Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1868-09-11
Nasty.
MR.. NAsBT AT THE INSTANCE wv THE
NATIONAL CENTRAL COMMITTEE GOES
SOUTH TO ORGANIZE CoLoRED SEYMOUR
AND BLAIR CLUBS.
Posr OrTIs, CoNFEDRrT ROADS,

The Nashnel Central Committee, hevin
notified me that l Good either pay an as
sessment Nv $50 toward defrayin the ex
penses NV the campane, or 20 South and
organize colored Seemore and Blare clubs
desided to do the latter for obvus rea.
sons, wich are:
l. The entire community in wich / re
side amt got $50, ceptin Bascom and Pen
nibacker, wich, bein distillers and grocery
keepers hev materially absorbed all the cap
ital Nv the place.
O. l am fond Nv travel, for elsewhere
| find ungleand fields and pastors fresh.
find men NV wich l hev never borrered
and whose nachers hev never bin soured
| by unforchnit lendins hev notist that
hev alluz done better wher l amt SO well
known. My zeal rather wears out my
| friends.
! For these reasons went. My first stop.
pin place wuz in Western Tennessee, and
my success wuz glorious. made known
my biznis TO the leadin Demokrats, and
they took hold Nv the idee with alacrity
Every man Nv I'm put on his gray uniform,
as they alluz do when they embark into a
| politikle enterprise that ther Dimocrisy
may not be questioned, and sailed out
with me to electioneer the niggers witch
were employed onto their plantashens.
| Their method wuz short, decisive and ef-
fective. The niggers wuz mildly but firm
ly given the choice between jinin See-
more and Blare club, and attendin it to
heer me speak, or being discharged from
their employment. Ez the planters hev a
jokeler way Nv shootin at site all the mig
gers who hevent any employment, the
alternative might be considered equiva-
lent 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 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 l bade EN- forbear.
That nigger's vote IL shoor, and l don't
mind the insult he put onto me. "Let him
CO." | sed, ave hev no votes to spare, and
sence Bookannon's time we hevn't bin able
to vote ded men to any extent" Let Ho-
rasho Seemore, eff he is elected, remember
this thotfulnis and self sacrifs, which quail
tiles wood shine at the head NV the Post
Offs Department. merely throw this
hint out by the way.
The next pint l struck wuz a cheerful
village Nv perhaps a thousand people.
Here found better sperit prevalin than |
Good hev hoped for. The druggists and
grocers were all Democrats of the straight
est sect, hevin every one Nv EN- served in
the COnfedrit army. They were delighted
at the movement. Not five minits after |
he'd made known my bizness a Niger
come into drug store NV witch the likker
(wich wuz kept for me1issinel purposes
only sootid me, askin for some calomel and
quinine, wich IL the standard remedy
among the niggers here for ague, the whites
yoosin quinine and whisky for the same
disease, wich they take, ,omittin the quinine.
=" Shel 700 vote for Seemore and Blare ?"
quoth the patriotic druggist. care you
willin to become conservative niger and
jine conservative niger Seemore and
Blare club ?"
"No sab !" replied the obtuse Ethiopian.
Then, my buck, yoo can't hev no medi-
cine at this shop"
But my children must hev it." replied
the nigger.
"It makes no difference. We can't fur
nish medicines to Radikels. We can't fur
nish niggers who amt willing to vote with
us who protected EN- in their infancy and
workt em for their own good in their ma
toorer years with remedies either vegit-
able or mineral. Jine the club or no aui-
nine"
Ez matter NV course the nigger lis
tened to reason. He wuz to-wunst con-
vipced that the Radikels wuz opposed to
his interests in all respex, and he lined.
They were thoro in ther Democracy in
that place. They determined to hev per-
feck yoonanimity in ther vote at the polls,
and the three or four niggers wich posi-
lively refoosed to jine they hung, together
with two white Ohio farmers and one
white Pennsylvany blacksmith, wich per-
sisted in ther "loyal," ez they called it,
principles. 1t he'd an excellent persuasive
effeck upon the remaining ones. They
come in handsome and jined without a
murmur.
The next place visited wuz a smaller
village, one which really gladdened me to
approach. In this class Nv towns there is
less NV that cold formality wich caracter-
ize more densely populated secshuns. In
sich places you find the troo gushin child
OF nacher. 1t is splendid corn. growing
wich soil is perkoolyerly favor
able to Democracy. In fact, corn and
Democracy IL inseperable, and our largest
majorities IL allus where ther il the best
and most luxuriant corn. The distillers
convert the corn into whisky and the
whisky converts original men into Demo.
,rats, and then its plane sailin. 1t takes
,hree generashuns at least to bring a peo
Die out Nv whisky, and the state NV toelis |
ihoes, pants busted in the seat, and win |
iers stuttt with old hat, wich allus marks |
stllckly Demokratic community. Its a |
lngler fact that we never flourish in a |
oil adapted to wheat wich hez ralerodes |
hro it. Wheat will make whisky, but its |
90 fine favored, and the facilities for get
IN 1t to market makes it too high in price. |
he man who invented ralerodes struck a |
blow at the hart NV the party. For our
purposes we want little of the fiery |
whisky wich corn produces, and want |
hat little strong. But this is digres-
ion.
At this pint the enthoosiasm wuz un-
inbounded. The Democrisy wuz all alive,
out ther wasn't that docility among the
he niggers that l expected These cusses,
u soon ez they saw me and learut my biz.
lis, took to the woods, and we he'd to 20
Iter em 10 electioneer EN-, which the De-
nocrisy did, takin their dogs with em. 1t
Suz cheerin site to see EN- follerin the
'iack cusses thro the swamps, the moosic
w the yelpin NV the dogs cheerin us on
o our work. Two or three refoozed to be
alked to, and their bodies, like John
Browns, wuz left danglin in the air, while
heir soles went a marchin on. We be.
leye in every man a choosin for hisself
ND in the greatest freedom NV speech and
opinion, providin alluz ther aint nothin
ncenjary in it. Ez everything that's sed
gln us we count incenjary it simplifes
matters wonderily.
got one good meetin NV em, however,
o wich l wuz indebted to a Moo York
Try goods merchant, who is here maxim
strenuous effort to re-establish his trade
and crooelly broken up by the
wicked onpleasantnis which Linkin mag
,erated by resistin the South in 1861. he
conservative who is after trade, and
is willin to do ANYTHING He
old me nv niger funeral to take place
the afternoon, and suggested that a
core NV us arm ourselves, surround EN-
nd keep EN- in whether or no, ontil | he'd
made my speech. $50 ankshus am /" he
ed TO retailer NV dry goods, (it wuz dry
0ONQ no WIN aallfn h.