The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1867-10-31

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Mr.. Nasty Assists in the Ohio
EIectiOn---Thc Defeat of the
Amendment --- How it was
Received at the Corners.
PosT OFFICE 0oNFEDRIT, x ROADS, J
(Which is in the Stait Nv Ky.,)
Oct. IL, 1867.
Eeolin that the time he'd arrived
wich wuz to beside whether 1000
degraded niggers wuz to grind
100000 proud Caucashens into the
dust, | felt that ef sbood fail in my
dooty now, / shood be forever dis
graced. Accordingly. l put in the
elecshun day at q Dimocratic town
in :, OhioF+the battle. field the
identiklo place into which l made
speech doorin the campane.
. l arrived ther on tho mornin Nv
the elekshun, and found thet com
prehensive arrangements he'd bin
made for defeatin this most nefa-
rus and dangerous proposishen.
Paradin tho streets ez early ez I
A. NJ, wuz wagon containing %
virgins, runnin from 25 10 Al, tho
most, Nv them ruther wiry,in tex
ture, and over their heads wuz
banners with. the, tolerin r techin
inscriptions: "Fathers, save US
from Niger EkalityI" white
Husbans or nunr' 1t wood hey
bin better, l thot, he'd they bin
somewhat younger. Their wuz
suthin. preposterous in tho ice NV
females nv that age callin upon
fathers to save om from anything,
whom in tho course Nv nacher them
fathers must bev bin alyin in the
silent tomb for several consecutive
yeers, onless, indeed, they married
young. Ifstill livin, Qjudgc from
the aged appearance NV the dam
sels) their parents must be too tar
advanced inyeers to.takcany activ
part in, biznis. In another wagon
wuz a colleckshun Nv men wicl
he'd BIN hired from the railrode
twelve miles distant, whose ban
ners red ."Shel ignerent niggeri
vote before intelligent white men :?
and tho follerin verse:
psher piggers black this land possess 2
And rool us whites ppherel
oh no, my friends, we rather, guess
Well never stand that ere.''
1t okkurd TO me that it wood he
done better he'd their spellin biz
moro akkerit, but upon inquiry
found that 1T didn't make no differ
cnce. That wuz the prevailin way
of spellin thingsn that vicinity
Hangin over the polls wuz = broa,
pcaco Nv white muslin, onto wic|
wuz. painted ip large letters, "Cau
cashehs, Respeck yer. Noses--tb
nigger stinksl" Then knowc
il wuz safe. That odor hez neve
yot bin resisted by the Demo
cresy, and it hez it's influence ovc
Republicans.
X never saw sich enthposiasm, Q
more cheerin indicashuns NV th
pride NV race. Ez evidence Nv tn
deep fcelin that pervaded tina
community, state tbatnine pat
pers in the poor house dcmande
to be taken to the polls that the
Mite entertBeir protest agin brins
in the uigger up to q ekality wit
en-, wich wuz nine gain with Z
offsets, ez ther want an Ablisl
mist in the institooshun. Two me
nrtho r county, sjale for petty Rl
ceny wuz, at their own rekest, Ia
on out, of doorance yilo by Il
Sheriff of the county, that the
mite, by the ballot, protest ag
bein degraded by bein eompelle
when their time wuz out, to .
knowledge the Niger ez ther ekl
One enthusiastic Dimekrat wi
costus S5,' he'd to be carried to Il
polls. He he'd commenced ear
at ono NV the groserics, and h
succumbed afoFe yotln. We fouI
him sleepin peacefully In . bal
Welifted tho patriotic man, and
percesshun. marched to the pol
We stood hin, on his feet, two m
supportin him--onc on either SIC
Tpnt a straight ticket into his +
gers, and talxin his wrist with 9
hand, held his fingers togeth
with tother, and guided his ha
to the box. Exit neared the W
der, hestarted ez Of a electric she
he'd struck him, andSstraigtenin
asked: us itthe shtrate tick,
Is.Constooshnel Amindmipt \
onto It r. S Nj
\. Ashoorin him that itwnz
rite, he suffered me to hold
hand QUITO theJudge nv Eleksh
,rho tooltha ballot and dopoHl