1ted for thirty years, at many cleo 1
ons four or 1--WE times, but -heV new 4
DIN to Congris- Where is the oou- 9
ituency Wich wood elect me? But it q
uzn't my biznIs to controvert his po- {
shen. 1t made no difference to me
at his reason wuz for VOtin ez 1 de- {
red him to vote.
The nigger-lovers beat up one man I
vote for the Amendment, wich, L
~ by his dissatisfied look, he'd bin s
Ter persuaded. "Sirw sed I, ''do you /
,nsider the Afrikin suffishently intel ]
gent to be trusted with so potent a s
eapon ca the bsllot?"
Dustin away from them which he'd
IN in charge he exclaimed, mo l q
1n't. l can't vote forit. They don't S
now enuf. Sir, scratch off the Yes Q
ON my ballot, and put onto it Mop
Here is a pensil," sed [.
"Do it yerself," sed he, 81 can't t
rite" L
And did it. Sich is the effeck Nv S
word in season. Words fitly spoken
apples Nv gold, set in picturs Nv sill c
rs. q
Cne man woodent listen to me but a
It'd the Amendment He he'd bin y
jer, and for eleven months partook a
the hospitalities Nv the Confedrits d
Andersonville Escapin, he wuz helpt il
the Fedril lines by a niger who wuz {
,gged almost to death, in his site, for b
It bet1ayin where he wuz hid. | s
ite ez well hev talked to lamp post. g
he showed in his ballot, he remarkt s.
thin about he'd ruther see a niger "
te than a id rebel, any time Is