The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1868-04-09
MASSEY.
The State of Michigan-The Elk.
perience of Mr.. Nasty therein,
and Frightful Dream that he
Dreamed,

Lansing, Mich, Mar. %, '6s.
Ef thar is a State in this Yoon yum
worthy of bein ranked with Massey
choosits-entirely worthy Of bein
considered scacely second in pint nv
Ham-ridiculin, Onesimus-defyin and
Hagar-rejectin Ablishin infdelity,
that State is Michigan. Massychoo-
sits is onery and cussid-Michigan is
oneryer outsider. They hev colleges
in every county-school-houses gor-
jus and costly in every town, and eff
that amt enuff, they have cruel,
tyranikle, barbarous law-for-
hidden tho sale of sustenance!
In the larger towns, where
one kin, without material dan.
ger, git suthin sustainin, municipal
law steps in and compels the dlspen-
ser thereof to close at eleven p. MI
In this town, from whence / write, l
gethered together few ofthe faith
full, and wuz confirmin NV EN- in the
faith, when, ez the clock struck IL,
the landlord put out the lites and us
together, simultaneous. Good hev-
ms! thot I, kin such things be and
overcome us like a summer cloud?
They kin! Wv course there can't be
any whole.hearted Dimocrisy in SIGH
a Slater They don't hev time to get
fully Dimocratic. Eleven o'clock !!
The Dimocrisy of Michigan is a II
o'clock Dimocrisy. They don't live
out half Their days. They fall short
NV the troo states NV full grown
specimens iist an hour. The only
good and troo ones hev seen were a
few farmers and SIGH, who carried it
home in a jug. But, alas! ez they
never paw rent, they don't stay long
enuff in one place tomake themselves
felt. They materially drift back into
SOUTHERN Illinoy, where fine tooth
combs are urknOwn-where the
wicked cease FROM troublin and the
weary are at rest. But we hev enuff
NV that kind there.
Ez I retired to my couch last mite,
Twas filed with sadnis. The elec-
shun occurs in week or two, and
the Ablishnists perpose to vote to
tear down the few remainin land.
marks and give votes TO the disgust
in niger in that State. Contempla-
tin the gulf to witch Michigan is ap-
proachin-with my sole filled with
forebodins, l fell into trubled sleep,
and sleepined dreamed.
Methawt wuz in Liberia, that
country across the waters, settled by
civilized niggers. | wuz somewot
surprised at wot met my gaze. Mig
gers to the rite of me-niggers to the
left ofme-niggers in front of me
rode the six hundred thousand of
them. Occasionally in the streets Nv
Monrovia, the cheef town, l seed a
white man-more frekently . mulat-
ter, and occasionally one in witch was
only tinge Of white blood-.jist
enuff to show that his ancestors he'd
left Kentucky many years and gen-
erations before. Passing q full blood.
ed niger on the street he pushed
me contemptoously into the gutter
and forthwith rabble NV full blood
ed nigger boys pelted me with mud
yelling at me, ez tho it wuz a oppro
bious torn, "White man! Yah
White man! Yah Yah! White mani
u A mild-faced. niger came to my
rescoo and rebooked the boys: "Is he
said he, "to blame for bein white
Remember, boys, the same God mad.
. him ez made 700, and that he il
} not to blame for his color! He
. At this period he stopt talkin. TIL
; fust niger returned, and damnil
: him for disturbin one-idee Radicle
, knoct him into the gutter, and NUT
1 rim suthin about bein troo to the ira
J. dishuns NV his race, stalked hawtil,
away.
"Is ther,' sed l Indignantly IN
law for these outrages? Am l t
submit to sbein pelted by boys an
Il pumelled BY men and no redress?
ts
"Alars, sir" sed the benevolen
lookin niger, who he'd the appear
ance NV Sunday School tcache
aalars; sir ther isn't. Yoor color
sir,-yoor color! They hev prejood
: SEES witch they can't overcome, an
Q that prejudis the boys even possess
f Farwell, sir, some day it will be dil
i. ferent, but now"
II And he drawed a sigh and walke'
/ on rather hastily. ez he notist fresl
f crop Nv boys approachin.
Il l walked on, in my dream. Seeil
? q large house entered it. 1t WI
j; the capitle, and boldly l essayed t
Q pass the door. The door keeper, will
r. q expression uvscorn never saw out
! side of Kentucky remarkt that tn
Fl white gallery was up that way. Vi
! I assembled, clost under the ROOF
/ where there: wuz possibly a dozel
a more like me, and | sot and listene'
0 to coorious debate The measur
R under consideration was a amend
i; ment to the constitushun Nv Liberia
. strikin the word "black" out Nv tina
0 instrooment! The thing he'd bel
r long pendin. Advocatin il wuz hal
0 dozen members in corner by their
0 selves, and opposin it wuz all tn
0 members NV the House. The sceel
: wuz very much SIGH ez l witnessed
t good many years ago at Washington
when John Quincy Adams wuz
champion in the idea NV ekality Nv al
men In the House. One member de
Inounst the leader NV the little minori
Q ty ez a "base, grovelin, low wretch
; who he'd lost all pride NV racial re
t gard for the purity Nv blood-an,
s who wuz insidiously plottin to debas'
t the pure and proud race NV Ham By
a minglin with it the pale, milky bloot
f. of the inferior races"
II Another wantid this House to ask
r itself, "Do 700 want to march up t.
J. the polls longside NV white man ?
0 Do 700 want to be tried for yer littl'
r crimes before joory NV white men.
8 White men in offiis ] shudder a
f the thot! See!" sed he, pullin o
Q from his coat a portrait Nv whit
! woman, ez I seed Vallandigum d.
|, wunst in Ohio at Dimocratic meet
! in, only he he'd on his pastboard {
/ wench, "see to what the gentleman
!. wishes to allay hisself.