New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1868-07-19

July 4, 1853.
Ell he'd knowd just wat he'd to 90 thro
with, never wood fggered for the posts
hen [ now Okkepy. He'd / knowd the
troubles witch was to beset me, the Corners
mite hev gone Onrepresented, and the De-
mocrisy mite heV nominated a candidate
without my help. am at acheap boardin
house, which is salubrusly sitooated on an
alley, the laudlady bein one of the anshent
Kings Nv Ireland witch her name is
'Shaughnessy. coodent get rooms al
the Astor, nor the st. Nicholas ez l Good
ent get a clerk to look at me for an hour,
and when 1 did succeed in riVitin The at
tenshun Nv one, he few into pasbeu and
ordered me to move on, with the oaieelin
remark that he he'd no room for SIGH And
that insult mite be added to inioory, the
unteelin woman who presides over the
manshen l inhabit, peremptorily refoozed
to reserve me until paid in advance. I
tried several places, but ez 1 hednt no bag
gage, 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 Ingiauy wher we
changed cars found the trane we he'd to
take full Nv delegates, In loOkin around
| for sect diskivered but one that hadn't
two in it, and that one he'd in it disgustin
nigger, who he'd the Impotence to be well
drest, and he'd carpet sack beside him.
Ny Demekratic blood riz to wunst
| Feeling that in q car filed with Deme-
kratic delegates anything 1 should do to a
nigger wood be safe, l stawkt proudly up
to him holding my nose.
Good Lord I" sed 1, swat a SMELL
Good Lord ~ ekoed the delegates wch
| got on at that stashen, "wat a terrible
smell"
My gentle Atrikin friend, sed 1, seezin
| him by the collar, % regret the necessity
Vsayin disagreeable things, and still more
of doin EN-, but the fact is your impudence
| in gettin into car 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 yoor keepin yoor sect, while and these
other white gentlemen are standin."
Out with the niger y yelled the lately
arrived delegates, hustle the stinkin
cUss.'
Merciful heavens wat a smell ~ sung
out others of them " hist MIN. hist him
Seem myself thus backed, and feelin that
q 4illAC zeal NOI II VIC nalCg LIZ EC4o Noh =
vote, knockt his hat out OF the winder
and followed up that demonstration with a
serious attempt to lift him out Nv the seat
l wood hev succeeded, but the niger re-
sisted, and resisted vigorously, to wit he
knockt three Nv my front teeth down my
throte, pulled out wat little there wus left
NV tie hare that hangs in scanty festoonS
about my venerable temples, blakt bott
my eyes. l wuz lyiH on my back in the
passage somewhat astonisht, the niger 9
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 they, let him up
He's poor white trash, and not worth vast
in yoor indignashen onto Let him up
Mr.. Williams, let him up"
Sirs," sed l, rising TO my feet, tremu
lous with rage, " is this the treatment l an
to expect all the way to Moo York An
to be pounded to jelly by a Niger
stinkin niger, sirs, whose odOr even nov
makes the car onteneble to gentlemen W
refined sensibilities-a to hear the mig
ger addrest ez Mister after that, insteC
Of bein tored to pieces by the infuriatet
spectators Oh shame, where is To-,
blush?"
"Yoo miserable cuss," sed one Nv thes
gentlemen, "apologist tO-wunst to thi
gentleman for yoOr insultin roodnis, e
I we'll chuck 700 out Nv the cars Apollo
gise, sir, to Mr.. Josef Williams, delegate a
large for the State Nv TENNESSEE"
! almost tainted. This niger, then WI
. delegate! He wuz regler delegate
7 armed and equipped with regler creder
sheles to a Democratic Nashnel Con zen
j, shen, and hev been guilty in my zeel u
r assauitin NV him Gladly I apOiOgyzeC
and further, humbly begged permissio
I to sit beside him witch he accorded wit
7 a graciousnis never saw exalted.
, 1t wuz astGnishin the change that oreI
!. over Injeany delegates. They orowde
> around us and shook him by the hand
a they didn't smell any odor at all any NOR
on the contrary, they seemed to like hit
4 They addrest him ez "Mister, y and sever
q Nv EN- in introdoein him to Their frien,
4 who get on at various stashens, yoosed Il
" prefix Honorable" Its wonderful wat
i difference it makes with niger to hev
N vote, and also how he votes He'd th
II Williams bin infected with Abolishinism
\ make no doubt that the stencil witch l rec
!, faneied smelt when / fust undertook
ia subioogate him, wood hev continyood
the end Nv the trip. In olden times it W
observed that slave niggers didn't smell
al it wuz only the free ones. 1t is a settl
4 fact now that Dimekratie niggers are
" odorous might hev known, howevt
10 that the niger wuz free niger by t
n way he pitched into me. No Niger in
state of servitude wood ever hev did SIGH
sr thing. That much they owe to the W
anyhow.
r. Ny principal obiick in going to N
r. York wuz to do what Good toward secur
v. the nominashun of Jethro L. Kippins.
or found the delegates badly tore up. T
ne offer made for votes was 80 ridikilous
m low that there wuz much disgust mantle
ed. The trouble wuz that the markit W
40 everstockt. He'd the Conversation b
lis pretty ekally diVidid, and the balance
power held by few olost-mouthed sou
they could have made good thing Nv
w But WHARF whole ConVenshen is in t
a markit and all their infooenshel frienC
no no candidate can afford to buy. Wi
" drew Mr.. Kippins to wunst, for ez he b
he but a small farm, and that mortgaged to
er grosery keeper, the delegates l approaC
a laft me to skoru.
Ter IWuz on the Committee on Resolooshel
A or ruther wuz in the room ez a sort Nv
ng visory committee while the resolooshe
~ NJ wuz bein draftid. General Forrest,
n Tennessee, wuz pertiklerly anxhus thai
"a resolooshen shood be adopted denoun'
he the Radicals, who Wuz, with unhOly han
sd a striven to destroy the best governmt
OIL the sun ever shone upon, and one the
let struction Nv witch WOod be calamity W
20 unborn millions wood shed teers over.
LhA daeirad n rasnInnshan Mad vf1 tho nimnnr