Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1868-09-19

They come in handsum and jined without
murmur.
The next place visited wuz smaller
village, one wich RELY gladdened me to ap
proach. In this class NV towns there Is less
NV that cold formality wich caracterize more
densely populated aecshuns. In sich places
you find the troo ushin child of nacher. 1t
is splendid corn-growing seckshun, wich
soil is perkoolyerly favorable to Democracy.
In fact, corn and Democracy il inseperable,
and our largest majorities il alluz where
there is the best and most luxuriant corn.
The distillers convert the corn into whisky
and the whisky converts original men into
Demokrats, and then its plane sailin. 1t
takes three generashuns at least to bring a
people out Nv whisky, and the state NV toelis
shoes, pants busted in the seat, and winders
stuff with old hats, which aluz marks a
strickly Demokra:ic community. 1t is a
siugler fact that we never flourish in soil
adapted to wheat wich hez ralerodes thro it..
Wheat will make whisky, but its too fine
favored, and the facilities for gettin it to
market makes it too high in price. The man
who invented ralerodes struck blow at the
part Nv the party. For our purposes we
want little Nv the fiery whisky that corn
produces, and want that little strong. But
this is depression.
AT this pint the enthoosiasm wuz un-
bounded. The Democrisy wuz all alive,
but ther wasn't that doc ility among the
niggers that l expected. These cusses, ez
soon ez they saw me, and learned my bizris,
took to the woods, and we he'd to go after
EN- to electioneer EN-, wich the Democrisy
did, takih their dorgs with EN-. 1t wuz a
cheerin site to see em follern the black
cusses throo the swamps, the moosc Nv yell
pin Nv the dorgs cheerin US ON to our work.
Two or three refoozeo to be talked to, and
their bodies, like John Browns, wuz left a
danglin IN the air, while ther soles went u
marching on. We believe in every man a
choosin for hisself and in the greatest free
dem Nv speech and opinion, providin alluz
ther amt nothn incenjary in it. Ez every
thin that's sed agin us we count incenjary,
1t slmpIlhes matters wonderfiy
l got one gooo meetin NV EN-, however. to
wich wuz zindebted tOa Moo York dry goods
merchant, who Is here maxim strenuous
effort to re-establish his trade, wickedly and
crooelly broken up by the wicked onpleas-
antnis wich Linken inaugcrated by resistin
the South in 1861. lie is a conservative who
is after trade, and consekently is willn to do
anythin. He told me NV niggcr funeral to
take place in the afternoon, and suggested
EN- and keep EN- in wether or no, ontil he'd
made my speech. 80 ankshus am I,n he
sed to retailer NV dry goods, Git wuz dry
goods he wuz sollin, by a singler coinci.
dence) "ior the success Nv correct principles,
that will guard one Nv the doors myself
And he did it, swearin at Yankees all the
time, and pernOuncin cow-"coaw," the
while. l notist it, but it mattered not to
me. Why shood we be partikler ez to the
tools we yoosei When we shake hands with
sich, can't we put on gloves2
We surrounded the church and notified
EN- that they cood't pass till we wuz thro,
and commenced my speech, and spoke it
thro. insisted that ther inserests lay with
ther kind, good masters that they he'd bin
grevously deceived in spOsin that there wuz
any antagonism between the races. Who, |
askt, gave the colored man the right to vote
in Moo York The Dimocrisy. Who gave
the colored man the rite to stay in Ohio B.
The Dim ocrisy. What Vice President he'd
colored woman for wife, which wood hev
bin mistress Nv the White House, he'd the
President bin Republikin, and consekently
worth our while to assassinate him Rich
ard Nj. Johnson, a Dimokrat. Who hev
bin
At this pint pert mulatto remarked that
he he'd word to say, and / gave place to
him. He wuz himself a conservative niger
Nv the most conservatest kind. He shood
vote with his white brothers cherfully, but
not for the reason which the speaker (mean.
in me) he'd given. He shood do it from a
higher, holier motive than any advanced
He should do it from motives NV consangui-
nifty. He he'd alluz ben humble Niger
bleeyin himself to be one NV an inferior race
hnt ba hal ha hal
searchin his pedigree. He he'd been agree.
ably surprized He found he he'd the best
blood Nv Virginny coursin thro his veins
The ConfeGrit candidate for Congris wu7
his half brother, halleloogy, and he wuz
closely related to two-thirds Nv all sed can.
didate's supporters, and Nv course he'd vote
him, for de man that woodn't take car Nv
his own blood is wuss nor an in6del.
He felt grateful to the conservative can
didate's family. Troo he wuz half Niger
but he prideG hisself on the tother half
He felt all the pride Nv race NV which he
had heerd so much. His ancestors (on his
ladders side he'd bin probably the comrades
Nv Washinton, and he woodent degrade
hisself by mixin with men Nv No family from
the North. He wuz poor, but his projeni'
tors ION his ladders side) wuz gentlemen
and he stood on blood
And the niggers, Dustin with latter a. the
rage wich they saw depicted onto the coun
tenances Nv ther white trends, got up to
leave. We tried to stop EN- so that | Good
speak further, but ez they he'd more revol-
vers than we he'd, and didn't appear to be
disinclined to yoose EN-, we didn't attempt
force. The most Nv these niggers he'd bin
in the servis, and 700 can't make men do
cile who hev borne arms. shell continyoo
my work, however, never mindin these tenn
porary bscksets.