The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1867-08-10
From the Toledo Blade
Nasty.

NASb1s
Mr.. Nasty INSISTS THAT THE DEMOCRACY HOLD
NATIONAL CONVENTION AT ONCE, TO DE-
FINE THE POSITION OF THE PARTY UPON AN
IMPORTANT QUESTION.
Posi- OFFS, CONFEDERIT X RoADs,
(Which is in the Stait NV Kentucky,)
July II, 1867.
In castn my eye carelessly over the po-
littikle field, witch Seward and me do every
sixty days, l think kin spy into the hori-
zon Il bud wich is swellin into most hope
full flower. 1t is spreadin itself into hur-
rleane wieh threatens to sweep away the fab
ric of Ablishnism and purify the polittikle
atmosphere. The Radikle party hev bin at
last forced to adopt the legitimit endin nv
their sooicidle incples-nigger suffrage
and from that the Dimokrisy, eff they are
wise, will snatch a triumph litrally from the
Jaws NV death. We hey EN- now. In Ohio
that question is to be voted onto this fall !;
in Moo York and Michigan it S raisn breeze
IN Their convenshnns, and in Pennsylvania,
lllinoy, and Indiana it can't be long put of
1t our best holt. The proud Caucasian
wich votes the Dimecratic tikket hez no OBJ
ieckshun to bein josslcd by the niger in the
rush to pay taxes, but his hawty soul recols
at the iIee nv bein elboweI by him at the
want the ballot given to any LAWYER class.
1t would make nndoo competishcn. Ez
remarked, we've got EN-. Wat the Dimok
rlay want now is to so handle this delikit
snbjlck cH Ia make the most NV it.
The great trouble with the party is that
there ~ no uniform style nv mectin this
question. On the main question we are all
agreed. We al! oppose Niger Suffrage
It's part and parcel NY a Dimokrat's nacher
20 oppose niger suffrage. The leaders NV
che party opposed it at the beeinnin for
seem how the ballot WIZ abused by their
followers they lrrnlbled for the Republic ei
il wnz entrusted 10 the bands nv any more
Nv eknl calasSty, and the maaarh ny the or
ganizaiion opposed givin it TO the niger,
Lecoz that one privilege, and color, wuz all
uv nnrrgencrated human nacher that il must
always bear down on sOmebody. The poet
seq
" Even the lice have smaller ones To bite en-
Aud theS SIN smaller ones, al WEn hoa."
Fortunately. the Dimokracy hev the mig,
ger Tor their smaller lice. The sturdy yeo.
manry felt it to be Il aoothin !bing to find,
w"nat each yeer, that in wun thing at least
he wnZ sooperlor TO somebody, and so il will
be so long ~ there is Dcmokracy The
7rne Dim"!;rat promotes hisself not by liilin
hsself above the ipvel onto witch he finds
lisself, but by shown some wun down to n
lower level, and eZ there wuzn't enyI.ody
else on this continent wich they Good Vi,
hold nv the niger WIZ, long ago, selected
tor that purpose.
The great trouble is we oppose niger suf
trage now from too many stand -pints. Some
oppose it on the skore nv interiority NV the
Atrlkin, but that never WIZ proper idea
with our people. They may hev assented
10 it oniwardly, but in their own minds they
objected. " Er," seq a reliable Dimokrnt
30 hisseli, I" eff that's the rool, wat in thun-
der is TO become of me ~
Likewise the idea of onfitnpss, wich 9th.
rrs of our aiinssels advance. "Thay cant
read nor riie!' ahreeks an injudishus cuss,
speekin to a audience tsothirds NV wch go
10 him reglerly to reed ther bal lots to EN-,
and who, when they sign promssory notes,
ant an y between their first and last names.
Another speaker quotes Noah to EN-, and
boldly asserts that the niger is the descend,
ant nv Ham, and that he is the ideniiklc in.
runs agin the fact that the rest NV en-, witch
As in Airika yet. hev managed to dodge the
cuss: Ell they amt servin Their white breth-
ren, and them wich wuz brot here to be
cVrischinizen hry busted Their bonds, and are
lest about eZ free, so far ez GerYitnod goes.
c7 any body.
There is, ~ hev shown, all these con
ticin ideas that work agn us. Therefore,
want Nashnell Convenshun. want
oonvocatNn Of the lights nv the party to
set forth authoritjvely why we oppose Niger
saf'rage-to Civ reeson for It. that oil our
people may act together, ez do other we'll
regulated machines. Let MS cum together
and ishoo our manifesto, that we may know
precisely the pertikeler line NV argument to
lursoo.
shell he at TINT convenshen, and hey
made mp my mind wot platform to lay down.
! shell go back on Ham, Hager and Onesi-
mns-l shell turn from the interiority idea
and take the broad ground that THE NIGER
il A EEAaT THAT HE AMT MAN AT ALL.
any other animal. put my foot onto him
by authority Of the decree that unto man
wuz given dominion over the beasts. Et
they admit the first proposition, they will
the last. ] shell nssert boldly AID brodly his
onltnis to mngle with W. hccoz his fzzikle
structure, his muscles, nerves, Gbres, bcin
different. go to show that he was Of a differ
ent origin and nv a lower origin. ! shell
plant myself on the stoopenius yet simple
proposishen that the Almity made him, prob.
ably, but at different time and for differ
rnt purpns, wich shell show by citin the
color Of his skim the length nv his foot the
shape nv his head, and sich othermatters as
kin Git together in time for the Convcn
chen.
Nv course this doctrine will meet with OBJ
1pclons. We have n few thin skinned per
tcgaera of religion, whose piety service IL
our ranks he2n't quite obliterated who vii
say that these dogmas undermine the Chris