The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1870-05-19

Erin S'loon to consider pNat to
do in the Matter Of the Negro Vote
! They come to Decision.
From the Toledo Blade.
HARP Nv ERIN S'LooN, J
Sixth WARD,
Moo York, April 2, 1870.
The proclamation nv the Presi-
dent annooncin the ratification of
Of the 10Th Amendment, perdooscd y
profound sensation in this ward.
1t wuz told to our people by re-
porter of a daily paper at II o'clock
this morning, and it got pretty we'll
around among us by 3 this afternoon
which wuz tollably rapid considerin
that intelligence in this ward hez to
be conveyed oraey. In the afternoon
it wuz resolved that meetin be held
in the evenin to consult ez to what
ackshen the Dimocracy shood take
in the matter, wich wuz akkordinly
80 done. he'd the back room lit up
the barrels moved into . safe place
under the strongest kind of locks.
and the bar closed and draped in
mournin, in token of the hoomilia-
shen which I felt had tallin onto the
people in knonsekence nv this out.
rage. l hung Grape onto the door J;
put Grape around the portraits NV
JaxsoD, Chief Justice Chase, Book
hannon and Fernandy Wood, and
likewise around the bottles aud over
the red-headed barrel, which gave
the establishment q highly funeral
and mournful look, which wuz en-
tirely satisfactory.
In the evenin the Democracy as-
sembled and o more enraged gath
erin l never saw. They wuzn't jist
clear as to what the President he'd
done; indeed, the most of en- wuz
laborin under the impreshun that the
enfranchisement Nv the nigger wuz
the work NV the Democratic Legis-
lacher at Albany, and there wuz
indicashens of a determinashen to 90
throo sum ov the houses Nv the
Dimmocratic members Of this city,
but l stopt en- by tellin en- the strate
NV it.
assoomed the chair, Nv course,
and he'd, in addishen to do the dooties
NV Sekretary hein the only one then
in the meetin that could write.
Teddy McGinnis remarked that he
felt q hoomilinshen WITCH wuz actoo-
ally beyond:expreshen. The dirtynig-
er was now his ekal. The only differ
ence between EN- he'd bin removed
by this infamous law. Does any one
suppose that he'd iver consint to vote
all day beside niggers9 .Niver He
called upon the Dimocracy to gine
| tfu rnc Crusade agin EN-. "FOllow
me-" said Teddy ssand in New Yor-
rick, at least, we won't be bothered
with nagar suffrage, be gorra."
Pat Mclaughlin held similar
views. Sooner than vote beside the
nagurs he'd relinquish the biznis NV
votin altogether, and 20 to sawin
wsod. Repetition is q good enough
biznis, and the small contract which
he he'd ez a reward therefor wuz
betther, but be coodent stand nagurs
nor woodent. His voice wuz fur
KILN Nv EN-
The others made similar speeches,
when Sandy Mcclure offered reso-
looshen that the offerin NV o vote by
nagur be considered ez q declara-
tion Nv war agin the Democracy of
Moo York, and that they then be
immegitly exterminated. Sandy
was fur no halfway measures. He
remembered tho glorious Jolly daysin
1868, whea the Democracy of Moo
York asserted itself. He assisted in
destroyin the nagur orphan asylum;
with his good right hand he he'd
beat out the brains of two nagurs, to
say nothin Nv the womineand chill
dren, which he didn':. consider worth
countin. He longed to get at them
agin.
The meetln bein all SO unanimus
in their teelin, l wrote the following
resolution
Resolued, That the Democrisy NV
Moo York, considerin and beleevin
the niger to be a beast, q burlesk
on hoomanity and incapable NV dis
charging any Nv the dooties Nv citl-
zenship, do hereby protest ag'in his
bein given the ballot on ekality with
white men.
| Resolued, That the Democracy NV
Moo York rather than submit to
this degredashen, pledges itself to
the exterminashun NV the accursed
race.
The resolooshen wuz adoptid
without q dissentin voice, and the
enthusiastic Mcclure, brandishen
his shillala, rusht out and attact q
couple nv niggers wich wuz passin,
and knockin 'em down, stamped unto
'em vigorously with his boots, ex-
claimin the while, "Want to vote
do yes?"
The meeting wuz about to break
up, when Tim O'Grady, man Nv
Fernandy Woods, come rushing in.
He had heard Nv the meetin and
came immejitly to see about it. l
told him in a breath what had been
don. Thunder |" he remarkt to me
in a whisper "this won't do. You
eggrejis old ass, the niggers hev q
vote now in spite NV us. We must
git EN-, for without EN-, with oil the
rebels disfranchlsed, wat kin we do
du in the Southern States? Call the
meetin to order GIN"
didn't like the tone NV his allus-
ion to me. but l called the meetin tn
order agin.
O'Grady remarked to EN- that
there had bin a misun derstandin.
He felt ashoored that the dimocrisy
NV New York, allus the trends nv the
oppressed and down trodden, wood
now generously extend helpin hand
to our colored brethren jist elevated
to full citizenship. The dimocrisy
he'd not assisted in tho elevashen,
but they he'd no feeling agin our
brethren NV color. When our col
ored brethren come to apalyze the
matter they wood luv the dimocrisy
tho more for not dom Nv it. He
wood move the substitnoshen Nv the
following resolooshen for the one
which he'd bin unadvisedly passed
| Resolved. That the Dimocrisy Nv
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