The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1868-07-23
New YORK, Cat a cheep boardin
house, July the 4, 1868.


New YORK, (at a cheep boardin /
house, July the 4, 1868. !
Eff / he'd knowd just wat he'd to go
thro with, / never wood fggered for
the posishen ! now okkepy. He'd l
knowed the troubles wich was to beset
me, the Corners mite hev gone onrep-
resented, and the Dimocrisy mite hev
nominated a candidate without my help.
l am at a cheep boardin house, wich is
salubrusly sitooatid on an alley, the
landlady bein one Nv the anshent Kings
Nv Ireland, wich her name is O'Shaugh-
messy. / coodent get rooms at the
Aster, nor the St. Nicholas, ez / Good
ent git clerk to look atme for an hour,
and when ] did succeed in riyitin the
attenshen NV one, he flew into pashen
and ordered me to move on, with the
onfeelin remark that he he'd no room
for sich And that insult mite be add
ed to injoory, the unfeelin woman who
presides over the manshen | inhabit,
peremptorily refoosed to receive me
ontil l paid in advance. | tried sew
eral places, but ez hedn't no baggage
the prevailin opinyun seemed to be that
advance payment wood be better, and
| was forst to return to her.
My advenchers on the route were
noomerous, if not pleasant.
At some pint in Ingiany, where we
changed cars, ] found the trane we he'd
to take full of delegates In lookin
around for sect I diskivered but one
that hed'nt two in it, and that one he'd
in it a disgustin niger, who he'd the
impoodence to be we'll drest and he'd a
carpet sack beside him. My Deme-
kratic blood riz to-wunst. Feelin that
in a car filed with Demokratio dele,
gates, anything / shood do to a niggel
wood be safe, / stawkt proudly up to
him, holdin my nose.
"Good Lord !" sed 1, swat a smell. !
"Good Lord 70 ekoed the delegates
wich got on at that stashen, "wat ter
rible smell"
any gentle Afrikin frend," sed I
seeSin him by the CO liar, 81 regret the
necessity of sayin disagreeable things
and still more Of doin EN-, but the fact
is yoor impudence in gettin into a cal
NV white gentlemen with the disgustin
odor inseparable from and part of the
Afrikin race, is ruther too much. And
more especially do l wonder at yool
keepln yoor seat, while / and these
other white gentlemen are standin."
"Out with the niggerI" yelled the
lately arrived delegates, "hustle the
stinkin cuss.
'Merciful hevens wat a smell J" sung
out others NV EN-, "hist him! hist
him !" ..s #irst
Seein myself thus backed, and feelir
that a little zeal wood be safe, ez mig
gers can't vote, / knockt his bat ou
Nv the winder and follered up that de-
monstration with serious attempt al
liftin him out NV the seat. wood hev
succeeded, but the niger resisted, ant
resisted vigorously to-wit: be knockt
three NV my front teeth down my throte
pulled out wat little there wuz left ~
the hare that hangs in scanty festoon'
about my venerable temples, and black
ed both my eyes. wuz layin on m!
back in the passage, somewhat aston
ishst, the nigger a standin over me
with his boot heel raised over my face
when some gentlemen came in from
, another car and restrained him.
"Mr. Williams" said they, "let bin
up. He's poor white trash, and no
worth wastin yoor indignashen onto
Let him up, Mr.. Williams, let him up.
"Sirs," sed !, rising to my feet, trem
uIous with rage, sis this the treetmen
l am to expect all the way to Moo York
Am I to be pounded to death by mig
ger-a stinkin niger, sirs, whose odo
even now makes the car ontenable t
gentlemen NV refined sensibilities--an'
to heer the niger addrest ez 'Mister
after that, instid Nv bein tored to piece
by the infuriated spectators! Oh shame
where is thy blush7'
s'Yoo mizerable cuss," sed one u