The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1870-02-25
N4SBY.
hE; A2sby In a Desp0ndeHt Frame OF
AindTfhe Members OF the Kentucky
Legislature Refuse TO Stand BY Prln-
ciDIe.
LOUISVILLE, (which is in the

Hind-fhe Members OF the Kentuck
LeSlsi2fEre Refuse TO Stand BY PrlT
cipIe.
LOUISVILLE, (which is in the
state Nv Kentucky, Feb 9 lS7t
/ dOG't know that RELY there's an
more yOOse in livin on this earth
The Fifteenth Amendment Is adopted
and niger Senator will take the sea
in the SENT wunst okkepied by tina
marteT, Jefferson Davis. It's abou
time for me to 60 hentZ-I hey no De
sire to rename. / wood like to sta
long enough to cOnsOOm the content
Nv Il redheaded barrel in the back
room NV my blessid grosery in No
York, into wich l haint, ez vet, pu
no water, and probably will. l thinl
/ shell go home, shut myself up in tina
back-rOOm, drink that partikeler bar
rel dry, and fall dead across it. Lik
/ Sardanapuius, my kingdom beinl
gone, my funeral pile shel be m,
I throne.
L came on to Kentucky 10 aid bym,
counsel the DimOcrisy NV that State
in the present crisis. The nigger Reve
ieZ q seat in the Senit NV the YoOni
ted States, and NV course, no whit,
| Kentucky Dimocrat kin so degrad
! himself eZ to set in that body beside
| him. / expected, Nv course, that Gar
ret Davis and McCreery wood i'm
meiitly resine, and ez no native borI
| Kentucky DimOcrat wood take tn,
| place, and eZ Kentucky could not af
lord to-be representa- bya Ablishnist
it OkklE-red TO me that possibly ther,
mite be a chance for me. | am {
Northern Dimocrat by birth, anC
Northern DmOcrats have alluZ done
sich work for the SOutherners, ez the
SOutherners counted too dirty for EN-
The only thing wich Good stand in the
way wuz the fact that | eft Kentucky
year ago, and am now a citizen uV
Moo York. But wat NV that? | kiI
swear L am citizen NV KentIcky-l
hev bin in Moo York politics enuff t.
be able to swear to anything.
At all events / went on to my old
State, and got together caucus Nv
the DimOcratic members NV thu Leg.
islacher to consider this thing.
The Chairman Nv the caucus re-
markt that signs NV the times indika-
ted trouble. Kentucky, eff that nigger
wuZ admitted to the SENT, wuZ Vir-
chually disfranchised, for NV course
Davis and McCreery Good not remain
in their seats beside him. No Ken
lucky gentleman wood disgrace his
proud State by practically taken to his
buZZum a male member NV an inferior
race-uv acknollegin his equality, and
wOrkin quietly with him. Never
Snnnnr- fhn.n thtl. hn H.
lin to see the States further South in
oggerate another struggle for their
rites, in the event NV wich, Kentucky,
troo TO the yOonyun, ez before, wood
preserve strict and dignified nootral-
ity by sellin horses and provender i'm
partially to both armies. He hoped
the gentlemen wood express their
views freely.
A gentleman from the eastern part
NV the State offered the following pre-
amble and resolushen:
Wdreds, The SENT of the YOonited
States is about to admit to a sect in
that body niger; and
Wdreds, No Kentucky DimOcrat
wood degrade hisself by sittin beside a
niger; therefore
ResOlUed, That Hon. Garret Davis
be instructed to resine tO-wunst.
The resOlooshuns passed to-wunst,
without a dissentin voice, and were
sent by telegraph to the Senators at
Washington, after which l begged
permission to offer a remark. l sed
that NV course no Kentuckian Good be
found to take them places made va
cant by the two eminent men who
wuz about to leeve the Sient, but nev-
ertheless Kentucky coodent afford to
90 unrepresentid. Is there no north
eTn man NV Kentucky principles who
will rush to the front at this crisis?
Twenty gentlemen sprang to their
feet. The one who got the eye NV the
chairman remarkt that Kentucky
shOOd alluZ be represented by Ken
tucllians. Davis and McCreery cleer-
ly ought not to stay. They shOod re-
sine to wunst ez protest agin this
outrage, but eff Kentuckians Good be
found who wood accept the places
they shood be found. Takin em ez
they wood, eZ necessity, ther wood
ent be the stigma attached to EN- that
ther wood be to the present incum-
bents eff they shOOd rename, and pos
sibly sich mite be found.
The Chairman doubted whether
ther wuz a Kentuckian who he'd 50
little respekt for hisself. Eff n Ken
tuckian was selected it shOOd be from
the membership NV the Legislacher.
He felt it wuZ the dOOty Nv some two
NV EN- to sacrifice themselves on the
altar NV their State. 1t wood be
bitter degradashun for a man, filled
with the memories NV the past, to
choke down material pride and take a
sect by nigger, but some one must
do it. He wood sejest that the men,
bers proceed with system iii this mat
ter. Let us designate, by ballot, our
wishes. Let us vote fur a man to fill
the place to be made vacant by G.
Davis, and let the member upon whom
this doOty devOlves, axcept the sacri-
flee in the troo Kentucky sperit. Gen
prepare yOOr ballots for a sue
cessOr to Davis, and git reddy to shed
q friendly teer over the fate NV the
man upon whom the degredashun
falls.
This wuz agreed to, each member
remarkin that no matter who wuZ
there wuZ no law to compel
him to be electid and sot beside a
nigger.
The members each votid; the votes
were countid out, and, horrorI EACH
MEMBER HE'D PRECISELY ONE VOTE,
and the lOosnis Nv the hand-writin on
the tickkits made it painfully sertin
that each member he'd vOtid for his
self! Ez my hopes wuz bustid /
cOodn't help singin out that a more
self-sacrificing body NV men l never
saw.
Then commenst the most fearful
squabble / ever witnist. Gentlemen
got by the ears, and pistols wus drawd,
but iist eZ they were gettin reddy for
another ballot, dispatch wuz reseev-
ed from Davis and McCreery, Stain
that while they appreshiated the deg
redashen Nv their sitOOashen, and felt
it keenly, nevertheless, eZ Kentucky
must be representa- in the SENT they
rather thought they wOOdn't resine
at ALL Eff they knOwd their own
hearts they thOt they'd hold on to
their seets. They might es well be
sacrifist as ennybOdy.
1.-THE gentlemen mostly remarkt
Hip eZ this episl was red to EN-,
and disperst without the fOrmality NV
an adjournment.
hewitt ez much faith in DemOcri-
sy ez yoOst to hev. 1 spOsed that
when that nigger wuz finally admit
ted, every Democrat in the SENT
wood resine; but wat do 1 find? Not
one hez done it, and whole Legisla-
chers NV Democrats are willin to take
seets beside him!
Wat kin we expect when men are
so recreant to their manhood? Is it
any wonder that | am tired NV life?
| shel go home to Moo York to wunst.
PETROLEUM V. NAsBY,
(wich wuz p. NJ
On one occasion John Randolph re-
sorted to a curious and novel STRATA