New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-03-21

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Civil Rights Resisted-An Episode In tho
Third District.

Third Distriot.
$50 you have broken up your cIrcus-
how did that happen!"
swell, sir, all of us boys had got leave to
have our circus in the yard, We had door
keeper at the alley gate, and charged two
pins ticket, but We didn't allow no dead
heads, only if nurse brought baby we
didn't charge for the baby. All of us was
b!acked, some sung, some played on the
bones, some was horses and was clown"
"You must have made q nice clown"
II did that; all the boys said was bully.
Then We had dog that could stand on his
hind feet and march like q soldier, and he
jumped through the hoop too. The house,
that is the yard, was crowded, and We
struck two papers OF pins every time. We
got better and better, plenty of growed up
people come, and we was making q first
rate season, You bet"
"Why did you quit: Did you quarrel
among yourselves'"
"Oh, no, VIC was all friends and divided
the pins equal. We didn't have no stars to
take all and leave US to pay for the candles.
| No SIR"
"What was the matter then7''
"Well, sir, I'll tell you. You know Aunt
Margetl No, of course you don't. Well,
| she's big, fat colored woman with five or
| six ragged and dirty little children. She
| lives in gallery room, and could look
down, Il she wanted to, but she wasn't sat
istied with a gallery seat, leastways her
children wan't.> They came around and
tried to get into the circus with the white
people, through the old bagging on know,
wehad on one side. Well, the doorkeeper
asked them ten pins, but that was only an
| excuse you know, and they didn't have any
ten pins. and so had to go away; but Aunt
Margetshe heard all from the gal!ry, and she
came down in the greatest rage. She says :.
What you mean, you white trash by 'fusing
to let my chillun into your show' I'm
good as you, and dey is as good as you, and
de law is made for them as we'll as for you,
and you aims SO pitched white yourselves,
for you has gone and black your face to
ekalize yourself to nigger.'
1--WE said We wasn't goin' to let no colored
persons in without they paid up ten pins at
the door. Then Aunt Marget came down
from the gallry and put her hands ON her
hips. just 80. She said: Look here,
white boys. is you gwine to let my chllun
in! I'm livin' here, pays my rent, and
you is on my primmisses. and I'm titled to
see all dat comes into dis yard. I'm on tho
free liss, am, and desc chillun is too.
Now l just want to know if they
can come in on the free liss or
no. ask you onces' We got mad and said
we wouldn't allow 10 niggers, without they
went up to the gallery. Then she says: 4
her, and one of the horses threw an oyster
shell at her head. She says: 1 ask you
three tinesr but she didn't wait for an
answer. She just run at the bagging that
was proped up. She knocked over tie box
and scattered the pins. She stuck her old
wdoly head through the papered hoop that
was just ready for the dog, and in less than
three minutes she had broke up everything,
and ruined our dressing room and all our
properties. We pitched into her, of course,
and her little darkey. The horses aud
riders, and the clown, and the dog barked
and run around, and some of the people
helped Us, but she made q bully fight,
but we tore off IL heap of her
clothes, and she fell back fighting and
abusing US and screaming for the police and
the soldiers, and her children screamed
too. We didn't mean to hurt them bad, you
know, but we were real mad, tell you
that. So she got back on the gallery, and
her children got up there, too, and when we
saw her coming out with great bucket of
slop, we fell back into the alley. for we
didn't want our clothes ruined. So we all
came away; but if the boys catch her or any
Of her brats around we'll give 'em fits for
breaking up our circus"
"Can't you have it somewhere else!'
I'VE haven't got anything to have it with,
without it's US and the dog. But We will
put it up again, but there shan't no Mig
gers come in, not for hundred pins. They
would ruin any chow"
"But saw you playing marbles with
darkey the other day"
"Why, of course, we couldn't mako up
the game without him; besides he had
pocket full of alleys, and we wanted to
win off him. But circus is very different"