The Vinton record. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1866-1891, 1870-02-17

frame of HiinCi---1he Members
OF the Kentucky Legislature
Refuse to Stand by Principle.
LOUISVILLE (wich is in the State
NV EentuckyL Feb. 0, 1870.
j don't know that reely there's any
more yoose In livin on this earth
The Fifteenth Amendmcn. Is adoptld,
and a nigger Senatar willtake the seat
in the Senit wunst okkepied by that
marter, Jeflson Davis. It's about
time for me to go heutz--I hev no de-
sire to rename, | wood like to stay
long enough to consoom the contents
nv a red headed barrel in the back
room Nv my blessid grosery In Moo
York, into witch l haint. ez yet. put
no water, and probably will. I think
| shel 20 home, shut myseflup in that
back-rooRi, drink that partikeler bar
rel dry, and fall dead across it. Like
Sardanapulus, my kingdom being
gone, my funeral pile shcl be my
throne. .. ....
| came to Kentucky to aid by my
counsel the Dimocrisy Nv that State,
in the present crisis. The nigger Re-
vel he2 Il seat In the SENT NV the
Ioonited States, and NV course no
white Kentucky Dimocrat kin so de-
grade hisselfcz to set in that body be-
side him. leXpect, l nv course. that
Garret Davis and McCreery, wood I'M
mejitly resine, and cz kentucky could
not afford to be represetd by a Ablish-
mist 1t okkured to me that possible
there mite be chance for me. lam Il
Northern Dimocfat by birth and
Northern Dlmocrats have allnz doae
sich wora for the Southerners, ez the
Southerners countid too dirty for en-.
The only thing wich Good stand ia tile
way WIZ the fact that left Kentucky
Il year ago, and am now Il citizen Nv
Moo York. But wat NV that? | kin
swear | am citizen Nv Kentucky-I
hey bin In Moo Y fork politics enufSto be
able to swear to anything.
At all events l went on to my old
State, and gottogether caucus nv the
Dinocratio members NV the Legisla-
cher to Consider this thing.
The Chairman Nv the caucus re-
markt that the sigus NV the times in
diks.ted trouble. Kentucky, eff that
nigger WIZ admitted to the SENT, wuz
virchually disfranchised, foruv course
Davis aud McCreery Good not remain
In their seats beside him. No Ken
tucky gentleman wood disgrace his
proud State by practically takin to his
buzzum male member NV an inferior
race-uv acknollrgin his equality, and
workin quietly with him. Never |!
Sooner than see this lie wood be
willing to see the States iurthur South
ihosgerate another struggle for their
rites, In the event nv wich. Kentucky,
troo to the yoonyun, ez before. wood
preserve strict and dignificd moo
trality by selling horses and proven
der impartially to both armies. He
hoped the gentlemen wood express
their views freely.
y gentleman from the eastern part
nv the State offered the following
preamble and resolushen:
HareaS, The Senit OF ting Yoonited
States is about to admit to q sect in
that body Niger; and
Wareds, No Kentucky Dimocrat
wooddegrade hisSelf by sittin beside a
nigger; therefore
ReS9rled, That Hon. Garret Davis be
Instructed to resine to-wurst.
The resolooshuns passed to-wunst.
without a dlssentin voice, and were
sent by telegraph to the Senators at
Washington, after wich l begged per-
mission to offer remark. | sed that
nv course no Kentuchan Good be
iound to take them places made va
cant by the two eminent men who
wuz about to leeve the SENT but nev-
ertheless Kentucky coodent afford to
go unrepresented. Is there no north
ern man NV Kentucky principles who
Will rush to the front at this crisisP
Twenty gentlmen sprag to their feet
The one who got the eye NV the
chairman remaIkt that Kentucky
allnz shoOd be represented BY
kentuckians. Davis and McCrecry
cleerly ought not to stay. They shOod
resine to wuhst ez protest agin this
outrage. but eff KentucKians Good be
found who wood accept the places
they should be found.
The Chairman doubted whether
there wuz a Kentuckian who he'd so
little respeck for hisself. ETA Ken
tuckian WIZ selected it should be
from the membership NV the Legisla.
cher. He felt that it was the dootvuy
some.two vem to sacrifice theiiseIyes
Oh the altar NV their State. 1t wood
be a bitter degredashun for a man
filled with the memories nv the past.
to choke down material pride, and take
Il sect by a nigger, but some one must
do it. He wood scjest that the MEM
bers proceed with system in this mat
ter. Let us designate, by ballot, our