The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1868-04-09

ana % II AAs 8AAtAAAA ADA CsAAAA lAAa-U M
Dreamed.
LANSING, Mich, March %.
Eff ther is a State in this YOonyun
entirely worthy Nv bein ranked with
ssachoosits-entirely worthy NV
bein considered scasely second in pint
Nv Ham-ridiculin, Onesimus defyin
and Hagar- r-rejectin Ablishn infdelity,
that State is Michigan. Massachusetts
is onery and cussid-Michigan is one
ryer and outsider. They hev colleges
in every other county-skOOl-hOuses,
gOrjus and costly in every town, and
ef that amt enough, they hev crOoel,
tyrannikle, barbarous law fOrbiddin
the sale of sustenance In the larger
towns where one kin, without material
danger get suthin sustainin, municipal
law steps in and compels the dispen
sers thereof to close at II P. NJ. In
this town from whence I write, gath
cred together a few of the faithful, and
Wuz a eOnfirmin NV em in the faith,
when, ez the clock struck eleven, the
landlord put out the lites, and US to-
gether, simultaneous. Kin sich things
be and overcome us like summer
cloud? They kin! Nv course there
can't be no whOle-hearted Dimocrisy
in sich State They don't hev
time to get fully Democratic. Eleven
o'clock The Dimocrisy of Michigan
is a eleven o'clock Dimocrisy. They
don't live out half ther days. They
fall short Nv the troO slater Nv full
grown specimens just an hour. The
only good and trOo ones I hev seen
were a few farmers and sich, who car
ried it home in a jug. But, alas! ez
they never pay rent, they don't stay
long enough in one place to make them
selves felt. They materially drift back
to Southern ulinOy, where fine tooth
combs is nknOWn-where the wicked
Geese from troublin, and the weary are
at rest. But we heY enuf Nv that kind
here.
Ell retired to my couch last mite, L
was filled with sadnis. The eleckshun
okkurs in a week or two, and the Alb
lishnists perpOse to vote to tear down
the few remainin landmarks and
give votes to the disgustin niggers in
that State. COntemplatin the gulf to
Wich Michigan is apprOachin-with
my sole filled with fOrebOdins, 1 fell
into a troubled sleep, and sleepin
dreemed.
Methawt I wuz in Liberia, that
country across the waters, settled by
civilized niggers. 1 wuz sOmewot
surprised at wOt met my gaze. Mig
gers to the rite Nv me-niggers to the
left of me-niggers in front Nv me
rode the six hundred thousand NV
EN-. Occasionally in the streets NV
Monrovia, the cheef town, 1 seed
white man-mOre frekently mulat
ter, and occasionally one in wich wuz
only a tinge Nv white blOOd-jist enuff
to show that his ancestors had left
Kentucky many years and generash-
ems before. Passin full-blooded mig
ger on the street, he pushed me con-
temptuously into the gutter, and forth
WlLLl u LaDDA5 Nv 4lAAA La0NNAC4 AA5e30~
BOYS pelted me with mud; yellin at
me, ez tho it wuz a opprobious term,
ssWhite man! Yah ! White man
Yah! Yah! White man ~
A mild-faced niger came to my
rescue and reboOked the boys: "Is he, +"
sed he, ''to blame for bein white? Re-
member, boys, the same God made
him ez made you, and that he is not
to blame for his color! He"
At this period he stopped talkin.
The fust niger returned and damnin
him for disturbin, one idea, Radicle,
knockt him into the gutter, and NUT
term suthin about bein trOO to the
tradishuns Nv his race, stalked haWtily
away.
ais ther," sed I, Indignantly, ono
law for these outrages? Am 1 to sub
NIT to bein pelted by boys and pum-
melled by men, and no redress? Is
~