The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1868-07-30
From the Toledo Blade.
WASBY.

New y HOFkossHe gives an AZ
count of ONE of the Difficult
ties that beset him on the way
and i'm the Great City.
NEW YoRK, (at eheep boardin house,, /
July 4, 1865. !
Ell he'd knowd Just wat I he'd tc
go thrO with, I never wood fggered
for the posishen 1 now Okepy. He'd
knOwd the troubles witch was to beset
me, the Corners mite hev gone Onrep-
resented, and the Democrisy mite hev
nominated a candidate without my
help. am at a cheep bOardin house,
wich is salubrusly sitOOatid on an alley,
the landlady bein one NV the anshent
Kings Nv Ireland, witch her name is
O'Shaughnessy. 1 coOdent get rooms
at the Aster, nor the st. Nicholas, ez l
coodnt git clerk to look at me for an
hour, and when I did succeed in
rivitin the attenshun Nv one, he flew
into a pashen and ordered me to move
on, with the onfeelin remark that he
he'd no room for sich! And that in
suit mite be added to injury, the on
feelin woman who presides over the
manshen I inhabit, peremptOrily re-
fOozed to reserve me Ontil I paid in
advance. I tried several places, but
ez he'd MT no baggage, the prevailin
opinyun seemed to be that advance
payment wood be better, and I was
fOrst to return to her.
/ My advenchers on the route were
noomerous, if not pleasant.
At some pint in Injiany, where we
changed cars, I found the trane we
he'd to take full Nv delegates. In look
in round for a sect / diskivered but
one that he'd Mt too in it, and thatOne
he'd in it a disgustin nigger, who he'd
the impOodence to be We'll drest, and
he'd a carpet bag besides. Ny Dime
kratic blud riz to wunst. Seein that
in car filled with Dimekratic dele
gates, enything 1 shOod do to a nigger
would be safe, staWkt rite up to him,
holdin my nose:
"GOod Lord ~ sez /, swat a snelIl"
'fGoOd Lord p ekoed the delegates
witch got on at that stashen, "wat
terrible smell, oh ~
4sMy gentle Afrikin frend," sed I,
seezin him by the collar, 81 regret the
necessity Nv saying disgreeable things,
and still more Nv dQin on em, but the
fact is yOOr impoodence in gittin into
a car Nv wife gentlemen, with the dis
gustin oder inseparable frum and part
Nv the Afrikin race, is rather too
much. And more especially do l
wunder at yoOT keepin yoOr sect, while
I and these other wite gentlemen are
standin."
"Out with the nigger !" yelled the
lately arrived delegates, "hustle the
stinkin cuss."
"Merciful hevins, wat a smellI'-
sung out others Nv EN-, ahist him !''
"hist him !"
Seein myself thus backed, and feel
in little zeal wood be safe, ez mig
gers can't vote, 1 knOekt his hat out
ov the winder, and fOllered up that
demonstration with serious attempt
at liftin him out NV the seat. wood
.hev succeeded, bat the niger resisted,
and resisted vigorously, tO-wit: he
knOekt three Nv my front teeth down
my thrOte, pulled out wat little there
Waz left Nv the hare that hangs in
scanty festOOns about my venerable
temples, and blackt both my eyes. 1
wuz lyin on my back in the passage,
somewhat astonisht, the nigger a stand
in over me, with his boot heel raised
over my face, when some gentlemen
came in from another car and restrain
ed him.
"Mr. Williams" sed they, "let him
up. He's poor white trash, and not
worth wastin yoor indignashen onto.
Let him up, Mr.. Williams, let him
up"
"Sirs," said I, risin to my feet, trem-
ulOus with rage, "is this the treatment
l am to expect all the way to Moo
York? Am 1 to be pounded to a jel-
ly by a nigger-a stinkin nigger, sirs,
whose oder even now makes the car
to gentlemen Nv refined
sensibilities-and to heer the nigger
addrest ez "Mister" after that, instead
Nv befn torn to pieces by the infuriat-
ed spectators! Oh shame, where is thy
blush ?"
'EYOo mizrable cuss," sed one of
these gentlemen, apologize to wunst
to this gentleman for yOOr insultin
roodnis, or we'll chuck yOo out Nv the
cars. Apologize, sir, to Mr.. Josef
Delegate at large for the
State Of Tennessee !"
IaImest tainted. This Niger, then,
WIZ a delegated He wuz a regular
delegate, armed and equipped with
credenshels to the Dimekratic
Nashnel COnvenshen, and 1 he'd been
guilty in my zeel Nv assaultin Nv him.
Gladly apologized, and further,
humbly begged permission to sit be-
side him; wich he accorded with a
L never saw exalted.
1t wuz astonishin the change that
erept over the Injeany delegates
They crowded around US and shook |
him by the hand--they did mt smell
any odor at all any more on the
contrary they seemed to like him.
They addrest him ez "Mister," and !
several Nv EN- interdoocin him to ther
friends who got on at various stashens,
yoosed the prefix "HOnorable." It's
wonderful what a difference it makes
with a niger to hev a vote, and also
how he votes He'd that Williams
bin infected with Ablishnism, I make
no doubt that the stencil which I rec
ly fancied I smelt when I fust under
took to subjugate him, wood hev con-
tinyoOd to the end Nv the trip. In
oIden time it wuz observed that slave
niggers did MT smell-it wuz only the
free ones. 1t is a settled fact now
that Dimekratic niggers are inOdOrous!
1 mite hev known, however, that the
nigger wuz free niger, by the way
he pitched into me. No nigger in a
state Nv servitoOd. wood ever hev done
sich a thing. That much they owe
to the war anyhow.
My principal objlck in going to Moo
York wuz to do wat I Good toward Sc
coorin the nOminashen of Jethro L. !
LZiDDins 7 found tho doIoora fos bodIvy