The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1868-09-19
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MR.. NASBY,A THE INSTANCE wv THE NATION
AL CENTRAL COMMITTEE, GOES SOUTH to
ORGANIZE CoLoRED SEYMOUR AND BLAIR
CLUES.
Posi- OFF1s, Co1FRDERlr y ROADS,
(Which is in the Staff Nv kentucky
Aug. 81, 1868.
The Nashncl Central Committe, hevin
notified me that l Good either pay an assess
ment NV $50 toward defrayin the expenses
Nv the campane, or go South and organize
colored Seeymor and Blare clubs, dasired
to do the latter for obvus reasons, witch are ::
l. The entire community in witch l reside
amt got $50, ceptin Bascom and Pennibac-
ker, witch, bein distillers and grocery keep
ers, hev naturally absorbed all the capital
Nv the place.
2. am fond NV travel, for elsewhere
find unglcaned fields and pastors fresh.
find men NV witch hev never borrered, and
whose nachers hev never bin soured by un.
forchnit lendins. hev notist that l hev
aluz done better wher aint 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 WIZ glorious. l made known
my biznis to the leadin Demokrats, 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 politikle
enterprise that ther Dimocrisy may not be
questioned, and sailed out with me to cleo
tioneer the niggers witch were employed on
to their plantashens. Their method wuz
short decisive, and effective. The niggers
wuz mildly but firmly given the choice be-
tween jinn Seemore and Blare club, and
attending it to heer me speak, or being dis
charged from their employment. Ez the
planters hev jokeler way NV shootin at site
all the nj ggers who heveut any employment,
the alternative mite 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
I wuz half thro speakn got up and left,
sayin ez he went that he wanted to work,
he'd iined the club, and wuz willing to be a
ez for hearin me clean thro he'd be-.
They wood hev finisht him on the spot, but
babe EN- forbear That nigger's vote is
shoor and don't mind the insult he put
onto me. Let him go,'' | sed, I'VE hev
no votes to spare. and sencc Bookannon' s
time we hevn't bin able to vote ded men to
any extent" Let Horasho Seemore, if he
is elected, remember this thotfulnis and
self. sacrifs. Sich qualities wood. shine at
the head NV the Post Offs Department. |
merely throw this hint by the way.
The next pint struck WIZ a cheerful vii
lage NV perhaps thousand people. Here l
found better sperit prevalin than l Good
hev hoped for. The druggists and grocers
were all Democrats of the straightest sect,
hevin every one Nv EN- served in the Con-
fedrit army. They were delighted at the
movement. Not five minits after | he'd
made known my bizness niger came into
a drug store NV witch the likker witch wuz
kept for medissinel purposes only sooted
me, askin for some calomel and quininc,
witch is the standard remedy among the mig
gers here for ague, the whites yoosin qui-
nine and whisky, for the same disease, witch
they take, omittin the quinine.
"Shel 700 vote for Seemore and Blare %
quoth the patriotic druggist. "Are 700
willin to become Conservative niger and
jne a Conservative niger Seemore and
Blare Club?''
"No, sah!'' replied the obtoose Ethio,
plan.
"Thcn, my buck, yoo can't hev no medi-
cine at this shop"
But my children must hev it." replied
| the bigger.
! at makes no difference. We can't furn-
ish medicines to Radkels. We can't furn-
ish niggers who amt wilin to vote with US
who protected em in their infancy and
workt EN- for their own good in their ma
toorer years with remedies either vegetable
or mineral Jine the club or no quinine.
Ez matter of course, the niger listened
to reason. He wuz to wunst convinced
that the Radikels wuz opposed to his inter.
ests in all respects, and he jined. They
were thoro in their democracy in that place,