Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1868-09-15
Nasty
Nr. Nasty atthe Instanee0 Of the at onaI Cen-
trail Committee Goes South 20 Organize co.
lorea seymour and blair Clubs.


PosF orfIs. coSfYpEaIr RoAps,
tWieh IS III the State nv Kentuckvl !
August p, lsCs.
The NashneI Central Committee.
heyin notified me that | Good either
pay an assessment NV $50 toward dc
frAyin the expenses NV the campane.
or so South and organize colQred
Seymour and Blare clubs, / desided
to do the latter, for obgns reasons,
which arm
|. The entire community in WITCH
| reside Amt got thirty dollars, cep
tia Baseom and Pennibaczer. witch,
bcin distIlers and grocer. keepers,
hey materially absorbed all tne capt.
tai Nv the place,
2. ] an fond uv travel, for else,
where | find ungleaned fields and
pastors fresh. | find men nv witch
hev bofrered, and whose natersahey
never bin soured by unforchnit lend
ms. / hey notist that | hev oIIus
done better where | aint so we'll
known ii y zeal rather wears out
my friends
For these reasons went My
first stoppin place waz in Western
Tennessee, and my success wHz glo-
rious. | made known my bisnez to
the leading DemokHlts, and they
took hold NV the idee with alacrity.
Every man NV EN- put on his gray
uniform, ez they allus DO when they
embark INFO u politicle enterprise
that their Dimocrisy may not be
questioned, and sailed out with me
to electioneer the niggers wieh were
onto their plantashuns.
Their method was short, decisive
aud effective. The niggers wuz
mildly but firmly given the choice
club, and attending it to hear me
speak, or being discharged from
their employment. Ez the planters
hey a joculer way uv sho0tin at site
all the niggers who hewitt anysem>
ployment, the alternative mite be
equivalent to deth. and
with an alacrity wieh didn't ex~
pect they all jlned aud all came TO
the meetin 10 the eynin. One mig
ger, when | was half thro speakin,
got ~ and left sayin sez he went
that he wanted to work, he'd lined
the club, and wuz willin to be a con
sergatlve Niger TO hold his place,
but as for hearin me clean thro he'd
be- They wood hev tiinisht
him on the spot but | babe en- for-
bear That nigger's vote is shoor,
ana | don't mind the insult he put
on me. " Let him co. | sed, 4 we
hev ho votes 70 spare, ,.ndg since
Bookanon time we hewitt bin able
to vote ded men to eny extent. -
Let Horasho Seemore if he is elects
ed, remember this thotfulnis and
Sich qualities wood
shine at the he'd Nv the Postofiis De-
partment. | merely throw thiss hint.
out by the way. III eH1 rs
The next pint ] struck wuz q
cheerful village Nv perhaps a thoas-
and people, Here | found better
sperit prevaiIin then Icood hev hoped
for. The druggist and grocers were
all Democrats NV the straightest-sect,
hevin every one Nv them served IN.
the Confedrit army. They were de>'
lighted at the movement Not five
minutes after had made known my
bizness a niger come into q drug
store NV wich the ikker (Which was
kept for modissinal purposes only)
sooted me, aslEin for some caioinel
and quinine, witch is the standard
remedy among the niggers here for
agae, the whites yoosln canine and
whisky for the same disease, witch
they take, omittin the quinine.
"Shel you vote for Seemore and
Blare 2" quoth the patriotic druggist.
Are you willin to become II douser.
vative Niger and jine o conservative
niger Seemore and Blare club ~
mo sab = replied the obtoose
Ethiopian, 1
"Then, my buck, you can hey no
medicine at this shop"
But my children must hev it, =
replied the niger.
f" 1t makes no difference. We
can't furnish medicine to Radicals.
We can fnrnish niggers who am t
willin to vote with US who protected
EN- for their own good in their own
matoorer years with remedies either
vegetable or mineral. Jine the club
or no Quinine."
Ez a matter NV coorse the niger
listened to reason. He wuz to
wunst convinced that the radikels
wuz opposed to his interests in all
respeK, and he jined. They were
thoro ia Their Democracy in that
place. They determined to hev a
perfeck yoonanimity in their vote at
the polls, and the three or four mig
gers witch positively refoosed to iine
they hung, together with two wife
Ohio farmers and one wife Pcnnsyl-
vania blacksmith, WITCH persisted in
Their " loyal " (ez they called it,
principles. 1t had an excellent per-
suasive effeck upon the remaining
ones. They come in handsome, and
jined without murmur.
The next place visited wuz q
small village, one witch RELY glad
dened me to approach. In this Nv
town Their is less Nv that cold formal-
ity witch Characterize more densely
populated secshuns. In sich places
you find the troo gushin child nv ma
chur. 1t is a splendid corn GROWN
secshun, witch soil is pecoolyerly ia
vorable to the Democracy. In fact,
corn and Democrrsy liz insepurble,
and our largest majorities IL alluz
WHARF there IL the best and most
luxuriart corn. The distillers con-
vert the corn into whisky, and the
whisky converts the original men am
to Democrats, and thenits plane sail
in 1t takes three generashuns at
least to bring a people out ny whis-
ky, and the state nv toeiis shoes
pants busted in the sect, and win
dows stuff with old bat, which al
ms marks n stricklv DemOkratit