The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1868-08-13

| oDleck TO, 80 much eZ 1t Is the leVyln
Nv the tax. If / have to pay gold
why not as well under Grant ez Sey-
more?
"Likewise is my sole vexed at an
other thing, wich l can't or won't git
over. On my way to Moo York wher
/ wuz so vilely yoosed, / wuz COM
PEELED for twenty miles either to stand
up or set down in the same seat with a
dirty nigger, JOE WILLIAMS, A DELEGATE
TO THE CoNvENsHUN, whose mother /
wudst owned. That he is mulatto
don't help the matter. That delegates
on the train fancied they saw in his
face my teachers reflected, don't make
it any better lie is nigger, and my
politikle faith is based upon the endurin
rock that niger amt ez good ez a
white man. That is Dimocratic doc
trine. / took it in with my mothers
milk and l cant get rid NV it. And yit
1 wuz compelled to associate with this
nigger on terms NV ekality all the way
down to Moo York, where l lost my
vest, et-settry, and his seat in the Con-
venshun wuz next to mine. / stood
this, but at our boardin House, only
two squares from where l lost my
boots, &C., with the American flag
floating over our heads / wuz COM
PEELED, in conscience Nv the house bein
crowded to sleep with him 1! And the
infamous stinkin niger absolootly he'd
theimpoodence to object to the arrange
ment becoz ez he sed MY FEET sMEIT
Then the iron entered my soul Then
l felt that the Dimocrisy wuz trooly a
sucked egg-a shell without any meat
in it.
"When / saw that nigger in that
convenshun, l felt that the pliers Nv
the Republic wuz totterin, that the
chaos wuz come agin. l felt that
America bein no longer for white men
wuz no place for me. felt that Re-
publikin instooshens wuz forever de-
stroyed and that henceforth and for
ever there wuz no place for me in my
native land"
And the teers rolled down the Elders
nose, the pearly white thereof formin
pendents wich glittered like diamonds
in contrast with the red nose at the
eend nv wich they hung.
"Now wat is to be dOne7 Am to
accept niggers ez my ekalsi Am to
vote beside the Joe Williamses NV
Kentucky7 Am l to ride with EN-, and
eat with EN-, and sleep with EN-, and
hev the stinken wretches object to the
odor NV my feet, and all this at the
bidding Nv the Dimocrisy3 Why this
very thing is wat Dimocrisy hez alluz
opposed. Opposishen to this is the
corner stun NV the party Take out
nigger-hatin and repoodiashen, and
wat is ther left to die for9 With Sey-
mour payin gold and Joe Williams
sleepin with me, wat compensation hev
/ for the loss Nv my vest, my boots,
my eight dollars and my watch7 Wat
better are we than the Ablshnists ?
They hev gained ther pint, for this is
wat they went into the bizness fur.
When l git ready to do it I'll jine EN-,
/ hev done !"
The Deekin, McPelter and Issaker
Gavitt wuz bilin over in mint. They
denounced the poor old man as a dis
organizer and bolter, and ez one who
hedn't that faith which shood animate
all troo Democrats. Wat eff we coodnt
understand it, wat then 7 sed the Deck
in. Kin 700 understand the mysteries
of nacherl Kin yoo understand why
one. tree bears sour apples and one
sweet ? But you eat the apples, askin
no questions for conscience sake. Even
so. Whatever the Convenshun sez is
Dimocrisy-take it and thank the Lord
Bascom stood lookin on serenely. He
knows perfectly we'll that watever any
NV us receive from the Government
will evenchooalIy find its way into his
till. You can't enthoose a man who
hez ded wood on a good thing no mat
ter how the cat jumps.
riz and remarkt that | shood not
set the Corners onto the Elder, out Nv
respeck fol his gray hares, tho his inf
deity and contoomacy richly deserved
it. He mistakes the nacher Nv Dim
ocrisy. Its a accommodatin politix.
Like a wire bridge, il swings to and
fro with every wind, but the two eends
are sekoorly ankered. One butment is
votes, and leadin from that to the
other is Post Offs. To make these
pints, wat difference is it how the bridge
bends and sways? Just now it sweeps
down the stream to niger ekality, and
twists so ez to mcleod Seymour and
bis gold, but halleloogy, at the other
end Nv the devious path is Post Or6s
ITO continue me in this orfs," sed !,
saint you willin to sleep with Joe
Williams, or any other niger? Wood
yoo hev Deekin Pogram's paper dis
tributed by an Ablishnistl Wood 700
hev a nigger-lover in this place ez a
nucleus for settlement Nv niger
lovers. Wood yoo-"
Joe Bigler rose and remarkt that sich
consummashen wuz most devoutly
not to. be wished He hatid the
northern character, and wanted no more
NV it here. Ef the Niger must be
mixed with the white race he wanted
em m ixed only with the proud shivelry