South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1868-04-03

on yesterday week, the 26:h, when the sub
ject Of acknowledgements, was under discus
sion, the distinguished Congo, LINDSEY,
of Richmond, Grated He is thus reported
in that e1cclant paper, the Diqatck:
LEWIS LINDSEY spoke loudly on this
question. lie wasn't able to quote wid
dose gentleman vorsified ia the Latin larn-
IN and tact of the university in Charlitts-
vile, whnr he hoped one day to 90, or else
his children. | don't like, sah, to disfran-
chise dose gentleman Who has been decend-
ed from thar glorious fathers who endorsed
and ratified de Cornestution in de Coruvcn.
ton of 1910; which they demended in 1850.
! But they hat have rebclled against it
they had ceased to dat allegiance to lie gen
eral government which they did ratify; and
, now they came to de Convention which
they desired to defy their power and quail
fled as illegal
In dlsfranchisin' desc white man don /
perposc that desc men Of Egyptn- Africin
hue TO rule and rome around Ferginny and
you needn't be sceered about dat. You're
sccered before you're hit, becasc, do YOU
suppose dat four millians Of onedicated r,eo-
pie can compose wild do scientific 'taiuments
an de university tact, and de great fore
fathers eliquenco of de arrsticrats of 80
600, COOS? And suppose, besides dis, all
dar wealth of minrsl resource. And vi,
We must not distranchisc them when dey
come here anu say dat dis BODY is an illc
gal body, and now that it is legal BODY.
and asks US not to disfranehise them. lis
not like those black man who goas bnck on
the interuSt Of thar party aud of thar race,
oecase they has been home and been smiled
on, and grinned and shook hands, and shook
hands and grinned agin; mud tell YOU,
sab, you don't cove me off by dat sort OF
resaucc. You needn't fear but dat the
statute power Of dc Government will be
exercised.
might say right here that amt a new
married man, and dat hasn' had no dreams
of de beautiful fair wife of Puutrus PLATE
If stool here to control de disability,
would not say, Don't disfrenchise no man ::
but put de State in de hands Of loyal men.
And, Mistnr President, while | is stand
here on my feet, Fshall cndcavor to sreak
piece of potry, which | shall cndeavor to
be very brief:
Some say thar is nothin made in rain,
While others 10 de reverse maintain
And will Frore il here with ease
by citing men who change thar mind. from
right TO wrong
For poplar chance TO please;
And that class Of men who seek and doudge
thar trust
Are ~orH than those animils like mu.quito,,.
bed-bugs, crickets, and heAs
But q. man, fing not dc rsceip, away
Once given by one who trusted ;hcy confidence
in thee;
But mistakes will happen every day,
However honest some folks may perfcIs TO be- :"
Sab, self-pcrserfation is dc fus. law Of
nations. Laughter Yer may larf but
seii-perscrfation IS the fu,t law of nations
| indorse the Great Father ia the case of
Adam, who loved God, which was the Lord
and told him cf he ate &c forbidden fruit
he should die. Charity begins at home,
and den goes abroad and will vote for
disfranchisin' untel dose gentlemen who
has dIsowed allegiance and rebelled against
de best government that ever was. and
fought, defines thar positions and returns
from the violent statues to which they has
been edited
proposition to disfranchise all who vo