Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1868-09-19

PosT OFFS, CoNFEDRIr y ROADS,
(Wich is i'll the State NV Kentucky,
r Aug 81, 1868.
The Nashnel Central Committee, hey-
in notified me that could either pay an
assessment NV $40 toward defrayin the
expenses NV the campaign, or go South
and organize colOred Seymour and Blare
clubs, decided to do the latter for OBJ
vus reasons, wich are:
l. The entire community in wich re-
side amt got $50, ceptin Bascom and
Pcnnibacker, wich bein distillers and gro
Gerry keepers hev naturally absorbed all
the capital NV the place
2. am fond NV travel, for elsewhere |
find ungleaned fields aid pastures fresh.
| find men NV wich hev never borrered,
and whose nachers hev never bin soured
by unforchnit lendins.. l hev notist that
| hcv done better when l aint SO well
known. My zeal rather wears out my
friends.
For these reasons l went. My first
stoppin place wuz in Western Tennessee,
and my success wuz glorious. l made
known my biznis to the leadiD Demo
krats, and they took hold NV the idee
with alacrity. Every man NV em put on
his gray uniform, as they alluz do when
they embark into politikle enterprise
that ther Dimocrisy may not be ques-
toned, and sailed out with me to cleo
tioneer the niggers wich were employed
onto thcr plantashens. Their method
was short, decisive and effective The
niggers wuz mildly but firmly given the
choice between jinin aSeemore and Blare
club, and attendin it to hcer me speak,
or being discharged from their employ
ment. Ez the planters hev a jokeler way
NV shootin at site all the niggers who
hern't any employment, the alternative
mite be considered equivalent TO death,
and with an alacrity wich | didn't ex-
pect they all jined and all come to the
meetin in the evenin. One niggcr, when
| wuz half thro speakin, got up and left,
sayin ez he went that he wanted to work,
had jined the club, and was willin to be
a conservative nigger to hold his place,
but ez for hearin me clean thro he'd be
-. They would hev finisht him on
the spot, but bade EN- forbear. That
nigger's vote is shoor, and | don't mind
the insult be put onto me. "Let him 60"
| sed, eve hev no votes to spare, and
sence Bookannon's time we hevn't bin
able to vote ded men to any extent"
Let IIorasho Seemore, if he is elected,
this thotfulnis and selfsacrifis
Sich qualities would shine at the head of
the Post Offs Department. l merely
throw this hint out by the way.
The next pint struck wus aeheerful
village NV perhaps a thousand people.
Here | found better sperit prevalin
than l Good hev hoped for The drug
gists and grocer were all democrats NV
the straightest sect, bevin every one NV
EN- served IN the Confedrit army. They
were delited at the movement. Not five
after he'd made known nv biz
ness nigger came into drug store NV
wich the ticker (wich wuz kept for me-
dissinel purposes only sootid me, askin
for some ealomel and quinine, wich is
the standard remedy among the Diggers
here.for ague, the whites yoosin quinine
and whiskey for the same disease, wich
they take, omittin the quinine. 5a. .,s
''Shel yoovote tor Seemore and Blare?'
quoth the patriotic druggist. "Are you
willin to become q conservative niger
and jine a conservative nigger Seemore
and Blare Glib ?'' :. ,,,,.,. .....,tI iss ..;is
"No sab - replied the obtoose' Etho-
pian. ,. .,,,.s--s.,, y .sar1.s -'.- .5a ,1e
:. "Then, my buck, yoo can't hev no me- me,
dicine at this shop" r.'- - ~ =, % i,g.
''But my children must hev ii, replied
the nigger. g LII. ;.a, " s'''', N,
SIT makes no difference. We can't
furnish medicines to Radikels. We can't
furnish niggers who amt willin to vote
with us who protected them in their in
fancy and workt EN- for their own good
in their matoorer years with remedies
either Vegetable or mineral. Jine the
club or no quinine. ~ -r io,
Ez q matter NV course the. nirger lis |
tened to reason. He wuz to wunst con-
vinced that the Radikels wuz opposed to |
MS interests in all respects, and he lined.