Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1868-04-11
LANSING. Mich. March %.


Eff ther is a state in this Yoonyun entire
lv worthy Nv bein ranked with Massa
choosits- worthy Nv bein con
sidered scarsely second in pint ny Ham
ridiculin. Onesimus defyin and Hagar
reiectin Ablis hn infdelity, that State
is Michigan. Massachusetts, is onery
and cussid- Michigan is oneryer and
outsider. They hev colleges in every
other county-skool-houses, gorius and
costly in every town, and eff that amt
enough, they hev crooel, tyranikle, bar
barous law forbiddin the sale Nv susie
nance! In the larger towns where one kin,
without material danger, get suthin
sustainiD' municipal law steps in and COM
pels the dispensers thereof to close at
eleven o'clock p n. In this town, from
whence l write, | gathered together few
nv the faithful, and wuz confrmin NV
EN- in the faith, when. ez the clock struck
eleven. the landlord put out the lltes and
us simultaneous. Kin such things be,
and overcome us like summer cloud ?
They Kin! Uv course they can't no
wholcharted Dimocrisy in such State /?
They don't hev time to get fully Dino
cratic. Eleven o'clock The Dimocrisy
of Michigan is eleven O'Clock Dimocri-
sv. They don't live out halftheir days.
They tall short NV the troo slater of full
grown specimens just an hour. The on
ly good and troo ones | hev seen were
few farmers and sich, who carried il
home in Jug. But, alas es they never
pay rent, they don't stay long enough
in place 10 make themselves felt. They
materially drift back to Southern lllinOy,
here fine tooth combs is unknown -
where the wicked cease from troublin,
and the weary are at rest. But We hev
enutf nv that kind here.
Ez l retired to my couch last night, |
was filled with sadnis. The eleckshun
okkars in a week or two, and the Ablish-
nists propose TO vote to tear down the
few relnainin landmarks and give votes
to the disgastiu niggers in that State.
Contemplatin the gulf to wich Michigan
is approachin-with my sole filled with
forebodins, | fell into troubled sleep,
and sleelin dreemed.
Methawt WIZ in Liberia, that coun-
try across the water settled by civilized
niggers. / wuz somcwot surprised at
wot met my gaze. Niggers to the
right NV me-niggers TO the left ur
me-niggels in front NV me-rode the
six hun tred thousand Nv EN-. Occas-
i,nally in tie streets NV Monrovia, the
cheef town, | seed white man-more
frekently mullatter, and occasionally
one in wich wnz only tinge Nv white
blood-iist enuff to see that his ancestors
had left Kentucky many years and gen
erashens before. Passin a full-bloodRd
migger on the street, he pushed me con-
temptously into the gutter, ard forth
with rabble NV fullblooded nigger
boys peIted me with mud, yellin at me,
ez tho it WIZ a approbrious term, "White
man /! Yah White men Yah Yah 7!
White man."
\ mild-taced nigger came to my rescue
and re-booked the boys. "ls he" sed he,
ito blame for bein white Remember,
boys, the same God made him ez made
YOU, and that he is not to blame for his
color, He"
AT :his period he stopped talkin. The
filst nigger returned, and DAMN him for
disturbin one idea Radicle, knockt him
into the gutter, and mutterin suthih
about bein troo to the. tradishuns NV his
race, stalked hawtily away.
as ther," sed | indignantly, ''no law
fer these outrages Am to submit to
bein pelteJ by boys and pummelled by
men, and no redress Is"
"Alars, sir ~ sed the benevolent-look-
ing nigger, who he'd the appearance of
Sunday school teacher, ''alaIs, sir,
ther isn't Yoor color, sir-yoor color /!
They hev prejodises which they can't
overcome, and that prejoodis the boys
even possess. Farwell, sir, some day 1t
will be difrent, but now"
And he drawd sigh walked on hasti-
ly, ez he notist a fresh crop of boys ap-
proachin. ..-
Iwalk,d on, in my dream, Seein a
large house entered it. 1t wuz the capi-
tie and boldly l essayed to pass the door.
The doorkeeper, with an expression NV
skorn never saw outside NV Kentucky,
remarkt the white gallery wuz u that
way. UpI assended, clost under the
roof, where there wpz possibly a dozen
more like me, and sot and listened to
g curious debate. The meas, r. under
considerashen WIZ amendment to the
Constitooshen NV Liberia, striKin out the
word 'black." The thing he'd been long
pendin. Advocaten it wuz half duzen
members in corner by themselves and
opposin it WIZ all the rest nv the House.
The sceen wnz very much sich Ell wit
uessed good many years ago at Wash
ington, when John Quincy Adams wuz
a champion for the idea wv the ekality Nv
all men in the House. One member de
nouust the leader NV the little minority
ez "base, GROWN, low wretch, who had
lost all Pride NV race-all regard for
the purity NV blood-and who wuz insi-
dlusly rlottin to debase the pure and
proud race NV Ham by minglin with it
the pale, milkey blood Nv of the inferior
races"
Another wantid this House to ask it.
self, ''De VOC want to march up to the
polls longside NV white man Do yoo
want to be tried for yer little crimes a
fore a jury NV white men' White men
in offs | shudder at the thot! See %
sed he, pullin out from under his coat
portrate NV white women, ez | seed
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