Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1868-07-24


OF THE DIFFICULTIES THAT BEsEr HIM
on THE WAY, AND IN THE GREAT CITY,
NEW YoaK, (ot eheep boardln I
house) July the 4, 1868.
Ii he'd knowd Just wat l he'd to go
thro with, never wood flggered for the
posishen l now okkepy. He'd knowd |
the troubles wich was 10 beset me, the |
Corners might have gone onreprcsented, |
and the Domoorisy mite hev nominated q |
candidate without my help. am at q
cheep boardin house, wich Is salubrusly
sitooated ON an alley, the landlady bein
one NV the anshent Kings NV Ireland, wich |
her name Is O'Shaughnessy. l coodent |
git rooms at the Aster, nor the So, Niche |
las, ez coodent git clerk to look at me
for an hour, and when did succeed in
rivitin the attenshun Nv one, he flew into
a pashen and ordered me to move on, with
the onfeclin remark that he he'd no room
for sich And that insult mite be added
TO inloory, the unfeelin woman who pre-
sides over the manshen l inhabit, peremp-
torily refoozcd to reserve me ontil paid
in advance. tried several places, but or
Ihedn't no baggage, the prevailin opinyun
seemed to be that advance payment wood
be better, and wuz forst to return to her.
! MY advenchers on the route were moo
merous, If not pleasant.
| At some pint in Ingiany, wher we
changed cars, found the franc we he'd to
| take full NV delegates In lookin around
| for a sect diskiVcrcd but one that hadn't
! two in il, and that one he'd in tia disgustin
nigger, who he'd the impOOdence TO be
well drest, and he'd carpet sack beside
him. My Dcmckratic blood riz to wunst,
Feelin that in car filled with Demekratic
delegates, anything shood do to niger
wood be safe, stawkt proudly up TO him,
holdin my nose,
"Good Lordm sed l, "wat smell"
! "Good Lord |" ekood the delegates wich
got on at that stashcn, "wat terrible
smell" -
"My gentle Afrikin friend, said l, seezin
him by the collar al regret tho necessity
NV sayin disagreeable things, and still
more of doin 'em, but the fact Is your i'm
pudonco In gettin into car nv white gen
tlcman with the disgustin odor insepara-
bic from any part Of the Afrikin race, is
rather too much. And more especially do
| wonder at your koepiu your sect, while
and these other white gentlemen arc
standin."
"Out with the niger |" yelled the lately
arrived delegates, hustle the stinkin
Cuss."
"Merciful hevens, what smell" sung
out others of en-, hist him p hist him /
Secin myself thus backed, and feelin thai
little zeal would be safe, ez niggers cam
vote, knocked his hat out of the windel
} and followed up that demonstration will
) q serious attempt at liftin him out of thu
scat. wood hev succeeded, but the mig
ger resisted, and resisted vigorously, to
wit: he knockt three of my front teetl
down my throte, pulled out what littl
| al, lnn hn har hannQ
scanty festoons about my venrabl
temples, and blackt both my eyes. l WI
: lyin on my back in the passage, some
: what astonisht, the niger a standin owe
4 me, with his bootheel raised over m
! face, when some gentlemen came In froI
! another car and restrained him.
q "Mr. Williams" sed they, "let him VI
n He's poor white trash, and not wort
% wastin your indignashen onto. Let hi
D. up, Mr.. Williams, let him up"
Is "Sirs," sed l, rising to my feet, trent
* lous with rage, dis this the treatment n,
H. to expect ali the way to Moo York; Am
A. to be pounded to jelly by a niger
70 stinhin niger, sirs, whose odor even no
makes the car ontenable to gentlemen
refined sensibiities--ahd to hear the nj
ger addrest ez Mister after that, inst
Nv bein tored to pieces by the infuriatl
1t spectators Oh, shame, where is u
Of blushg"
!. "You mizable cuss," sed one NV the
d gentlemen, "apologlse TO wunst to th
" gentleman for yoor insultin roodnis,
ID we'll chuck 700 out Nv the cars. Apol
r. gise, sir, to Mr.. Josef Williams, Delegate
Ldrge for Tho State 40 Tennessee !"
At almost tainted. This niger, then, W
n delegate He was regler delegai
o. armed and equipped with regler crede
Is shells to a Demcxratlc Nashnel Conve
-e ton, and hev been guilty in my zeel
" assultin NV himl Gladly apologyzed, a
ar further, humbly begged permission to
Sc beside him wich he accorded with q q
or ciousnis l never saw exalted.
us II wuz astonishin the change that crC
over Injeaney delegates. They crowd
10. around us and shook him by the hand
We they didn't smell any odor at all any mol
he on the contrary they seemed 70 like hi
er They addrest him ez Mister" and sew
ar NV en- in introducin him to their frier
lid who got on at verious stashens, yoof
an the prefix Honorable" Its wonder
,d wat difference il makes with nigger
of hey vote, and also how he votes II
ma that Williams been infected with Ablisl
to ism, l make no doubt that the stencil W
RELY fancied smelt when fust und
ast took TO subjugate him, wood hev cont
,on yooed to the end of the trip. In olI
;ns times it wuz observed that slave nigg
,eSS didn't smell-it Ruz only the free ones.
III Is a settled fact now that Dimekratic !
71 gers are inOdOrous / might have kno'
In however, that the nigger wuz free 4
,se ger, by the way he pitched into me.
% oDo Niger in the state nv seryitude wood g
els hey did such thing. That much u
Inc owe to the war, any how.
Nv My principal oblick in going to \
II York Wuz TO do what Good toward
nv coorin the nominashun NV Jethro
,ey Krippins. l found the delegates ba
I'M. tore up. The offer made for votes wuz
ridiculously low that there wuz mi
,s,s disgust manifested. The trouble wuz
's.S ~. the market was overstockt. He'd the @
lts yenshion been pretty olxally divided, ,
100 the balance of power held by few G
mouthed souls they Good have mad'
ny 't; good thing NV it. But where q WI
Wy Convenshen is in the markit, and all u
~ 'Un inaooenshal friends, no candidate kin
W. ford TO buy. withdrew Mr.. Krippins
III wunst, for ez he hcz but small farm,
@ S,n that mortgaged to a grosery keeper,
~ W. delegates approcht laft me 70 skorn.
os9 Iwuz on the Committee on Resolusb
~ or ruther wuz in the room ez sort Nv
~, visory committee while the resoloosh
nas ,n wuz bein draftid. Gen. Forrst, NV 4
iSas ha nessec, wuz pertiklerly anxhus that a r
nSt .,'st looshen shood be adopted denouncin
rus. rus. Radicals, who wuz, with unholy hand
i'is strivin 10 destroy the best Government
sun ever shone upon, and one the dest
oSi, ton of wich wood be calamity wich
'ula born millions would shed teers over.
al9 desired resoloOshen pledgin the Dir
iold ricy to stand by the old Stars and Strl
son wich flag had braved thousand bre'
Bed and wuz synonymous, ct settry.
Inc Wooley, Mr. Cobb (Airs. Cobb's husba
On q and Perry Fuller, particularly desir,
Dn q resolooshcn demandin the turnin out
are offs NV currupt men, that the Governl
!, Il mite be administered with suthin like
inc purity which distinguished it dooriI
De administrasheD NV che late lamentid
DC kanan, at the menshun NV whose 4
every delegate present held handker
IN HIS aRraa fnr five nODgpQutiVo mint