Rensselaer Union, Volume 2, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 April 1870 — NASBY. [ARTICLE]

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TMR FIFTEENTH AMBKDMKNT—TNB D«MOfUACY OF TWB SIXTH WARD MSKT IM THK BACK BOOM OF THE “HARP UV KHIM •’LOON ’’ TO CONUDKR WHAT TO DO IM TUB MATTER OF TUB SMOKO VOTE /■i —TUT COMB T» A DECISION. ■amt uv Kuh B'UBF. I •HI'WaMM No® Yobk. April HTIF7U. f Tira procUUMßlioft ut the Preaident an nounetn the ratification ftv the Fifteenth Amendment nerdoosed a profound eenaaihcn in this Ward. It wpz told to our people by a reporter ur a daily paper at 11 o'clock this mornin and it got pretty well around amongst us by 8 thia afternoon, wich wur. tollablv rapid, convdcrin that intelligence in this Ward hex to be con*eyed orally. In the afternoon It was awolved that a meetin be held in the evenin to consult ez to ackshen the Ditnocrisy shood take in thematter, wich win akkordinly so done. I bed the back room Ut up, the barrels moved into a safe place under the .strongest kind nv locks, and the bar closed and

draped in mournin in token uv the hoomiliashen wich I felt hed fallen onto the people in conaekencc uv this outrage. I hung crape onto the door; I put crape around the portraits uv Jason, Chief Jus tis Chase, Bookannon and Fernandy Wood, >nd likewise around the bottles and.over the redheaded barrel, wi6h gave th« establishment a highly funereal and mournful look wich wuz entirely aid D factory.' In theovenin the Dimocracyassembled Bud a mprehnragtd gatherin I never saw They witzn*t jist clearer to watthe Presi <ift»l hed done; indeed the most uv em ■wnz lab'rin under the impreshin that the enfranchisement uv the nigger wuz the wbrk uv the Democratic Legislacher at Albany, and ther wuz indicashens uv a determiaashen to go thro some of the house s uv'the Dimocratic members in this city, but I stopt em, by tellin em the st rate Uv it I asoomed the chair, of course, and hed in addishen, to do the dootics uv Sekrc tary, bein the only one then in the meetin who cood write. Teddy McGinnis remarked that he felt a hoomtlisshen wich wuz actooglly be yond expreshen. The dirty nagur wuz now his ekal. The only difference between em hed bin removed by this infamus law. Doits any one spose that he’d iver ennsint to vote all day beside nig gers? Nlver! lie called upon the Dim ocracy to jine him in a croosade agin em. me," sed Teddy, “ and in Noo Yogrick, at least, we won’t be bothered with nagur suffrage, be gorra.” Pat McLaughlin held similar views Sooner toan vote beside nagurs he’d relinquisnwe biznis uv votin altogether, and go to aawin wood. Repeetin is a "’‘‘good enuffbiznis, and the small conthract •wich he bed ez a reward therefore wuz betther/but he coodent stand nagurs, nor woodent. llis voice wuz for killin uv em. The others made similar speeches, when Bandy McGuire offered a resolooshen that the offer iu uv a vote by a nagur be considered ez a declarashen uv war agin the Democracy uv Noo York, and that they then be immegitly exterminated Bandy wuz for no half-way measures. He

remembered the glorious Jooly days in IK3 when the Democracy uv Noo York asstrtid itself. He had assisted in dcstroyinthe nagur orphan asylum; with this good rite hand he hed beat out the brain* uv two nagurs,to say nothin uv the wimin and children wich he didn’t consider worth countin. He longed to get at em agin. The meetiu bein all so yoonanimus in thiirfeelinl wrote the falterin' resolooshen s:

li/ndi-d, Thai the Dunocrlsy nv Not York con-sidk-rui and bclcevin the irggcr to be a bea-t. a burie-kon hoomanity and n,capable nv di-chati; in any uv the doo!leu uv citizenship, do hereby protest agin tie bein give the ballot on a ekality with whtus men. That the I>!mocri-y uv Non York ruther than submit to this degreuasheu pledges it 'setftoahe extenuinasheu uv the accussia race. The resolooshcns wuz adoptid without * dissentin voice, and the enthoosiastic McGuire, brandishin his shiilala, rushed out and attackt a couple uv niggers wich wuZ passin,and knockin emdown,stamp cd obto em vlgrftuslr with his boots, ex claimin the while “Want to votedoyez!” The mectin wuz. about to break up, when Tim O'Grady, a man uv Fernandy Wood’s, come rushin ijj. He hed heard uv the meetin, and come immejitly to see about it. 1 told him in a breath wat hed bin done. “ Thunder!’’ he remarkt to me in a whisper, “ this won't do. Yoo eggre jis old ass, the niggers hev votes, and will 4Ke now in spite uv us. We must git em, for without em, with all the rebels uiffranchiatd, what kin we do in the Southern Stitxs? Call the meetin to order agin.” I didn't like the tone of his alloosion to me, but I called the meetin to order on at more. O'Grady remarked to em that there hed bin a misundersundin. He felt asliobred that the Dimocrisj' ov Noo York, allnz the friends uv the cppnssed and downtrodden, wood now generously extend a helpin hand to our colored brethren jist elevated to Stall citizenship. The Dimocrtsy hed not assisted in their elevashun, but they hed no feelin agin our brethren uv color. When our colored brethren came to analyze the matter, they wood' love the Dimosrisy the more for not eloin uv it He wood move the substitooslien uv the follerin fesoioosben for the one wich hed bin unadvisedly passed: ResoLvH, Thvt the Democrisy nv Noo York bail wiia a reelin nv pleasure wich we hev no words to express, the elevashen nv our colored fellow-citi-sena to full ciUxeuship, and that we pledge uurrelvesto pertect em in the cnjovment nv ther newly found riles. The meeting didn’t wan’t to pass it. The feelin agin em wuz tod deep sot to be Tooted out in a minit, but O'Grady wuz determined. O wat a minit wuz that! Wnz the niggers to be killed by us, or wnz they to be taken to bur buzzums. Ther fate hung tninblin in the balancer Finally it wuz put to vote and the niggers wuz sife. By one majority the resolooahen wuz passed At that minit a groan wuz heard outside. : rl “ What is that’” asked O'Grady. “Some nagurs I jist now bate!” remarks McGuire. “ Best in niggers!’’ scd O’Grady “Good Lord bringem in.” And he rushed out and brought in the two unfortunates. Thev were badly banged up about the face, and breast, and stumick, and legs, but O’Qrad/ wuz ekal to the emergency. He washed their wounds and revived em with whiskey and bound up their sores and finally sot em on ther feet “McGuire!” sed be when he hed the work finished, “ McGuire embrace em.” McGuire hed his shiilala in his hand. Never did I see a man so torn with contend in emoshens. Nateral instinks impelled him to drop that shiilala on their beds ez usual, but politikle considerations restrained him. Twict under O'Grady’s eye he lowered it, until at last he dropt it and fell Bobbin with emoshen onto ther buzzums. I took the crape b® the door, bottles and picters and immejitly illoominated in honor uv the event, and the next morn in I put up a placard at my door, “No distinkshen at this bar on account uv color. Ekal rites 1” The ward committee is takin prompt and vigorous ackshen to sccoor this vote. They hev adoptid the same means they yoose to control ther other *< |a fhey her already started ten s’loona, run by colored men, to wich they give all the profits, end are arrangin for ten more. There will be a pteer or two put onto

the police to wupat. The force will be increased enufl to make room for these new ones, ez we daraent discharge any uv the Irish. I’m goln for em also. Those wich I kin git to drink my likker will vole my tikkeL I Will fetch em sure. Petroleum V. Nasby. (wich wuz P. MJ