The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1868-09-12

fFrom tho Toledo Blade
Posr OFFIs, CoSFEDRIT x ROADS,
witch is in the State Nv Kentuck,
Aug u, 1868
The Nashnel Central Committee, hevin
notified me that either Good pay an ASSESS
ment Nv $50 toward defrayin the expenses
OF the campane, or 90 South and organize
colored Seymour and Blare clubs, l desided
to do the latter for obvus reasons, which are:
l. The entire community in which | res
side amt got thirty dollars, ceptn Bascom
and Pennibacker, wich, bein destillers and
grocery keepers have naturally absorbed all
the capital Nv the place.
2. am foad Of travel, for elsewhere find
ungleaned fields and pastors fresh. find
men Nv wich hey never horrered, and whose
nachcrs hev never bin sonred by unforchnt
lendins. hev notist that hev alluz done
better where | amt so we'll known. My zeal
rather wears out my friends.
For these reasons | went. My first stop.
pin place was in Western Tennessee, and my
success was glorious. made known my bust.
ness 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 into a politikle enter
prise that the Dlmocrisy may not be guess
toned, and sailed out with me to elections
eer the niggers wich we're employed onto their
plahtashens. This method was short, deci.
siye and effective. The niggers Was mildly
but firmly given the choice between jinin .
Seymore and Blare club, and attendin it to
heer me speak, or being discharged from
their employment. Ez the planters hev q
jokeler way NV shootin at site all the niggers
who hevent any employment, the alternative
may be considered equivalent to death, and
with an alacrity which didn't expect, they
all lined and all come TO the meetin in the
eyenin. One niger, when ! was half thro
speakin go up and left, sayin ez he went that
he wantid to work, he'd lined the club, and
wuz wilhn TO be conservative niger to hold
his place, but, e. for hearin me clean thro,
he be-. They wood hev fnised him on
the spot but | babe EN- forhear. That mig
gers vote is shoor, and don't mind the in>
suit he put onto me. ''Let him co."
sed, 'swe hey no votes to spare, and since
Bookannon's time we heyen't been able to
vote dead men 70 any extent" Let Horasho
Seemore, ethe is electid remember this thott-
fulnis and self sacrfs. Sich qualities wood
shine at the head Nv the Post Offs Depart
ment. | merely thro this hifft out by the
way.
The next pint struck wuz cheerful vii
lage Nv perhaps thousand people. Here l
found better spirit than Good hev hoped
tor. The druggist and grocers we're all Dem
ocrsts of the strigtest sect, hevin every one
Nv EN- served in the confedrit army. They
delightful at the movement. Not five minits
after he'd made known my business q niger
come into the drugstore Nv which the lkker
| (which was kept for medissinel purposes
| only sootid me, askin for some calomel and
| quinine. which is The standard remedy among
! the niggers here for ague, the whites yoosin
| quinne and whisky for the same disease
wich they take omittin the quinine.
| "Shel 700 vote for Seemore and Blare p
quoth the patriotic druggist. care you viii
! lin to become conservative niger and jine
| a conservative Seemore and BIare club I?
| mo sab r. replied the obtoose Ethiopian
Then my buck, you can hev no medicine
at this shop
s'But my children must have it, replied
the niger.
| 1t makes no difference. We can't furnish
| medicines to RAdikels. We can't furnish
/ niggers who amt willin to vote with US wbt
protected EN- in their infancy and workt en-
for their own good in their matoorer year,
with remedies either Vegetable or mineral
Jine the club or no qninine.'
Ez q matter NV course the niger listened
to reason. He wuz to wunst conviced that til,
Radicals wuz opposed to his interests in al
respex. and he jined. They we're thoro il
Their Democracy in that place. They deter
mined to hev perfeck yoonanimity in the
vote at the polls, and the three or four mig
gers wich positively refoozed to jine the
hung, together with two white Ohio farmer
| and one white Pennsylvany blacksmith, wici
persisted in Their loyal (ez they called it
/ principles. 1t he'd an excellent persuasiv,
| effeck upon the remaining ones. They com,
in handsome, and jined without q murmur
/ The next place visited wuz smaller vii
lage, one which really gladdened me to ap
proach. In this class Nv towns there is les
nv that cold formalty which charterize NOR,
denseiy populated secshuns. In SIGH rlace
you and the troo gushin child Of nacher.
is splendid corn-growing secshun, witch sol
| is perkoolyery favorable to Democracy. I,
fact. corn and Democracy il inseperab,e. AMI
our largest majorities IL alluz where there !;
! the best and most luxuriant corn. The die
| tlllers convert the corn into whiskev, and IL,
| whiskey converts original men into Democrat
and then its plane sailin. II takes three gen
erashens at least to bring people out u
whisky, and the state Nv toelis shoes, pant
busted in ths seat, and winders stuffed viii
old hats, which alluz marks strickly Demo
cratic community. Its q singular fact that "
never flourish in soil adapted 10 wheat vicl
| hez railroads thro it. Wheat Will make vhis
key, but it is too fine favored, and the fac;l
tiles for gittin it to market makes it toe hipl
in price. The man who invited railroad
struck pillow at the hesst OF the party. Fo
our proposes we want little OF the fiery whis
key which corn produces, and want that lIttl
strong. But this is DEPRESSION.
At this pint the enthoosssm wuz unbound
ed. The Democrisy wnz all alive, ther wa.n'
that docility among the niggers that expect
ed. These causes, ez soon as they saw M
and learned my biznis, took the woods, an,
We had to 60 after EN- to electioneer EN-
wich the Democrisy did, takin their dorg
with EN-. It wuz cheerin site to see EN- fol
hrln the black cusses thro the swamps, th
moos'c Nv the yelpin nv the dorgs cheerm u
on to our work. Two or three reioosed 70 5,
talked to, and their bodies, like John Brown
WIZ lett dangling IN the air, while Their sole
went marchin on. We believe in ever
man choosin for hisself, and ia the creates
freedom Nv speach and opinion, proyidin 81
luz Their Amt nothin incen;sry il Il. "a e.
erything that's sed agin Us We count incen;a
r It simplifes matters wonderfully.