The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1870-10-11
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Tuesday Morning, ootober IL, 1870.

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Mr.. Na.by Attempts 10 sinwp The State a,
Dc'awa.e The ebstecie- ihsow. 4. hi.
way by one Oh Il s'eesi,y,n siennec,rcu,
Man, new stssisieu, Of Ihai State.
IFrOm the Toledo Badel
| MASTEN'S CORNERS, MIsPILIoN Hun
DRIED, in the state Nv Delaware,
September H. 1870.
1t seems to me ez though whenever
thought he'd pecoolyerly good thing, that
some onmitisated cuss was destined to be
raised up agn me, to bust it. At Conlet rit
n Roads in Kentucky that sneakn whelp,
Hollock, and furoshus broot, Joe Bigler, wuz
alluz in my way, a overtrowin my happiest
skeems and blastn my most cherisht pur-
| poses. Here, in Masten's Corners, my evil
| eenyus is a cuss ir IN Connecticut named
| Obed Peasiey, who driitcd into Delaware four
| years ago, and who runs a tin shop in this
place. The people hey TO eDdoor him and
| support him, iOr az they never buy new TIN
| wa,a, its a reel accJmmodashun for EN- TO hev
a man capable of sodderin holes in pans, when
| the oriices become too big to be stuffed up
| with rags. But he IL nevertheless dist urber
and inkubus. He bez made iriei.ds with all
| the nioaers Iii this part NV the State; hez
| helped the Methods and Baptist preachers to
| start Sunday skools among eH, and is in AL
respeckS conductin hisSelf ike a man NV low,
grovlin nstinks who feels a ca to tear DO xu
ancient landmarks, and root cut everything
that the well regulated Delwarian most desires
to perpetuate. He is an innovator of the
most dangerous description. He hez bin
bawling for years for the destruction NV the
whippn-post, and the establishin Nv free
SkooIc barf hoy nj iod IN al
and stop the sale Nv liker, and hev meet,n
house put up, and soon. In short, he hez
bin dom his level best to redoos Delaware to
the level of Moo England.
The democratic Central Conmi Nv the
state he'd arranged matters wisely and well !;
that is, it wood hev bin well he'd it not bin Tor
this cussid Poasley. They desired TO hold all
the white vote, and hoped to gain a large
share NV the nIoger vote. We knew we shood
hev no trouble with the white vote. tor abuse
of the niger wood do tha', but how to aboose
him and capcher his vote at the same time
wuz the problem. 1t wuz decided not to hold
public meetins among the niegers at all, or to
hav EN- attend meeiins, but to DO the work
among EN- by private conversation. This
wood make clear salin tor our speakers, " ho
wuz all notide1 by cirkler NV wat wuz to be
sed. They wtz to bear WITH all the Iolce pos
slble orto taxes. wich the Delaware man has
eliuA udtlu w pay, Ol any Pul Pu>, duu pdItlCh
elerly the danger OF niger ekalily, which is
moyn topic of democratic speakers every
where.
opened the campane in Masten's Corners
two weeks ago, with the same speech l hev
bin yoosin Tor twelve years. In the beginnin
/ arrai e the Republican party for corrupshen,
onto wich 1 dwell for perhaps ten minutes,
when l launch off into my tavrit argument,
wicb is that the Niger is beast, and pbysi-
cally and morally onfit to be anything bul the
property Nv the proud Caucashen, wich is by
nacber the master race. The meetin passed
off splendidly-i,d deed, a more enthusiastic
aujepce | never had. Obed Peasley wuz in,
and at the conCloosion he told me that he
had never bil SO staggered in his lite.
where do you speek to-morrer nite?" he
asked.
l told him at the village some sixteen miles
from here.
81 will be ther to heer it a.in," he sed, "and
eZ them trOoths Nv yourn ought TO hev wide
cirulashen, shel bring all my friends IN that
naborhood"
| never wuz so elated in my life. Here wuz
| fruits! Here wuz Moo Ingland disturber
| converted by one speech-a persecooter con-
| ver'ed into an adberent. | retired to bed that
mite in ruther high estimate OF my ability.
| The next nite | had delightful aujence.
| The barn in which wuz to speak wuz Deery
| full NV the residents Nv the secksL un, and
| from remarks heerd EN- drop and thar ap
| peerance and other inlicashuns, ielt assur-
| ed that everything shood say on the Niger
| wood meet W tn ready and enthusiastick re-
| sponse from EN-.
| 1 opened elokwently ard reeled orr the first
| ten minules NV my remarks with more sperit
| than | ever throwd into it.. Thepeople were
enthusiastick in there applause, and / bed
worked myself up into a fever NV eggsiicht.
ment. At last l got to the second he ad Nv
nv remarks-the Niger question.
my BRETHREN" sed y 81 approach this
question reluctantly. The subeck isn't a
peasant one. The niger. my brethren, wch
| these tanaticks are strivin to force onto us az
| an ekwal, is not q man. The niager, with his
| long heels, his horrible odor, his--o
! l didn't conclood the sentence. At this
| point, while the words was a ekoing through
the asst mblase, that onmitigaied Doosance
Obed Peasley, marched into the barn at the
he'd NV a procession NV male nigge,s, twenty
in number, all NV which took seats rite il
front Nv me where they coodent help heerip.
every word shood utter.
NV tung wuz glooed to the roof NV my
mouth l saw the danger I was in to wunst
| Them niggars he'd votes, and with the white
Republicans III the vicinity can carry it. Ou
people he'd been TO work among EN- with thu
hope NV hO ding at least portion ov EN-. L
l perceeded with MY speech pz | he'd it ar
ranged, they was hOpelfssly lost; et didn'
lay it on thick enough onto the nigeer, dis
| gusted my white hierds afore me, who only
! he'd one political creed, which was to hat,
| sich. undertook to switch off and say suth
in else, but | coodent. l have only he'd on,
| speech for twelve years, and must delive
that or he'd my peace.
Peasley nodded to me approvingly. "My
brethrenW | commenced again, when seeing
them nigeeIs my knees trembled. LOST con
shusnes and fell iaintin off the barrel unto
wich | stood.
preceded the next mite to my next ap
pointn ent, thaukn heaven that l tainted
| when did for it let me out ov most awk3rd
posisben. l opened ez before. got to the
precise pint where | change to the discussion
Wv Il e niger when Peasley agin made his
appearance with his e>colt NV niggers, twenty
in number. Aein tiled to switch off; a.in
stumbled and floundeied, and agin l sunk
down unable TO say word.
Need l cODtivOO the hart rending narrative
Need say Tor two weeks that feend incar-
nate,with twenty ni9gers alluz with him, made
his appearance at my meetings, every time
jest ez 1 wuz saying "My brethren, the mig
ger wich these radkals is torcng unto us az
| an ekal is not man. He is not tit morally
or physically to be associated with us. He
| is"
Need 1 say that l am at Bill Sarps's, sick
after bavin miscarried with that same speech
fifteen times? And need say that it ha'
leaked out that a lot Nv radikas in Whining
ton-ontO whose head cusses-furnished thi:
Peasley with means to follow me up doorir
the campane. and that he proposes 20 contin
700 till IT, c mite NV ell ckshin?
applied to the Genital Committy to fur
nish me a new speech-one wich would sui
for mixed aujence-but they cant do it
The say dimocrisy woodn't bear sich stralI
eZ to kver both idees to wunst.
And so, in konsekence Nv this Connecticut
scoundlel's teindshnis, 1 am made yooselIs
doorin this campane, and we may possibly
lose all that we are playin for. Why can
| that race be exterminated?
PETROLEUM V. NAsBY.
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