The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-03-01
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asked MT. Dooley.
 What ought we to do about them?' asked MT. Hennessy.
 We've got to do something" said Mir Dooley. Something's got to be done. Whin I was a young man l raymimber hearin' people talk iv boostin' tn naygur up firm tn lowly place as an unforchnit slave an humorist an makin' him as good as anybody an betther thin German be givin' him vote. l didn't believe it because I wus dimmycrat an didn't believe annything but stephen A. Douglas. But they used to say 1t jus th' same, an if ye didn't say it, too, it wus down to Camp Douglas with ye by tn tn back iv tn neck as a prisner iv war. Tn dimmycrats knew that a naygur with vote wrdn't be a Willum Shakespeare. It wudn't take amy iv tn dusk out iv his cheeks to sind him down to tn liv'ry stable an lave him stick an impeeryal ballot that he cudn't r-read into a box with a false bot tom. Can tn camel change his hump? as Hogan wud say. A nay gur with vote is a naygur with a vote, an that's all he is. The dim mycrats knew that forty years ago. Histhry always vindicates tn dim mycrats, but niYer in their life time. They see tn thruth first but tn thruble is that nawthin' is iver officially thrue till ray publican sees it.
 "Th' naygur ain't amy betther off thin he was. Nobody is. But nearly ivrybody ixpected afther tn war that his locks would be- come goolden at wanst an that he wud soon get Roman nose. But here he is today loolin jus as he did forty years ago. He ain't got amy more money, he ain't amy lighter in complexion an 1 some times doubt whether he's amy happyer thin he was whin they was takin' his darlin' Nelly Gray away firm him an he'd niyer see her more till they met in tn Jim Crow siction iv Hiven. Down in tn merry chilavrous Southland no basket picnic is complete on- less a naygur is depindin' firm tn shrubbery. UT. here in this free north iv ours wher tn wurruds iv Windell Phillips Is still soundin' in tn air we don't see amy nay gurs marvin into our ladin fam lies. We welcome him as our akel in all rayspicts, but none iv our consarvitive prize fighters will put ont h gloves With him.
 'So 1 see something's got to be done fir him, but what it is, 1 din naw Tiddy Rosenfelt's idee is to glad hand him up to a higher plane. All ye've got to do to make him tn akel iv his white brother is to give him job an have him up to tn White House f'r dinner Preparations is bein' made fir tn dinner to tn Royal Knights iy tn Ordher iy Oryental Splendher iy Pazazas whose prisident is tn Hon 'rable Egrogious Class of Ally bama. A wagon load iv bullets an hams was delivered yisterdah dL LII w Hlle I1OuSe. Il ulnHeT will be followed be a musical at which tn Prisident an Sinitor Hanna will sing a duet. Both statesmen will black up in homer iv tn comp'ny. Tn Prisident has appinted Hon'rable Lucullus Buff fins, tn well-known naygur ora ther to be marshal at Pianola, Miss. Frinds iy tn family ar-re kindly rayquisted to omit flowers. Immediately on rayceivin' his com mission as postmasther iv Oza- loo, Louisiyany, tn Hon'rable Ma polyon Bliggs, tn cillybrated nay gur aggytater, took tn night thrain to tn north. In spite iv tn lateness iv tn hour a large number iy Misther Bliggs' fellow citizens escorted him to tn thrain. They wud not permit him to walk, but insisted on carryin' him on a two-be-four restin' on their should