Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 3, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 November 1859 — A Good Retort. [ARTICLE]

A Good Retort.

While Cassius M. Clay was making a speech in Covington, Ky., a week or two ago, some one in the crowd cried out, “Set your niggers free,” to which Mr. Clay replied : “They are; and now I want to de the next best thing. I want to set those fellows that call themselves Democrats, free, for God knows they need it more than the niggers. Now, gentlemen, if you will allow me to tell you, niggers get a good master sometimes; but your masters neither feed nor clothe you but put their hands in the exchequer to take out the c intents, and the devil a bit of it do the give to you poor fellows. I have often thought of this as I have seen Cliffy, black and sleek, working iin the field, and then have seen the lazy, dirty, lousy Democrat, unled and ragged, halloaing‘hurrah for Democracy and damn niggerism.’ ”