Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1869-03-13

| d" mat cnSklu COnSt Ooshnel Amendment
hez bin on my mind mite and day fol
mcr'n a week. / lev slept onto il.
dreamed onto it, and it has monopolized
my wakin hours to the cxclooshen nv
everytbin else. Ez an evidence nv how
much il hez absorbed me, wood merely
menshen that twice while sittin in Ras.
com's thinkin 1t over, strangers in the
place hev askt the crowd mp to take suth-
in, without my heaiin nv en- at all. when
in fact | went thcr, and wuz sittin thero.
and waitin there for the express purpose
NV availin myself Of such chances I
stay at Bascom's solely to ACCEPT invita-.
shens to drink for his benefit. Often bev
sed to lin, "G. W., aich is nv admira.
shen for the sierlin qualities in yoor he'd
and heart, that will drink myself into
the deiirium tremens for yoor sake will
linly. Yoosc me in this capacity cz Won
will, my stummick is glass-lincd and can
stand even yoor likker." Notwithstand.
in this seli-sacrifs Bascoln hcz never per.
posed to give me per cent. on what |
put into his drawer in this way. Shood
lie do sc | Good easily earn cnntf to nav
my board but shood be do it there wood
Dc no luellJ III the baCfl1lS.
hey more than half made up nv mind
to go for the adopshen NV .be Constltoo.
shnel Amendment, and that for the bene-
fit solely for the DimocriSy. more Than
half believe that the ad0pshcn NV the
Constooshnel Amendment list ez it hez
passed both Houses NV Congrs, wood
result after all to our advantage that is
if the posishen we hev always taken that
the nigger is an Inferior race to he the
troo one. The Dimocrisy hcz never fail
ed to get possession NV the inferior class
es. They hev sole and undivided control
NV sich people ez hev stummick alone.
brane-Dmocrisy hourishes best where
school houses are not. Thus the patri
OTIS who inhabit the lower wards NV Moo
York the denizeis NV Mackrelville and
the Five Points the Southern half NV
Delaware, whose people would dcmo2-
strate the trooth Nv the theory that men
was originelly oysters, wuz there eny
possibility NV maxim men nv EN- the
Southern porshens NV Injauny and Hi
noy ; all t! csc regions are stronghods NV
dimocrisy, and agln these rocks the waves
NV A6lishenisni beat in vain.
Now the question wich agitates my
mind is, wood the niggers ct given the
ballot Iise above us, or sink below us
They woodu't hev fur 20 go eitlcr way.
Ez a matter NV coorse, the mint they hev
the ballot, they become to us objects NV
interest. The mint they huv The fate NV
member of Congris in their hands, the
mint the Dem cratic candidate for Con
girls goes tor en- He cannot afford eat.
in with EN-, d.Inkin with en- and slrepin
with EN-. In the South, the latter oper-
ashen wood be no new experience, the
practice htz bin more common with that
portion Nv the race wich for sexual rea-
sons, kin never vote. But the cand date
native and to the manner born, wood
hev the advantage over the Northern
carpet-bagger, NV hcvin long ago, over
come his rcpugnance to color, wich is Il
great point gained.
Trained by us and mixin with lis, how
long Juld 1t take to bring EN- down to
us Kin Pollock and Bgler hold them
niggers at Garrettstown forever? |
don't believe it. The polls is opened at
Bascom's, and Bascom's ikker wood tc,ch
EN- in time. Ii hez made many nv us
loathsome objects, aud why not them
AT all events l know that among en-
there's any number Nv lazy eusses who
won't work and who take to new ~ his
ky ez naturally ez do, and that porshcn
NV EN- we're ez certain 30 git ez leaves is
TO fall. This class must gravitate TO us
tor the suflishcnt reason that they hev
nowhere else to go to find congenia as
sociations. Whether these frlllrS armed
with the ballot kin contaminatu enutf NV
the others to give us a majority, is the
great moral question. AT all events ez
the thing is bound to go thro, bleeve it
is better tor MS to make the most NV it,
and by yeeldin cheerful assent to wat
we cant help, make shoor NV this class at
least
feel tolerable easy. Eff the ballot is
given EN- in Kentucky and We kin keep
out them cussid Missionaries with their
primers and spellin books and school
houses, l have faith to bleeve the Ablish-
nists, will, after all, hev achieved bar
rem victry ; that is for the present. Troo,
we can't aliuz hold EN-. The Bible So
cieties and the Crischen Assoseashen,
them other nachrel enemies NV our par
ty, spellin books will evehchooally git
hold NV en-, but they cant do it for ten
yeers, and before that time passes, | Shel
sleepin tie valley. On good lkker |
Good only hope to survive ten yeers-on
BaScOm's a shorter period will sutfise. l
feel now lack Nv physikle vigger. My
haltin steps, and the incapassity to take
over three drinks der fifteen minits warn
me that my bller is rustin, that the rivits
is weaknin, and that ere long it must
bust. After that wat do | care who
rools Kentncky2 When am sleepin in
the buryin ground behind Pennibacker's
distillery, wat difference will it make to
me whether that buildinis convertin corn
into sustenance, or whether it Is used as
a Young Ladies Seminary, with teachers
irem Massychoosits with their hair in in
tellectual ringlts ? When this frail body
is moldrin into dust, wat do | care
whether Confedri. X Roads wat it now
is, or whether its named is changed to
Samnsryille with acOtton factory, aud a
nail factory and rollin mill and sich ;
\ with the country cleared up around it,