The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1870-04-30
NASBY.

THE FIFTEENTH AMENDMENT-THE DEMoc-
RACY OF THE SIXTH WARD MEET IN THE
BACK ROOM OF "HARP Nv ERIN s'LooN"
TO CONSIDER WHAT TO DO IN THE NAT
TER OF THE NEGRO voTE-THEY COME
TO DECISION.
HARP w ERIN S'LooN,
9th Ward, Moo York, April 2, 1870.
The Proclamation NV the President an
nouncin the ratification NV the Fifteenth
Amendment perdoosed profound sensation
in this ward.
1t wuz told to our people by reporter
Nv daily paper at II o'clock this mornin,
and it got pretty well around among us by
3 this afternoon, wich wuz tollably rapid,
considerin that Intelligence in this ward hez
to be conveyed orally. In the afternoon it
was resolved that a meetin be held in the
evenin to consult ez to wat ackshen the
democracy shood take in the matter, witch
WIZ akkordingly SO done. he'd the back
lit up, the barrels moved into safe place
under the strongest kind Nv locks, and the
bar closed and draped in mournin in token
NV the hoomiliashen witch l felt he'd fallen
onto the people in conscience Nv this out
rage. hung Grape onto the door; put
Grape around the portraits NV Jaxon, Chief
Justis Chase, Bookannon and Fernandy
Wood, and likewise around the bottles and
over the red-headed barrel, witch gave the
establishment highly funeral and mourn
full look witch wuz entirely satisfactory.
In the evenin the democracy assembled,
and q more enraged gatherin never saw.
They wuzn't jist clear ez to wat the Presi-
dent he'd done indeed the most Nv EN- wuz
labrin under the impreshn that the enfran-
chisement NV the niger wus the work Nv
the Democratic Legislacher at Albany, and
Their WIZ indcashens Nv determinashen
to GO through some of the houses NV the
Dimocratic members in this city, but stopt
EN- by tellln EN- the strate NV it.
l assoomed the chair, Nv course, and he'd,
in addiShen, to do the dsoties NV Secretary
bein the only one then in the meetin who
Good write.
Teddy McGinnis remarked that he felt
hoomiiaslIen witch wuz actooaly beyond
expreshen. The dirty nagur wuz now his
ekal. The only difference between EN- he'd
bin removed by this infamous law Does
any one spose that he'd consent to vote all
day beside niggers? Niver! He called
upon the democracy to jine him in croo-
SADIE agin EN-. "Follow me-" sed Teddy,
"and in Moo Yerrick, at least, we WON'T
be bothered with nagur suffrage begorra."
Pat mclaughlin held similar views
Sooner than vote beside nagurs he'd relin-
quish the biznis NV votin altogether, and
go to sawin wood. Repeetin is good
enuff biznis, and the small contract witch
he he'd ez reward therfor was betther, but
he coodnt stand nagurs, nor woodent. His
voice WIZ for KILN NV EN-.
The others made similar speeches, when
Sandy MCGUIRE offered resolooshen that
the olferin of a vote by nagur be censid-
cred ez a declarashen Nv war agin the De-
mocracy of Moo York. and that they then
be immegitly exterminated. Sandy wuz
for no halfway measures. He remembered
the glorious Jooly days in 1868, when the
Democracy NV Moo York asserted ITSELF
He had assisted in destroyin the nagur Or
phan asylum with this good rite hand he
he'd beat ont the brains NV two nagurs, to
say nothin NV the women and children witch
he didn't consider worth countin. He
longed to get at EN- agn.
The meetin bein all so yoonanimus in
their feelin, wrote the fullerin resoloo-
snens:
Resolced, That the Dimocrisy Nv Moo
York, considerin and believin the niger 10
he beast, a burlesk on hoomanity and in
capable of discharging any NV the doaties
Nv citizenship, do hereby protest agin his
bein give the ballot on a ekality with white
men.
Resoloed, That the Dimocrisy Nv Moo
York, ruther than submit to this degrade
shen, pledges itself to the determination
NV the ACCUSED race.
The resolushens wuz adopted without
dissentin voice, and the enthusiastic Nc
CURE, bandishin his shillala, rushed out
and attack couple of niggers witch was
passin, and knockin EN- down, stamped onto
EN- vigorously with his boots, exclaimin the
while "Want to vote. do yez -
The meetin wuz about to break up, when
Tim O'Grady, a man NV Fernando Woods,
come ruShin in. lie he'd heard NV the meet
IN, and come immejitly to see about it.
told him in breath wat had bin DONE
Thunder ~ he remarkt to me in a wills
per, this won't do. You eggrejis cid ass,
the niggers hev votes, and will vote now in
spite NV us. We must git EN-, for without
EN-, with all the rebels disfranchised, wat
kin we do in the Southern States? Call
he meetin to order agin.''
l didn't like the tone Of his alleosion to
me, but l called the meetin to order onct
more.
O'Grady remarked to EN- that there he'd
been misunderstanding. He felt ashoered
that the Dimocrisy Nv Moo York, alluz the
friends NV the oppressed and downtrodden
would now generously extend a helpin
hand to our celored brethren jist elevated
to full citizenship. The Dimocrisy he'd not
assisted in their elevation, but they he'd no
feelin agin our brethren Nv color. When
our colored brethren come to analyze the
matter they wood love the Dimocrisy the