Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1868-01-22
Written for the Toledo Blade.l
NASBY.
AF. Hasby Goes 20 Ohio on . MissIsn
% 4erey-A Terrible Mistake, and
tts Consequences.
PosT OFFIcE CoSFEDRIP Z ROADS, J
Wich IS in the Stait Nv Ky.)
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PosT OFFICE CoNEEDRIP K ROADS. ! /
Wich IS in the Stait Nv XVI i
Dec. p. 1867.
Wen the Almighty made nlggers, he
ought to hsv made EN- so that mixin with /
the sOoperior race would have bin an i'm
possibility. The Gus Of missegenashun
and the hatred Of the Democracy of Ohio
for niggers, has, between EN-, left me in a 4
wich 1 hardly supposed shood
over hev found myself in
rite these lines, propped up in bed at
my boardln house, my face beatin to i
Jelly, and perfectly kiyered with stiekin /
plaster; my nose, alluz the buty and glory
of my face, is enlarged TO twicet its for /
mer prOpOrshuns; my few remAinin teeth
hey bin knOckt down my throte; nv lips /
resemble sawsages, my left ear is forever |
no more, and what little hare wuz hang
IN about my venerable tempuls is gone,
nay he'd is eZ bald ez billyard ball, and |
twiceI its normal size. Iteum about thus
There wuz trubble In one of the suthern
counties of Ohio In a reliably Demo- |
cratic township in that county is settle |
ment nv niggers, who, in the old time, run |
ava from Kentucky, and settlin here
where thR Good have wat tha srned, wich !
wuz 50 much taken our Of Kentueky's |
accOomulatsd welth. Nv course comm |
from Kentucky, these niggers are many
Nv EN- ez near white ez they kin be. One
uv EN- who carried with him the nsme Nv
his master, and, ez he says, father, Lett,
is ez near n wife man ez may be, and ez
- rurouoh r.zhr ,r-,,z -ha1a
whittier than he, their children are list 8
little touch Wh;ter than both Nv EN-. w
these he had three daughters rangin from
sixteen to twenty. -
Now thIs Lett is disturber He he'd u
farm Nv perhaps TIVE hundred akers, and
WuZ taxed heavy for skoOl purposes, but
his children, Nv course, Tuzn't aloud TO
attend the skool. Nun Nv the nigger chill
dren wuz. But this Lett got the ice into
his he'd, that there wuzn't no propriety in
his payin taxes without enjoyin sum Nv
the benefits arizin from EN-, and, aided
and sbetted BY. other niggers, who were
wicked enough to complain Of payin taxes
for the support Of the wife skools, he sent
his three dAwters-to the skool, directin en-
to present theirselves boldly, taxa their
seats quietly, and study persevereInly.
They did 50. The zk0olmarm, young
huzzy, with black eyes and material eurls.
from Moo HsmpsheeF, where tha perse-
koot the saints, not enly assentid to reseev
EN-, but very ioyfally gave EN- seets, and
pus EN- into classeS-think nv that-With
white children
There wuz trouble in that township.
wuz sent for to Eunst, and gladly did l
cum. I Wuz never 50 gratiHde IN ny life.
He'd smallpox broken out in that skooi,
there woodn't heV bin haf the eggsitement
in the township. It wuz the subject Of
yooniVersal talk everywhere, and the De
mOcrisy was 3 billn like pot.
met the trustees Of the township, and
demanded eff they intended tameiy 70 sub
NIT 10 this outraged 1 a1ed en- Wether
they intended to hev their children sit
side-bY side with the descendants nv Ham,
who Wuz condemned to q condishun Of IN
feriority forever. Kin yoo, 1 axed, so
degrade yourselves, and so blarst the self
respeck Of yoor childreni
And bilin up with indignashun, they
answered,
"Never!'
They yoonanimusly rekEested me to
accompany them to the skool, that they
mits peremptorily eKpel these disgustin
beins who had obtrooded themselves among
those Nv a sOoperior race.
On the way to the skool house, wich wuz
perhaps mile distant, I aIed the Board
! ef they kIa0svd tAIuse 5iris by sito-
"No," they replide, " 1 have never seed
en-"
al hev bin told. :" sed I, "thas they are
They are" sed one Nv EN-, "qute
white"
sit matters not, /" sed I, feeHn that there
wuz good opportunity for improvin the
oecashun. at matters not. There Is
suthin in the Niger, at wieh the instink
Ev the Wite man absOlootly rebels, and
from wich it instinktively recOils- So
much eggsperienee heV I he'd with EN-,
that put mo in a dark room with one u7
EN-, no matte II how little Niger there IS IN
EN-, and that unerrin instink wood betray
ON to me-wieh by the way goes TO prove
that the dislike we hev to EN- IS not the
result of prejudice, but is part Nv our
nachers, and one nv Its hiest and holiest
sttr1boots."
Thus communin, we reached and enter
/ ed the skool house. The skoOl marin was
there, ez bsite and ez crisp ez Janooary
morning-the skolers WIZ ranged on she
seets, studyin ez rapidly ez possible
miss" sed I, ave are informed that
three nigger wenches, dawters Nv one Leu,
Niger, Is in this skoOl. q minglin with
our dzEters. ez ekal- Is it SOY
"The Misses Lett are in this skool, sed
she, rather intellectually" "and l am
happy to state that they are among my
very best pupils"
dMiss," sed I, stsrnly, 'Pint en- ont to
Us !'
"WhereEore!" sed she.
"Thst we may bundle EN- out, sed l.
Bless ms!" sed she, "I eOodent do
that Why expel emit"
"Becoz," sed I, "no niger shell con-
taminate .he wita children Nv this dees-
trick. No sieh disgrace shel be put onto
EN- >"
"Wsll, /" sed this sggraHatin skool marm
wich wuz from Moo Hampsheer, "Put EN-
out" N
"But she7 me wien they are"
HCan't ysu detect en-, sir? Don't their
color betray emf Ef they are so neer
wife that yoo can't select EN- at glance,
it seems to me 1t can't hurt very much to
let EN- stay"
wuz sorely puzzled. Thore wuzn't a
girl in the room who looked at all nlggery
But my reputashun wuz at stake Notiein
three eirls settln together, who WIZ sum
wat dark c0mplectid. and whose hair
waved, 1 went fur EN- and showed EN- out,
the cussld skool-marm almost Dustin with
LATER.
Here the trajsdy okkerred. Atthe door
met man who had rode four miles in
his zeel to assist u. He he'd slluz he'd an
ichin to pitch into Niger, and ez ne Good
now do i safely, be proposed not to loose
the ehsnes. l wuz putin on EN- oat,
and he'd jist dragged en to the dore, when
met him enterIn It.
await is this, ," ssd he, with q surprised
look.
aWe're putin out these cussid wenches,
who Is contaminaain your children and
mine. Kstch hold nv that peeoolyariy
disgustin one yOnder.
{" Wsaehesi You d--d skoundrel, them
is rny gals i'
And without waitin for an e1planashun,
The infoOriated monster sailed into me,
while the skool- marin wuz lsyia over ON
one Of the benches, almost Dustin with
peels of laftyer, the like uv which never
herd.
The three girls, indignant at beln took
for Niger wenchss, assisted their parent,
and. between en-, IN about four minis
wuz insensib,e.
One Nv the trustees, pityin my woes,
took me to the nearest rslerode stashun,
and sumhow, I know not how, l got home,
vhere Arn now recooperstin-
60 that ven I on slcE