Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1869-05-21
Nasty.
Mr.. Nasty Tries an Experiment which Re-
suits not as to be Espected-The new feei-
ing Toward the Niger In Indiana.


PosT-O OFFICE, CoNFEDERIT Y ROADS,
(Which. is in the State of Kentucky I
May /, 1869,
The Dimocrisy are not in that happy
condishen just at this time that / Good
wish. The Satrap at the head NV the
Government, and his subordinate satraps
at the head of the departments, hev not
left ca many openins ez they ought, Tor
our good, and the reduckshen NV the eX'
pcnditoors NV the Government so per-
sistently follered up is death to US. We
want groanin, but it must not be NV dis
mist clerks and army offisers He'd the
Government put garrison into every
town ez we proieside it wood, and Good
we hev he'd this summer, in addition, the
potater rot, weevil, frosts, floods, drouth,
yeller fever and cholery, we mite hev
stood some chance NV carryin the fall
eleckshuns, for the people wood hev
murmered. But ez long ez everything is
smooth they laf at us when we insist
upon change and say, jeeringly, $50
up, bald headw
And in addishen to these calamities
we hev bin, or are Jest about bein, de-
prived NV the niger witch hez bin our
cheef and best holt. o, wat backslid-
in there hez bin in this matter! 0, wat
a goin back there hez bin on Dimocratic
cardinal principles J
Feelin an oneasinis in my mind ez to
the condishen NV the public mind in the
Northern States on the adopshen Nv the
Fifteenth Amendment, determined to
try most hazardous experiment. | he'd
no fears NV Kentucky, none. Kentucky
will git ready to adopt an idea ninety
years after date, but l felt that | wantid
to be satisfied ez to the soundnis Nv the
Ohio and Injiany Dimocrisy on this
question.
To this end | determined to resort to
strategy. | wanted to know percisely
the feelins entertained in those States re-
gardin the Afriken. / wanted to see
with my own eyes the skornful look witch
wuz formerly slung at Afric's sons; l
wanted to here agin from Dimocratic
lips that cheerin expression, "D-n the
niger any howl" To accomplish this,
determined to personate niger, and
in that guise to go boldly into Ingeanny,
announce myself ez an Airikin niger,
determined to assert his rites, and note
the result. l expected, Nv course, to be
hooted at and reviled. / expected to be
stoned and shot at, but / wood thereby
kill two birds with one stun, viz: wood
disgust the 1ngeannions with niger
ekality, ez they wood see to wut it wuz
leadin, and | Good exhibit my scars to
Kentucky ez proof Nv the steadfastnis
NY their Northern friends. ...
Wat l determine upon l do. In my
younger days the feat involvin the pos,
session of horse, wlch resulted IN my
bein tried for grand larceny, and con-
: victid thereof by twelve prejoodist joo-
rymen, and my incarcerashen from witch
l wuz only relieved becoz my vote wuz
needed to carry Pennsylvany for Book.
, annon, this masterpiece wuz conceived
and execooted in less than four hours
Unforchnitly the courts wuz nearly e1
! expedishus; for four days thereafter
found myself in Basteel.
| entered Ingeany ez a white man
: REGISTERED my name at hotel ez a whit,
e man, but left it a niger, wich transfer
a mashen wuz accomplished by means u,
/. burnt cork, in my room wich transfer
n mashen wuz Nv double yoose, ez it ena
). bled me to leave my hotel without licki
datin my account, witch otherwise WOO,
o hev bin impossible. The county in wicl
, | landid wuz close one, the two partie
d bein nearly tied, neither hevin fifty vote
= to spare, and there bein over hundre,
V niggers in the county, the Afrikin will
/. eff he votes this fall, hold the balanc
n Nv power
v With my face ard hands blackt t
the color Nv mite, and assumin the char
IS acter Nv preacher in the M. E. Afriki
h Church, witch character | Good assoon
D. ez the burnt cork bid the acquired colo
is NV my nose, sailed forth boldly. Pre-
coorin the locashen NV the leadin Dino
# crat NV the county, wich wuz also tn
% candidate for Sheriff, | sought him on
IT and demanded subscripshen for A
d rikin Chuech, wich / asserted l wuz d,
d sirous Nv erectin in the east part NV tn
). county, and NV witch I wuz to be paste
in charge, holdin myself at the time i
sich posishen that kick Good do bu
10 little damage.
y / wuz not kicktl
- On the contrary quite the reversed
II The gushin candidate kindly, blandl,
: and winninly begged me to be seated
- he askt me, with tears NV interest gushi
" from his eyes, ez to the prospex NV GU
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