The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1867-07-20
ONE way OF DUPING THE NEGRO.

Below we give the substance of a CONVEX
sation that occurred between a freedman
and supporter Of the Brownlow dynasty.
Both parties are known in this county and
the statement, as given to US by good au-
thority, is as true as truth itself.
RadieaL-How are you going to vote
For Brownlow or for Etheridge2
NegrO.-Don't know, sir. don't know
Ar. Brownlow or Mr. Etheridgs.
R-Dont you know that Brownlow is
governor of the State and can do with you
as he pleases7 Why he is one of the party
that gave you freedom, and if you vote
against him he viii put you back in slavery
again.
N.-Massa, declare don't know what
to do some white folks tell me to vote for
Etheridge and den some white folks tell
me to vote for Brownlow All does know
is dis: De folks what know tell me I
ought to vote de conservative ticket, and de
folks what don't know tell me to vote for
| Brownlow. Niggers lack larnin and dey
alters look to dar old white friends for adj
vice, and spect dat ought to go wild dem
R.-But l tell you that you will be put in
slavery again if you do not vote for Brown
lows party. His party gave you freedom
and his party, should you go against it, viii
sell you into slavery again. You are fool
if you work against your own freedom.
Just as sure as fate you will have master,
if you vote for Etheridge OF any other con
sentative. Besides, if you vote for Brown
low you will get 40 acres of the best land in
the county, and the government will give
you money to live on the first year
N-Wen, ] declar, massa, if know dat !
would 90 for Brownlow sure and sartin.
RI tell you it is, so; and if you do not
take my advice you will be made to suffer
and loose your freedom. Here paper is
produced and read to the ignorant darkie
which causes him to faulter no longer and
he pledges his vote.
The above is no Imaginative affair, but
only sample of what is transporting all over
this District The radical party is bent on
winning the election and resort to every un.
fair means to accomplish their object. The
negro ought to be talked to by his &" old white
friends" and be made to understand thai
there is no chance on earth for the blacks
to be put back into slavery. Radical en-
misaries have instilled tn idea into the zeal
Gus brain of the negro that he will be en-
shaved if he votes for Etheridge. Let the
freedmen be disabused of this erroneous
idea, as soon as possible. Talk to them
tell them that all the conservative party
claims is equal rights under the laws of the
land; tell them that there is not a conserya
tive candidate for Office but what is pledged
to guarantee to them more rights than the
BrownlOw party has ever given them; tell
them that the Brownlow party gave them the
right to vote but refused to let them hold of
fee or sit on juries tell them that the con
servative party pledges them perpetual free
dom, equal rights and equal taxation tell
them that the conserv ative party is opposed
to paying a tax of SIS on every bale of cotton
produced by the labor of freedmen and
lastly, though not least, tell them to shun the
rowing vagabonds who go prowling around
their cabins at night, and tel! them to ask
and take advice from the men whom they
have known only as benefactors and friends.