The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1868-04-09

lOokin nigger, who he'd the appearance
NV Sunday School teacher, "alars.
sir, ther isn't. YOOr color, sir-yOOr
color They hev prejoOdises which
they can't overcome, and that prejOO-
dis the boys even possess. Farewell,
sir, some day it will be different, but
now"
And he drawed a sigh and walked
on hastily, ez he notist fresh crop of
boys apprOachin.
walked on, in my dreem. Seein
a large house 1 entered it. 1t wuz the
capitle, and boldly 1 essayed to pass
the door, The dOorkeeper, with a eX-
preston of skorn I never saw outside
Nv Kentucky, remarkt that the white
gallery wuz Ip that way. Up I as
sended, clost under the roof, where
there wuz possibly a dozen more like
me, and sOt and listened to curious
debate. The measure under consider
ashun wuz a mendment to the Con
stitOOshn Nv Liberia, strikin the word
"black" out NV that instrOOment! u
The thing had been long psndin. Ad-
vOcatin Wuz a half dozen members in
a corner by themselves, and OppOsin it
wuz all the rest Nv the House. The
.sceen wuz very much sich ez witness
ed a good many years ago at Washing
ton, when John Quincy Adams wuz
a champion in the idea Nv the ekality
NV all men in the Hose. One mem
Der denounst the leIder Nv the little
minority ez a "b9s grOvelin, low
wretch who he'd lcJt all pride NV race
all regard for the purity Nv blood
and who Wuz insidiusly plOttin to de-
base the pure and proud race Nv Ham
by minglin with it the pale milky
blood of the inferior races"
Another wantid this House to ask
itself, "Do 700 want to march up to
the polls lOngside Nv white man {?
Do 700 want to be tried for yer little
crimes afOre a jury Nv white men {?
White men in offs! shudder at the
thOt! Seer sed he, pullin out from
under his coat pOrtrate Nv a white
woman, ez I seed Vallandigham do
wunst in Ohio, at a DimOcratic meetin,
only he he'd on bis pastebOard a wench;
''see to what the gentleman wishes to
ally hisself." Another member askt
the House to seriously ask themselves,
afore they voted On the bill, whether
this House wantid to marry a white
woman? He Wantid this House to
ask herself whether she Wantid his
dOrter to marry a white man {? EFF
we let EN- vote we must marry EN- ~
The vote wuz taken, resultin, Nv
coOrse, in the vOtin down the bill,
The six Radicals were toWunst expeII-
ed for introdoOsin sich a incendiary
measure, and the House adjourned.
The pOpulace got hold Nv the ews,
and the widest joy prevailed. One
wagon was rugged up, into wich wuz
twenty four black girls with a banner
over 'em, "Fathers perfect US from
white ekaIity," and another similarly
loaded carried a banner onto Vich WIZ
written "Black husbands or none I!
The purity NV our Racew Noticin
me on the street, the populace went
for me- The police, wich ought to
have preserved the peace, (they were
mostly immigrants from an Island off
the coast, wich they he'd left on ac-
count NV being oppressed by the King
! Nv another island wich he'd got posses
sion Nv EN-, and wuz a bearin down
upon 'em,) the perlicemen, insted NV
pertectin me, headed the hunt, and
lively they made it. I was caught
and rolled in the cutters, amid shouts
Nv "Kill the ID white livered
whelp !" and they pounded and pun
meled me, and tore my clothes off.
''TO the white orfun asylum !" shouted
one Nv 'em, and to that cry owed my
life. They believed in wholesale kill
lin ruther than retale, and they made
a rush for an asylum where the Orfuns
Nv the few despised whites wuz a liv-
in. Short work they made Nv it. The
Orfuns wuz rOastid and beaten to death,
the teachers run for their lives, and
the buildins wuz sacked, the black
women meantime ridin around with
the banners over EN-, and the princi-
pie citizens addressin the mob, depre-
Catin violence, but nevertheless ap-
plaudin Nv EN- for their zeal in preser-
vim the purity Nv the race. Two
skOOlhOuses and eighteen dwellins
wuz gone thrO with ez eff by inspira
shen. Finally they got site Nv me
agin, and ez there wuzn't any others
in site they cheerfully ceezed me, and
riggin a rope, run me up to a lamp
post. "Wat inhoOmanity wat crOo-
city! wat injustice ~ shreekt 1. For
choonitely did not further commit
myself. The shOutin and the sense
NV chOkin awOke me. wuz not in
Afrika, 1 he'd not been beaten and
pummeled and rolled in the gutter
and hung, but thank the Lord, / wuz
in Ameraka, the land Nv the free,
where, when such things is done the
white men do EN- themselves, wich is
more comfortable.
But wat friteful dreem ! Wat
misfOrchOon it must be to be Nv
another race when that race amt in a
majority. I RELY sympathize with
the niggers in this country.
PETROLEUM V. NAsBY, P. NJ,
(Which is Postmaster.)