Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1869-06-04

'H9 f1'caF8 tie Atggcr IA Indiana.
P5sT oFFIs, CoxrED#ir y BoADs,
Which is in the State uv Kentneky
May /, 1859.
The Dimocrisy Nv the country are not il
that happy condishcn Jest al this time that
Good wish The Sauap at the head Nv
the Government, ard bis subordinit satraps.
at the head uy the Department, hsy not
left ez many opinins e they ought, for cur
good, and the reduckshen Nv the cxpeudi
t0ors Nv the Government so persistently
iolered up is death to US. We want groan-
ing, bur 1t must not be NV disuiist clerks and
army officers He'd The Government put a
garrison into every town ez we profsside il
wood and Good we hev bed this summer,
in aidi>hen the potato rot, wee,i, frost 10
Gusts, floods, drough, yellow fever and chol-
era, we mite hcv some cbance nv carryin
the fall elections, for the people wood hev
mumured But ez long ez every goes
smooth they laH al Us when We insist upon
change and say, jeerinly, Go up, bad
head.
Ard IN adlishen to the caamities, we
hev bin. or are just about beiu, deprived Nv
the niger which hcz bin our cheef aud best
holt o, wat blacksli3iu there hez bin in
this matter O. what a levcEn there hez
bin Bv the walls Nv che Demikratic Zion
0, ghat going back there hcz bin on
DemikFatic cardinal principles
Feelin an oneasine>s 10 NY mind cz to the
condishen uy the public mind in the North
ern States on the adopshun uy the Fifteenth
Amendment ! determined to adopt most
hazardous experiment. he'd no fears NV
Keutuck. none ksntuek viii git ready 70
adopt an idea ninety years after date, but
felt that | wanted 10 be satisfied cz to the
s1unjnis NV thc Ohio and InjeaDy Dmocri
y on this question.
To this end l determined to resort to
strategy. I wanted to know precisely the
feclins entertained in these States regardin
the Alrikea. wanted TO see with my own
eyes the skoraful look wich was formerly
Slang at Afric's nose I wanted to hear
again from Demikratc Ups that choerin ex-
preston, ''D--n the niger, anyhow To
accomplish tins, [ determined to personate
d niger, and in that guise to 60 boldly into
Ipieauy, announce myself ez an Afriken
niger determined To assert his rites, and
note the result / cxpectid. Nv course, to
be hooted and reviied I expected to be
stoned and shot at, bat I wood thereby kin
two birds with one stone, VIZ wood dis
gust the Inieanians with niger ekality, ez
they wood see wat it WIZ leadjn, aud could
exhibit my scars to Kentucky ez proof NV
the stedfusuis Nv their Northern trends
Wat / determine upon | do. In my
younger days, the feat iuvolyin the posses
shen uv a horse, which resultid in my bein
tried for grand larceoy. and convicted By
twelve prejoodist iooTymen, aud my iucar-
cerashen from which I wuz only relieved
bee q my vote wuz needid to carry Pennsyl
vany for Bookannon, this masterpiece wuz
conceived and execootid IN less than four
hours Unforchnitely, the courts wuz near
Iy ez e1pelishus, for four days thereafter |
found myself in a Basteel.
IeutTsd Injeanny ez a white man; rel
estcred my name at a hotel cz a white man,
but left it niger, wich transformation
was accomplished by means Nv burnt cork,
in my room; wieh transformation wuz Nv
double use, e. it enabled me to leave my
hotel without likidatin my account, wich
otherwise wood hev bin impossible. The
county in wich ] landed wuz a close one.
the two parties bein nearly tied, neither
heyin fifty votes to spare, and there bein
over a hsndred niggers in the county, the
Afrikiu WILL cf be votes this Fail, hold the
balance Nv power.
With my face and hands blackt to the col
or uv mite, and assumiu the character nv a
preacher in the N. E. Afrikiu church, wich
character I Good assoon, ez the burat cork
bid t5e aaluir color nv my nose, sailed
forth boldly Procoorin the locashen nv
the leadin Dimikrat Nv the county, wieh
wuz also the candidate for sheriff, l sought
bim out and demanded a subscripshen for
Afrikin church, wich l asserted was desi-
rous uy ereetin 10 The east part Of the couu-
ty, aud Nv wieh wuz to be pastor in charge,
holdin myself at the same time in sieh a 20
sishen that kick Good do but little if any
damage.
Il wuz not kickt r.
On the contrary, quite The reverse The
gusbin candidate kindly, blandly and win
niBgly begged me to be seated; he askt me,
with tears Nv intrest gushin from his eyes,
ez TO the prospex w our Zion; ez to how
many we numbered, male and female, adult
and youthful, and whether OF not We Good
snt indulge a reasonable hope thar many
more ~ our color mightn't Be iBduct to
cave the South and settle 10 the county
HopiH 10 irightin him with nigger emf /
srashen, Hich | bed heard him denounce not