Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1868-04-24

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The gutter, and mutlerin sltl-inabout being
hawtily away.
Is ther, " said /, indignantly, 70 law
+ Tor these oubages Am I 70 submit TO bein
peited by boys and pummaled by men, and
/ no redress? Is
'AlaTs, sirl sed the baneyolent lookin
+ Niger, who he'd the appearance nv a Sunday
I School teacher, alsTS, Sir. ther isn' 4. YooT
color, slr-yoOr color They have preju-
discs which they can [ oy9eome, and that
Z prejndls the boys even possess. Farewell
( sir, some day il will be different, but now
AID be draEd a siEh and walked on
hastily, ez be notist q fresh crop Of boys
4 approachin.
! walked on, iamy dTcen. Seem large
honse, l entered it. Ii Kas the canitle, and
boldly 1 essayed 70 pass the door, The
[ nsVs~ ssT- ,,,,n 80 expression Uv sk0Tn i
fsst tba rb;,s -, heniq,s,ls. q,, !. =, ren32ggkt
1li4A shS Nhite &ateTY Wug up tnat way
! Up 1 ascended, ciost under The roof, where
there 8uz possibly q dozen more ike me,
and l sot and listened 10 a curious debate
{ The measure under consideration WuZ a
amendment to the Constitution of Liberia,
strikin the word black on. w that in
STument The thing he'd bn long pendin.
Advocatin IL WIZ half dozea members IN
corner By themselves. and opposin il wuz all
the rest Of the House. The seen Euz very
much sch ez | witnessed good many years
ago at WASHINGTON, when John Quincy
Adams wuZ cham pl0u In the idea Nv the
ekahty nv ali men IN the Hoase. One mem
Der denOuust the leader nv the minority eE
a base gr0Teln, low wretch, who he'd lost
all PRIDE Nv racial regard for the purity
~ blood-and who WIZ insidinsly plottin to
debase the pure and proud race Of Ham BY
mIngling with It the pale milky blood oithe
inferior rases.
Another wsntid this House to ask itself
DO 700 want to march up TO the polls
longside Nv a white man? Do 700 want 10
be tried for yer little crimes afore = jury Of
white men . | shudcer at the .h0t
See, sed be, pullin out from under his coat
pOrtrate Nv white woman, ez l seed
y allaudyguB do wunst il Ohio, at a Dime
cratic meetiu, only he had on bis paste-board
Wench, see 20 what the gentleman wishes
% ally hisselE Another member askt the
House 70 seriously ask themselves, af0Te
they voted on the till, whether this House
wantld 10 marry q white woman? He wantid
this House 10 ask herself whether she wantjd
hls dortor to marry white MANI IT We
iet EN- vote we mast marry EN- The vote
was taken, Tesuitin uv course il the votin
down Nv the Bill The SIX Radicals we're
towunst expelled for the intr0doosin sich 2
Incendlary measure, aBd the House ad
j0urned
The populace got hold ~ the news. and
the widest JOY prevailed Cue wagon was
rlgged Up, into which wuE twenty-four black
girls with banner over EN-, Fathers
perfect ns from white ekaiity, and another
similarly loaded carried a banner onto which
was writtens Black husbands or nonel The
purity Of our Ra3el Noticin me o0 the
street, the pcpulace wentior me. The po-
lice, WIch ought % have preserved the peace
(they were mostly migrants from an lslaud
of the cUAst, wicll they h-a l-st ssu arcUurIt
NV being oppressed By the King uv another
island which he'd got possessDn ~ en- and
WIZ bearin down upon EN-, the perllce-
man, instead w pertectID me- headed the
hunt, and lively they made It | vas caught
and rolled IN the cutters, anld shouts Nv
kiil the white-liyered whepi and they
pounded and pummeled me, and tore my
clothes of. To the white afun asylum.
shouted one Of EN-, and to that cry owed
mY liie They believed 10 Wholesale KILN
ruther than retale, and they made arush for
an asylum where the orfuns Nv the few
despised whites Wuz 4 hviE Short work
they made ~ it. The orfuIs wuz roasted
and beaten to death the teichers run for
their lives, aud the buildings was sacked.
the black women meantime ridin around
Rilh the banners over EN-, aid the principle
citizens addressin the mob, lepreeatin vio-
lence, but nevertheless applRdIn ~ en- for
their ZealIn preserviB the purity Nv therace. /
Two white skoolhouses and eighteen dwell
lings Wus gone thro with. ezef by inspira-
shen. Finally they got sits Nv me agn,
and ez there wuZn aByotheTs IN site, they
cheerfully eeesed me, and riEgin a rope, run
me up to a lamp post. Wat inhoomanityi
wat crooelty wat iniustcel' sbriekt l.
Forchoonitly I did not iurther commit
myself The shoutiu and the sense Nv
ch0kin awoke me. l wuz tot in Atrika, I
he'd not been beaten and prIneled and rolled
in the gutter and hung bufthank the lord,
WIZ in America, the ianl uv the free,
where, when such things isdone the white
men do EN- theirselves. wici is more com
Portable
But wat a friteful dreeni Wat a mis-
forecho0n It must be to be Is another race
when that race aint in a uHjorily [ RELY
sympathize With the niggeE in this country.
PETRoLECaf Y NlsBY, T. VI.