The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1876-10-25
THE ANTI NlGGIR EOt'ATi0N
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! the BtILFfIN. We wish To say Il word IN
eeiensc of what the Townrs- Albright
| men call his NiggerisrN.
We have known him from his youth
aud are free To- admit that ever since he
was hov in short clothes, he ran In
sympathy with the poor. oppressed
dovu-troJdpu and abused" slave:
! but. rs Bob lugcr>oii would say,
strange to say, he was always a
| Democrat" We have often warned him
to beware oi his sympathetic tongue =
told him. in kindness, that we Fellows
We. the Albrishts of the Democratic
marty, didn't like the Id nigger. and
that il he. the azores id Oherly. would
not stop being just tn him, the aforesaid
! ID Niger. we would ruin him as a
! Democrat. In those days. We.
the Albright-kind of Democrats,
made very much out of the fact
that the negro had long heels and
| hinky hair. These two articles
OF the personal wardrobe OF the negro
were the mo t potent plank in our plat
| form. Often we would make the Anglo
Saxon blood of the true Democrats run
| wildly through their veins. by cXclaim-
ing: "I.et us ask you, in all seriousness.
would you-would you-would you.
have your daughters marry 4 ID lig-
ser?' The response was. with great
| inyariableness Not much, you bet ::
old boss Set em up again, and go on
with the meetin'" And then we would las
thus kindly requested. "set EN- mp
again." by eXclaimlng: "Ain't this the
| land OF the white man. where no niger
has no rights excepting the right to be
wallopped - And again would come
from the Albright-kind of Democrats.
the hearty response: fright again, old
hair pin where's the man who denies
this: Show him to us And the noble
| Roman thus responding. would blow into
his coat sleeve and double up his arm
displaying his muscle.
In those days we, the Albright
kind of Democrats. were happy. They
were the days when freedom was most
meloiiously sung about, while the clanh'
ing chains of the slave made music
sweet in the ears of the .ilbright-kind OF
Demo rats: when we boastcd of our
civilization, while the Going. going,
gone" OF the slave. seller separated the
dusky mother from her dtsKy child on
the auction block. tearing the nipple
from the mouth of the babe, and marring
the horror Of the mothers shrek with
the coarse laugh and brutal oath
OF the coarse and brutal Legrces who
stiiltd the impulses of humanity in bar
tering human flesh and blood. Good old
days TO be thought of and 10 bC-a>halucd
of. Then was Logan with Us. crying: III
is crime in Niger to put his foot upon
the soil of Illinois ~ Then was Ben
Butler, with his brutalisms in Democracy.
one of our leaders. Then was Bob III
g.rsoll-rare Bob of the goldcn-toned
tOnguc--a Democrat who did
not hate the sounds OF cla>hinG chains
and who, at that time. denounced the
| Greclrys, Summers. Planners, Farms
wor,hs, Julians, and the other friends OF
freedom, with as much vrn0inouS elO-
quencc as lac now u."s in dtnlnciaiion OF
his two particular aytr.ion>, God AMI the
| Democratic parry.
But we wander. We knew, "a we
| were saying. or Mere about To say. that
! N,+la nh.rI, off int tl,.. ,ity
ger" channel, he WAS lost To Democratic
grace. We reasoned with him, but
in vain. He was headstrong. and at
last capped the climax OF political
iniquity, by voting, while Il member OF
| the legislature, for II bin which provided
that il amy person should, for instance.
brickbat colorcd child because the col
ored child was attempting Ia attend Il
school ii had Il right 10 attend not a
linked one, but a Colored free school-he
should be lined. This was terrible
But the bin also provided. that, if school
officers should refuse TO provide means to
educate colored children, because the
colorrd children were not white---or
words to that eilrct--ihe officers should
be fined. This was shining against
| Democratic darkness, and We knew
Oberly was lost. Ever since thar vote.
the Albrghts OF Egypt have, by appeals
to Democratic ignorance, kept O1erly in
the back ground of politics; tor again The
cry OF the old time became potent in the
wilds of Alexander. Union and Jack son
counties Would you have your
daughter marry Niger: Oberly's bill
Is intendedto compel you TO marry your
daughters to niggcrs."
siLord a-mercy, the effect of this appeal
was dreadful, At once there arose a
cry OF anger from the fathers OF daught-
ers, and the cry was: Down with
smilingly, and as he fell the last words
that 2urgled from his lips were: Il 90,
but | return. In q few years you fellows
will not be the id fools YOU now are"
But Oberly hasn't returned yet. The
fellows are Just as big fools as they ever
we're, for they listen to Albright when
, he says; "Oberly mixed your schools. :"
, He knows lie is not telling the truth
when he says this, but the school house
has not made many OF his friend. intel
ligent enough 10 know that lac l., dccoiy,
ing them. The constitution, adopted by
a Democratic constitutional convention