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3. III.
NEGRO EMIGRATION.

[1] There is now fifteen niggers, men, wimin, and childern, 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 great detriment uv
a white inhabitant who hez a family to support, and our poor-house
and jail is full uv him.

I implore the peeple to wake up. Let us hold a mass meetin
to take this subgik into 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 President
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 others, whose families 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 $650

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

Wareas, Any man hevin the intellek uv a brass-mounted
jackass kin easily see that the two 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 than the Afrikin in his normal condishun, and is
therefore 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 balance 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, arouse! 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
childern by her first husband! Rally agin Missis Umstid's
childern by her sekkund husband! Rally agin all the
rest uv Missis Umstid's childern! Rally agin the nigger that
cum yisterday! Rally agin the saddle-culurd girl that yoost
to be hear! Ameriky for white men!