Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1870-02-18

MIR. MASSEY IN DESPONDENT FRAME OF
| MIND-THE MEMBERS OF THE KENTUCKY
LEGISLATURE REFUSE TO STAND By
PRINCIPLE. -
LOUISVILLE, (Which is in the State !
Nv Kentucky) Feb 8, 1870. :
+ I DON'T know that RELY there's any
more yoose in Twin on this earth. The
Fifteenth Amendment is adopted, and a
niger Senator will take the seat in the
SENT wunst okkepied by that marter
Jefferson Davis. It's about time for me to
go hentz-I hev no desire to rename. I
wood like to stay long enough to consoom
the contents Nv red-headed barrel in the
back room Nv my blessid grosery in Moo
York, into witch I haint, ez vet put no
water, and probably will think shell
60 home, shut myself up in that back
room, drink that partikeler barrel dry, and
fall dead across it. Like Sardanapulus,
my kingdom being gone, my funeral pile
shell be my throne. a..sgsgt
I came on to Kentucky to aid by my
counsel the. Dimocrisy NV that State, in
the present crisis The niger Revel hez
seat in the SENT Nv the Yoonited States,
and Nv course, no white Kentucky Dino
GRAFT kin so degrade hisself ez to set in that
body beside him. l expected, Nv course,
that Carrot Davis and McCreery, wood
immejitly resine, and ez no native born
Kentucky Dimocrat wood take the place,
and ez Kentucky could not afford to be
representa- by a Ablishnist, it okkurred to
me that possibly there mite be chance for
me. / am Northern Dimocrat bv birth,
and Northern Dimocrats have alluz done
SIGH work for the Southerners, ez the
Southerners countid too dirty. for EN-.
The only thing witch Good stand in the
way Wuz the fact that | left Kentucky O.
year ago. and am now citizen NV Moo
York. But wat Nv that? 1 kin swear [
am citizen Nv Kentucky-I hev bin IN
Moo York politics enuff to be able to swear
to anything. -.
AT all events / went on to my old State
and got together caucus NV the Dimocrat-
lc members Nv the Legislacher to consider
this thing. ~ .I.I
The Chairman Nv the caucus remarkt
that the signs NV the times indicated
trouble. Kentucky, eff that niger wuz
admitted to the SENT, wuz virchually dis
franchised, for NV course Davis and Nc
Creery Good not remain in their seats be-
side him. No Kentucky gentleman wood
disgrace his proud State, by practically
takin to his buzZuln male member Nv an
inferior race-uv acknollegin his equality,
and workin quietly with him. Never |!
Sooner then see this he wood be willin to
see the States further south inoggerate
another struggle for their rites, in. the
event NV witch, Kentucky, troo to the
yoonyun, ez before, wood preserves strict
and dignified MORTALITY by sellin horses
and provender impartially to both armies.
He hoped the gentlemen wood express
their views freely.
A gentleman from the eastern cart NV
the State offered the following preamble
and resolushen: q - Asz.sAs~
Wareas, The SENT of the Yoonited
States is about to admit to sect in that
body niger; and -sas.aA 1ilsts7ss,7t
Wareas, No Kentucky Dimocrat wood
degrade hisself by sittin beside a niger );
therefore .su .rs.a ..ee3s
q Resol0ed, That Hon. Carrot Davis be in
structed to resine to-wunst. ~ I.
The resolootions passed to-wunst, with
out a. dissentin' voice, and were sent by
telegraph to the Senators at Washington.
after witch begged permission to
offer a remark. I sed that Nv
course no Kentuckian Good be
found to take them places made vacant
by the two eminent men who wuz about
to leeve the SENT, but nevertheless Ken
lucky coodent afford to go unrepresentid. |
Is there no northern man of Kentucky
principles who will rush, to the front at
this crisis tAttlA 81
Twenty gentlemen sprang to their feet. |
The one who got the eye5uy the chairman |
remarkt that Kentucky shood alluz be rep
resented by Kentuckians. Davis and Nc
Creery cleerly ought not to stay. They
shood resine to wunst ez a protest agin
this outrage, but eff Kentuckians wood be
found who wood accept the places they
should be found Takin EN- ez they wood
ez necessity, there wouldent be the stig-
ma attahed to EN- that there wood be to