Judge — October 20, 1883 — page 4: what you’re looking at

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THE JUDGE. ted States, or, in licu dereof, at least a pe mastership for every two ob be colored pop- Lay of the Aisthetic Maiden. | "tia" De right to enjoy, equally wid de ace, de audyant f y de free 1! I mean to be esthetic, scl + grammar sch And magnetic, » Legislatures, municips And poetic, and navy, and jails ob de country. And to paus re, and § 4 dat no inwidious distinctions be tween black and white base-t Tl languish and look silly, we furder ask dat Co And I'll wear a virgin lily, making it fellon de sca fo’ any white | Or a yellow daffodilly, to refuse to knock-out one of our race in At my belt. stipulated number of rounds. 3d. We favor de ‘doption by a — . tob a Postal : item in For this strange esthetic aN ea his strange wsthetic craze de Approbiation Bill ob cient to Shall fill all my nights ys, ha y nights s ys, buy chery colored man ol 1, and Fora lily love my little heart si lea S obtae o nite ly love my little heart shall | twenty-one years ob age, one (1) warranted flutter; ; | hall be produc : Oh, P'm going io be utter, utter, utter! | Stall be five dollars (85.000) and a Key-West much more as we can git late to pay. to be lazy, Sth, Dat Con, requested to pass law making it penal solicitude fo" life (or as many yeahs mo’ as de court may ja periment) for any new ob lored man on ¢ To worship painted gla a first-class ticket on de G And to rave abont Parnas sus. Which is all wsthetic | Sixth an’ lastly, fo de_ pre Seem to de pectively ask fo’ equal ri, For this strange wsthetic craze box T rights in de Shall fill all my nights and day courts an’ de and equal For a lily love my little heart shall | rig hab achance to get away wid as much money in positions of trust an’ integ- And my teapot and my fan rity as our Christion white brothers. Shall be products of Japan— ; eo few remarks iwthe facovob Oh, [tell you I'l be utter, utter, utter. | de great American nation, trusting dat de . hands which stripped us ob de hideous of s and conferred upon us de most endeavors to. pfom : tructible ble a Freedman’s Bu- priety, and pursuit of happiness y u, will now gib us a char alsomine nblage. Genelmen, we meet heah’ as | our humble homes, an’ send our eldest sons ation, which n to dissert our rights and see dat de | to colle learn to beat Courtney’s record essions here during the past week— which yeahs ob oppressin has heap- | an’ play baseball at de expense ob de public. (no mention of which, strange to say, has | ¢d upon us am undressed. Fo" generations your correspondent seen inany of the prom. d@ brack man has had to do all de hoein The Dude. inent daily papers of the contr) us re-| While de white man took de craps. I markable for numbers, respectability, good , twenty yeahs de colored pusson has done de | Witat sports an ¢3 clothes, words of font etilaies nd perfume. wotin’, while de white man has took all de A diamond shirt-stud a ‘The delegates were compelled to leave their | offices. We feel Jat state ob tings, if] And strives to umbrellas, canes and razors in charge of the | much longer pursued, am likely to become janitor before entering the hall; and that, | monotnous, and it am wid a view ob alterin’ |. ( bcos tie there is not adoubt, did much toward pro-| dat style ob political economy dat we am | What wears its trousers: Obi so tight, ducing the harmony which, throughout, | dissembled heah dis yah ebenin’, Let our aehloy tb be jed. Montgomery Sinclair Sprint, of ks be chackterized by modesty, faire | Att Just succee Bad Lunch Route, ‘Tennessee, was elected | ness, candor, placidity and ‘euphoniousr ident (in the abse lass, | an’ while we depreciate any attempts at dy-| | What at the pretty ¢ who was conductin; rival Convention in, amite orates, let us show de white popula- Is not a monkey quite Louisville, Ky). Vice Presidents—Oliver | tion dat de sons an’ daughters—an’ oder | But p'r'aps may be the : Wendell Bulger, of Mad Geiser, Va. - relations—« Ham am not to be dep ° The dude wer Fitzpatrick W Ingsville; Gen. | Wid impurity!” — Osman Bey Johnson, of Bungborough, } To report the entire proceedings of the | Tie returned members of the Greely Re c Lushington, of Slush Gap, S.| Convention would take up more space than tet Party are unanimous in stating that the or Tug Wilson Larkin you can afford, so your correspondent will | party would have experienced no difficulty , Miss; Aletbiades J. Bridegroom, of | content himself with sending yon the follow: | whaiever in getting to the North Pole had ting Hollow, Mo.; Lucius Cesar ‘Tum- address to the American’ people, which | it not been for the great amount of ice penny, of Dingbat Bayou, La.; Herbert | was endorsed by every delegate the last night | met with. With whom does the Spencer Jung, of Badmans Plains, ‘Tex.;| of the session: ” . | bility for this evident act of negli Glas ee of Harlem, N. Y. “ We, de Bosses ob de Colored Convention | Before the ernme: nds out another tga rew, of Roo here dissembled, respectively present de fol- | relief party it s ainly take : iggs, of Sawpit Cross | Jerin’ as embracin’ de views ob de sunburned | Ures to have the ice removed. Roads, W derbilt Crusoe, of jartion. ob de great American community: | piece of mal-administration the Democrats Daisy Town, Ark., and Von Moltke Bluc- | Partly, wher -wit, while we am grate. | can handle without gloves in the next Pres- spur, of Fever Point, ful for de ‘mancipation watermelons an | idential campaign. ‘There can be no doubt The proceedings were opened with the | chickens wid which de white men hab gen- | about it—the Republican party must go. colored man’s Psalm of Life— Ham fat ’an | erously provided us, dar am yet a few more sweet pertaters.” The President delivered | things requisite to make us aclean, healthy, | A SUCCESSION of t al novels, by four the following address: Delumgates ob dis | tempe honest and happy race. Dese am | well-known female writers, is promised by a yere Colored Convention, I insensibly feel | dis us follows ° | London publishing house. An eruption of de proud honor ob de eminence to which you! Ist. De Vice-Presidency ob dese yar Uni- | dramas” may be looked for soon after. 2S i comicbooks.com