Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1868-01-21
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NASBY.
DIR Nasty Goes to Chic on Mission of
Mercy 4 Terrible Mistake and its
Consequences.
From the Toledo Blade,
Posi- 0FFls CoSFEpRIF Y RoAns.a
tWich Is in the Staff NV Kentucky

he ought to hey made en- 50 that
miXin with the sooperior race wood
hey been an imposslbihty. The cuss
NV missegenashen, and the hatrd nv
the Democracy uv Ohio for niggers
hez, between en-, left me in con
dishcn wich hardly Supposed
shood ever find myself il rite
these lines, propped up in bed at my
boardin house, my face beaten to
jelly, and pertcckly kivered with
stlckin plaster; my nose, aluz the
beauty aud glory uv my face, is en-
larged to t~ict its fair proporshens
my few remainin teeth hev been
knoct down my throat, my lips re-
semble sausLges, my left ear is for
ever 40 more, and wat little hair wuz
hangin about my venerable TEN Pies
Is gone, my mead IL bald Ell a blizzard
bail, and twict it's normal size, 1t
kun about thus:
There Wuz trouble in one w the
Southern counties uv Ohio. In
reliable Democratic township in
that county Is a settlement ny nig>
ncrs, who IN the old time, ran away
from Kentucky, and Settlin here
whore thy GOOD hey wat they earned,
witch WIZ jist so much swipdled out
ny heatucky's accumulated wealth
Wv course comm from Kentucky.
these niggers are many ny en- ez
near White ez they ken be. One ug
EN- who carried with him the name
Nv his master, and, ez be SEE, father
Lett, is ez near a white man ez may
be, and ez he married a wcnch who
wuz shade winter than Re, their
children is jist touch whittier than
both ny EN-. Wv these be he'd three
daughters, ranging from sixteen TO
twenty
Now this Lett is disturbcr He
he'd a farm OF perhaps 200 akcrs aud
WIZ facts heavy for skooi purposes,
but his children wuzn't Nv course al
lowed TO tend the skool. None "
the niggcr@ children were. But this
Lett got the ice into bis head, that
there want no propriety in hiz pay.
in taxes with out enjoyin some uv the
benefits arisen # ON en-, and aided
and Allotted by other niggers, who
were wicked enough to complain nv
payin taxes to the support Nv white
sko)ls, directin EN- to present them>
selves bodily, take their seats quiet
J and study perservercnly. They
did SO. The skool marin who wuz a
young huzzy, with black eyes and
material curls from the Staff nv Moo
Hamshecr where they persekoot the
saints, not only assented 10 receiv
EN- but very joytulIy gave EN- seats
and pat EN- into classes-think NV
that-with W lite children.
There wuz trouble in that town,
/ ship, ! WIZ sent for to wunst, and
/ gladly | come. lwuz never so graft,
fed in my life Had smali,pox brok
en- out in that skoOi, there woodent
hev been half the eggcitement in the
township. 1t wuz the subject Nv
yooniversal talk everywhere, and tht
Democracy wuz a bilin like pot.
met the trustee Nv the township, and
demanded eff they intended tamely tc
submit to this outrage? | askt en-
whether they intended to hcv their
children set side by side with the
defendants NV Ham, who was con
demned TO posishen NV inferiority
forever? Kin 700, | askt, so de
/ grade yoorselvs, and blast the sell
respeck Of yoor children?
And bIlin up with indignashen the,
answered "never!' and yoonanimosly
requested me to accompany them tC
the skool house that they mite per,
emtorily expel these disgt stin bein:
who he'd entroOded themselves among
those Of soopelior race.
On the way to the skool hous
which wuz perhaps mile distant, /
ask the board cf they knowd those
girls by sight. No, they replide,
they he'd never seed EN-, II hev bin
told sed |, "that they are nearly
white"
They are, sod one " EN-, quite
white"
1T matters not, sed l. tcein that
there was a good oportoonity for
lmprovi in the occashen, cit matters
not There is suthin in the niger
at witch the instink Nv the white man
absolootly rebels, and from witch he
upstinktiveiy recoils. Much expert
ence hey | he'd with en- that put me
in dark room with one NV EN-, no
matter how little niger there is in
EN-, and that unering instink would
belray en- TO me, witch by the way
goes to prove that the dislike we
hev to EN- is not the result NV pref
udis but is part NV our very nach>
ers and one of its highest and hottest
attriboots."
Thus commuuin, we reached and
entered the skool house. The skool
marin wuz there, ez brite and ez
crisp ez a Janooary morning-the
sIolars wuz ranged on the seats a
studyIn ez rapidly ez possible.
"Miss," sed l, eve arc informed
that three niger wenches, African
decent, daughters Of one Lett, a Mig
ger, is in this skool, ez a ekal is
ii SOP"
''Tho Misses Lett are in this skool
scd She, ruther mischievously, "and
| am happy to state that they are
among our best pupils"
Miss sed sternly, pint EN-
OUT TO Us'
Wherefore r. scd she.
"That we might bundle them out =
sed l.
BLESS me p said she, 81 RELY
ooodent do that Why cxpel EN- ?"
"Becoz," sed !, mo niger shall
contaminate the white children nv
this districk. No SIGH disgrace shell
be put into EN-.
"Well" sed this agrivaten skool
marin, winch wuz from Moo Hamp,
shire, "put EN- out"
but show me witch they are.
Can't you detect then sir? Don't
their collier betray EN- Eff they are
so neer white, that you can't select
EN- at a glance, it strikes me that it