The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1868-04-09


the streets NV Monrovia, the cheef
town / seed white man-more frekent-
ly a mullatter, and occasionally one in
wich wuz only a tinge NV white blood
-jist enuff to show that his ancestors
had left Kentucky many years and gen.
erashens before. Passin full-blooded
nigger on the street, he pushed me con-
teInptuously into the gutter, and forth
with a rabbe Nv full blooded nigger
boys pelted me with mud, yellin at me,
ez tho it wuz opprobrious term,
"White man! Yah! White man! Yah!
Yah! White man."
A mild-faced niger came to my res
cue and rebooked the boys: us he,"
sed he, "to blame for bein white7 Re-
member boys, the same God made him
ez made you, and that he is not to blame
for his color. He"
At this period he stopped talkin.
The fust nigger returned, and damDin
him for a disturbin one idea, Radicle
knockt him into the gutter, and mutter-
in suthin about bein troo to the tradish-
uns NV his race, stalked hawtily away.
'Gs ther," sed l, Indignantly, "no
law for these outrages7 Am ! to sub
NIT to bein peltcd by boys and pun
melled by men, and no redress? Is"
"Alars, sir" sed the benevolent look
in niger, who he'd the appearance NV
a Sunday School teacher, "alas, sir,
ther isn't. Yoor color, sir-yoor color.
They hev prejoodises which they can't
overcome, and that prejoodis the boys
even possess. Farwell, sir, some day
it will be different, but now"
And he drawd deep sigh, and
walked on hastily, ez he notist fresh
crop of boys approachin.
l walked on, in my dreem. Seein a
large house l entered it. 1t wuz the
capitIe, and boldly essayed to pass the
door. The doorkeeper, with express
sion Nv skorn l never saw ontside Nv
Kentucky, remarkt that the white gal
lery wuz up that way. Up | assended,
clost under the roof, where there wuz
possibly dozen more like me, and
| sot and listened to curious debate.
The measures under considerashun wuz
a amendment to the Constitooshn NV
Liberia, strikin the word "black" out
NV that instrooment. The thing he'd
been long pendin. Advocatin it wuz a
half dozen members in a corner by their
selves, and opposin it wuz the rest NV
the House. The sceen wuz very much
sich as | witnessed a good many years
ago at Washington, when John Quincy
Adams wuz a champion in the idea NV
ekality NV all men in the House. One
member denounst the leader Nv the lit
tie minority ez "base, grovelin, low
wretch, who he'd lost all pride NV race
all regard for the purity NV blood
and who wuz insidiusly plottin to de-
base the pure and proud race Nv Ham
by minglin with it the pale, milky
blood ef the inferior races"
Another wantid this House to ask
itself, "Do you want to march up to
the polls longside NV a white mani
Do 700 want to be tried for yer little
crimes afore a jury Of white men7 White
men in offs! | shudder at the thot.
See!" sed he, pullin out from under his
coat a portrate NV white woman, ez |
seed Vallandygum do wunst in Ohio,
at Dimocratic meetin, only he he'd on
his pasteboard a wench "see to what
the gentleman wishes to ally hisself."
Another member askt the House to Sc
riously ask themselves, afore they voted
on the bill, whether this House wanted
to marry a white woman7 He wantid
this House to ask herself whether she
wantid his dOrter to marry white mani
"Ef we let EN- vote we must marry emf
The vote wuz taken, resultin, NV coorse,
in the votin down NV the bill The six
Radicals were towunst expelled for in
trodoosin sich a incendiary measure,
and the House adjourned.
The populace got hold Nv the news,
and the widest joy prevailed. One
wagon wuz rugged up, into witch wuz
twenty four black girls with a banner
over EN-, "Fathers perfect us from white
ekality," and another similarly loaded
carried banner onto which was writ
ten, "Black husbands or none! The
purity of our Race" Noticin me on
the street, the populace went for me.
The police, which ought to have pre-
served the peace Ghey were mostly i'm
igrants from an island off the coast wich
they he'd left on account NV being op-
pressed by the King nv another island
wich he'd got possession NV em, and
wuz bearin down upon em), the per-
licemen, insted Nv pertectin me, headed
the hunt, and lively they made it. l
was caught and rolled in the cutters,
amid shouts NV skill the id white
livered whelp." And they pounded
and pummeled me, and tore my clothes
off "To the white orfun asylum! >,
shouted one nv em, and to that cry |
owed my life. They believed in whole
sale KILN ruther than retale, and they
made rush for an asylum where the
orfuns NV the few despised whites wuz
livin. Short work they made Nv it.
The orfuns wuz roastid and beaten to
death, the teachers run for their lives
and the buildins was sacked, the black
women meantime ridin around with the
banners over EN-, and the principle eiti-
zens addressin the mob, deprecatin Vi