Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1868-04-08
Written for the Toledo BIads.l
MAS B Y.
The State OF Mfehigan-The Expert.
ence Of Mr.. Nasty therein, and =
FrfghtfuI Dream that he Dreamed.
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enee Of Mr.. NaSby therein, and =
frfghtful Dream that ne Dreamed.
LANSING, MICH, March %.
Eff ther is q State in this Yoonyan en-
irely worthy Nv being ranked with Mas
sehOOsits-entirely worthy Nv bein con-
adered scssely second in pint Nv Ham-ridi-
,ulin, 0nssiIhes- defyin and Hsgar rejectin
Ablishin infdelity. that State is Michigan
Massachusetts, is onery and eusSid-Miehi
gan is oneryer and outsider. They hev
colleges in every other eounty-skool-
houses, gorjus and costly in every town,
and ef that amt enough they hev q crooel
tyrsnikle, barbarous Law forbiddin the
sale Nv sustenance In larger towns where
one kin, without material danger, get suth-
in sustsinin, municipal law Stsps in and
compels the dispensers thereof 70 close
at eleven O'Clock P. N. In this town
from whence I write, gathered together
g few Nv the faithful, and wuZ 3 confirm
in Nv em in the faith, when ss the clock
struck eleven, the landlord put out the
lites and US simultaneous. Kin such
things be, and overcome rs like summer
cloud They kin Uv course there can't
be no whsle hearted Dimocr4ey In sieh
STATED They don't hev to get fully Dino
cratic. Eleven O'clock The DlmOcrscJ
Of Michigan is eleven o'clock DImoeraeY.
They don't live out half their days. They
fall short Nv the troo slater Of full grown
specimens Just an hour. The only good
and troo ones hev ssen were few far
mers and sich, who carried it homs in =
Jug. But alas es they never pay rent,
they don't stay long enough in a place to
make therselves felt. They materially
drift back TO Southern Illinoy, where fine
10th combs are unknoEn-Where the
wicked cease from troublin, and the %eary
are at rest. But We hev enuf Nv that
kind here.
Ell retired to my couch last night, I was
filed with sadnis. The eleckshun okkurs
in week or two, and the Abolisinnists
perpose to vote to tear down the few re-
mainin land. marks and give votes to the
disgustin niggers in that State. Conten-
platin the gulf to which Michigan Is ap-
prosching-with my sole hlled with fore
bodins, / fell into q troubled sleep, and
sleepin dreemed.
Methawt 1 wuz in LiberIG that country
seross the waters settled BY civilized mig
GERS. ! Wuz some whst surprised at wot
met my gaze. Niggers to the right Nv
me-niggers to the left Nv me-nlggsrs in
front Nv lne--rooe the six hundred thousand
Nv EN-. Occasionally in the streets Nv Mon
royis, the cheef town, I seed white man
more frekently mullatter, occasionally
one in wich Wuz only 3 tinge Nv white
blOod-jist enuf to see that his ancestors
had left Kentucky many years and gener-
Arions before. Psssin full bloOded mig
ger on the street, he pushed me contempt
uously into the gutter, and forthwith =
rabbie Nv full bloOded niger boys pelted
me with mud. yellin at me ez tho it wuz 8
opproorious term, "White man! Yah /.
White mani YAhi Yah! White man!
A mild-faeed nigger came to my rescue
and re booked the boys. as he," said
be '.to blame for bein white Remember,
BOYS, the same God made HIM ez made
you, and that be is not to blame for his
color. He"
At this period he stopped talkin- The
fust nigger returned, and damnin him for
q disturbin one idea Radicle, knoekt him
into the gutter, and mutterin suthin about
bein troo to the traditions Of his race,
stslked hawtily away.
sis ther," sed 1, Indignantly, ''no law
for these outrages7 Am TO submit to bein
pelted by boys and pummelled by men,
and no redress Is"
callers, sir !" sed the benevolent look
ing nigger, who he'd the appearance Of q
Sundsy- school teacher, ''allers, sir, ther
isn't- Yoor color, sir-your color They
heY prejoodises which they can't overcome
and that prejoOdis the boys even possess.
Farewell, sir, some day it viii be different
but now"
And he drawd . sigh and walked on
hastily ez be notist srssh crop Of boys sp-
proschin.
1 walked on, in my dream Seein =
largo house 1 entered it. II wuz the cap
lille, and boldly 1 esssyed 10 pass the door.
The doorkeeper, with an expression Nv
skorn never saw out side Of Kentucky,
remarkt that the white gallery wuz up
that way. Up assembled, close under the
roof, where there wss possibly dozen
more like me, and sot and listened to
curious debate. The measure under con-
siderashen wuz a amendment to the Con-
stitooshen Nv Liberia, striking out the
word "black." The thing he'd been long
pending. AdYOcaten it Wuz half duzen
members in a corner BY themselves and
WIZ hAA klo NE9s ~ 80 -~0A7~-
Theseene wuz very much sieh ez witnessed
3 sgoo1msny years ago at Washington, when
John Quincy Adams wuz champion IN
the idea Nv the ekslity Nv all men IN the
House One member denounst the leader
Nv the listle minority ez ''base, groylin,
low wretch, who he'd lost all Pride uv race
all regard for the purity Nv blood-and
who wuz lnsidusly plotting 70 dedass the
pure and proud race Nv Ham By mlngllng
with it the pale, milky blood Nv the infs-
rior races"
Another wanted this House 10 ask itself,
"Do you want to march up to the polls
longside Nv a white man Do 700 want
to be tried for yer little crimes afOre 6 jury
Nv white men White men in ofiis. l
shudder st the thotl See sed he, pulling
out from under his coat portrate Nv 3
white woman, ez seed VsllAndygam do
wunst in Ohio, at . DimoerRtlc meetin,
only he he'd on his paste board Ssnch;
'.See TO what the gentleman wishes to ally
hisself." Another member sskt the House
to seriously ask themselves afore they vo-
ted on the bill, whether this House want
i'd to marry 3 white Somzn2 he HaRtid
this House to ask herself whether she want
ed his dOrter to marry 3 white man ''Ef
We let EN- vote we mus. marry EN- 20 The
vote was taken, resultin ov coorse, in the
loss uv The bill The six Radieles were
Iowunst expelled for intrOdoosin sich 3 In-
cendiary measure, and the House adjourned
The populace got hold nv the news, and
and the widest joy prevailed Ons wag-
on was rugged up, into which wuz :wenty
four black girls with banner over en-,
"Fathers pert.ct US from the white ekali-
ty," and another similarly loaded carried
n banner onto Wich WIZ written, "Black
husbands or none! The purity Nv our
Racel" Noticin me on the street, the pop
ulace went for me. The police, wieh
ought to preserve the pesce, (they were
mostly migrants from an island OF the
coast, wich they he'd left on account Nv
Dein oppressed by the King Nv another
island wich he'd got possession Nv EN-, and
wuz bearin down upon 'em, the Perlice-
men, insted of pertectin me, headed the
hunt, and lively they made it. was
caught snd rolled in the cutters, and
shouts Nv kill the d-d White-ivered
whelp ?" and they pounded and pumme
me, and tore my clothes on "TO the
white orfun asylum" shouted one Nv 'em
and to that cry owed my life. Tney be.
eeye IN wholesale KILN rutker than retale,
and they made rush for an asylum where
he oriuns Nv the few despised whites Euz
! livin. Short work they made Nv It.
The orfuns wuz roastid and beatin to death,
he tetchers run for their lives, and the
Duildins were sacked, the black women
meantime ridin around with the banners
over 'em and the principle citizens address
IN the mob, deprecaIin violence, but new