The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1868-10-02
PAoonST CoUNERy, S. O..
September 26. 1868.

Mr. EDITOR: You have no doubt
heard tef grand mass meeting of
the great Constitutional Union Re-
publican paretee, to come off at
Pacolet Depot, on the Spart ,nburg
Union Railway, on the 26th inst.
Well the instant came, the "nig-
gers came. the scallawags (2) came,
also one donkey, no mules, no bread,
no meat, one fiddle, no Moses, no
Hog(e,) no Wallace, no Sam Negro
Nuckolls, no Crews, either with or
without oil, nor camp followers, no
Neagle, no Robinson, no Mackey, no
nothing in the shape of white radi-
cal speaker. But - 10 there came
about three hundred of the substan-
tial Democratic white citizens of the
vicinage, who said nothing, who did
nothing-mere COOKERS on in Ve-
nice" The negroes, after q little
cypheriny around, came to the con-
clusion that they had been left in the
lurch by their "white frens," in Co.
lumbia; and, fearing that they would
not hear any speech at all, determin-
ed to hear the other side a few speaks
anyhow. So they extended cordial
invitation to Judge Jim Dawkins, of
Florida, who by accident was pre-
sent, to address them.
The head doodle of the concern,
one copper-colored man, Alf Wright
by name, and former slave of the
Gist family, called his people togeth-
er, and thus he spake upon them:
My culled frens, bof black and
white, we cum ere upon de importus
OBJ de gratess decashun in de persist
ance ob de huming understanden,
we don't perfes to be OBJ de college
larnt order oh de ginal community,
but we Gums ere for peace and moil
an de good understanden among all
our culled frens, bote white and
black. want you all to fall into de
line of de progresshun two togedder,
gemmen in de front, ladies in de rar
and mach wild de creates possumble
moil up de road to de stan, whar you
will hab your understanden blard up
bofe by yer humble addressmint and
de white gentleman who has so kind
ly persented to consent his under
standen to our imprehensive here on
dis percashun. I hope you will not
spend you money foolish here to-day
and put yerselves in persushion not
to take effect OBJ de conceedings. but
in de pergreshun deserve order and
moil in de ranks.
He then tuned up his time worn
and rosin-coated cremona, (the only
instrument of music on the field, save
Salathriel Littleiohn's radical DON
key, whose voice was pronounced by
many present to be, of the two, most
musical and away the ebony column
tramped to the tune of "Big-foot
niger of those elegant airs
taught them by Northern minstrels
before the war, and the most appro-
pirate the musical fingers of Alf
could have called forth for the occa-
sion; and certainly the one most
easily barytoned by the donkey, q
musical feat which he performed to
the amusement of all "the culled
frens, bote black and white"
The sable ladies, thinking that to
"mach in de rar," was rather lower
ing of their dignity, and sign that
they were not appreciated as the white
appreciate the gentler sex; and, more
over, fearing they would not from
that ''posish," get to hear or see the
elephant, fiddle, bolted for the head
of the procession, where, becoming
onthused over Alf and his fiddle, they
grew frantic with delight, and gave
vent to the exquisitness of their feel
ings in boisterous laughter, with now
and then o real old fashion double
shuttle by young buck ON the
fapks.
If Grant could have seen the cortepe.