Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1870-04-29
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IN THE SIXTH WARD, NEW YORK-HOW
THEY WENT ABOUT 1.-THE DIFFICULT
TT IN THE WAY AND THE RESULT.
HARP Nv ERIN S'IooN,
IL THE SIXTH WARD, Moo YORK,
April ~, 1870.
THE Moo York World, in recent ishoo,
remarkt that the Niger vote must come
to us, becoz the Dimocrisy he'd alluz he'd
success in managin the isnerant and Gle
gradid classes This determined US to set
about sekoorin the vote Nv the niger
populashen in our ward immejitly. Father
McGrath insisted that it be done to-wunst,
becoz the mint they become DEMOCRATS
the way wuz paved for their comm under
the speritooal direckshen Nv the Catholic
Church Jimmy MCGEE insisted that it
shood be done becoz the element, Ell OPP
posed to us, mite become dangerous;
Jimmy Ryan becoz we had either to in
corporate EN- into our ranks or kill EN-,
and he didn't believe it wood pay to raise
another riot jist now; and wantid EN-
attached to our party becoz l wantid EN-
in front Nv my bar reglerly.
We decided that the shortest way to git
at EN- wood be to git one niger interest
id with US, who wood serve ez decoy
duck to bring in the others. We wantid
a niger to assoshate with; to embrace
and SIGH; to show other niggers that we
Good and wood afiilyate with EN-. We he'd
terrible time gittin NV it startid, how
ever. We got one Nv that race in my back
room, and attempted to argoo the questions
Nv the hour with him, confident in our
ability to crush him by facts into submishen
to our doctrins, but the mizable devil
pulled out NV his pocket a copy Nv the
Constooshn and askt Teddy the Litter to
read and constroo a sentence therein,
which finisht that pertikler effort. Teddy,
and Patsy O'Rourke and Micky Doolan
who held him in hand, startId back at the
site Nv that book ez tho they he'd been
shot. The cuss Good read, and wat Good
any NV EN- do with SIGH a man 4 ]
We caught sick niger and he'd him
in tow three days. We nussed him, and
fed him, and he'd in doctor,for him, witch
doctor give him medicine and Dimocrisy
in ekal doses, all Nv witch he seeminly
gulped down with ease. We got him on
the skore of gratitood, and he went away,
promisin that he wood jine us, but the
second day he came back and laid down
on the bar twenty dollars with the remark
that that sum wood pay for all the cost
and trouble we he'd been to on his account
swat do 700 mean ?" said l, sternly
sweepin the money into the drawer, how
ever, to make sure NV that ~ ID.
Dustin into paroxysm Nv teers, he re-
markt that ez low and mean "a niger eZ
he wuz he coodent RELY jine us. 1t wuz
unfair in us, he sed, to take advantage Nv
his illness to put him under obligashens
to us.
81 can't be Dimokrat," he sobbed,
claspin his hands piteously I can't,
RELY. hev gray haired mother livin,
and a younger sister can't! / can't !
for I'm specially connected p
And he rushed out 1t was forchnit for
him that wuz alone at the time.
All our efforts to sekoor Ethiopian to
our standard seemed to come to naught,
and we wuz just on the confines Nv des-
pair, when one mornn Johnny O'Shough-
messy come rushin in exclaimin, I've got
Tive got i'll"
"Got wat ?" askt.
"The niger we want. In the Poleece
Court there's niger up for drukenness,
vagrancy, steelin, assault and battery, and
some other things, and ez he heznt a blast
ed cent, Nv course he'll be sent up in short
metre. We kin git him shoor, eff we go
about it quickly. 1 got the Judge to hold
on a bit till / Good see you" g
To wunst seed lite. Rushing franti-
cally down to the courtroom, I gave my
self as bail for his appearance, witch the
Judge, who is politikle friend of mine,
accepted, without question, and seezin the
niger by the coat collar, | hustled him
off to my place in triumph. Tim Dolan
spoke up.
"Will yoo," SEE Tim, eff we get yoor
discharge promise to alluz vote the
DIM
"Hold!" SEE I quickly, for wuz afeerd
Tins thoughtless precipitancy mite room
all, "hold He amt in condishen to hev
that question put to him. Wait minnit ::
! understand watts required to make con-
vert better than 700 do"
And seizin bottle from behind the bar
l put it to his lips. The niger drank with
a eagernis witch gave me hope. Teddy
spoke up agin-
"Will you promise to alluz vote -"
Hold" said |. Gle haint enough.
Drink"
And the niger emptied the bottle.
Now" sed | are 700 willin to promise
to alluz vote the Dimocratic tickit-to
labor with your colored brethren to bring
EN- into the fold Nv the Dimocrisy, and to
do your level best to promote the interests
Nv the Dimocratic party now and for
everp
The niger, by this time crazy drunk,
1.-THE llkker wuZ from my own private
bottle and unwatered,) swore that he
would promise all this. "Gib me some
mo- dat whisky" he shrieked.
gave him another bottle and In fifteen
minits he wuz sleepin the deep sleep witch
the tite man only knows. 4aF
In about four hours he awoke, and
thought it time to approach him on the
main question. t5aes a.s
~ "CEEzER," I remarkt, "you must COM
mence yoor work to mite. Weshel git up
a meetin Nv colored men at this place for
the purpose Nv organizin Colored Dem
ocratic Club, and you must address en-
Must indoose EN- to jine Dimocratlc
Club ?" he asked. AIS
"Certinly." r.,
81 Did promise to do it?"
"Certinly," I replied, "and my buck
you'd better keep that promise or Ill hev.
700 back in the dock at the Poleece Court
in a jiffy." 4g.,v9 ~,
"I'll do it." sed he with the desperate
air Nv one who he'd determined that life
amt worth Twin for and IL prepared for
= anything. Pndo it, but must hev likker
enuff to drown my con which is to
say, give me nerve" re v
"Certinly," | replied, call the alikker
700 want, but speek 700 must"
The mite come and there wuz decent
show Nv niggers in the back room. But
the speekerl alas he wuz too far gone
to speek and | he'd to dismiss EN-.
The next morning he swore he never
wood do it, and to git him to the pint NV
consentin give him more likker, and he
got drunk apin and SO IN If went all the