Indiana American. [volume] (Brookville, Ind.) 1865-1872, 1867-11-08

(Wich is in the Stat NV KentuckyO :
October II, 1867.
Feelin that the time he'd arrived wich
wuz TO decide whether 900 degradid Mig.
gers wuz to grind 50O.O00 proud Csuca.
shens into the dust, felt that ef shood
fall in my dooty now, shood be h..sser
disgraced. Accordnly, put in the
elekshun day Ut "a Dimocra,ic town in
Ohlo-ibe ha,,le6tld-lhe denlikle place
in wieh made speech during the cam
pane.
arrived ther on the mornin nv the
elekshuu. and found that comprehensive
arrangements he'd been made for defeatin
the most nefarus aud dangerous proposi
shen. Puradiu the streets as early as Z
A. ~, wuz a wagon coaiainin % vergins
runuin from ~ to Al, the most Nv EN-
ruiher wiry ia texture, and over their
heds wuz banners with the folleiin techin
inscripshens: Fathers. save us from
Niger EkalityV white husbins or
num- |, wood hev bin better, thot
he'd they bin somewhat younger. Thcr
wuz suthing preposirous in the ijea Nv fe-
males Nv that age caliu upon fathers to
save from anything, when in the course
NV nacher their fathers must hev bin lyiu
in the silent toombs for sevral consecktiy
yeers, onless indeed they married young
Ef still livin--l judged from the aged ap.
peerence NV the damsels their parents
must be too far advanced in geers to take
an activ part in bizness. In anuther wag
un wuz a collecshen NV men wIch he'd hin
hired from the raierode, twelve miles dis
tant, whose banners read, "Shel ignerani
niggers vote beside intelligent Wite mepv
aud the follerin verse:
"shel niggers blacR this land possess
And rool u whites ul here?
Oh o,my friends, ru her guess
Wen never stand that ere.''
1t Okkurd to me that it wood hev dur
better he'd their spellin bin more ukkerit
but upon inquiry found that it didn'
make no difference. That wuz the pre-
vailin way OF speIlin things in that vicin.
ity. Hangin over the poles wuz a broad
peece Of white muslin onto which wa,
painted in large letters, "Caucashens, Res
? ek yer Noses-the bigger stinks" Then
knowed il wuz safe That odor he1
never yet bin resisted by the Democracy
aud it hez its iuflooenee over Rcpubli-
kins
| never saw sich enthoosinsm, or more
checrin iudicoshuns NV the pride Of race
Ia evidence NV the deep ieelin that perva-
-c-V-Iat community, | state that nine
puupers in the poor house demanded to be
taken to the polls that they might enter
] fHatr I.f. a.
to ekality with en- which wuz niue gain
with no offsets, ~ there wuzn't an Ablish
MIST in the inslitushun Two men in the
county jaie fur petty larceny wuz. at their
own rekest. taken out of doorance vile by
the Sheriff nv the county, that they mite
by the ballot. protest agin bein degraded
by bein compelled. when their time wuS
out, to acknowledge the nigger oz then
ekal. Que enthusiastic Dimekrat, who
the polls. lie he'd commenced early al
Que OF the gToseries, aud he'd succumhed
aiure yotin. We found him sleepin pence
fully IN barn. We lifted the patriotic
man, aud In percession marched TO th,
polls We stood him on his feet, two mer
supportin him--ono on either sido. pu
u straight ticket into his angers, aud tax
Ia his wrist with one hand, held his iin-
gers together with the other, aud guidot
bis haud 10 the box. Ez IL porred III,
winder he started ez Of electric shock
he'd struck him, aud. siraitonin up. asked
"ls IL the shtrate ticker Is Constooshne
Amindmnt Mol onto it,
Ashoorin him that IL wuz AL rite, h,
suffered me 10 hold his hand out 10 th,
Judge Nv Elexshun, who took tho ballo
aud deposited in tho box. "rhank lliv-
iul' sed he, "lhe nagur is not yet N,
ayquil" aud dublin up at the thigh anC
knee joints, he sank timber like aud gen
tly onto to the ground. ,lsz he he'd dis
/ CHARGED the duty Nv an Amerikin free
man. we rolled him out TO wun side u,
the hocsc, where the drippu NV tho rair
irum the roof wood do su,hin toward 50
BERN him off, aud left him alone in hi
glory.
The Amcndmtrt rt e't but very few votes
in that locality. The Re e,nublikins jiue'
Us IN repudialn H. mostly upon elhmo-
lopikle grounds. One asserle1, that h'
he'd bin IN favor NV emancipashen - tim'
NV war, becoz the AIrkin cood thereby
be iudunst TO fte ugin their suihren lsas
teIs, aud IL wood hev the cifeck NV maklh
the drafts come lighter in his township
lie wuz Il Humanitarian likewise. lie wcpl
when he heerd NV the massakree at Fort
Plller. becoz in the army the nigger wu7
ez much man ez enybody, aud sicl
Wholesale slaughiers tondid to make calls
for 300 0O0 more more lrekeut. But
when IL came to given NV em the privil.
eye W yotin beside him, il coodcut be
thot Nv. lie Good never consent that d
race whose heels was longer than hizzen
shood rool Ameriky. "My God!" sed
.his ardent Rupubliken, "ef you give en-
the ballot, wat kin prevent EN- from bclu
Congrlsmen, Senators, Vice Presidents
aud even Presidents? shuddcr when
think NV it," and he hurried ia his vote.
didn't quite see the force Nv bis ob
jec>hen. for it never okkurred TO me thai
bein sent TO Congris wuz tho material con.
sekenee NV votin. sev voted fur thirt,
yeara, ai many elections four or Eve times
but hev nescr been TO Ccngris. Whcl
is tho coosiltouency wich wood elect me!
but II wnzn't my bisnis to controyert hi.
posishen. IL mado no difference tu n,c
wat his reason wuz for voiin ez desired
him TO vote.
The Niger lovers beat up ono man "a
veto FOR tho Amendment, w,ch, | saw by
bic dissatisfied look, he'd bin over -perswa