The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1868-09-11

ever, for #ich I wuz indebted to {
Moo York dry goods merchant. who
! is here maxim a strenuous effort TO re
establish his trade, wickedly anC
crO0elly broken up by the wicked OF
pleasantness witch Linkin inaugurated
| by resistiu che South In 1861. He i
a conservative who Is after trade, and
! consistently Is willin to do anythin
/ he told me Nv a niger funeral tC
take place in the afternoon, and sug.
gested that a score NV us arm our.
selves, surround EN-, and keep EN- in
whether or no, ontil | he'd made my
/ speech. So ankshus am |, /" he sed
to retailersuv dry goods Git wuz dry
! goods he wuZ sellin, by siDgler coin
! cldenee), for the success Nv correct
principles, that Twill guard one OF
| the doors myselfis And he did it,
swearin at Yankees all the time, and
prououncin cow, "caow," the while.
| / nOtist It. but it mattered not to me.
| Whv shood webe partickler ez 10 the
tools we yoCze? When we shake
hands with sich, cant we put on
gloves?
We surrounded the church and no.
tilted EN- that they coodn't pass till
we wuz thro, and | commenced nv
speech, and spoke it thro. I insisted
that Their interests lay with Their kind,
good masters-that they he'd bin gre
vously deceived in spOsin that Their
waz any antagonism between the
races. Who, Iaskt, gave the colored
maR the right to vote in Moo York?
The Dimocrisy. What Vice Presi-
dent he'd nig--or rather a colored
woman for a wife, wich wood hev
been mistress NV the White House
he'd the President been a Republican,
and CONSISTENTLY worth our while to
assassinate him? Richard M. John
son, Dimokrat. Who hev bin
AT this pint pert mulatto remark
ed that he he'd. word to say, and
gave place 10 him. He wuz himself
a conservative niger NV the most
eonservatist kind. He shood vote
with. his white brothers cheerfully,
but not for the reasons witch the
speaker (meanin me) he'd given. He
shood do it from a higher, holier.
motive than any advanced. He shood
do it from motives NV consequently.
He he'd alluz bin a humble niger.
beleevin- himself to be one nv an in
ferior race, but sence he he'd bin free
he he'd bin seaFchIn his pedigree. He
he'd been agreeably surprised. He
found he he'd the hest blood NV Vir-
ginny coursin thro his veins. The
Confedrit candidate for CoDgris wuz
his half brother, @halleloogy, and he
wuz closely related to two thirds NV
all sed candidate's supporters, bless
de Lord, and NV course he'd vote for
him, for the man that wOodn' take |
car nv his own blood is wuss nor an
infdel He felt grateful to the cor
sentative candidates family.
TrOo, he wuz half Niger, but he |
prided hisself on the tother half He |
felt all the pride NV race NV witch he
he'd hee-d so much His ancestors |
Con his ladders side) he'd bin proba-
bly, the comrades Nv Washinton, and
he woodent degrade hisself by mixen |
with men Nv no family from the |
North. He wuz poor but his proien- |
itors Con his ladders side) wuz gen.
tlemen, Dress de Lord, and he stood |
on blood. .sJ
And the niggers, Dustin with latter
at the rage witch they saw depicted |
onto the countenances NV ther white I
trends, got up to leve. We tryed to
stop EN- so that | Good speek further, |
but ez they he'd more revolvers than
we hed, and didn't appeer to be dis
inclined to yOOse EN-. -di1.-,4 -
tempt force. The most NV these mig
gers he'd bin the servis, and 700 cant
make men docile who hev borne arms.
L shell continyoo my work, however,
never mindin these temporary back
sets.
PETROLEUM V. Massey, p. NJ,
(Which liz Postmaster /