Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1868-09-16
From the Toledo Blade.
Posi- Offs, CoNFEDR1T X ROADS,
(Wich is in the State wv Kentucky,)

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| August 27, 1868.
The Nashnel Central Committee havin
notified me that [ Good either pay an
assessment Nv $50 toward defraying the
expenses Nv The campane, or 60 South
and org; nize colored Seymour and Blair
clubs, [ desided to do the latter for obvus
reasons, wich are.
l. The entire community in which I
reside aint got $50 ceptin Bascom and
Pennibacker, wich being distillers and
grocery keepers, hev naturally absorbed
all the capital Nv th3 place.
2. [ am fond Nv travel, for elsewhere
[ find ungleaned fields and pastors fresh.
[ find men Nv wich [ hev never borrered,
and whose nachers hev never bin soured
by unforchnit lendings. [ hev notst
that hey alluz done better wher [ aint
so we'll known. My zeal rather wears out
my friends.
For these reasons [ went. My first
stoppin place wuz in Western Tennessee,
and my success wuz glorious. I make
known my biznis to the leadin Democrats,
and they took hold Nv the idee with
alacrity. Every man Nv EN- put On his
gray uniform, as they alluz do when they
embark irto politikle enterprise, that
their Dimocrisy may not be questioned,
and sailed out with me to electioneer the
niggers wich were employed onto their
plantashens. Their method wuz short,
decisive and effective The niggers wuz
mildly but firmly given the choice be-
tween iinin a Seemore and Blare club,
and attending it to hear me speak, Or bein
discharged from their employment. Ez
the planters hev jokeler way Nv shoot
in at site all the niggers who hevent any
employment the alternative might be
considered equivalent to death, and with
an alacrity wich [ didn't expect, they all
iined and all come to the meetin in the
evening, One niger, when [ wuz half
through speakin, got up and left, sayin es
he went that he wanted work, he'd jined
the. club, and wuz willing to be- conser-
vative niger to hold his place, but es
for hearin me clean through he'd be-
They would hev fnisht him on the spot,
but [ bade EN- forbear. That nigger's
vote is shoor, and L didn't mind the in
suit he his put onto me. "Let him go, "
[ sed, "we hev no votes to spare, and
sence Bookannon's time we hevn't bin
able to vote dead men to any extent.
Let Horatio Seemore, if he is elected, re-
member this thotfulnis and self-sacrifs.
Sich qualities would shine at the head Nv
the Post Offs Department. merely
throw this hint out by the way.
The next pint I struck wuz cheerful
village Nv perhaps thousand people.
Here [ found a better sperit prevailia
than [ Good hev hoped for. The drug
gists and groeers were all Democrats of
the straightest sect, hevin every one Nv
EN- served in the Confederit army. They
were delighted at the movement. Not
five minits after [ he'd made known my
bizness niger came into drug store
Nv wich the liker (wich wuz kept for
medissinel purposes only) sootid me, ask
in for some calonel and quinine, wich is
the standard remedy among the niggers
here for ague, the whites yoosein quinine
and whisky for the same disease, which
they take, omittin the quinine.
"Shel you vote for Seemore and
Blare 2" quoth the patriotic druggists.
care you willin to become a conservative
nigger and jine a conservative niger
Seemore and Blare club %
mo sab !" replied the obtoose Ethiop-
IAN
"Then. my buck, yoo can't hev medi.
cine at this shop?"
"But my children must hev it" replied
the n gger.
at makes no difference. We cans
furnish medicines to Radicals. We can't
furnish niggers who amt willin to vote
with US who protected EN- IN their In
fancy, and workt EN- for their own gooc
in their matoorer years with remedies
either vegetable or mineral. Jine the
club or no quinine."
Ez matter Nv course the niger lis
tened to reason. He wuZ to-wunst cor
vinced that the Radikles wuz opposed tt
his interests in all respex, and he jined
They were thoro in their Dimocrisy in tha
place. They determined to hev perfec
yoonanimity in ther vote at the polls, anc
the three or four niggers wich positively