The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1869-05-20
From the Toledo Blade. I
MA = B Y.
Mr. Nasty Tries an Experiment
which Results nOt as He Expect
ed-Ihe New Feeling towards
the Nigger fm Indiana.

the N1RSeF In Indiana.
Posr 0FFTs, CoNFEDRIr x ROADS, !
(Which is in the Stait Nv Kentucky,) !
May /, 1869
The-Dimocrisy NV the country are
not in that happy condishn just at this
time that l Good wish. The Satrap at
the head NV the Government, and his
subordinit satraps at the bead nv the
Departments, hev not left ez many
openins ez they ought, for our good
and the reduckshen Nv the expenditoOrs
Nv the Government so persistently fol-
loered up is death to US. We want
groanin, but it must not be Nv dis
mist clerks and army ofisers. He'd the
Government put garrison into every
town ez we profeside it wood, and
Good we hev he'd this summer, in addi-
ton, the potater rot, weevil, frost, To-
Gusts, floods, drouth, yeller fever and
cholery, we mite hev stood some chance
NV carryin the fall eleckshuns, for the
people wood hev murmured. But ez
long ez everything is smooth they lafl
at us when we insist upon a change and
say, jeeringly, $50 up bald head !"
And in addishen to these calamities
we hev bin, or are just about bein, de-
prived NV the nigger wich hez bin our
cheef and best holt o, wat back
slidin there hez bin in this matter o
wat a levelin there hez bin in this mat
ter! o, wat levelin there hez bin nv
the Dimocratic Zion o, wat goin
back there hez bin on Dimocratic car
dinal principals!
Feelin an oneasinis in my mind ez to
the condishn Nv the public mind in the
Northern States on the adopshen Nv
the Fifteeth Amendment | determined
to try a most hazardous experiment /
he'd no fears Nv Kentucky, none. Ken
lucky will git ready TO ADOPT an idea
ninety years after date, but / felt that
l wanted to be satisfied ez to the
soundnis nv the Ohio and Injeany Dim.
ocrisy on this question.
To this end determined to resort
to strategy. / wanted to know per-
cisely the feelins entertained in those
States regardin the Afriken. I wanted
to see with my own eyes the skornfu
look wich wuz formerly slung at Afric''
sons; l wantid to here agin from
Democratic lips thet cheerin expression
"D-n the nigger, anyhow" To ac
complish this, l determined to person.
ate a nigger, and in that guise to go
boldly into Ingeany, announce mysel
ez an Afrikin nigger, determined t.
assert his rites, and note the result.
expectid, NV course, to be hooted anC
reviled expected to be stoned ant
shot at, but l wood thereby kill two
birds with one stun, viz; l wood dis
gust the Ingeanians with nigger ekali,
ty, ez they wood see to wat it wui
leadin, and I Good exhibit my scars tt
Kentucky ez proof of the steadfastni
Nv their northern friends.
Wat determine upon Il do. In m,
younger days the feat involvin the pos
session of a horse, witch resulted in m
bein tried for grand larceny, and con
victid thereof by 12 prejoodist joory
men, and my incarcerashen from vic
/ wuz only relieved becoz my vote WI
needed to carry Pennsylvany for Boo
kannon, this masterpiece wuz coceevet
and execooted in less than four hours
Unforchnitly, the courts wuz nearly e
expedishus for four days thereafter
found myself in Basteel
l entered Ingeany ez a white man !
l REGISTERED my name at hotel ez a
white man, but left it a niger, vic
transformashen wuz accomplished b
means Nv burnt cork, in my room
witch transformashen wuz nv doubl
yoose, ez it enabled me to leave m
hotel without likidatin my account
wich otherwise wood hev bin impossi
BILE. The county in wich / landid WI
close one, the two parties bein nearl
tied, neither hevin Fifty votes to spare
and there bein over a hundred niger
in the county, the Afrikin will, eff b
votes this fall, hold the balance u
power.
With my face and hands blackt t
The color Nv mite, and assumin th
character Nv a preacher in the M. I
Afrikin Church, wich character ] coo
assoom, ez the burnt cork hid the &C
quired color Nv my nose, sailed fort
boldly. Procoorin the loeashen nv tn
leadin Dimocrat Nv the county, vic
wuz also the candidate for Sheriff,
sought him out and demanded sui
scription for Afrikin Church, wich
asserted | wuz desirous NV erectin
the east part NV the county, and u
wich wuz to be pastor in Charg
, holdin myself at the time in sich
posishen that a KICK Good do but lit
damage,
/ wUz NOT KlcKT
On the contrary quite the reverse
: The gushin candidate kindly, blandl
and winningly begged me to be seate
r he askt me, with tears Nv intrest gush
: from bis eyes, ez to the prospex Nv o,
{ Zion; ez to how many we numbers
male and female, adult and youthful
and whether or not we coodentindulg
a reasonable hope that many more u
our color mightn't be indoost to leaV
the South and settle in the county.
, Hopin to frighten him with nigg'
emigrasheu, wich l he'd heerd him d