The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1867-10-25

| felt that eff | shood fail In my dooty
now. ! shood be forever dlsgraced
Accordingly, | put in the elecshun
day ut q DimOcratic town In Ohio
the battle field-the identikle place
into which | made speech doorin
the campane.
| arrived Their on the mornIn Nv the
eleckshus, and found that compre-'
hensive arrangements had been made
for defeatin this most nefarus and
dangerous proposishen. Paradin the
streets ez early ez z A! M, wuz waR-
on containin % vurgins runnin from
q to Al, the most NV them rather
wiry in texture, and over their heads
wnz banners with the follerin techIn
inscripshuns: Fathers, save us from
Niger Ekalityp White husbaDs
or nunp 1t wood hev bin better,
thot, he'd theybiHsumwhate younger.
the ice Of females NV that age calm
upon fathers to save 'em from any
thing, when in the course Nv nacher
them fathers must hev bin lyin an the
silent toom for sevral consecutive
yeers, onless, indeed, they married
young. Et still Twin, Il judge from
the aged appearance ofhthe damsels,)
their parents must be tn far advanced.
in yeers tn take an active part in biz
ness In anuther wagon twuE "a col.
leckshun NV men wich he'd bin hired
from the railrode, II miles distant,
whose banners read: Shell ignerent
ringers vote beside INTELLIGENT wife
men ?" and the f0ilerin verse:
"shel niggers black this land possess,
And rol us whites up here?
Oh lao, my friends, we ruther guess
Wen never stand that ere."
1t okkurd 10 me that it would have
done better he'd their spellin bin ak
kerit. bat n pom inquiryI found that
it didn' t make 20 difference That
wuz the preyaiiIn way ofspeliln things
in that vicinity, Hqngln over the polls
wuz a broad piece Nv white muslin,
onto witch WAS PAINTED IN large letters,
Caucashuns, Respek your n Oses-
the niger stihkSF" THEN knowed
it wuz safe. That odor hez never yet
bin resisted by the Democracy, aud
it hez its inhooence over Republicans.
/ never saw SIGH enthoosiasm, or
more cheerin iudicashuns NV the
pride NV race. Ez evidence NV the
deep feeling that pervaded that com
munity, state that nine paupers in
the poor-house demanded to be taken
TO the polls, that they mite enter their
protest agin bringin the niger up to
an ekality with EN-. witch wuz nine
gain with no offsets, ez there wuznt
an A blishnist in the institution. Two
men in the county jale for petty lar
ceny wuz, at their own rekest, taken
out Of doorance vile by the sheriff of
the county, that they mite, by the
ballot, protest agin being degraded
by bein compelled, when their time
wuz out, to acknowledge the niger
as their ekal. One enthusiastic
Dimekrat, who cost us S., he'd to be
carried to the polls. He had com
menced early at one of the groseries,
and he'd succombed before votin. We
found him sleepin peacefully in a
barn. We lifted the patriotic man,
and in percesshun marched to the
polls. We stood him on his feet, two
men supporting him-one on either
side. | put straight ticket into his
fingers, aud takin his wrist with one
hand, held his fingers together with
tother, and guided his hand to the
box. Ez it neared the windyf, Ne
started ez if a electric shock had
struck Shim, .and1s .straightenin up,
asked, is 1.-THE sfitrate ticket? Is
! Constooshnel Amendment No onto
Ashoorin him that it wuz afl rite.
he suffered me to hold his hand out
10 the Judge NV EIecshun, who took
the ballot and deposited it in the box.
Thank Hiyinl" sed he, the nagur
is not yet my ayquil," and doublin up
ut the thigh and knee joints, he sank
7 timber and gently onto the
ground. Ez he he'd discharged the
dooty NV an American freeman, swe
rolled. him out to, one side NV the
house, wher the drippin nv the rain
from the roof wood do suthin toward
sQberin him off, and left him alone in
his glory. " q 3 -Ef.i
:. The amendment get but a. very few
votes in that locality. The Repubh-
kans jined Us in repudiatin it, mostly
upon ethnologikle grounds. One as
serted that be he'd bin ia favor NV
smancipashun in time NV war, becoz
| the Afrikin Good thereby be indoost
to fte agin their Southern masters,
and it wood hev the effeck Nv maxim
the drafts come lighter in his town.
ship. He wuz Humanitarian like
wis E. He opposed croelty toward EN-.
He wept when he heerd Nv the masa-
ere at Fort. Piller, .becoz IN the army
I the niger wuz ez much man ez eny
body, and SIGH wholesale slaughters
tended to make calls for 100000
! dbore,2' anore frekept.a But when it
come to given Nv em the privilege NV
votin beside him, it coodent be thot
NV. He Good never consent that a