Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1869-05-15
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a. johnson, to the niggers NV Nashville.
struck me ez bein stroke NV policy
wich we ought by all means to initiate.
/ hev bin long Nv the opinion that there
aint no earthly yoose in standing in front
NV the car NV progrcss-that we must
either get onto it or be smashed. sed
ez much to Deekiin POgram and Elder
Pennibacker, and they yielded a reluc.
tant assent.
"The nigger is going to vote ANYHOW" :"
remarkt /, "and hedn't we better gobbie
our share NV them votes than to hey EN-
all agin us? z"
| sejested a meetin, to be held at the
church, To wich our coored bretberin
shood be all invited, and at wich the
hatchet shood be forever berried-a sort
NV politikle lovefeast, in which there
shood be n sort of minglin, subsidn, a
runnin together, ez it were. Dcekin Po.
gram entered into the skeem with con.
siderable energy, after he comprehended
it; and Bascom, with biznis sapasitv
that makes him one NV the great fnan-
ceers, favored it, remarkin that any move
ment wich wood transform men into
Demokrats must be advantejus to him.
entered upon my work with more
than my yoosual energy. l decorated
the church with mottoes and transpar-
rencies. i he'd it swept out. Even sum
OF the notices wuz ruther high-scented
for the Deekin, but | soothed him bv
ashoorin him that they wuz only tor
etfeck, and that there wuzn't nothin'
more intended 10y EN- than there is yoo-
sually il party platforms.
| instructed the Deekin and the others
duly ez to wat they must do to make it
perfect success. They must, | told EN-.
not only be corjal to the niggers there
selves, but their wives, and sons and
daughters must be likewise. The Ethio-
pans must be made to understand that
we wuz in earnest; that they wuz to be
reely counted III ez humans, and by uz.
eve must" l remarkt, "cut under the
| Ablishnists."
Every thing. succeeded beyond nv
widest hopes. The white inhabitants
Nv the Corners wuz all there, and at
least .two-thirds of the niggers. | he'd
an involuntary shudder ez | notist Joe
Bigler and Pollock marshallin the mig.
gers, but | he'd hopes, ez the meetin wUz
called tor the purpose of recognizin their
rites, that they would lei it 90 off with
out iDterrupshen.
wuz appintcd Chairman, NV course,
and the new Assessor, witch is nigrer,
wuz made Vice President.
L opened with tribute TO the charac-
ter and qualities NV our Atrkin brethren.
ashoored en- that | he'd the highest
respect for EN-, Individually and collec-
lively, and that, so far ez ! wuz con-
cerned, | wuz prepared to receive EN- on
terms NV perfeck ekuality in every thing.
81 may hev had prejoodises," remarked; :;
81 may hev allowed them preioodises to
carry me beyond the bounds NV rite at
times; but, thank Heaven, them preioo-
discs is cured. l kin take this worthy
man by the hand-(at wich pint l took
the Assessor by the hand aud shook it,
the effeck NV wich taboo, however, wuz
marred by his wipin his hand keerfully
ostentashusly on his breechcs ez soon ez
L let go NV it, at wich the niggers tit
tered l took him by the hand, and in
doin it wish to be understood ez takin
the entire Afrikin race by the hand. My
sole goes out in love toward all NV en-"
Deekin Pogram rcmarkt that he Good
indorse all that the Cheerman he'd sed.
lie felt that the time he'd come when
color shood not he considered. "Bless
the Lord, "sed the Deekin. 81 kin say
that look upon adult niggers ez broth
ers, the younger ones ez children. Bless
the Lord, kin recognize in the Afrkin
my ekal, and insist that they shell be,
from this time hcnceforth and forever,
on precisely the same tootin we stand
onto. From this time l shell know no
white, no black-only men and women.
The colored yuth shell be to me ez the
white youth. Bless the Lord"
Elder Pcnnibacker, Issaker Gavitt and
Baseom, shouted "Amen," and the Dee
KIN WIZ about to proceed, but he didn't
Joe Bigler jumped onto the platform and
embracin the Deekin, vociteruusly re-
inarkt that this wuz the beginnin NV a
new era. This wuz the commencement
OF the lyin down Nv the lion and the
lamb together with little child to lead
EN-. Let US" sed Josef, "let us make
this practical. Come up, nv saddle
colored friends, come up and embrace
yoor kindred. Mingle yonr tears and be
lNiNh uUOuJ its
1mmejetly every mulatter, male and
female. III the house riz to their feet and
made a rush, Twelve of EN- nv all
shades, from the regler tan color up to
the near white, tell onto Deekin Pogram,
the men all shakin him by the hand, and
the wimmin all kissin him, and all in
korions exclaimin "Fatherr
"Look upon EN- ez children, Dcekin -
sung out Bigler, "you've a nachrol rite
to. Every one NV EN- hez got yoor noze,
and hereafter there's to be no differ
ences % Y a
An ekul number, or perhaps moro, was
pertormin likewise onto Elder Penni-
backer, Capt. McPelter and Bascom.
Quittin the old men these enthusiastic
niggers, stimulated thereto by Josef Big
Ter, who kept clappin his hands and
ejaculatin, "How lovclyl Oh, what a
minglin !! How pleasant tits to see
brethren agree!" ct settry, made rushes
for lssaker Gavitt, Beniah Pogram, Eli,
phalet Pennibacker, and young Hugh
McPelter and their sisters, and fallen