Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1868-04-24
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The State of Michigan-The Experience
of Mr. Nasby therein, aud a FTightful /
Dream that ne Dreamed.
LANSING, Mich, March 2S.-Ef there is
a State 10 this Ho0nYun entirely worthy Nv
BEN ranked with Massachoosits-en Entirely
worthy Nv bein considered scarseiy second
in pint ~ Ham-ridiculiB, Onesimus defyin
aud Hagar rejecting Ablishin inf3ehty, that
State is Michigan. Massachusetts Is oneTy
aud euSsid-Njchigan oDe-yeT and Gus
slider They hev colleges in every other
e0Unty-skoOl houses, g0rieus and mostly
in every town and If that ain enough,
they bev a croole, tyrauikle, barbar0us law
forbidden the sale Nv s1SteDanee! IN the
larger towns where one kin, without ma
terial danger, git suthiu Sustainin, municipal
law steps in aud compels the dispensers
therof TO close at II T. NJ In this town.
from whence | write, ! gathered together q
few NV .he faithful, aud wuz a confirmin w
em in the faith, when, ez the clock struck
eleven, the landlord put out the lites and Us
together simultaneous. Kin sich things be
and overcome Us Ike a summer cloud? They
KIM UY course there can't be no whole
hearted Dimocrisy in sich q State They
don heT time 10 get fully DmOcratic.
Eleven o clock! The DmperlSy Nv Michigan
Is a eleven o clock Dim0crisy. They don {
live out bali lher days They fall short nv
the troo slater uv full gfoEu specimens just
an hour The only good and troo ones
hey seen were few farmers and sieh, who
carried il home 10 jug. But, alasl ez they
never pay rent, they don stay long enough
in one place to make themselves felt They
materially drift back to Southern Illinoy,
where fine tooth combs is unknoWn-There
the wicked Geese from troublin, and the
weary are at rest But We heF enuff Nv that
kind here.
Ez retired to Iuy couch last mite, | was
filed with sadnis. The eleckshun okkurs IN
a week or two, and the AblishHists perpose
to vote 10 tear down the few remsinin land
marks and give votes TO the disgustiB nlggers
in that State. Contemplate the gulf to
which Michigan IS approachin-With my
sole filed with iorebodins. / fell into a
troubled sleep, and sleepiu dreemed.
Methawt / wuz in Liberia, that country
across the waters, settled by civilized Biggers.
| wuz somewot surprised at wot met my
gaze. Niggers to the rite nv me-niggers
to the left Nv me -niggers in front Nv me
rode the SIX hundred thousand Nv EN-.
Occasionally in the streets Nv Monroyia, the
eheef town, I seed a white man-mOre
frekently a mulatter, and occasionally one
10 wich wuz only tinge Nv white blood
iist euuff TO show that his ancestors had left
Kentucy many years aud generashens before.
Passin full blooded Niger on the street.
he pushed me e1ntemptuousiy into the
gutter, and iorthHitb raj bic ny full-blOod-
ed niger boys pelted me with mud yeiiln
al Ine, eZ tho Il WIZ a nppF0brlOus term,
"W bite man Yah White man Yah
Yahl White mani
4 miied faced niCCer came to ms rescue
and rebooked the boys l. be, sed be,
ITO blame for bein White2 Remember, boys,
the same God made him ez made you. and
that he is not to blame for bis color He
AT this period be stopped talkin The
fust niger returned, and damnin him for a