Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1867-11-09

PosT OFFICE CoNFEDIIr RoADs,
(Which is in the Stait NV ky.)
October Il, 1861
F.ecsin that the time he'd arrived wich
WIZ to beside whether 1000 degraded
niggers wuz to grind 100000 Cau,;pshens
into the dust. ttlt that cf shood fail in
my deoty now | shood be forever dis
graced. Accordingly l put in the cleo,
shun day at a Dimocrat town in Ohio;
the ba:tle-feld-the indcntikie place into
w.ch | made q speech doorin the cam
pane.
Iarrived ther on the mornin NV the
e!ckshun, and found that comprehensive
arrangements he'd bin made for defeatin
this most nefarus and dangerous propo-
sishen. Paradin the streets ez early cz
a. NJ, wuz wagon containin % vir-
gins, runnin from 81 to Al the most NV
EN- rather wiry i'll texture, and over their
heads wuz banners with the foElerin teen
in Inscriptions: Fathers, save us from
Nigeer Ekalityr' "Whitc husbands or
nun r' 1t wood hev bin better, | thot,
he'd they bin somewhat younger. There
Wuz suthin prepostaFous in the ice NV
females NV that age calin upon fathers to
save EN- from anything, when in the
course NV nacl4er them fathers must hev
bin a lyin in the silent tombs for several
years, unless, indeed, they married young.
If still livin, Il judge from the aged ap-
pearance Nv the damsels,) their parents
must be TOO Elra&vanced in years to take
any active part in biznis. In another
wagon wuz Il col!ecshun NY men witch
he'd bin hired from the ralerode, twelve
miles distant, whose banners red: "Shcl
ignerent niggers vote beside intilligint
VI hite mcn?" and the 6o!lerin verse:
:tSh;tl niggcrs black this land possess,
And rood US whites up here?
Oh no. my friends, we ruthcr guess
Well never stand that ere"
1t okkurrcd to me that it wood hev
done better he'd .the;r spellin bin more
akkerit, bit upon inquiry found that it
didn't Gake no difference. That wuz the
Freyailin way NV spellin things i'll that
vicinity. Uangin over the polls wuz 4
broad Ieace NV muslin, onto which wuz
painted in large letters, "Caucashens,
Respect yer Noses-the nigger stinks !"
Then knowcd it WIZ safe. That odor
hez never yet LIN resisted by the Democ-
rcsy. and it hez its infiooence over Re
publikins.
| never saw sich enthoosiasm, or more
cheerin indicashens NV the pride Nv the
race, EZ evidence Nv the deep teelin
that perv9del that community, | state
that nine paupers in the poor house de-
manded to be taken ill body to the polls
that they mite enter their protest agin
the nigger up to an e.kality with EN-,
wich wrz nine gain with no offsets, ez
there wuzn't an Ablishnist ip the insti-
,tooshen. Two men in the county jale
for petty larceny wuz, at their rekest'
taken out NV doorance vile by the Sheriff,
that they mite, by the ballot, protest
agin bein degraeed by bein compelled,
when their time wuz out, to acknowledge
the nigger ez their ekal. Ono enthoosi-
astic, who cost us So, he'd TO be carried
to the polls. He had commenced early
at one NV the groseries, ard sueeumbd
afore votin. We found him sleepin
peacefully in a barn. We lifted the pa
triotic man, and in percesshun marched
to the polls. We stood him on his feet,
two men supportin him-one on each
side. | put straight ticket into his
fingers. and takin his wrist in one hand,
held his fingers together with totker, and
guided his hand to the box. Ez it near
ed the winder, he started ez if an electric
shock he'd struck him, and straightenin
up asked: ':Is it the .strate ticket! IS
Constitutional Amindmiint No! ONTO !"
Ashoorin him that it WIZ all rite, he
suffered me to hold his hand out TO the
Judge NV Elekshen, who took the ballot
and deposited it in the box. ''Thank
Hirinp' sed he, ''the nagur is not yet my
ayquil," and doublin up at the thigh and