Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1868-07-25


in scanty festoons about my venerable
temples, and blackt both my eyes.
wuz lyin on my back in the passage
somewhat astonisht, the nigger a standil
over me with his boot heel rased owe
| nv face, when some gentlemen came il
from another car and restrained him.
"Mr. Williams" sed they, "let him UP
He's poor white trash, and not worti
wastin your indignation unto. Let hin
up Mr.. Williams, let him up.''
s'Sirs,nn sed j, risin to my feet, tremu
lous with rage, ais this the treatment an
to expect all the way to New York? an
to be pounded TO Jelly by nigger-:
stinkin nigger, sirs, whose odor even now
makes the car ontolerable to gentlemen
NV refined sensibihsies-and to hear the
niccer addrest as III ister' after that, in
std av being tored to peeees by the in
fi,riated spectators Oh, shame, where is
thy blush" -af
"You mizrable GUS" scd one Nv these
gentlemen, "apoligise to wUnst to this
gentlemen for yoor insultin roodnis, or
we'll chuck yoo out NV the cars. Apo
locise. sir, to Mr.. Josef Williams, Dete-
gate at Large for the State Of Tennessee ''
l almost tainted. This nigger, then,
wuz delegate! He WIZ regler dele
gate, armed and equipped with regler
credenshels to Demekratic Nashnel
Convenshon, and Ihed been guilt, i my
zeal NV assalllliH NV him Gladly L apo
lugised, and further, | humbly begged
permission to set beside him he accor-
did it with a graciousnis l never saw
exalted. - -. .-...-
1t wuz astonishin the change that hept
oyer the Ingeany delegates. They
crowded around us and SHOOK him by
the llandLthey Didn't smell any odor at
all any more, OH the contrairy they seem
ed t. like him. They addrest him as
''Mister" and several NV EN- in introdoocin
him to ther friends who got on at vari-
oi:s stashens, yoosed the prefix "Honor-
able" It's wonderful what difference
it makes with nigger to hev vote,
and also how he votes! He'd that Will
liams been infected with AblisInism,
make no doubt that the stencil wich
reelv fancied L smclt when I f,st under
took to subjoogate him, wood hev con-
tinyood to tie end NV the trip. In old
Ell times it wuz observed that slave mig
gers didn't smell-it wuZ only the free
ones. 1t is & settled fact that Demekra-
tic niggers are inodorous! [ mite her
known, however, that the nigger by the
way he pitched into me. No nigger in
a state NV servitood wood ever hev did
sich thing. That much they owe to
the war, any how.
My princiLa objick in goin to New
York wuz to do wat Good toward Sc
coorIn the nominashen of Jethro L. Kip.
ping. found the delegates badly tore
up. The offers for votes wuz so ridieu-
losly low that :here wuz much disgust
manifested. The trouble wuz that the
markit was overstokt. He'd the Conven-
shen been pretty ekally diyidid, and the
balance NV power held by a few close
mouthed souls, they Good hev made a
good thing NV it. But where whole
Convenshen is in the markit, an al. their
infooehshel friends, no candidate can af-
ford to buy. l withdrew Mr. Ripping
to-wunst, for ez be hez but small farm,
and that mortgaged to grosery keeper,
the delegates 1 approacht latt me to
skorn. +. .a..,. .f.,.-. ~
wuz on Committee on Resolooshens
or ruther wuz in the room ez sort nv
advisory committee while the resolushens
wuz bein drafted. Gen. Forrest Nv Ten
nessee, wuz partiklerly anxshus that a
resolooslien shood he adopted denouncin
the Radicals, who wuz, with unholy
hands, a strivin to destroy the best gov
ernment the sun ever sbon upon, and
one the destruction NV wich wood be a
calamity witch unborn millions wood shed
teers over. He desired a reslooshen
pledgin the Dimokrisy to stan by the old
Stars and Stripes, wieh flag he'd .brayed
thousand breezes, and wuz synonOmous
ct settry. Mr.. Wooley, Mr.. Cobb, Mrs.
Cobb's husband, } and Perry Fuller. par
tikelerly desired resolushen demandin
the turnin out NV offs NV corrupt men,
that the government mite be administered
with something like the purity that dis
tinguished it doorin the administrator
NV the late lamentid ,Bookannon at the
menshun uvwhese name every delegate
present held a handkerchief to lis eyes
for five consecutive minits, ez tho a CRATE
greet he'd fallen unto him. -. .-.z IN
Vallandygum insistid that a platform
be INSERTED wich recognized nigger suff-
rage, but that wuz Withheld ontil it Good
be defnitly understood whether Missis-
sippi wuz reilly carried by nigger votes
or not. Eff majority Nv the niggers did
RELY vote the Demekratic ticket, it wuz
desidid that they shood be recognized ez
our ekals-ef not we'd see EN- id fust.
Cheef Justis Chase wuz espeshelly anx-
yus torsa reslooshen denounsin in the
seyerest terms them onprincipled, fanati-
kal Radicels, who for years he'd bin labor
in to subvert the government, by inter
feerin with the persuns and property nv
citizens, and also; pledgin the Conren-
shen to that wise conservatism without
wich ther Good be NO permanence i'll cur
government. s.aisasii a5 Isi mi -si7o7- 30's'ai
j dropt into the soljers' and sailers
Conveushen, but / didn't stay long,-
Them whose noses wuzn't red all wanted
to be either President or Cabenet offiser;
and NV tine balance nv EN-, the hest sed
the better My sole indignated ez | saw
seated among them the very suttler who
refused me credit when | WuZ Seryin eZ