The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1868-09-11

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August "a, 1865.
The Nashnel Central Committee
hevin notified me that l Good eithe
pay an assessment NV $50 toward de
frayiH the expenses NV the campane
or 90 South and organize colored Sey
mour and Blare clubs. desided t,
do the latter, for obvus reasons
which are:
1. The entire community in wicl
| reside amt got $50, ceptin Bascon
and Pennibaeker, witch, bein distiller
and grocery keepers, hev naterall,
absorbed ali the capital Nv the place
2. | am fond NV travel, for else
where L find ungleaned fields anC
pastors fresh. | find men NV witch
hev never borrered, and whose ma.
ehers hev never been soured by IN
torcnnit lendins. | hev notist that
hev alluz done better wher l amt SO
we'll known. My zeal rather wears
out my friends.
For these reasons | went. My first
stoppin place was in Western Ten
nessee, and my success wuz glorious.
| made known my 5iZnis to the lead
In Democrats, and they took hold OF
the idee with alacrity. Every man
Nv them put on his gray uniform, as
they alluZ do when they EN- bark into
politikle enterprise, that Their Dino
crlsy may not be questioned, and sal
lied out with me to electioneer the
nlggers wich were employed onto ther
plantashens. Their method wuz short,
decisive, and effective. The niggers
wuz mildly but firmly given the choice
between jinin a Seemore and Blare
club and attendin it to hear me speak,
or being discharged from their en-
ployment.
Ez the planters hev jokeler way
NV shOOtin at site all the niggers who
hevent any employment, the alterna-
tive mite be considered equivalent to
death, and with an alacrity witch L
didn't expect they all jIned and all
come to the meetin in the evenin.
One niger, when [ wuz half thro
speakin, got up and left, sayin ez he
went that he wanted to work, he'd
jIned the club, and wuz willing to be
a conservative niger to hold his
place, but ez for hearin me clean thro,
he'd be -. They wood hev finisht
him on the spot, but babe em for
bear. That nigger's vote il shoor,
and L don't mind the insult he put
onto me. Let him 60, | sed, we
hey no votes to spare, and sence Boo
lannon's time we hewitt bin able to
vote ded men to any extent" Let
Horasha Seemore,. eff he is elected.
remember this thoughtfulnis and
self-sacrifis. Sich qualities wood
shine at the head of the Post Offs
Department. | merely throw this
hint out by the way.
fNha pnwk mint I L ~ IL -.
full village nv perhaps a thousand peo-
pie. Here | found better sperit pre-
valin than l Good hev hoped for. The
druggists and grocers were all Demo-
Gratis Of the straightest sect, hevin
every one of them served in the Com
federit army. They were delighted at
the movement. Not five minits after
1 he'd made known my biZness a mig
ner come into a drug store Nv witch
the likker (Which wuz kept for midis-
siunel purposes only sOotid me, ask
in for some calOmel and quinine, wich
is the standard remedy among the
niggsTs here for ague, the white usln
quinine and whisky, for the same dis
ease, witch they take, omittin the our
nine.
Shell 700 vote for Seemore and
BiareY quoth the patriotic druggist.
+" Arc you willin to become a conserv-
alive niger and jine a conservativ
niger Seemore and Blare Olub?"
No, sah" replied the obtoose
Ethiopian.
Then, my buck, you can't hev no
medicine at this shop" E
But my children must hev it, re-
piled tho niger.
1t makes no difference. We can't
furnish medicines to Radicals. We
eau { furnish niggers who amt willin
20 vote with US, who protected them
in their infancy, and workt EN- for
their own good In their matoorer
years, either Vegetable or mineral.
Jine the club or no quinine."
EZ q matter NV course the Niger
listened to reason. He wuz to wunst
convinced that the Radikels wuz OPP
posed to his interests in all respeX,
and he jined. They were thoro In
Their Democracy in that place. They
determined to hev perleck yoonanim-
ity in Their vote at the polls, and the
three or four niggers witch positively
refoozed to jine they hung, together
with two white Ohio farmers aud one
white Pennsylvanv blacksmith, wich
persisted in Their loyal" ez they
called it, principles. 1t he'd an ex-
ccllent persuasive effeck upon the re
naming ones. They come in hand
some and jiued without a murmur.
The next place / visited wuz a
small village. one witch RELY gladden.
ed me to approach. In this class NV
towns there Is less NV that cold for
mality witch caracterize more densely
populated secshuns. In sich places
you find the troo gushing child of
necher. 1t is splendid corn growing
seckshun. wich is perkoolyerly favor
able to Democracy. In fact, corn and
Democracy IL inseparable, and our
largest majorities liz alluz where there
il the best and most luXuriant corn.
The distillers convert the corn into
whisky and the whisky converts orig
inal men into Democrats, and then its
plain sailin. 1t takes three genera
tions at least to bring people out Nv
whisky and the state of towlis shoes,
pants busted in the seat, and winders
stuff with old hats, witch allus marks
q strickly Democratic community. Its
a singular fact that we never flourish
IN a soil adapted to wheat wich hez
ralerodes thro it. Wheat will make
whisky, but it is too fine favored, and
the facilities for GET - ---.---l---A
makes 1t too high In price. The man
who invented ralerodes struck blow
at the hart Nv the party. For our
purposes we want a little of the fiery
whisky yich corn produces. and want
that little strong. But this is a d.
erosion.
At this pint the enthoosiasm wuz
unbounded. The Democrisy wuz All
alive, but there wuz'nt that docitv
among the niggers that expected,
These cusses, ez soon ez they saw me
and learned my biznis, took to the