Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1870-04-27
NASBY.

" I
New York, April 9, 1870. ]
The proclamation NV the President an
nouncin the ratification NV the fifteenth
Amendment perdoosed a profound sensa-
shen in this Ward.
1t wuz told to our people by reporter NV
a daily paper at III O'clock this morning,
and it got pretty well around among us by
3 this afternoon witch wuz tollably rapid
considerin that Intelligence in this Ward
hez to be conveyed orally. In the after
noon, it was resolved that meeting. be
held in the evenin to consult ez to what
ackshen the Dimocracy shood take i'm the
matter, witch wuz akkordingly so done. /
he'd the back room itup, the barrels moved
into a safe place under the strongest kind
NV locks, and the bar closed and draped in
mournin, in token NV the hoomiliashen
witch felt had fallen onto the people in
konsekence of this outrage. 1 hung Grape
onto the door; put Grape around the por-
traits NV Jaxson, Chief Justice Chase,
Bookhannon and Fernandy Wood, and
likewise around the bottles and over the
red headed barrel, witch gave the establish
ment highly funeral and mournful look,
witch was entirely satisfactory.
In the eyenin the Democracy assembled,
and more enraged gatherin / never saw.
They wuzn't jist clear as to wat the Presi-
dent he'd done; indeed the most NV EN- wuz
labrin under the impreshn that the enfran-
chisement NV the Niger wuz the work wv
the Democratic Legislacher at Albany, and
ther wuz indicashuns NV a determinashun
to go thro some NV the houses NV the DIM
ocratic members in this city, but 1 stopt
EN- by tellin EN- the strate NV it.
/ asoomed the chair, NV course, and he'd,
in addishen, to do the dooties NV Secretary,
bein the only one then in the meetin that
Good write.
Teddy McGinnis remarked that he felt a
hoomiliashen witch wuz actooally beyond
expreshen. The dirty nagur was now his
ekal. The only difference between EN- he'd
bin removed by this infamus law Does
any one suppose that he'd jver consint to
vote all day beside niggers? Niver! He
called upon the Dimocracy to jine him in a
croosade agin EN-. "Follow me, d" sed Ted
dy, land in New Yorrick, at least, we
won't be bothered with nagur suffrage be
gorra."
Pat. Mclaughlin held similar views.
Sooner than vote beside nagurs he'd relin-
quish the biznis NV votin altogether, and
go to sawin wood. Repeetin is good enuff
blZnis, and the small contract witch he he'd
ez reward therefor wuz betther, but he
coodent stand nagurs, nor woodent. His
voice wuz for KILN NV EN-.
The others made similar speeches, when
Sandy Mcclure offered resolooshen that
the offerin NV vote by a nagur be consid-
cred ez declarashen Wv war agin the De-
be immegitly exterminated. Sandy wuz
for no halfway measures. He remembered
the glorious Jooly days in 1868, when the
Democracy NV Moo York ASSERTED itself
He he'd assisted in destroyin the nagur or
phan asylum; with this good rite hand he
ned beat out the brains NV two nagurs, to
say nothin NV the wimin and children,
witch he didn't considerworth countin. He
longed to get at them agin.
The meeting bein all so yoonanimous i'm
their feelin, / wrote the follerin resoloosh-
ems:
Resolved, That the Dimocrisy NV Moo
York, considerin and beleeyin the nigpers
to be beast, a burlesk on hoomanity and
incapable NV discharging any NV the doo-
Ties NV citizenship, do hereby protest agin
his bein given the ballot on a ekality with
white men.
ResoIued, That the Dimocrisy NV Moo
York, ruther than submit to this degreda-
shen, pledges itself to the exterminashen
NV the accussid race.n
The resolooshen wuz adopted without a
dlssentin voice, and the enthusiastic Nc
Gulre. brandishin his shilala, rushed out |
and attack couple NV niggers witch wuz
passln, and knockin 'em down, slammed
onto 'em vigorously with his boots, ex-
clalmln the while, Want to vote, do |
yez?"
The meetin wuz about to break up, when |
Tim O'Grady, man NV Fernandy Woods. |
come rushin in. He had heerd NV the
meetin aud come imejitly to see about it.
l told him in breath wat he'd bin done.
" rhunderW he remarkt to me i'm a whis- !
per, this won't do. You eggrejis old ass,
the nlsgers hey vote and will vote now
In spite of us. We must git 'em, for with
out 'em, with all the rebels DISTINGUISHED.
wat kin we do in the Southern States
Gall the meetin to order agin.n
L didn't like the tone NV his alIoosion tn
me, but called the meetin to order onct
more.
.O'Grady remarked to 'em that there he'd
ON misunderstanding. He felt ashoored
mat the Dimocrisy of Moo Bork, alluz the
friends NV the oppressed and down trod-
len, wood now generously extend a helpin
nand to our colored brethren list elevated
% full citizenship The Dimocrisy he'd
lot assisted in their elevashen, but they
ned no feelin agin our brethren of color.
w hen our colored brethren come 10 ana
we the matter they wood love the Dimoc-
'lsy the more for not doin NV il. He wood
move the substitooshen NV the follerin res
1looshen for the one witch he'd bin mad
Iisedly passed:
HeSotreQ, That the Dimoerisy NV Moo
\ ork hail with the feelin of pleasure witch
we heV no words to express, the eleyashen
~ our colored fellow-citizens to full citi-
.ehshlp, and that We pledge ourselves to
project EN- IN the enjoyment NV ther new
yIfound rites"
The meetin didn't want to pass it. The
eelih agin 'em wuz too deep sot to be root