Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1868-09-30

mildly but firmly given the choice between
jinin a Seymore and Blare club, and at
tending it to hear me speak, or being dis
charged from their employment. Ez the
planters hev a jocular way Nv shootin at
site all the niggers who hevn't any en-
ployment, the alternative mite be consider
ed equivalent to deth, and with an alacrity
wich l didn't expect they all jined and all
came to the meetin in the evein. One
niger, when l wos half thro speakin got
up and left,- sayin ez he went that he
wanted to work, he'd jined the club, and
wuz willin to be a conservative nigger to
hold his place, but as for hearin me clean
thro he'd be They wood hev
6nisht him on the spot but l bade EN- for
bear. That nigger's vote is shoor, and l
don't mind the insult he put on me. Let
him go" | sed, g we hev no votes to spare,
and since Bookanon's time we hevn't bin
able to vote ded men to eny extent" Let
Horasho Seemore if he is elected, remem-
Der this thotfulnis and self-sacrifs Sich
qualities wood shine at the he'd NV the
Postoffis Department. | merely throw
this hint out by the way.
The next pint | struck wuz a cheerful
village Nv perhaps a thousand people.
Here l found a better sperit prevailin
than l Good 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
delighted at the movement. Not five min
its after | he'd made known my bizness a
ngger come into drug store Nv wich the
lkker (wich was kept for medicsinel pur-
poses only sooted me, askin for some
calomel and quinine, which is 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. " Are you
willin TO become conservative niger and
iine conservative niger Seemore and
Blare club ?"
g No sab !" replied the obtoose Ethiop-
ian.
Then, my buck, you can't hev no med
icine at this shop"
" But my children must hev it," replied
the niger.
g 1t makes no difference We can't
furnish medicine TO Radicals. We can't
furnish niggers who amt willin to vote
with Us who protected EN- in their infancy
and workt EN- for their own good in their
matoorer years with remedies either veget-
able or mineral. Jine the club or no quin-
inc"
Ez matter Nv coorse the niger listened
to reason. He wuz to wunst convinced
that the radikels wuz opposed to his inter-
ests in all respex, and he jined. They
were thoro in ther Democrisy in that
place They determined to hev a perfeck
yOonanimity ,in their vote at the polls, and
the three or four niggers wich positively
TO jine they hung, together with
two wife Ohio farmers and one wife Penn
sylvany blacksmith, wich persisted in ther
. loyal, (ez they called it) principles. 1t
he'd an excellent persuasive effect upon the
ones. They come in handsome,
and jined without a murmur.
The next place | visited wuz a small vii
lage, one wich reely gladdened me to
approach In this class Nv towns ther is
less Nv that cold formality wch caracter-
ize more densely populated secshuns. In
sich places 700 find the troo gushin child
Nv nachur L is a splendid corn-growin
secshun, wich soil is pecoolyerly favorable
to the Democracy. In fact, corn and De-
IL inseparable, and our largest
majorities IL alluz WHARF there IL the best
and most luxuriant corn. The distillers
convert the corn into whisky, and the
whisky converts the original men into
Democrats, and then its plane sailin. 1t
.,l, Of 10
people out Nv whisky, and the state Nv
toels shoes, pants busted in the sect, and
windows stuff with old hats, which alluz
marks a strickly Demokratic community
Its a. singular fact that we never flourish
in a soil adapted 10 wheat wich ez rail-
rodes thro it. Wheat will make whisky,
but it is too fine favored, and the facili-
ties for getting 1t to market makes it too
high in price. The man who invinted
struck a blow at the hart Nv the
party. For our purposes we want little
of the fiery whisky wich corn produces,
and want that little strong. But this is
depression.
At this pint the enthoosiasm wuz un-
bounded. The Democrisy wuz all alive,
but ther wasn't that docility among the
niggers that | expected. These cusses, ez
soon ez they saw me, and learned my biz
mis-, took to the woods, and we had to 90
after EN- to electioneer EN-, wich the De-
mocrisy did, takin their dorgs with em. 1t
wuz cheerin site to see EN- tollerin the
black cusses thro the swamps, the moosic
NV the yepin NV the dorgs cheerin US on to
our work. Two or three refoosed to be
talked to, and their bodies, like John
Browns, wuz left a danglin in the air.
believe In every man choosin for hisself
and in the greatest freedom Nv speech and
opinion, providin alluz ther amt nothin in
cenjary in it. Ez everythin that's sed
agin us we count incenjary it simplifes
matters wonderfiy.
l got one good meetin Nv EN-, however,
to wich wuz indebted to Moo York dry
goods merchant, who is here maxim stren-
uous effort to re-establish his trade wick
edly and crooelly broken up by the wicked
onplcasantis wich Linkin Exaggerated by
resistin the South in 1861. He is con-
who is after trade, and conse-
kently is willin to do anythin. He told me
Of a niger funeral to take place in the
and suggested that score Nv
us arm ourselves, surround EN- and keep
EN- in whether or no, ontil had made
speech. $50 ankshus am /" he sed to
retailer wv dry goods, (t wuz dry goods he
wuz sellin, by singler coincidence) " for
the success Nv correct principles, that |
will guard one Nv the doors myself" And
he did it, swearin at Yankees all the time,
and pernouncin COW caow," the while.
| notist it, but it mattered not to me. Why
shood we he nertikler ez to the tools we