Mineral Point weekly tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1859-1868, 1868-07-22
From the Toledo Blade
New YORK, (at cheap boarding }
house, July the 4, 1868. {

New YORK, (at cheap boarding
house, July the 4, 1868.
If I he'd knowed just what I he'd tc
! go through with, | never would have
| figgerd for the posishen | now occupi
He'd | knowd the trnbbles which was
tu beset me, the Corners might have
gone unrepresented. and the Demok
! racy mint hav nominated kandidate
without my help.
| am at cheap boardin house wich
IL salubrusly sitooated on an alley
| the landlady being one of the ancient
| kings of Ireland, which her name is
! o 'Shaughnessy. | kudant git rooms
at the Aster, nor the St. Nicholas, ez
| kuddant get the klerk two luck at
me for an our. And when | did sue.
| seed IN rivitin the attenshun of one
he flew into a pashen and ordered me
to move on, with the unfeelin remark
that he he'd no room fur sich ! and
that insult might be added to in.
jury, the onfeelin woman who pre-
slds over the manshen which | inhab
it, perem ptorily refuzed to reseve me
unless | paid in advance. tried sew
eral places but, ez | hedn't no bag
gage, the prevalin opinyon seemed to
be that advance payment would be
better; and | was forsed to return to
her.
My advenchurs on the route were nu-
merous if not pleasant
At sum pint in Ingiany, where we
changed cars, found the trane we
| ad to take full of delegates. In LUX
in round for a seat, I diskiverd but
| that haddent two in it, and that one
had in it disgusting nigger, who he'd
the impoodence to be we'll dressed and
had carpet-sack beside HIM. Ny
Demokratik blood riz to wunst.-
Feelin that, in car filled with Dem
okratik delegates, anything l shud do
to a niger wood be safe, / stawkt
proudly up to him, holding my nose
Good Lord !" sed |. what a smell -
Good Lord - ekoed the delegates
wich got on at that stashen, ''wat a
terrible smell !"
My gentle, African friend" ;" sed l,
seezin bun by the kollor, =. regret
the necessity Of saying disagreeable
things, and still more of doin EN- but
the fact Is your impudence in gettin
into car of white gentlemen with
the disgustin odor inseparable from
and part of the African rase, IL rather
too much. And, more especially, do
| wonder at your keepin your seat,
while | and these other white gentle
men are standing.
"Out with the nigger !" yelled the
lately-arrived delegates, "hustle the
stinkin cus!."
Merciful heavens wat a smell ~
sung out others of EN- ''hist him /"
.'hlst him !"
Seem myself thus backed, and feel
in that a little zeal wood be safe. az
niggers kant vote, | nokt his hat out
Of the window and follered up that
demoustrashun with a serus attempt
at liftin him ont of the seat. | wood
hav succeeded, but the nigger resisted
and resisted vigorously, to wit: He
noht three nv my front teeth down
my throat, pulled cut wat little there
was left of the har that hangs in skan-
ty festunes about my venerable tenn
plies, and blakt both my les. I wuz
liein on my bark in the passage, some
what astonished, the nigger a standin
over me, with his boot-hel razed over
my face, when some gentlemen came
in from another car and restrand him.
Mr.. Williams sed tina, "Iet him
up. He's poor, white trash. and not
wurth wasten yur time onto. Let
him up, Mr.. Williams, let him up
''Sirs, sed !, rIzing to my feet,
tremulous with rage, is this the tret-
ment | am to expekt all the way to
Moo York Am | to be pounded TO
death By a nigger-a stinkin niger
sirs, whose odor even now makes the
ear untenable to gentlemen Of refined
sensibilites-and TO here the niger
addresst as Mister after that, insted
of bein tord tn peces by the infurated
spectators Oh, Shame! where IL
thy blush ?'
"Yo misserbul Gus p sed one Of
these gentlemen, "appologize to onst
to this gentlemen for your insulting
roodness. or We'll chuck You out of
the ears Apologize, \ sir, to Mr. Jo-
sef Williams, Delegate at large from the
State Of Tennessee r.
almost tainted. This niger. then.
wuz delegate He, a regler dele
gate. armed and equipped with regu-
lar credenshels to Demokratik Ma
slnel Konvenshun; and / hev been
guilty in my zeal of assultin NV him
Gladly | apologyzed and, further.
humbly begged permission to sit be-
side him which ne ackorded with a
grshusness | never saw ekelled
1t wuz astonishen, the change that
crept over the Ingeana delegates -
Tha krowded around Us and shook
him by the hand-thev didn't smell
any edor a all any more on the con
trary tina seemed to like him. Thay
addressed HIM as Mister; and sew
erl OF EN-, IN introducIn him TO ther
friends who got on at varus stashuns,
vuSed the prefix. Honorable"
1t is wonderful what a difference it
makes with nigger to hav a vote,
and also how he votes He'd that
niger been infected with Ablishnizm
] make 10 doubt that the stencil. wich