Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1868-01-29

from Niger Ekality f" "White Husbans
or nun =" 1t wood hev bin better, l thot,
he'd they bin somewhat younger. Their wuz
suthin preposterous IN the ijea Nv females NV
that age callin upon fathers to save EN- from
anythin, when in the course of nacher their
fathers must hev bin lyin in the silent
tomb for several consecutive years, onless,
lodged from the aged appearance NV the
damsels), their parents must he too far ad-
vanced in yeers to take an activ part in biz
mis-. In anuther wagon wuz collekshun NV
men wich he'd bin hired from the railrode
twelve miles distant, whose banners read
:" Shell ignerent NIggers vote beside inteli-
gent Wite men ?" and the follern verse =
Shel niggers black this land possess,
And rool us whites up here?
Q, no, my friends; we ruther guess
Wen never stand that ere"
1t okkurd to me that it wood hev done bet
ter he'd their spellin bin more akkerit; but
upon inquiry l found that it did ut make no
diffrence That wuz the prevailin way OF
spellin things in that vicinity Hangin over
the rolls wuz broad peece NV white muslin,
onto wich was painted, in large letters,
:. Caucashuns, Respe.k yer Noses-the mig
ger stinks !, - Then | knowed it wuz safe
That odor hcz never yet bin resisted by the
Democracy, and it hez its infoocnce over
Republicans.
| never saw sich enthoosiasm, or more
cheerin indicasuns NV the prize Nv race. Ez
evidence Nv the deep feeling thn t pervadcd
that community, state tfat nine paupers in
the poor-house demanded to be taken to the
polls. that they might enter their protest
agin brlngin the niger up to ekallty with
EN-, wIch wuz nine gain with no Offsets, ez
ther wuz Mt an Abishnist in the institoo-
shun. Two men, in the county jale for petty
larceny, wuz. at their own rekest, taken out
of doorance vile by the Sheriff the county,
that they mite, by the blllOt, protest agin
bein degraded by bein compelled, when their
time wuz out, u ackn pwledge the niger ez
their ekal. One enthusiastic Dimek rat
who cost US s.. he'd t. be oirried to the
polls. He he'd commenced early at one NV
the groseries, and he'd succumhed q fore yotin.
We found him sleepin peacefully in burn.
We lifted the patriotic man, and IN perceS
sion mlrched to the polls. We stood him on
his feet, two meh supp 'rtin him on
either side. | put straight ticket into his
fingers, and takin his wrist with one hand.
held his fingers together with tot ter, and
guided his hand to the box. EL it nearei
the winder. he started ez eff a electric shock
he'd struck him. and straiShtenin up, asked,
- Is it the sthrate ticket Is Constooshnel
Amindnint No onto it -
AHHO}Tli HiIi lildI IL W uL all lAIc. iIC SUI
fered me to hold his hand out to the Judge
NV Eleckshun, who took the ballot and de-
posted it in the box. Thank Ivin -"
sed he, :. the nagur is not yet my ayquil , ."
and doublin up at the thigh and ee-joints,
he sank, limber-like, and gently, onto the
ground. Ez he he'd discharged the dooty
an Amerikin freeman, VIC rolled him out to
one side NV the house, wher the dripprn NV
the rain from the roof wood do suthin to-
ward sOberin him off and left him alone in
his glory.
The Amendment got but n very few votes
in that locality. The Republicans jined us
in repudiatin it mostly up ethnologikle
grounds. One asserted that he hei bin in
favor NV emancipaslen in time war, be-
coz the Afrikin Good thereby be indoost to
fte agin their Southern masters, and it wood
hev the efIeck NV maxim the drafts come
lighter in his township He wuz a humani-
tartan likewise He opposed crooclty toward
EN-. lie wcpt when he heerd Nv the massa-
ere at Fort Piller becoz in the army the mig
ger wuz CT much a man cz anybody, and slch
wholesale slaughters tendid To make calls for
- 500 900 more y more frekent b ut when
it come to giyin nv em the privilege NV votin
beside him, it coodent be thot NV. lie Good
never consent tha, 4 race whose heels wuz
longer than hizzen shoOd rool Ameriky
- Nv God - sed this ardent Republican,
- eff you give EN- the ballot, wat kin prevent
EN- from bein Congrismen, Senators Vice
Presidents and even Presidents shudder
when | think Nv it :" and he hurried in his
vote.
did mt quite see the force Nv his obiec-
shen, for il never okkurred TO me that bcin
sent to Congris wuz tie material conscience
NV votin. | hev voted ior thirty years. at
many elections four or five times. but hey
never bin to Congris. Wher is the consti-
tooency witch wood elect me? But it wuz n I
my biznis to controvert his posishen 1t
made no di1rence to me wat his reason wuz
for votin ez desired him to vote.
1 he nigger-lOvers beat up one man to vote
for the Amendment. wlch. [ saw by his dis
look, he'd bin over-p -pcrswadid
. Sir ! - scd |, 8 do yoo CONSIDER a Afrikin
suffisheatly intelligent to be trustid with SO
potent weapon the ballot ?
Dustin away from them wich he'd him in
charge. he exclaimed. - No, | don't /
can't vote for it. They amt intelligent
ennff. Sir, scratch of the Yes from my
ballot, and put onto it No -
- Here is a pensil,' sed |.
. Do it yerself," sed he :; 81 can't write"
And did it Sich is the effe t Nv Z wJ-d
in season. Words ftly spoken is apples Nv
gold, set in picters Nv silver.
One man woodent listen to me, but votid
the Amendment lie he'd bin a soler, and
for eleven months pertook Nv the hospitality
NV the COnfedrits at Andersonvile. Escapin,
he wuz helped to the Fedrel lines by mig
ger, who wuz logged almost to death, in his
s te, for not betrayin wher he wuz hid. |
mite ez well hev talked to a lamp-pOst. Ez
he showed in his ballot, he remarkt suthin
about he'd ruther see niger vote than
ID rebel, any time. From the dreckshun
L.,
| left for home ez soon eZ the vot S wuz
counted. and the result wuz made known,
only waitin till the poll-hooks wuz made out,
and the judges eleckshun hed g''t thcr
marks to EN-. On my way home | WIZ graf
flied to see how material antipathy to the nlGl
ger he'd revived At Cincinnati, the mite Nv
the elekshun, they wuz bangin NV em about,
the patriotic, Demoerisy gpn for EN- where
ever they Good find EN-, and the next day, CT
saw EN- at the ralerode stashens, they he'd.
generally speekin. ther heds bandaged 1t
wuz chcerin to me, and | gloated over it.
A New WORK BY Mr.. BEECH ER.-Mr.
Beecher does not devote all the leisure which
his duties as pastor leave him, to writing for
the New York Ledger, although if he wishes
to place his writings before multitude of
readers, he could hardly find a wider audi
ence than the Ledger gives him. He is now
engaged upon Life Of Christ, which he
says he has Z" long contemplated as a labor
of love" Mr.. Beecher speaks of his work,
in letter to his publishers, J. B. Ford &
Co., of Brooklyn, as follows:
The materials are abundant. The difficulty
lies in selecting. The last thirty years have
brought to the consideration of this subject