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3. III.
NEGRO EMIGRATION.

There is now 15 niggers, men, wimin, and
children, or ruther, mail, femail, and yung, in
Wingert's Corners, and yisterday another arrove.
I am bekomin alarmed, for, ef they inkreese at
this rate, in suthin over sixty years they 'll hev a
majority in the town, and may, ef they git mean
enuff, tyrannize over us, even ez we air tyrannizin
over them. The danger is imminent! Alreddy
our poor white inhabitants is out uv employment
to make room for that nigger; even now our
shops and factories is full uv that nigger, to the
grate detriment uv a white inhabitant who hez a
family 2 support, and our poor hows and jail is
full uv him.

I imploar the peeple to wake up. Let us hold
a mass meetin to take this subgik in2 considerashen,
and, that biznis may be expeditid, I perpose
the adopshen uv a series uv preamble and
resolooshens, suthin like the follerin, to-wit:

Wareas, We vew with alarm the ackshun uv
the Presydent uv the U. S., in recommendin the
immejit emansipashun uv the slaves uv our misgidid

Suthern brethrin, and his evident intenshun
uv kolonizin on em in the North, and the heft on
em in Wingert's Corners; and

Wareas, In the event uv this imigrashun, our
fellow-townsman, Abslum Kitt, and uthers, whose
familis depend upon their labor for support, wood
be throde out of employment; and

Wareas, When yoo giv a man a hoss, yoo air
obleeged to also make him a present uv a silver-platid
harnis and a $350 buggy, so ef we let the
nigger live here, we are in dooty bound to let him
vote, and to marry him off-hand; and

Wareas, When this stait uv affares arrives
our kentry will be no fit place for men uv educashen
and refinement; and

Wareas, Eny man hevin the intellek uv a
brass-mounted jackass kin easily see that the 2
races want never intendid to live together; and

Wareas, Bein in the magority, we kin do as
we please, and ez the nigger aint no vote he kant
help hisself; therefore be it

Resolved, That the crude, undeodorizd Afrikin
is a disgustin obgik.

Resolved, That this Convenshun, when it hez
its feet washed, smells sweeter nor the Afrikin
in his normal condishun, and is there4 his
sooperior.

Resolved, That the niggers be druv out uv
Wingert's Corners, and that sich property ez
they may hev accumulatid be confiscatid, and the
proseeds applide to the follerin purposes, to-wit:

Payment uv the bills of the last Dimekratik
Centrel Committee.

Payment uv the disintrestid patriots ez got up
this meetin.

The balence to remane in my hands.

Resolved, That the Ablishnists who oppose these
resolushens all want to marry a nigger.

Resolved, That Dr. Petts, in rentin a part uv
his bildin to niggers, hez struck a blow at the
very foundashens uv sosiety.

Fellow whites, arowz! The enemy is onto us!
Our harths is in danger! When we hev a nigger
for judge—niggers for teachers—niggers in pulpits—when
niggers rool and controle society,
then will yoo remember this warnin!

Arouse to wunst! Rally agin Conway! Rally
agin Sweet! Rally agin Hegler! Rally agin
Hegler's family! Rally agin the porter at the
Reed House! Rally agin the cook at the Crook
House! Rally agin the nigger widder in Vance's
Addishun! Rally agin Missis Umstid! Rally
agin Missis Umstid's children by her first husband!
Rally agin Missis Umstid's children by

her sekkund husband! Rally agin all the rest uv
Missis Umstid's children! Rally agin the nigger
that cum yisterday! Rally agin the saddle-culurd
girl that yoost 2 be hear! Ameriky for white
men!