The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1870-05-19
From the woman's Advocated
Jubilee.

Black and shiny, disclosing two rows
of glistening ivory, eyes beaming with
new light, with new song in his mouth
and a great hope in his heart, stood
Tom before me-our Tom he was. A
slave years ago,a soldier in the "blessed
Lincoln's army" free man, citizen
Surely that life must be full that has
experienced so much
81 voted the Republican ticket clar
through" said Tom-"cotch me a for
gettin' who fit fur me, and died and
never come home no more"
elbow did you feel Tom, walking up
to the polls with white men? OF just
as much importance as they, with the
power in your hand to help disappoint
or make glad some candidate for Office?
Did you put on any airs! ?"
"Stept proud as a Gineral !--knowed
| was a goin' on to victory! l tell you
Missis it's time to wake Nicodemus for
the good time has done GOMEZ"
And here our ebony friend leaned his
head back against the wall and sung
with the abandon of one whose soul is
in the strains he pours forth.
"Wake me up was his charge at the first dawn
of day,
Wake me up at the great Jubilee!
Thar's good time cOmin,' tits almost here,
'Iis long, long, long on the way -
SO run and tell 'Lijah 10 hurry up Pomp,
TO meet me at the gum tree in the old swamp,
To wake Nicodemus to-day!
"Wish l could wake all the Nicode-
muses. that went to sleep with backs all
SCARED up, with hearts dead long alore
the breath give out, with no idea Of
what dis blessed liberty is, and a man a
goin' and comm, a workin' and stop
PIN when he's mind to, and now got
vote and the white folks a comm
round and sayin' "Vote fur me, Tom,-
I've been good to niggers always"-I
declar it's time the Angel Gabriel blow
ed his trump for the last time !"
No, no, Tom, don't let US have that
historic trump "blowed" now! As the
Irishman said, "There is one passenger
aboard that hasn't got on yeti" Do
not forget us poor women in the day of
your exatation and exultation! We
ernnot begin to waken our NiOOdemus,
for only in the far off territory of
Wyoming has our Jubilee commenced,
and the "Star of Empire" does not
quickly take its way eastward.
And by the by Tom, the fact that
only Wyoming, territory on the con-
fines of civilization, has seen proper to
enfranchise its women, when the wo-
men too had not asked that act of JUS
tice, strikes one as bearing too faint an
impress of the genuine. You know it
is said, that Wyoming is mighty polite
and far-seeing in that maneuver, for
she wanted to attract women thither,
and also bring herself sooner into the
ranks of State. If one was not sure
''the wrath of man was sometimes turn
ed to praise" some fear might be felt
over the success Of our cause there"
s'What is the reason do you s'pose,
that them States whar woman knows
more than men / reckon, whar they've
done everything but fight liberty, don't
give it to 'em first as last, for it will
come just so sure as this nigger am free
this blessed minute -
"Because Tom, neither party, repub-
lican nor democrat, dares take the re-
sponsibility. Only afew men advocate
from principle our right to the fran
chise--only few urge our claims to
what it represents, because it is right
and best, Both political parties