Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1871-07-07
and from this time henceforth and forev-
er there wuz to be nothin but peece. I
then offered the follerin resoooshen:

then offered the follerin resolooshen;
Resotred, That the Dimocrisy Nv the
Yoonited States recognize the legality
Nv all the amendments made the consti-
tooshen doorin aud since the late onpleas-
antnis, and that they recognize and most
heartily acquiesce in all the results of
the war that they not only withdraw all
their opposishen to yooniversal suffrage,
but pledge themselves to see that our
Afrikin fellow-citizens hev not only this
but all other rites heretofore enjoyed ex-
cloosively by the Caucashen.
1t put the question ez to the adopshen
NV the resolooshen, and it was carried
yeonnanimously. 1t wood hev bin well
he'd / stopped here, but l didn't. My
prevailin weakness is to slop over and
slopt on this okkashun feariully. cal
led upon the citizens NV the Corners, to
prove their works. There are" sed,
in spasm of delite, present at this
meetin twenty-five NV our fellow-citizens
Nv Afrikin descent. Let EN- step forrerd
on this platform-let Deekin Pogram,
Elder Pennibacker, Bascom, Issker Ga
witt and eighteen others white citizens
step forrerd, also. Let them clasp each
other by the hand while l wave over em
the flag Nv our common kentry."
1t wuz done. The twenty-five niggers
stepped forrered, the whites designated
advanced, the two lines grasped each
other by the hand, and | wuz about to
wave, when Joe Bigler riz. He begged
me to wait mint till he had made his
remark. The site afore him moved him
almost tn teers. Ef he he'd ever harbor-
ed a suspshen that there wuzn't any
thing generous in the Kentucky breast
he took it all back. The ackshen NV to-
night wuz not only just, but it wuz gen.
erous.
"Generousp sed l, "why generous?"
"Becoz," sed he, "the niggers wood be
in a devilish bad way eff you hedn't de
cided on givin EN- their rites, Nv yoor
own akkord, for there amt opower new
that can compel yoo to do it. l just
got Northern paper-alas the Repub-
liKin party is split into fragments-re-
markably small fragments. Grant as
saulted Sumner in the Capitol, last Mon
day, Logan hez been stoned by the Re-
publikins of Philadelfy on his way home,
the central committees Nv Ohio, Injeany
and Illinoy hev divided, and each Track
shen hez called convenshen, and the
New York Triboon throws up the sponge
and sez that nothing under heven kin
prevent the success Nv the Democratic
candidate for the Presidency, no matter
who he may be or wat platform he is
put onto. In view NV the dissolooshen
Nv the Republican party, and the fact
that the niggers amt now got no per-
teckters, its really generous that yoo-"
The Republican party is gone to piec-
es. hez it ?' grasped my twenty-five
white friends in korious.
SIT hez" responded Bigler.
"Then," sed Deekin Pogram, his eyes
fashin with unwontid fire, "what we've
done and sed don't count Take that, 700
black cuss!'
And, with the strength and activity
wich hadn't lookt for in one so agid,
the deckin fecht the darKey, whose hand
he he'd bin graspin, most powerful
blow atween the eyes wich histed him
clean off the platform. The others fol-
lowed SCOT, and in their zeal sprang off
the platform after em, and wuz a execu-
tin war dances of the most frantic des-
cripshun onto their PROSTATE bodies. It
wuz with difficulty that Pollock and
Bigler restrained EN- from takiD Nv EN-
out and hangin Nv EN-.
Ez a matter Nv course the resolusion
wuz rescinded, and others adopted affirm
in our adherence to the constooshen ez it
yoost to be, the illegality Nv the amend
ments, and the material soopremacy NV
the white man over the id nigger, aft
er wich we adjou ned to Bascom's, ez is
our custom, and there organised fresh
raids onto our material enemies.
The next mornin | notised pecool.
yer look on Bigler's face, and likewise
on Pollock's. They grinned at me ez l
passed, with broadnls wich l couldn't
account for. Lubbock, the nigger p ost-
master, bust into roar ez walkt into
his offs, and | angrily demanded the
reason for his hilarity.
dat mistake of OBJ Bigler's," returned
he, laughing louder than before.
What mistake" l asked, turning
pale, for suspicion wuz creepin over
me.
"Why he didn't get no paper at all,
and"
"And all that story about the split in
the republican party North wuz one NV
his internal lies!"
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