Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1870-04-15
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From the Toledo Blade.l

THE BACK ROOM OF THE -"HARP Nv
ERIN sLooN" TO CONSIDER WHAT TO
DO IN THE MATTER OF THE NEGRO VOTE
THEY COME TO A DECISION.
EARr Nv ERIN S'LooN,
9Th WARD, MOO YORK, April 2 1870
THE proclamation Wv the President an
nouncin the ratification NV the Fifteenth
Amendment perdoosed profound sensa-
shen in this Ward.
1t wuz told to our people by a reporter
nv daily paper at IL O'Clock this mornin
and it got pretty well around amongst us
by 8 this afternoon, witch wuz tollably
rapid, consIderin that intelligence in this
Ward hez 0 he conveyed orally. In the
afternoon ii was resolved that meetin
be held in the evenin to consult Ell to wat
ackshen the Dimocrisy shood take in the
matter, witch wuz akkordinly so done. /
he'd the back room lit up, the barrels
moved into safe place under the strong
est kind NV locks, and the bar closed and
draped in mournin in token Nv the hoo
miliashen witch felt he'd fallen onto the
people in conscience NV this outrage. /
hung Grape onto the door; / put Grape
around the portraits NV Jaxon, Chief JUS
It's Chase, Bookannon and Fernandy
Wood, and likewise. around the bottles
and over the red-headed barrel, witch
gave the establishment highly funereal
and mournful look witch wuz entirely
d. satisfactory
In the evenin the Democracy assembled
and more enraged gatherin | never saw.
They wuZn't jst clear Ell to wat the Presi'
dent he'd done; indeed the most Nv EN-
wuz labrin under the impreshin that the
enfranchisement Nv the niger wuz the
work NV the Democratic Legislacher at
fha,. frIioochapo a
determinashen to go thro some of the
houses NV the Dimocratic members in this
city, but l stopt EN-, by telliu em the
styate nv it.
I asoomed the chair, of course, and he'd
in addishen, to do the dooties Nv Sekre
tary, bein the only one then in the meetin
who Good write a-r
Teddy McGinnis remarked that he felt
hoomiliashen WITCH wuz actooally be-
yond expreshen. The dirty nagur wuz
now his ekal. The only difference be-
tween EN- he'd bin removed by this infa.
mus law. Docs any one spose that he'd
liver consint to vote all day beside mig
gers? Niyerl He called upon the Dim
Ocracy to iine him in croosade agin EN-.
Follow me-" sed Teddy, "and in Moo
Yorrick, at least, we won't be bothered
with nagur suffrage, be CORA"
Pat Mclaughlin held similar views.
Sooner than vote beside nagurs he'd re-
linquish the biznis Nv votin altogether,
and go to sawin wood. Repeetin is a
good enuff biznis, and the small contract
WITCH be he'd ez reward therefore wuz
betther, but he coodent stand nagurs, nor
woodent. His voice wuz for KILN Nv
EN-.
The others made similar speeches, when
Sandy Mcclure offered a .resolooshen
that the offerin NV vote by nagur be
considered, ez declarashen NV war agin
the Democracy Nv Moo York, and that
they then be immegitly extermnated
Sandy wuz for no half way measures. He
remembered the glorious Jooly days in
1868 when the Democracy Nv Moo York
ASSERTED itself He had assisted in des
troyin the nagur orphan asylum; with
this good rite hand he he'd. beat out the
brains Nv two nagurs, to say nothin Nv
the wimin and children WITCH he didn't
consider worth countin. He longed to
get at EN- agin.
The meetin bein all SO yoonanimus in
their feelin | wrote the follerin resoloo
shens: Mt4a3IHA
Resog0ed, That the Dimocrisy NV Moo York con
slderln and beleeyn the Niger to be beast,
barleek on hoomanity and Incapable NV discharg
i'll amy NV the dooties NV citizenship, do hereby
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with white men.
RESOLVED, That the Dimocrisy NV Moo Yorl
ruther than submit to this degredashen pledges it
selfto the exterminashen NV the secussd race.
The resolooshens wuz adopted without
a dissentin voice, and the enthoosiasti,
Mcclure, brandishin his shillala, rushed
out and attack a couple Nv niggers wicl
WIZ passin, and knockin EN- down, stamp
ed onto EN- vigorously with his boots ex
claimin the while "Want to vote do yez!'
The meetin wuz about to break up
when Tim O'Grady, man NV Fernand,
Woods, come rushin in. He he'd heare
Nv the meetin, and come immeiitly to SCI
about it. | told him in breath wat he(
hin DONE Thunder - he remarkt to MT
in a whisper, this won't do. Yoo eggre
jis old ass, the niggers hev votes, and viii
vote now in spite Nv us. We must git EN-
for without EN-, with all the rebels disfran
chised, what kin we do in the Southern
States? Call the meetin to order agin.
| didn't like the tone of his alloosion tC
me- but called the meetin to order onc
more.
O'Grady remarked to EN- that there heo
bin a misunderstanding. He felt ashoored
that the Dimocrisy ov Moo York, alluz the
friends W the oppressed and downtrod.
den, wood now generously extend help
Ia iAt1iet w Wi COiOlOQ DlCbuICu .IlSb Clc-
waited to full citizenship. The Dimocrisy
he'd not assisted in their elevashun, but
they he'd no feelin agin our brethren NV
color. When our colCred brethren came
to analyze the matter, they wood love the
Dimocrisy the moro for not dom Nv it.
He wood move the substitooshen Nv the
follerin resolooshen for the one witch he'd
bin unadvisedly passed:
Resot0sd, That the Democrisy NV Moo York hail
with feelln NV pleasure witch we hev no words to
express, the elevashen nv our coored fellow citi-
zens to full citizenship, and that we pledge our
selves to perfect EN- in the enjoyment NV Their
newly found rites.
The meeting didn't want to pass it.
The feesln agin EN- wuz too deep sot to be
rooted out IN mint, but O'Grady wuz
determined. 0 wat mint wuz that 1!
Wuz the niggers to be killed by us, or
wuz they to be taken to our buzzums.
Their fate hung tremblin in the balance?
Finally it wuz put to vote and@the Mig
gers wuz safe. By one majority the reso-
looshen wuz passed
At that mint groan wuz heard out
side. .1f rF4t
What is that?" asked O'Grady.
Some nagurs l jist now bate!" re-
marks Mcclure.
Beatin niggers p sed O'Grady "Good
Lord bring EN- in
And he rushed out and brought in the