White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1868-04-09

muiatteT, aDd Occesonos"y oo0 ~ ""'S".
wuz only a tinse nv white blool-jist
enuff to show that his sncesters hsi left
Kentucky many years anil genersshens
before. Psssin q full-blooded nigser on
the street. he pushed ms contsmptooasly
into the eu,tsr, anil forthwith . rsbble nv
fuIl.blooied niggsr boys peltsd me with
mua- vsllin st me. cs tho il wus . oppro-
brions term: "White mani YshI White
man! Yah! Yah! White nanF
A'mild-faced niger esas to my res.
COO. and rebooked the boys: els be-"
sed he, TO be blamed Tor bein white!
Remember, boys. the came God made
him a m.de 700. and that he 10 not to
blame for his color! He"
At this period he s'opt tslkin. The
fu,t nieeer returned. and DAMN him for
disturbin. one-ij-e R-iicIs. knoci him
into q gutter. and mutrin suthin about
bein troo to the tradishuns nv his race.
stalked hswtily away.
"Is ther," sed !, indign .ntly. ''no law
for these oa,rsge.? An to submit to
'bein pel,sd BY boys and pnmeilsd BY
men. and no rslsess? Is
"Alars, sir!" sed the benevolent -lookin
niger, who he'd the appearance nv
Sunday Skool teecher. ""Isrs, sir. ther
isn't. Yoor color. sir-yoor coiori-
They bsv pr-j.'o Uses vich they can't
overcome. an, that prejoodis the boys
even possess. Fsrawell. sir. Some day
it will be different. bn, now
And he drawd . sigh. and walked on
ruther hastily. ez he notist fresh crop
nv hoys approschin.
walked on, in my dreem. Seein a
large house. l entered it. 1t wus the
capitle. and boldly rs>syed to pass the
door. The door keeper with expreshun
nv skorn never saw outside Nv Ken
tucky, remarkt that the uhte gallery
wuz up that way. Up l assembled. clo.t
dozen more like me. and | sot and listen
ed to q curious debate. The mesher un-
der considersshun wuz a amendment to the
Const ooshn nv Liberia. strikin the word
"black" ont Nv that iustroomsni! The
thing he'd been long pendin. Advocatin
it wuz hslf-dozsn members in a corner
by therselves. and opposin it wus all the
rest nv the Honse. The sceen wnz very
much sich ez l witnest good manv yeer'
ago at Wsshinton. when John Quincy
, Adams wnz q champion in the ice nv
, the ekslity Nv all men in the House.
One member deDounst the leader nv tn
little minority ez "b,se. grovelin. Low
wretch. who he'd lost all pride nv race
all regard for purity nv blood-and who
wuz insidiously plott'n to dsbsssf the pur'
and prosd race nv Ham by minglin will
i, the pale. milky blood nv the inferio
races"
Another wantid this House to ask It
self: "Do 700 want to march up to th
polls longside nv white man! Do yot
} want to be tried for yer little crimes afor'
joory Nv white men? White men i,
offs! l Ishndder at the tho,I See!" set
he. puIlin ont from under his coat por
: trait Nv q white woman. ez | seed Val
: lsndygum DO wunst 10 Ohio at Dino
cratic meet,n. only he he'll on bis past
bosrd q wench: ''see 10 wat the gentle
= man wishes to ally hisself" Anoths
> gentleman askt the House to seriously
ask therselves. sfo'e they voted on tbi
bill. wether this -Honse wantid 10 marr,
white womaf? He wantii this Hous,
r to ask herself wether shs wanid his dor
ter to marry Q white man? EFF we l.,
en- vote. we MUST marry eml" The vote
wuz taken. resnl'in. nv coarse, in votir
down the bill. The six R.dicles wuz t..
wunst expelled for in,rodoosin sich in
cendiary mesher, AMI the House sdjurned
; Tie popnlacs got hold nv the news
and the widest joy prevailed. Oae wsg'
on wuz rugged up. into wich wnz twenty
fonr black girls with banner over EN-.
"Fa'hers. perfect rs from white ekality.' -
and another SIMILARLY loaded carried &
hsnner onto wich wnz ritten. BLACK
husbands or none! The purity Nv our
Race!' Noticin me on the street, the
populace went for me. The police. wich
onght to hev preserved the peace. (,hav
were mostly migrants from q island of
the coast. wich they he'd left on account
Nv bsin oppressed by the King Of sno,h her
ISLAND wich he'd got posSeshion Nv them,
and wuz bs,rin down upon EN-. the
policemen, insted NV perteciin me. headed
the hunt. and lively they m ale it.
wuz caught snd rolled in the gntters.
amid shonts nv Kill the ID white
livered whelp!" and they poun led and
pummeled me. and tore ny clothes off
TO the white orfun ssylnm!" shoutsd
one nv EN-. and to that cry ] Dwell my
life. They believed in wholesale KILN
ruthcr than retale, and they made . rush
for q asylum wher the orfnns nv the few
despised whites wuz twin Short work
they made nv it. The orfups wuz 70 ,st.
ID and besten 10 de:h. the teachers run
for ther lives. and the biIdins wuz sacked.
the black wimmin meantime ridin around
With the banuers over em. and the prin
cipls citizens sddressin tho mob. depre
catin violence. but nevertheless sppIsndin
nv EN- for ther zeal in pressvin the purity
nv the race. The white skool houses and
eighteen dwellins wuz gone through with
sz ef BY inHpirashen. Finally they 90,
site nv me sgiB. end. es ther wuzn't any
others in site. they cheerfulIy ceessd me.
and. rigain 9 rope. rnn me- up to lamp
post. "Wat inhoom snity! vat crooel,yl
vat ioiustia!" shrsekt I. ForchoouitIv
did not further commit myself tn.
shoutin and seose nv cbokiu swoke ma.
wus not in Afriks; I he'd not been bea,.
/ en- and pumeled and vol,ed In ~. 1880.