Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1868-08-07
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NAsBY GOES TO NEW YORK.
His Adventures with a Niger Delegate
from Tennessee.


through with, | never wood have fggered
for the posishen now okkepy. He'd l
knowd the trouble wich was to beset me,
the Corners mite hev gone onrepresented,
and the Dimocricy mite hev nominated a
candidate without my help | am at a
cheap boardin house, wich is salubrusly
sitooatid on an alley, the landlady bein one
Nv the anshent Kings Of ireland, wieh her
name is O'Shaugnessy. / coodent get
rooms at the Aster, nor the ST. Nicholas, ez
| eoodent git clerk to look at me for an
hour, and when | did succeed in riyitin the
attenshun Nv one, he fed into pashen and
ordered me to move on, with the onfeelia
remark that he he'd no room for sich And
that insult mite be added to iDj5ory, the
onfeelin woman who presides over the man
shen | inhabit, peremptorily refoosed to re-
ceeve me ontil | pade in advance l tried
several places, but ez l hedn't no baggage,
the prevaiin opinyun seemed to be that
/ advance payment wood be better and was
/ iorst to return to her.
My adveuchers on the route were moo
merous, if not pleasant.
At some pint in IngiaDy, where we
changed cars, found the train we he'd to
take full Nv delegates. In lookin round for
a sect, l diskivered but one that hadn't two
in it, and that one had in it disgustin mig
/ ger, who he'd the impoodence to be well
drest, and had a carpet sack beside him.
| My Demokratic blood riz to wunst. Seein
! that in a car filed with Demokratie dele
gates, any thing shood do to a niger
wood be safe, stawkt proudly up to him
holdin my nose.
Good Lord ~ sez I, ''wat a smell, +"
Good Lord p ekoed the delegates wich
got on at that stashen, wat terrible
smell
My gentle Afrikin friend, sed |, seez-
ing him by the collar, II regret the necessi-
ty NV sayin disagreeable things, and still
more Nv doing em, but the fact is yoor i'm
poodence in gittin into a car Nv white gen
tlemen, with the disgustin odor inseperabe
from and part Nv the Afrikiu race is rather
too much. And more especially do ] won
der at yoor keepin yoor sect, while find
these other white gentlemen are standing.
Out with the niggerl' yelled the lately
arrived delegates, hustle the stiDkin cuss. "
'Merciful hevens, wat a smell I" sung
out others Nv EN-, hist him /" hist himr'
Seeing myself thus backed, and feelin a
little zeal wood be safe ez niggers can t
vote, knockt his hat out NV the winder,
and follered up that demonstration with
serious attempt at iftin him out W the
seat wood hev succeeded, but the mig
ger resisted vigorously, to-wit He knockt
three Nv my front teeth down my throte,
pulled out wat little there waz left Nv the
hare that hangs in scanty festoons about my
venerable temples, and blaekt both my eyes.
| wuz lyin on my back in the passage, some
what astonisht, the niger standin over me,
with his boot heel raised over my face, when
some gentlemen came in from another car
and restrained him,
Mr. Williams, - sed tina, let him up.
He's poor white trash, and not wurth vast
in yoor indignashen onto. Let him up,
Mr.. Williams, let him up
''Sirs, sed l, risin to my feet, tremu-
lous with rage, IL this the treatment l am
to expect awl the way too Moo York? Am
to be pounded to jelly by nigger-a
stinkin niger, sirs, whose oder even now
makes the car ontenable to gentlemen Nv re-
fined sensibilities- to hear the niger
addresst as Mister, after that, instid NV
bein tored to pieces by the infuryated speck-
taIors 0, shame, Wher IL thy blush y
Yoo mizrable cuss, sed wun NV these
gentlemen, apologize to wunst to this gen
tleman fur your insultin roodness, or wen
chuck 700 out Wv the cars. Apologize, sir,
to Mr.. Josef Williams, delegate at large for
the Stait Nv Tennessee.
almost tainted. This niger, then, wuz
a delegate! He wus a regular delegate,
armed and equipped with regular creden
shells to the Demokratic Nashnel Conven-
shen, and l he'd been guilty in my zeel NV
assaultn nv him! Gladly apologized, and
further, humbly begged permission to sit
1 beside him. wich he accorded with gra-
! cioosnis | never saw ekailed
1t wuz astonishin the change that crept
over the Injeany delegates They crowded
around US and shook him by the hand-they
didn't smell any odor at all any more; on
the contrary they seemed to like him. They
addre5t him ez Mister" " and several Nv EN-
in introdooein him to ther friends who got
on at various stashens, yoosed the prefix
Honorable It's wonderful wat differ
once it makes with niger to heva vote
and also how he votes He'd that Williams
bin infected with Ablishnism, | make no
/ doubt that the stencil wich / reely fancied
smet when | fust undertook to subjugate
him, wood hev continyood to the end NV
the trip. In olden time it wuz observed
that slave niggers didn't t smell-it was only
| the free ones. 1t is a settled fact now that
| Dimekratic niggers are inodorous mite
1 hev known, however, that the niger wuz a
free niger, by the way be pitched into me.
/ No niger in state w seryitood wood ever
hev did sich thing. That much they owe
tu the war, anyhow
Ny principal ohjick in goin to Moo York
wuz to do wat | Good toward secooring the
nomination Nv Jethro L. Kippins. I found
the delegates badly tore up The offers
made for votes wuz so redikulously low that
there wuz much disgust manifested The
trouble wuz that the markit wuz overstockt.
He'd the Conversation been pretty ekally di,
vided, and the balance of power held by
few clost mouthed souls, they could hev
made good thing Nv it. But where a
whole Convenshen is in the markit and all
their infoeenshel friends, no candidate kin
afford to buy l withdrew Mr. Kippins to
wunst Ez he hez but small farm, and
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