Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1868-07-23
Bryan, o., June 8.

Nasby Goesto New York--His Adventures
nessee.
From the Toledo Blade.
NEW YORK Cat acheap beardin-house,
July 4, 1868.
Eff he'd knowd just wat / had to go
through with, never wood hev figgered
for the Posishen l now okkepy. He'd
knowd the troubles wich was to beset
me, the Corners mite hev gone onrep-
resentid, and the Democracy mite hev
NOMINATED a candidate without my help.
| am at a cheap boardin-house, wich is
salubrusly sitooatid on ali alley, the
landlady bein one ov the anshent Kings
of Ireland, wich her name is O'Shaugh-
messy. l coodent get rooms at the Aster,
nor the st. Nicholas, eZ l coodent git a
clerk to look ut me for an hour, and
when did succeed in rivitin the atten-
shun NV one, he flew into a pashen and
ordered me to move on, with the onfeel-
in remark That he he'd no room for sich |!
And that insult mite be added to iDjoory,
the Onfeelin woman who presides over
the maushen inhabit, peremptorily re-
toosod to reseeve me ontil l pade in ad-
vance. tried several places, but ez
hadn't no baggage, the prevailin opinyun
seemed TO be that advance payment wood
be better, and wuz forst toreturn to her.
My advelichers on the route were lloo-
merous If not pleasant.
At some pint in Ingiany, wher we
changed cars, found the trane we he'd
TO take full Nv delegates. In iookin
that hadn't two in it, and that one he'd
in it a disgustin neger who he'd the i'm
poodence to be well drest and he'd car
petsack beside him. My Demokratic
blood riz to wunst Seein that in "a car
filled with Demokratic delegates, any
thing L shood do to a nigger wood be
safe, 1 stawkt proudly up to him holdin
"Good Lord!" sez 1 swat SMELL"
"Good Lord!" ekoed the delegates wich
got on at that stashen, "wat terrible
smeil.n
my gentle Afrikin frend," sed I, seez-
in him by the collar, II regret the ne
cessity NV sayin disagreeable things, and
still more NV doin EN-, but the fact is yoor
impudence in gittin into car NV white
gentlemen, with the disgustin odor in
separable from and part NV the Afrikin
race, is rather too much. And more
especially do l wonder at yoor keepin
yoor sect; while | and these other W hite
gentlemen are standin.'
"Out with the nigger!" yelled the
lately arrived delegates, "hustle the
stinkin cuss."
"Merciful hevens, wat sell - sung
out others NV um, "hlst him ~ "hist
him!"
Seein myself thus backed, and feelin
a little zeal wood be safe, ez niggers can t
vote, knocks his has out NV the wjnder
and follered up that demonstration with
a serious attempt at lifiin him tuv the
sect. / wood hev succeeded, but the
nigger resisted, and resisted vigorously,
TO wit: He knockt three NV my front
teeth down my throte, pulled out wat
little there was left NV the hare that
hangs in scaBty 1esto0ns about my VEN
cradle temples, and blackt both my eyes.
L WIZ lyin on my back in the passage,
somewhat astOnisht, the nigger 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, 'iet him up.
He's pore white trash, and not wurln
wastin yoor indignashen onto. Let him
up Mr.. Williams, let him up"
"Sirs," sed L, rising TO my feet, trem-
ulous with rage, "lz this the treatment /
am to expect awl the way too New York?
Am to be pounded to a jelly by a mig
ger--a stinkin Niger, sirs, whose oder
gentlemen NV refined sensibilities-and
to heer the nigger addresst az Mister
after that, instid NV bein tored to pieces
by ythein furyated spectators O,shame,
wher IL thy blush ~ 1t hH4j sfa
"Yoo mizrable cuss," sed one NV these
gentelmen, apologize at wunst to this
this gentelmen fur yoor insultin rood
ness or we'll chuck yoo out Nv the cars.
Apologize, sir, to Mr.. Josef Williams,
delegate at large for the Staituv Tennes-
see."
/ almost tainted. This nigger then
wus delegate. He wuz regular dele
gate, armed and equipped with regular
credenshels to the Demokratic Nashnel
Convenshen, and he'd been guilty in
my zeel NV assaultin NV him Gladly
apologized, and further Ihumbly begged
permission to sit beside him, witch he ac-
cordid with graciousnis l never saw
exalted. lf
1t wuz astonishin the change that crept
over the Injeany delegates. They crowd
ed around us and shook him by the
hand,-they didn't smell any oder at all
sny more on the contrary they seemed
to like him They addresst him ez
"Mister,n and several NV them in intro
docin him to their friends who got on at
variousstashens yoosed the prefix Hon.
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