The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1867-10-26

take an aciiv part in bizuiz. In auutber
wagon WIZ q coleckshun w men wich he'd
bin hired from the faiirode, twelve mi.es dis
tant, whose banners read. '.Shel ignesent
nggers vote beside intelligent Wife msp!'
and the tolierin verse;
"SheI nggcrs black this land possess
And rool Us whites up herei
Oh no. ny friends, We ruther guess
Wcli never stand that crs." ses4
II okkurd to me that Il wood hev done bet.
ter he'd their spelln bin more akkerit, but
upon inquiry found that it didu'f make no
difference. That wuz the prevailin way Of
spelIin things ia that vicinity. Hangin over
The polls wuz broad peece nv white muslin,
on.o wich was painted in large letters, "Cau.
cashus, Respec yer Noses--the niger stinks''
Then knowed it wnz safe. That odor hez
never yet bin resisted by the Democracy, and
it hez It's intiooence over the Republicans.
| never saw sch esthoosiasm, OF more
cheerin indicashuns W the pride Nv race. Ez
evidence Nv the deep feeling that pervaded
that community, l state that nine paupers in
the poor house demanded 10 be taken to the
polls that they mite enter their protest agin
brngin the niger up to n ekali,y with EN-,
witch wuz nine gain with no objects, es there
wuznt an Ablishinist in the institooshun. Two
men il the county jale for petty larceny wuz,
OF their own reksst, taken out of doorance vile
by the sheriff Nv the county. that they mite
by the ballot, protest ngin bein degraded by
bein compelled. when their time wuz out, to
acknowledge the niger IS their ekal. Ono
enthusiastic Dimekrat who cost us So, he'd
to he carried to the polls. He he'd commenced
early at one Nv the growccries, and he'd sue
cumbd aiore votln. We found him sleepin
peacefully in a barn. We lifted the patriotic
man, and in percussion marched to The polls.
We stood him on his feet, two men sapportin
hinl--oue on either side. put straight
tickle, into his fingers, and takin his wrist with
one hand, held his fingers together with the
other, and guided his hand to the bog. Ez
It neared the winder, he siartid ez eli a cleo,
ifIe shock he'd struck him, and straigh,enin
up, asked " Is it the sLiraie ticket2 Ia TIL
Constoo shnel Anindmint No onto it?'i
Ashoorin him that it wua all rite, he suf-
fered me 10 hold his hand out to the Judge
of Elecshun, who took the ballot and depos-
tied 1t IN the box. THANK Hivini" said
he, 1.-The nagur is not yet my nyquil,' and
dublin up at the thigh and knee Joints he
sank timber like and gently onto the ground.
Ia lie he'd discharged the dooty NV an Amer,
lean freeman we rolled him out to one sida
~ lie house. Nher the drtppiu u the rain
from the roof wood do suthin toward soberin
him off. and left him alone III his glory
The Amendment got but a very few votes
in that locality. The Republicans slined us
IN repudiatin it. mostly uron ethnoiogikle
grounds. Que asserted ihathe he'd bin in favor
OF emancipashun in time Of war. becos the
Atrikin Good thereby be indoost to fte agin
thar Southern masters, and it wood hev the
sA TEX ny maxim the drafts come lighter in his
township. he wuz humanitarian likewise.
He opposed crooelty toward EN-. lie went
when he heerd nv the massacre nv Fort Pill
Ter, becoz inthe array the niger wuz ez
,nneh man Ell anybody, and sica wholesale
slaughiers tendid to make calls for g 100000
more " more frekent. But when l. come to
givin Nv en- the privilege d! voun beside him,
iteoodn't be thot NV. lie Good never cons
sent that q race whose heels wuz longer than
hizzen shood rool Ametiky. my Godln
sed this ardent Republican, .tef yoa give era
the ballot. wat kin prevent ON from bcin
Congrismen. Senators, Vice Presidents, ard
even Presidens2 shuaigr when | think
w il, aud he hurried III lis Yota.
ldidn't quite see tie force NV Ills objec-
shen. tor il never okkurrei 10 me that bein
sent TO Congris wua the natural conscience
Nv yotin | hev voted for thirty years at
many elections four or FIVE times, but hev
never bin III Congris. Wher is the constit>
ooency wich wood elect me? But it wuzn
IL.
made no difference to me wat his reason WIZ
for votin ez desired him to vote.
The niger lovers beat up one man to vote
for the Amendmelt, wich, | saw by his di5.
satisfied look he'd bin over persuaded.
'tSir,' sed |, lido 700 consider Afrikiu
sulisheutly intelligent to be trustid with SO
potent weapon ez the ballot2'
Bustin away from them wich he'd him in
charge, he exclaimed, mo. don't. | can
vote for it, They amt intelligent enuif. Sir,
scratch of the Yes from my ballot, and pu,
onto it No
"Here is pensil," sed |.
"Do it yourself" sed he, u can't write. .
And did it. Sch is the etieck nv word
gold, Sc, in pictures nv silver.
One man woodent listen to me, but votid
the Amendment. He he'd bin solier, and
fol- eleven months perloos w the hosritali,;
Nv the Confedrits, at Andersonvlle. Esca-
pin he wuz helped to the Federal lines by q
niger who wuz tiogged almost to desth, il
his site, for not betrayin vber he WIZ hid.
mite ca well hev talked to lamp post. E,
he showed in his ballot, be remAfkt suthir
about he'd ruther see a niger vote than
id rebel, any time. From the direckshur
NV his eye site, rersoom he referred to me
| left for home ez soon ez the votes wa
counted, and the result wuz made known
only waitin till the poll Backs wuz made out
and the Judges Vi elecshun he'd got theil
names writtenby the clerks, and he'd made
tneir marAsia EN-. Or ny home wu1 graf
fled to see how The material antipathy 10 thu
Niger he'd revived. At Cincinnati the nit,
Of the eleck shun they WIZ bangin Nv en-
about, the patriotic Democtisy geiH loren
wherever they Good find en, and the mex
day ez ! saw EN- at the ralerode stashcns
they he'd. generally speekin. their heads han
daged 1t wuz ehecrin to me, and | gloa;cC
over il,
Full of rlsdnis, entered Kentucky, ant
joyfally | wendell my way to the Corners.
wug the bearer Nv tidins Nv treat 10Y, an,
lay lee! wag pleasant onto the moun,ins. L.
walked into Bascom's, they all saw in m,
face suthin of importance.
Wat 10 it r. said Deskin Pogram, is !
veal or woe I"
"Is the proud Caucashen still in tie as
cendent in Ohio, or hez the grovelin Afnkil
ground him into the dust?n askt lsaks
Gavi.t.
'My friends,r sed I, taRin up the Deekin'
whisky, which, in the eggsci.ement Nv tn
moment, he didn't observe, .'the Censtitoo
shnei Amendment, givin the niger eka
rites, hez bin voted down by the liberty lovi
freemen Nv Ohio. Three cheers for Ohio.
They wuz given with will. The wildes
enthoosiasm wuz awakened. Bascom put
spigot in fresh bari, ahdthe church bell
wuz set r,ngin. The niggers wore dis
4 mayed look, and got out OF the way ez 500
ez possible. A meetin wuz to-wunst organ
lied. Deekin Pogram rroke. He felt tina
this wuz proud day. Light wnz breakin
The dark clouds Nv fsnaticlsm wuz breaki
away we he'd nov the Atrikin under on
feet We hpv mt shs,,, EL,s Il r~x,ass