Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1870-07-12

! were disguised with the Amendment, and
| would have denounced it in terms, if they had
| not been overruled After much swearing
and sweating, the meaningless compromise
was acquiesced in. and the preservation of the
status quo resolved upon.
COMPOSITION OF THE CONVENTION.
Wood county sent two hundred and fifty
delegates to the Convention, including almost
every Radical in Parkersburg. Apart from
these, who were nearly all present, there were
probably two hundred and fifty delegates from
| the other counties. A count of noses on q
vote by tellers, showed two hundred and forty
preseut. This left little over half the Con-
vention in the neghborng rum mills, and
that average was constant and accurate
Demagogues and offce>holders predomi-
mated. The Convention was largely, almost
entirely, made up of these Take out those
who follow office, holding for a living, the
professional plunderers of the public, aud the
remainder, barring the crowd Wood county
threw in to ell up, would hardly have manned
the smallest dug-out that will this Fall bear
its load of played-out Radicalism, up Salt
River
That extensive family to which Doesticks'
friend, Damphools belonged is not yet extinct,
not by any manner of means A number of
| persons belonging to that family had come as
delegates to this Convention. They didn't
believe that the Republican party ever favored
negro suffrage and negro equality. There
fore, VIXEN they learned that great drove of
negroes had arrived and would sit as dele-
gates in the Convention, they we're filled with
amazement and indignation. No amount of
assurance would satisfy them. Their own
eyes and their own nostrils must bear witness
that "loyalty" had dishonored herself by
political miscegenation and mulattoism. They
were early at the shambles, and if all signs
fail not, we're thoroughly convinced that tho
negro occupied the topmost log. in the wood
pile, then and there hcaped up.
The negro delegates numbered over twen-
ty. That is, there were over twenty sitting
as delegates in the Convention at one time
If they initiated their white allies and kept
relief squad of half their number in the neigh
boring bug iuiceries they numbered in all
over forty. But granting that they exccIed
the whites in the dccepcy of keeping all to-
gether and abstainng from rum during the
session, they numbered over score. One
close counter put down the number at twenty
seven. However, it is not necessary to be
particular, as nigger or two more or less
made little difference with the great body of
rapscallio1s there collected. The blacks were
the white delegates, which is saying very lit
tie. One old fellows sooty mug the very
counterpart of an Ourang Outang. To take off
his clothes, give him a tail then for him to
climb and cavcrt in a multitude of monkey
shines among the rafters aud beams of the
building would have been the most natural
performance imaginable. Another had n
head like u sugar loaf, foot like dough
trough, and a sort Of sum burnt brindle COM
plexion. He was genuine Pennsylvania
rpet-bagger. and perhaps dated his exist
euce to the early, practical operation of Thad.
Stevens theory of tempering Caucasian ener-
ey with the warm gushing blood of the Af
rican. Aud here was the abominable cuss,
clothed with political power, and using it to-
wrcak the causeless vengeance of his Puritan
grandfather on the whites of Virginia.
These were but samples. The assortment
ranged in hue from the ink-pot to the dingy
dun, the intermediate tints being all fairly
represented. The odOTs DO man can number.
The range of perfume would have satisfied
any nostrils that were capable of realizing de-
light from the wood-pecker's nest, the buzz
yards breath, or the pole-cat's balm Of
thousand flowers. Shovel headed low browed
heavy jawcd, fiat noscd creatures, as most of
them were, one turned in amazemcnt from
the stupidity represented by them, to the
still greater stupidity, which, denying the ca
pacity of the white race for selfgovernment,
had called this Congo class to bring its bru-
talitics to the help of Caucasian intellect in
running the Republic. In these enfranchised
negroes was seen Just one half the aggregate
result of the war, the absent moiety being the
disfrauchised white race whose degradation
these blacks are expected to pcrpetuate.
The leading Radicals of the Convention
We'd with each other in their attentions to the
colored delegates but it is conceded that Bee.
of Doddridge, old Z Clampss Tiis, surpassed
them all As he stood up in the Convention,
far toward the front. with an arm thrown af>
fectionately around the neck of the only negro
ever seen that could rival Ephram Bee in
ugliness. the ju4tapositiOn of the two concen.
trated odor and fll-favor to an extent unknown
in the previous experience of the eyes and
nostrils then and there present. Two years
ago, these same negro hugging people would
have reached for your scalp had you limited
that they favored negro suffrage. Looking
upon this strange scene to day, and witnessing
the intimate and easy saudwiching of "loyalty"
in black and white. one readily admits the
progressiveness of the party which has made
its pledges of two years ago, the most astound-
ing lies of the century.
Well might the chalk eyed minstrel of the
Convention uplift his song of triumph and
cxultatiOn:
Chalk and Ivory Heels nd ShinzI
Sambo's glory now berinsI
Go way, white man. You don't know
How TO vote richt-dat is so.
Yaw, yaw, yaw ,-Yaw, yaw, yawl
De happiest day cher sawI
Whar's de tickets? ? Fatch 'ern straight
votes early-l votes late
votes often-I votes right
rs no ignoramus white.
t Man and brudder equal born
De Makers image, (in horn
De glory of de rTsin' day
De Guild cuss from Africa!
Oh, kinky, minky stInky, OH
If dis amt glory, tell me so!
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