Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1871-07-01

Es tue prinsipIe. objiCk nv the meetin
wuE to convins the kcpublikins nv the
doubtful States that the Dimocrats NV
the South really accepted the situashen,
and meant, in dead earnest, TO recognize.
the great prinsiple NV equality, arrang,
ed to hey all the niggers av the Corners
present, aud saved for EN- the best seats
in the house. Joe Bigler and Pollock
come, NV course, wich coodent help.
Topened the exercises by maxim short
speech ez took the chair. rejois that
rhs time he'd finally arriv when the lion
aud tho lamb he'd iayed down together
aad a small child wuz a, leadtn NV EN-. l
knowd that our eOlored fellow-ci.izens
he'd bin dispitefal!y yoosed, and that doc
respeck he'd not aluz bin paid TO our tel
low-cilizeps Nv the North, but that time
he'd now passed and hoped forever.
The Dimocrisy nv the North, through
Vallandygum, he'd spoke, they he'd ae-
cepted the situashen, halleloogy. and
from this time henceiorth and forever
there wuz to be nothin but peace. l
then offered the iollowin resolooshen
Resoired, That the Dimvcrisy NV the
Yoonited States recognize the legality
NV all the amendments made to the Con-
ssitooshen duorip aud since the late
oupleasnis, and that they recognize and
most heartily acquicsce III all the results
Nv the war !; that they withdraw all then
oppOsishen TO yoonivcrsal suffrage, bat
pledge themselves TO see thatOnr Atriken
tellow-citizens hev not only this but all
other rites heretofore enjoyed exclusive
ly by the CaScashen.
put the question tz 10 the adopshen
Nv the resoloOshen, and it wuz carried,
yoonanimously. 1t would hev bin well
he'd stopt here, but didu't. My pre-
vailin weakness IL To slOp over, and
slopt Oh this okkasion ieariully. | called
upon the citizens NV the Corners to
prove their works. 'rhere is | said, in
a spasm NV delile, resent at this meelin
twenty-five NV our tellow-citizens NV
Afrikln descent. Let EN- step torrerd on
this plaifora-let Deekin Pogram, Elder
Pennibacker, Bascom, Isaaker Gavilt,
and eighteen other white citizcns step
torrerd, also. Let en- clasp each other
by the hand while wave over EN- the
flag NV our common kentry.'
It wuz done. The twenty-five niggcrs
slept iorrcrd, the whites designated adj
vanced, the two lines grasped each other
by the hand, and wuz about to wave,
when Joe Blgler riz. lie begged me to
wait mint till he he'd made his remark
The site aiore him moved him almost to
teers. Ef he he'd ever harbored sus-
pishen that there wuzn't anything gener-
GUS in the kentucky breast he took it all
back. The aekshen Nv to-nite WIZ not
only just but it wuz generous.
Generous y said /, why generous /?
'Becoz,' said he, the nggers wood be
in devilish bad way ct yoo hedn't de-
cided on givin EN- their rites NV
yoor own akkord, Tor there amt no
power now that kin compel you to do it,.
jist got a Northern paper--alas I! the
Republican party il split INTO fragments
Remarkably small fragments. Grant
assaulted Sumner in the Capitol last
Monday. Logan hez bin stoned by the
Republicans NV Philadeliy on his way
home, the Central Committees Nv Ohio,
lnj, any Illinoy hev divided, and each
irackshen hez called conveGshun,
and the Moo York Tri6oon throws up
the sponge and sez that nothln under
hevin kin prevent the success Nv the
Dmocratc candidate for the Presidency,
10 matter who he may oe OF wat plat
form lie is put onto. In view Nv the
dissolooshen NV the Republkin party,
and the tact that the niggers amt now
got no pertecktcrs, its really generous
that yoo--'
The Republican party IL gone to
pieces hez il? = gasped my twenty-five
black friends in knrious.
1t hez = responded Bigler.
Then said Deekin Pogram, his eyes
dashin with unwonlid fire, what we've
done and sed don't count Take that,
700 black cuss =
And with strength and activity wich
hedn't lookt for one 50 agid, the Deekin
ctcht the darky whose hand he he'd bin
graspin most powerful blow atween
,he eyes wich histed him clean of the
platform. The others tollered soo., and
/, their zeal sprang OFF the platform after
I'm, and wuz cxecutin war dances NV
he most frantic !escripshen onto en-.
PETROLEUM V. Nasty,
(wich wuz Postmaster.