The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1868-01-16
From the Toledo Blade.
Nasby.
Mr. Nasby Gees 10 Ohio ON a Nils
sion Of Merey-A Terrible Mis-

december 70 1901.
Wen the Almlty made niggers, he ought 10 hev
made EN- so that mixin with the soopehor race
wood hey bin an impossibility The euss Nv
mlsegenasbun, and the hatrid Nv the Dlmocrisy
Nv Ohio for niggers heS, between EN-. left me in
O coadisheD wich hardly supposed / shood ever
find myself In. rite these lines, propped up In
bed at my boardin house, my face beaten 10 q
jelly, and perfeckly kiVered with stckin platter;
my nose, alluz the beauty and glory Nv my face,
Is enlarged to twict It's fair proporshens my
few remalnln teeth heY bin knockt down my
throat, my lips resemble sausageS my left ear Is
forever no more. and wat little hair wuz hangin
about my venerable temples Is gone, my he'd Is ez
bald ez q blizzard ball, and tWict Its normal size
II come about thus
There wuz trouble In one Of the Southern
counties Of Ohio. In q reliably Democratic town.
ship In that county, is settlement Nv niggers
who, In the old time, ran away from Kentucky,
and settlln where they Good hey wat they earned,
wich wuz fist 90 much swindled out Nv Ken
tucky's accumulated wealth. w course comm
from Kentucky these niggers are many Nv EN- eE
near white ez they can be. One Nv EN- who car
ried with him the name Nv his master, and eZ be
says father, Lett is ez near q white man ez may
be- and ez he married q weuch who Wuz shade
whittier than he, their children are Just touch
whittier than both nv EN-. Wv these he he'd three
daughters rangin from sixteen 70 twenty.
Now this Lett Is disturber He he'd farm
Nv perhaps 200 akers. and wuz heavy for school
purposes, but his children wuzn't Of course allow
ed to attend the skOol None Nv the nigger chill
dren were. But this Lett got the lice into his he'd
that there wuzn't no proprety In bis payln taxes
without cnjOyin some Of the benefits ariZin from
em, and aided and abetted BY the other iggers,
who were wicked enough TO complain Nv payin
taxes to the support Nv white skoOls, be sent bis
three daughters TO the skool, directin them to
al aba All iafN
ly, and study persevereiDly. They did so. The
skoolmarm, who wuz young huzzy, with black
eyes and material curls from the Stait Nv Moo
Hampsheer, where they persekoot the saints, not
only assented TO reseeyln em. but very joyfully
gave EN- seats, and put EN- into classes-think Nv
thnt-with white children!
There wuz trouble in that township. Iwuz sent
for TO wunst, and gladly come. ! wuz never so
gratifed In my life, Had smallpox broken out
In that skool there woodent hev bin half the
eggscitement in the township. It Wuz the subiick
of yooniyersal talk everywhere, and the Dimoc.
risy wuz bilin like pot. met the trustees nv
the township, and demanded ef they intended
tamely to submit to this outrageS ! asket them
| whether they intended to hev their children set
| side by side with the descendants Nv Ham, who
wuz condemned to posishen nv inferiOrity for
ever3 Kin you, j asked, so degrade yourselves,
and so blarst the 5elf-respeck NV yoor children (?
! hHu Dlllu ONCI WIFI luuIBudsucu bIlby answered
''never" and yOonanimously requested me to
accompany EN- to the skool-house thai they mite
| peremptory expel these disgustin beins whs he'd
| obtrooded themselves among those Nv superior
! race.
! On the way to the skool-house, wlch wuZ per-
| haps mile distant, asked the Board ef they
knowd those girls by site. No, they replide, they
he'd never seed EN-. 81 hev been told" sed /,
that they wuz neerly white"
L . &c Ia
ut matters not" sed feelin that ther WuZ q
| good opportunity for improvin the occashen, 1T
matters not There is suthin in the Niger at wich
the instinek of the white man absOlOotly rebels
and from which 1t instinctivelv recoils So much
experience hev he'd with em that to put me in O
dark room with one nv EN-, no matter how little
ngger there is in EN-, and that unerrin instink
wood betray EN- to me, wich by the way goes to
prove that the dislike we hev TO EN- Is not the re-
suit Nv prejudice, but 1t is part nv our very
nachers and one nv Its highest aud holiest attri-
boots."
Thus cummunin, we reached and entered the
skheol-hohse. The skool-marm wuz there, ez
brite and crisp ez January mornin-the skolerl
wuz ranged on seets studyin ez rapidly ez pos.
sible.
Miss" sed |, 1--WE are informed that thre,
niger wenchcs, daughters of one Lett, Niger
is in this skool, minglln with our daughters ez
o elSal. Is II So"
''The Misses Lett are in this skool," sed she
ruther mischeevously, "and / am happy 10 statC
that they are among my best pupils"
Miss. sed sternly, "pint EN- out 10 US.
Wherefore" sed she.
"That we may bundle EN- ont, sed l.
Bless me !" sed she, freely coodent dc that
Why expe em1"
"Bocoz" sed l. mo niger shell contamInatt
the white children Nv this deestrck. No sect
| disgrace shel be put onto EN-,
"Well, #" sed this nggravatln skool-marn, wlct
wuz from Moo Hampshire. ''put EN- out"
"But show wich they are"
"Can't YOU detect EN-, sir? Don't their colol
betray emp Ef they are so neer white that yol
can't select EN- at glance, 1t strikes me that |
can't hurt very much to let EN- stay"
| wuZ sorelv puzzled There wuznt airl II
the room who looked at all niggery. But m,
reputashen wuZ at stake. NOticn three girl
settn together who wuz somewhat dark com
plectid, and whose black hair waved / went TO
EN- and showed em out, the cussed skool-marH
almost Dustin with latter.
Here the tragedy 0kkurred. At the door me
q man who rode four miles in his zeal to asss
u.s. He he'd alluz he'd an itchln to pitch into
: nigger, and ez he Good do 1t now safely he pro
posed not to lose the chance. Twas putin on en-
. out, and he'd jist dragged EN- to the door, when
, met him enterin 1t.
wat is this2" sed he with a surprised look.
''We're putin out these cussed wenches, VIII
is contaminatln yoor children and mine1" sed
''Ketch hold Nv that pekooliarly dlsgustin on'
wonder, sed l.
"WenchGs! You d-n skoundrel, them girls !
my girls!"
And without waitin for an explanashen, th
infoorjated monster sailed into me, the skool
marm layn over on one of the benches explodiT
In peels of latter, the like Nv wich never heard
The three girls, indignant at being mistook to
, niger wenches assisted their parent, and be
tween EN-, in about four minutes wuz insens'
ble One Nv the trustees, pitylng my woes, tool
me to the neersst ralerode stashen, and somehow
: how know not, got home where am
present reeroperatin.
hev only to say that wen go on sich trlT
again, shel require as condishen preceden
that the Afrlkins TO be put out shel hev enough
Afrikin into em 20 prevent sich mistakes. But
good Lord, wat hevent suffered in this cause
PETROLEUM V. NAsBY, 2. NJ,
(Winh Ia pOstmasteF