Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1868-04-03

TEE aTATE OF MnCHIGAN-THE Exf'ERI'
EEoE OF Mr. Massey THEREIN, AND
d n t1ERIeETFUL DREAM THAT HE
~Nfssa 1879 DREAMED.


q sidered scasely second in pint nv Ham
sridiculin,, Onesimus-defyin and Hagar-re-
iectin Ablishn infdelity, that State is
- Michigan. hMassachoosits is emery and
cussid- Michigan is oneryer and outsider.
They hev colleges in every other county
school houses, gorjus and costly, in every
town, and eff that amt enuf, they hev croo.
Eel, tyranikle, barbarous law forbidden the
sale Nv sustenance! In the larger towns,
where one kin, without material danger,
git suthin sustainin, municipal law steps
in and compels the dispenser thereof to
close at 4 p. M! In this town from
whence write, 1 gathered together few
Nv the faithful, and wuz, a confrmin Nv
& EN- in the faith, when, ez the clock struck
eleven, the landlord put out the lites and
us together, simultaneous. Good heavens
thot L, kin such things be and overcome
us like summer cloud? They kin! Nv
=, coorse tier can't be nowhole-hearted Dim.
ocrisy in SIGH a State They don't hev
time to get fully Dimocratic. Eleven
O'clock The Dimocrisy Nv Michigan is a
eleven o'clock Dimocrisy. They don't
- live out half Their days. They fall short
Nv the troo stateruv full grown specimens
just an hour. The only good and troo
ZONES hev seen were few farmers, and
who carried it home in jug. But, alas |!
- as they never pay rent, they don't stay
long enuff in one place to make themselves
felt. They materially drift back into South
ern Illinoy, where fine tooth combs is
unknown-where the wickid Geese from
troublln and the weary are at rest. But
efind enough Nv that kind there
AEz retired to my couch last mite, wuz
filled with sadnis. The eleckshun okkurs
In a week or two, and the Ablishnists per-
pose TO vote to tear down the few remainin
land marks and give votes to the disgust
in niggeTs in that State. Contemplatin
the gulf to witch Michigan is approachin
with my sole filled with forebodins, I,
fell into troubled sleep, and sleepin
dreamed. "a
vMethawt wuz in Liberia, that country
across the waters, settled by civilized mig
gers. l wuz somewot surprised at wot
metmy gaze. Niggers to the rite NV me-
niggers to the left Nv me-niggers in front
Nv me-rode the six hundred thousand Nv
EN-. Occasionally in the streets NV Mon
royia, the cheef town, seed a white man
more frekently a mulatter and occasion.
allyone in wIch wuz only tinge NV white
blood--jist enuff to show that his ancestors
hed1eft Kentucky many yeers and genera
shensa before Passin a full-blooded Mig
ger on the street, he pushed me contemptu-
ousiy into the gutter, and forthwith rab-
bic ny fullblooded niger boys pelted me
with mud, yellin at me, ez thoit wuz OPP
probrious term, White man Yah White
mani Yah J. Yah ! White manP pH,
sA.mlld-taced niger came to my rescoo,
and rebooked the boys: els he," said he,
ito blame for bein white? Remember,
boys,the same God made him ez made 700,
andfhat he is not too blame for his cOlori
He -
AT this period he stopt talkin. The fust
niger returned, and -damnin him for
disturbin oneidea Radicle, knockt him into
the gutter, and mutrin suthin about bein
troo TO the tradishuns Nv his race, stalked
hawtily away.
z Z" Is ther," sed /, indignantly, emo law
a, for these outrages? Am to>submit to
bein peted BY boys and punched by men,
W g"Alars, sir" sed the benevolent lookin
niger, who he'd the appearances Nv Sun
day slSool teacher, "slars, sir, Their isn't.
Yoor color, sir--yoor color! They hev
prejoodises which they can't overcome,
and that prejoodis the boys even possess.
Farwell, slr.S Some day it will be different,
= And he drawda sigh and walked On rather
hastily, ez he notist fresh crop Nv boys
approachin. d ,s,,.,a s,,.,..sfs-.t al
"a Il walked on, in my dreem. Seem large
house entered it.. 1t wuz the capitle, and
boldly | essayed to pass the door. The
door,keeper, with a expression Nv skorn l
never saw outside Nv Kentucky, remarkt
that the white gallery wuz up that way
Up assembled, clost under the roof, where
there wuz possibly dozen more like me,
and sot and listened to curious debate
The measure under considerashun wuz a
amendment to the Gonstooshn Nv Liberia
strikin the word "black" out NV that in
stroomenti The thing he'd been long
'spendin. Advocatin it wuz halfdozen
members in a corner by themselves, and
opposin it wuz all the rest Nv the House
The sceen wuz very much SIGH ez wit
nessedca good many years ago at Washing
ton, when John, Quincy Adams wuz
champlonin the idea Nv the ekality NV all
men in the House. One member denounst
the leader Nv the little minority ez "sbase,
grovelin,n low wretch, whorhed lost all
pride Nv. race--all regard forthe purityuv
blood ~and who wuz insidiusly plottin' to
debase the pure and proud race Nv Ham by
minglin with it the pale, milky blood NV
T. the inferior races ~ !
Another wanted this House to ask it.
sell. Do yoo. want to march up to the
polls iongside Nv white man? Do VOC
] want to be tried for yer little crimes aforef
loory Nv white menl White men In
otis i shudder at the thot! See p sed
he, pullin out from under his coat por-
trate Nv o white woman, ez see Vallan-
l'dygum do wunst in Ohio at Dimocratic
meetin, only he he'd on his pasteboard
wench, 6 see to what he wishes to ally
/; hisselE - Another member askt the House
/ to seriously ask themselves afore they voted
on this bill, whether this House wanted to
marry a white woman? He wanted this
House to ask herself whether she wanted
his dorter to marry q white man? "Ef
we let EN- votew MUST marry emil" The
vote wuz taken, resuitin, Nv course, in the
votin down NV the bill. The six Radicals
were to.@unst expelled for introdoosin SIGH
Il q incendiary measure, and the House ad-
r,j0urned. r.s,, sa.f.f sg tx 90
1 10 The populace got hold Nv the news, and
u the widest joy Prevailed. One wagon wuz
rugged up,into witch wuz twenty-four black
girls with a banner over EN-, " Fathers per-
y tect us from white equality" and another
similarly loaded carried banner onto
witch was written,. g Black husbands or
none! The purity nv our Race p Noticin
me on the street, the populace went for
q me. The police,swhich ought to have per-
served the peace (they were mostly imi.
81 grants from an island off the coast, witch
they had left on account Nv bein OBJ
pressed by the King NV another island
witch he'd got possession nv em.s