The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1870-09-22

Hr. EasbT attempts 10 Stump the state
of nsIsrrare- me obstacles threHh
IN kis Way fY OnesObed Peasly o0il-
neefirRf fss now Resident OF that
State.
xr.s-z,s,e CORNERS, MIsPILION
LII 9I---1RT1. n fn the State NV Deia.
ware, September II, $50.
II eesrls 10 me q though whenever
7 thought I he'd a pecOOlyerly. gooe
1bir0- that some onmitigated cuss
wuz destined to be raised up agln me
10 bust It, At Confedrit \ roads IN
Keatueky, that sneekin whelp, FOl-
lock, and feroshus broOt, Joe Bigier,
wuz aIIGz IN my way, oyertnroWln
nv happiest skeems and blasIin my
most eherisht purposes. Here in MAS
tens Corners, my evil genyus y
cuss from Connecticut named ODed
Peaslv. who drifted into Delaware
four vesrs ago, and who now runs q
tin shop at this place. The people
hev TO endOer him and support him,
for ez they never buy new tin ware
It's A real accommodation for en- to
ilev a man capable Of sOdderin holes
IN mans, when the oFifices become to
big to be stuffed up with rags; But
he IL nevertheless a disturbeT aad an
inkubus. He hez made friends with
all the niggers in this part NV the
state; heZ helped the Methodist Bap-
tist preachers 70 start Sunday SkOOis
among EN-, and IS in all respects con-
duktin hisself like q man NY low,
grovlln instinks, who feels a call 10
tear down ancient land marks, and
root out everything that the well reg
uiated DeiaEarian most desires 10
perpetuate. He is an iHBOvatOr Nv
the most dangerous descripskun. he
hez bin baBlin fer years for the de-
strukshen NV the whippin-POst, and
the establishen NV free skOOls mere,
hez tried 10 intrOdOose factFieS and
stop the sale Nv likkeF, and hev 4
meetin house pat up and 50 on. In
short he hez bin dOfn his level best 10
redOcse Delaware 10 the level OF Moo
England.
The Democratic Central Committee
Nv the State he'd arranged matters
wisely and well, that Is, it wood have
ben well he'd it not bin far this cnssed
PerslY. They desired TO hold all the
white votes, and hoped TO gain large
share Nv the niger vote. We knew
We shOOd heY no trouble with the
white vote, for abuse Nv the Niger
wood do that, but how TO abOOse him
and capeher hts vote at the same time
Wuz the problem. IL Wuz decided not
to hold public meetins among the mig
gers at all, or TO hev EN- ettend meet
ius, but 10 do the work among them
By private conversation. This wood
make clear sailin for our speakers,
who wuz eli notified by crickler NV
wOt wuz to he sed. They WIZ TO bear
with all the force possible onto taxes
wich the Delaware man has always
hated to psy, for any puTpus, and per-
tikelerly the danger Nv Niger ekality
wich is a moving topic for Democrat
&c speakers everywhere.
I opened the campane in Masten's
Corners, two weeks ago, with the
same speech ] heV bin yOOsin for
twelve yeers. In the beginning arrane
the Republican party for eOrrGpshen
onto Wieh dwell for perhaps ten
minutes, when lanch on in nay faV-
rit argument, Wieh IL that the niger
is beast, and physically and morel-
ip OMIT to be anythin but the proper
ty Nv the proud Caucashen, wich Is
by nacher the master race. The meet
in passed off splendidiy-indeed a
more enthusiastic aujence ! never
he'd. Obed Peasiy vuz in, and at the
cOnclOOsi0n he told me that he never
he'd bin 50 staggered in his life.
"Wher do you speek tomorrow
mite 2n he asked.
/ told him at a village some sixteen
miles from here.
"I will be there to heer it agin,r - he
sed, eand ez them trOOths NV yOurn
ought to hev wide circuiashen, I shel
bring all my trends in that neighbOr-
hOOd."
Ineyer wuz so elated in my life.
Here WIZ frOOts Here WIZ a Moo Ing
land disturber converted byOnes speech
"a persecOOter converted into an adj
herent. I retired to bed that mite in
ruther high estimate nv my ability.
The next mite / he'd q deliteful au-
jence. The barn in wich ] wuz to
speak wuz neerly full Nv the residents
nv the seckshun, and from remarks j
leerd EN- drop and theF appearance,
and other indicashens, j felt ashoOred
that everything / shood say on the
nigger weod meet with ready and en-
thoosiastic response from EN-.
Eopened elOkently and reeled orr
the first ten mintes NV my remarks
with more sperit than I ever before
thrOwdintO il. The people We're en-
thoosiastic in ther applause, and I he'd
WOrkt myself up into \ fever NV eggs-
At last got TO the second
head NV my remarks-the nigger
question.
shy bretheru." +" sed ], 'I approach
this question reluctantly. The sub
lick isn't q pleasant one. The nigger,
my bretlnen, wicll these fanatics are
strivin to force onty US ez an ekal, is
not a man. The Niger, with his long
heels, his horrible Od0r. his-u
didn't conclOOd the sentence. Al
this pint, While these words wuZ a
ekoin Ihro tle assenlblage, that on
noOsance, Obed Peasley,
marched into the barn at the head NV
a percessi0n ny male niggens, twenty
in number, ali Nv wieh took seets
rite IN front of me where they Good
ent help hearin every word ! shOOd
utter.
My tongue WEI glued 10 the roof NV
my mouth. saw the danger / wuz
IN tO-wgnst. Them niggers bed
votes and with the white Reiiuliik-
iHs III the vicinity kin carry it. Our
people he'd ben to work among EN-
with hopes NV hOldin at least a pOr-
shenny en- Eff fpereeeded with my
speech ez I he'd it arranged, they wuz
hOpelessly lOst-ef / didn't lay it on
thick enuff onto the Niger, I DISCUS
ted my white friends afOre me- who
only he'd one politfzie creed wich wuz
TO hate sieh. / undertook to switch
off and say suthin else, but I cOodn't.
| hev only he'd one speech fer twelve
years and ! must deliver that or hold
my peace.
PEAsLET nodded at me apprevinly.
'sAly brethrenIn / eOmmenct agin,
when seein them niggers my knees
trembled. ] lost cOnshushis and fell
faintin of the barrel onto Wich !
stood. M
I pereeeded the next mite TO my
next appointment, thankin Heaven
that tainted e did, for II let me out
nv most awkard posishen. IOpened
ez before and got to the pereise pint
where Ichange to the discushen NV
the nigger, when PEhsLEY agin made
his appearance with his escort NV Mig
gers, twenty in number. Agin / tried
70 switch of; agin / stumbled and
and agin I sunk down un-
able TO saya word.
Need / eontinyoO the hart-rendfn
narrativei Need I say for two weeks
that feeDd inearnate, with twenty
niggers alluz with him, made his ap-
pearance al my meetins, every time |
Jest ez / wUz saying "my brethren,
the nigger Wieh these Radikals Is for
sin onto us ez an ekal is not a man. |
! Ete i net fit morally or physically TO |
be associated with Us. He is-''
Need say chat Iam at Bill Sapp's.
sick, after hevin nlisnarried with that
same speech fifteen times? And need
| say that il hez leaked out that n Ios
av Radikels in Wilmington. onto
whose heads be eusses, f0rnisht this
Peasley with means to follow me up
1oorin the campane, and that he per
poses to cohtinyOO till the mite Nv
applied to the Central Ccmmitty
to furnish me 6 new speeeh-One wich /
wood SCOT for a mixed a9jenee but
theV cant do IT. They saw 0imOorisy