The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1868-04-09
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A Frightful Dream that he Dreamed.

LANSING Mich Marcel

me-n1ggerS to the lett NY me-n1SgerS
in front Nv me-rode the six hundred
thousand NV EN-. Occasionally in the
streets Nv Monrovia, the cheef town l
seed white man-more frekently a null
| latter, and occasionally one in witch wuz
; only tinge of white blood-jist enuf to
show that his ancestors had left Kentucky
many years and generashens before
| Passin -blooded niger on the street
| he pushed me contemptucusly into the
gutter, and forthwith rabble Nv full
blooded niger boys pelted me with mud,
yellin at me, ez tho it wuz approbrious
term, white man YAH White man!
Yah yah White mani"
| A mild faced niger came TO my rescue
and rebooked the boys is he, sed he
to blame for bein white? Remember,
| boys, the same God made him ez made
you, and that he is not to blame for his
color! He"
At this period he stopt taIkin. The
| fust Niger returned, and damnin him for
| into the gutter, and mutterin suthin about
stalked hawtily away.
fur these outrages? Am | to submit to
| pClu PCitCu NY OOyS anu NY
men, and no redress? Is
''Alars, sir!" sed the benevolent lookin
niger, who he'd the appearance Nv a
Sunday school teacher, ''alars sir, Their
isn't. Yoor color sir,-yoor color! They
| hev prejudises wich they can overcome
and that predjudise the boys even pos
sess. Farwell, sir: some day it will be
| different but now"
And he drawd a sigh and walked on
hastily, ez he notist a fresh crop Of boys
approachin.
walked on in my dream Seem a
large house l entered it. 1t wuz the cap
ltal, and boldly | essayed to pass the door.
The ooorkeeper, with a expression Nv
shorn L never saw outside Nv Kentucky,
remarkt that the white gallery wuz up
that way. Up | assembled, clost under
| the roof where there was possibly doz-
en- more like me, and [ sot and listened
to a curious debate. The measure under
conslderashun wuZ an amendment to the
Constltooshn NV Liberia, strikn the word
black out Nv that instrooment The
thing he'd been long pendin. Advocatin
1t wuz half dozen members in corner
by themselves, and opposin it wuz all the
rest Nv the House. The sceen wuz very
much SIGH ez [ witnessed a good many
years ago at Washington, when John
Quincy Adams wuz a champion in the
idea Nv the ekality Nv all men in the
House. One member denounst the lead
er Nv the little minority ez ''base, grow
elm, low wretch, who he'd lost all pride
Nv racial regard for the purity NV
blood and who wuz insiduously plottin
to debase the pure and proud race Nv
Ham by minglin with it the pale, milky
bloody of the inferior races.
Another wantid this House to ask itself
do 700 want to march up to the polls
longside Nv white man? Do 700 want
to be tried for yer little crimes afore a
jury Nv white men? White men in offs
| shudder at the thot Seel" sed he pull
in out from under his coat portrate Nv
white woman ez [ seed Vallandygum do
wunst in Ohio, at a Democratic meetin,
only he he'd on his pasteboard a wench
see to what the gentlemen wishes to ally
hlsself. Another member askt the
House to seriously ask themselves, afore
they voted on the bill, whether this
House watld to marry white woman?
He wantld this House to ask hissef
whether he wantld his dorter to marry
white man? ''Ef we must let EN- vote we
mast marry em!" The vote wuz taken,
resultln, Nv coorse, In the votin downuv the
bill. The six Radicals were towunst ex-
PEELED for introdoosin SIGH incendiary
measure, and the House adjourned.
The populace got hold NV the news, and
the widest joy prevailed One wagon
was rugged up, into wich wuz twenty-four
black girls with a banner over 'em, Faith
ers perfect us from white ekality,' and
another similarly loaded carried banner
onto. which was written ''Back hus-
bands or none! The purity of our race!''
Notleln me on the street, the populace
went for ME. The perlice, who ought to
have preserved the peace (they were
mostly migrants from an Island off the
coast, wIch they he'd left on account Nv
beng, oppressed by the king Nv another
island wich had got possession NV EN-
and wuz bearin down 'em, the perlice-
men, instead Nv pertectin me, headed the
hunt, and lively they made it. | was
caught and rolled in the cutters, amid
shouts Nv kill the id white livered
whelp? p and they pounded and pummel-
ed me, and tore my clothes off. 70 the
white orfun asylum!" shouted one NV EN-
and to that cry | owed my life. They
believed in wholesale KILN ruther than
retale, and they made a rush for an asy-
lum where the orfuns Nv the few despiscd
whites wuz livin Short work they
made NV it. The orfnns wuz roastid and
beaten to death, the teachers run for their
lives, and the buildins wuz sacked, the
black woman meantime ridin around with
the banners over EN-, and the principle
citizens addressin the mob, deprecatin
violence, but nevertheless applaudin NV
EN- for their zeal in prcservin the purity
Nv the race. Two white schoolhouses
and eighteen dwellings wuz gone thro
with, ez eff by inspirashun Finally they
got site Nv me again. and ez there wuzn't
any others in site, they cheerfully
ceezed me, and riggin rope, run me up
to a lamp post. ''Wat inhoomanity wat
crooeltyl wat injustice p shreekt |. For
choonitly | did not further commit my
self. The shoutin and the sense NV cho-
kin awoke me. [ wuz not in Afrika, [
he'd not been beaten and pummeed and
rolled in the gutter and hung, but thank
the Lord, | wuz in Ameraka- the land Nv
the free, where, when such things is done
the white men do EN- themselves, witch is
more comfortable
But wat friteful dream Wat a mis-
forenoon it must be to be Nv another race
when that race amt in a majority. freely
sympathize with the niggers in this
country.
PETROLEUM. V. Nasty, P. M.