The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1867-12-21

MIR. Nu-by Assists in the Ohio EIecIiou---The
Defeat of the az WINS
RerrIye.T nGIhe Corners.
Posi- 0FFIS. CoNFrDRIr y RoADS,)
(Which is in the State NV Kertuckv.) :

Feelin that the time he'd arrived witch wuz 10.
beside whether 1000 degraded niggers WIZ TO
grind 500. zoo proud Caucashens into the dust. L
felt that cf l Shood fail in my dooty now, l Shood
be forever disgraoed. Accordingly. L put IN the
elekshun dav at a Dimocratic town in ohio-the
battle-feld-the identikle place into witch made
u speech doorin the campane.
arrived Their on the mornin Nv the elekshuu,
and found that comprehensive arrangements he'd
bin made FOR defeatin this most netaruS and dan
gerous prOposishen. ParadIn the STREETS ez early
ez : y. NJ, WIZ n wagon containin - virgins,
runnin from -. to Il. the most NV EN- ruther wlry
in texture, and over their heads wuz banners with
the tollcrin techin inscriptions: Fathers, save
Us from Niger EkaliryI =, 'Husbans or num-"
II wood hev bin better, l thot. he'd they bin
somewhat younger Ther wuZ Sathin prepoSter-
Gus in the lea ny females NV that age, csallin upon
fathers 10 save en- from anythin, when in the
course of nacher them fathers must hev bin a lynn
in the silent tomb for sevral consecutive years.
onless, indeed, they marrid young. Ef still Twin
q judge from the aged appearance Nv the damSels)
their Parents must be too far advanced in yeers
to take an activ part in biznis. In another wagon
wuz a colleckshun NV men witch he'd bin hired from
the railrode, twelve miles distant. whose banners
read. ''Shell ignerent nigcers vote beside inuelli-
gint Wife men!' And the follerin verse:
"shel nicgers bold this land possess
And rcol Us whites up here
Oh no, my friends, We ruther guess
Wen never stand that ere"
1t okkurd to me that it wood hev done better
ncl their spellln ON more akkerll, nut upon
inquiry | found that ii didn't make no difference.
That wuz the prevailin way of speliin things in
that vicinity. Hangin over the polls wuZ n broad
peece NV white muslin. onto witch was painted in
large letters, "Caucasiens, Respeck yer Noses
the nigger's odjus!'' Then l knowcd it wuz safe.
That odor hez never vet bin resisted by the
Delnocresy, and it hez its inflooence over Republic
kins.
| never saw sich enthusiasm, or more cheerin
indicashuns Wv the pride NV race. e. evidence NV
the deep feeling that pervaded that community, L
state that nine paupers in the poor-house demand
Ell 10 he taken 10 the polls thar they mite enter
their protest agin bringin the niger up to a ekality
with EN-, wien wuz nine gain with no offsets, ez
there wuznt an Ablishnist in the nstitooshun.-
Two men in the county .tale for petty larceny wuz,
at their own rekest, taken out of doOrance vile 10y
the Sheriff NV the country, that they mite. by the
ballot, protest agin bein degraded by bein COM
PEELED, when their time wuz out, TO acknowledge
the niggier ez their ekal. One enthusiastic
Dimekrat who cost us So, he'd to be carried 10
the polls. He he'd commenced carly mt one NV
the groseries, and he'd succumb afore votin. We
found him sleepin peacefully in abarn. We lifted
the patriotic man, and in perccSsion marched 10
the polls. We stood him on his feet, two men
supportin him-one on either side. | put a
straight ticket into his fingers, and takin his
wrist with one hand, held his fingers together with
tother. and guided his hand to the box. Ez it
neared the winder, he started ez ETA electric shock
he'd truck him, and, straigthenin up, asked: lis
the shtrate ticket? Is Constooshnel AmindmintNo
onto it,"
Ashoorin him that it wuz all rite, he suffered
me to hold his hand ont to the Judge NV Elecshun.
who took the ballot and deposited it in the box.
'Thank Hivin!' sed he, g the nagur is not yet
my ayquIl, - and doublin up at the thigh and knee
joints, he sank limber-like and gently onto the
ground. Ez he he'd discharged the dooty NV
Amerikin freeman, we rolled him out to one side
NV the house, wher the drippin NV the rain from
the roof wood do suthin toward soberin him off,
and left him alone in lis glory.
The Amendment got but n very few voters in
that locality. The Republicans iincd us in repu-
diatin it, mostly upon ethnoiogikle grounds.
shen IN time NV war, becoz the Afrikin Good
thereby be indoost To fife agin their Southern
masters, and it wood hev the eifeck NV maxim the
drafts come lighter in his township. He wuz a
humanitarian likewise. He opposed crooelty to-
ward EN-. He wept when he heerd NV the massacre
at Fort Piller, becoz in the army the nigger wuz
ez much Il man ez anybody, and sich wholesale
tcndid 10 make calls for % SOC. 600
more more frequent. But, when it come to givin
NV en- the privilege Nv votin beside him, it COO
dent be thOt NV. He Good never consent that n
whose heels wuz longer than hizzen, shood
rool Ameriky. :" Ny Cod" sed this ardent
Republican, q" eff you give em the ballot, wat kin
prevent en- from bein Congrismen, Senators, Vice
Presidents, and even Presidents? | shudder when
think NV it, and he hurried in his vote.
| didn't quite sec the force NV his Obiecshun,
for it never okkurred To me that bein sent to Con-
wuz the material conscience NV votin. | hev
voted for thirty years, ut many elections four or
i've times, hut 1 hey never bin to Congris. Wher
is the constituency witch wood elect me? But il
Suzn't my biznis to controvert his posishen.- 1t
made no difference to wat his reason wuz for yOtin
2 | desired him to vote.
The niger lovers beat up one man To vote for
the Amendment, witch, | saw by his dissatisfied
Ook. he'd bin over-perswaded.-.s Sir - sed l..
1p Won consider "A AtriEiJ, SIN III -bcutly iufelliyaut J
to be 5rustid with So potent a weapon ez the bal
Bustin away from them witch he'd him in charge,
ne exclaimed, - No | don't. | can't vote for it.
rom my ballot, and put onto it Mo-"
- Here's n pencil, sed |.
- Do it yerself,' sed he . | cant write"
And | did it. Sich is the efeck NV n word in
Words fifty spoken is apples NV gold, set
n picters NV silver.
One man woodent listen to me, but votid the
Amendment. lie he'd ON n solier, and for eleven
months pcrtO0k NV the hospitality NV the Confe-
at Andersonvillc. E-caPin, ne wuz helped
% the Feirel lines by a niger who wuz foggcd
llmost to death, in his site, for not betrayin wher
lie wuz hid. | mite ez we'll hev talked toa lamp
post. Ez he showed i'll his ballot, he remarkt
bout he'd ruthcr see Il Niger vote than n ID
cbel, any time. From the direckshun NV his eye
| Tersoom he referred To me.
! left for home CT soon ez the votes wuz counted,
md the result wuz made known, only waitin till
he poll books WIZ made out, and the Judges nv
leckshun he'd got Their names written by the
Jerks, and he'd made their marks To EN-. On my
way home | wuz gratified to see how the material
TO the niger he'd revived. At Cincin-
ii the mite NV the eleckshin they wuz banging NV
IN about. the patriotic Democrisy goIn for em
wherever they Good find en-. and the next day ez
saw EN- ut the ralcrode %stashens, they he'd, gen
rally spcekin, Their beds bandagcd. 1t wuz
hcerin to me, and | gloated over it.
Full of gladnis, | entered Kentucky, and joy
ully / wendid my way to the Corners. | wuz
he bearer NV tidins NV great JOY, and my feet
yuz pleasant onto the mountins. Ez / walked