Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1868-09-15

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ties for getting it to market makes
it too high in price The man who
inginted ralerodes struck q blow at
the bart by the party. For our pur-
/ poses we want little OF the fiery
whiskey which corn produces, aud
want that little strong. But this is
a depression.
At this pint the enthoosiasm wuz
unbounded. The Democrisy wuz
I all alive, but Their wasn't that doeili-
/ ty among the niggers that | expects
1 ed. These cusses, ez soon eZ they
saw me, and learned my biznis, took
to the woods, and we had to 20 aft
ter EN- to electioneer en-, wich the
Democrisy did, tal<in their dorgs with
EN-. 1t waz cheerin site to see EN-
tolleiin the black cusses thro the
swamps, the moosic ny the yelpin nv
the dorgs cheerin us on to cur work.
Two or three refoosed to be talked
to, and their bodies, like John
Browns, wuz left danglin in the
mir, while their so!es went a march
in on We believe in every man a
choosin for hisself, and in the greats
est freedom NV speech and opinion,
providin alluz Their amt nothin in
ceniary in it. Ez everythin that's
sed agin us we count incenjary it
simplities matters wonderf1y.
| got one good meetin Nv EN-,
however, to witch | wuz indebted to
q Moo York dry goods merchant,
who is hear maxim strenuous effort
to re, establish his trade wickedly
and crooelly broken up by tie wicked
.onploasantnis which Linkin inaggor>
ated by resistin the South in 1851
lie is q conservative woo is after
trade. aud consekently is willin to
do any thin. He told mo Of a niger
funeral to take place in the alters
noon, and suggested that score NV
US arm ourselves, surround EN- and
keep EN- in whether or no, ontil |
had made speech. $50 ankshus am
/, he sed to a retailer NV dry goods,
Git wuz dry goods he wuz selin, by
singler coincidence Sfor the suc>
cess Nv correct principles, that will
uard one nv the doors myself. And
he did it, swearin at Yankees all the
time, and pernouncin cow-"caow,
the while | notist it, but it mats
tered not to me. Why shood.we be
pertikler, ez to the tools we yoose?
When we shake hands with SIGH,
can't we put on gloves?
We surrounded the church and
notified EN- that they coodn't pass
till we wuz thro, and / commenced
my speech and spoke it thro. ! in~
sisted that Their interests lay with
Their kind, good masters--that they
he'd bin grevously deceived in sposin
that thor wuz any antagonism be-
tween the races Who, l asllt, gave
the cOlored man the right 10 vote in
Moo York? The Domocrisy. Who
gave the coIored man the rite to stay
in Ohio? The Demoorisy z hat
Vice President he'd nig--or rather
q colored woman for q vito, wich
wood hev bin mistress NV the White
House he'd the President bin q Re
.publikin, and consequently worth
our while to assassinate him z Rich
ard N, Johnson, a Democrat. Who
hey bin
Al this pint pert mulatto remark
ed that he he'd q word to say, and |
gave place to him. He wuz himself
a conservative niger Nv the most
conservatism 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 higher, boiler mo,
tive than any advanced. He sh0od
do il from motives Nv consanguinity.
He he'd always bin humble niger,
bleevin himself to be one Nv an en-
ferior race, but sence he he'd been free
he he'd bin searchin his pedigree.
He he'd been agreeably surprised
He found be he'd the best blood in
Virginny coursin. thro his veins.
The ConfediIit candidate for Congris
wuz his half brother, halleloogy, and
be wuz closely related to two-thirds
Nv all sed candidates supporters,
bless dc Lord, and NV course he'd
vote for him, for de man that woods
Mt take car nv his own blood is
wuss nor an infdel. He felt grateful
to the Conservative candidates FAM
lily. Tr0o, ho wuz haff~nigger, but
he prided hisself on the tother half.
He felt all the pride Nv race, Nv wich
he he'd heerd so much. His ances>
tors Con his ladders side) he'd bin
probably the comrades ny Washing-
ton, and he woodn't degrade hisself
by mixin with men NV no family
from the \ Worth He wuz poor, but
his proienitors Ton his ladders side
wuz gontlemen, Dress de Lord, and
he stood on blood.
And the niggers, Dustin with laf'
ter, at the rage witch they saw de,
picted onto the countenances NV Their
white friends, got up to leave. We
tried to stop en-, so that / Good speek
further, but ez they he'd more revol-
vcrs than We he'd, and didn't appear
to be disinclined to use them, we
didn't attempt force. The most Nv
these niggers he'd bin in the servis,
an 700 can't make men docile who
hev borne arms. / shell continyoo
my work, however, never mindin
these temporary baclzsets.
PETROLEUM V. Massey. 2. VI.
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