The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1868-10-08

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for that's where the tanners is goin'." linen
/ put the followin' questions and sentiments
for the society tew vote onto, the white SIDE
votin' with ne, and the goats, or black side,
votin' t'other way:
Do you believe it's right tew jine the
Democratic party? White side, aye. Black
side, nay.
Do you believe that this is a white mans
government White side. aye. Black side,
nay.
Do you believe that white man is better
than niger? White side, aye. Black
side, nay.
Would you like to have black wives and
children, cousins, uncles, nieces, nephews
and grandma's7 White side, nay. Black
side, aye.
Would you like tew sell your principles
and votes for five dollars and a stCig uf
Grant whiskey2 White side, nay. Black
side, aye,
Would you not think it wrong for to colo
nize pepel onto a destrict, that don't belong
onto it, just tew carry an election2 Isn't
that all wrong? White side, aye. Black
side, nay.
Isn't the soljur as good as a rich bond
holder, and hasn't he as good a rite tew be
paid in gold? White side, aye. Black side,
nay.
Sposin' the bondholder did giv' his money
in the hour of the governments peril, didn't
the solurs give their own bodies, and many
their own lives? White side, aye. Black
side, nay.
Isn't it wrong tew exempt bondholder.
who has a million of dollars invested onto
bonds. from tax, and then tax poor soljur,
who fit for his country2 White side, aye.
Black side, nay,
Isn't it wrong tew squander the pepel's
money to impeach Presidents and head CEN
ters jest tew carry the election? White side,
aye. Black side, nay.
Isn't it wrong tew keep poor pepel work
in hard in the North, and payin of taxes,
jest tew raise money tew feed million of
lazy Southern niggers2 White side, aye.
Black side, nay.
Isn't Congress only one-third Of the gov
ernment, and shouldn't it respect the other
| branches, the Supreme Court and the Presi-
dent White side, aye. Black side, nay.
Isn't the government goin' tew the Red
Sulphur Springs jest as fast as the Republi-
cans can carry it, and isn't it our dooty to
} try and save it from goin' there? White side,
) aye. Black side, nay.
Isn't the Republican party jest goin' in
. fur speeculatin' off Nv the pepel. and amt
the leaders growin' rich on the taxation OF
the poor man2 White side, aye. Black
side, nay.
, Don't the poor pepel pay all the tax after
all, while the rich can squeeze out of it, and
, isn't poor man damphool fur votin' him
self and his family onto poverty2 White
t side, aye Black side, nay.
Don't it take about one-half the revenue
r tax to pay the horde of Assessors and Col
t lectors, who are little better than thieves
and who are livin' off Nv the poor mans
labor? White side, aye. Black side, nay.
Isn't the Tanners, with their lamps, Jest
another edition of the Wide-Awakes, the
t Know-Nothins, and the Native Americans
t who. few years ago. prosecuted foreigners
2 and Catholics White side, aye. Black
side, nay.
Isn't it shame for men, sixty years Nv
age, to be trampirg through the mud at
= night tryin' to make little lamp outshine
t the moon, and won't they soon be as much
ashamed Of themselves as the Know -Nothins
: now are? White side, aye. Black side, nay.
3 If a man is really "loil," wouldn't he
: rather vote fur wounded soldier, such as J
2 P Linton, than fur a man that fought for
e his country through the bought sinews Nv a
y big Irish substitute =? White side, aye. Black
side nay.
Isn't all these displays of lamps and boys
under age, travelin' round from meetin' tt
( meetin', calculated tew deceive the honest
n man and tew cheat the ballot-box White
q side, aye. Black side, nay.
: Isn't it wrong tew make laborers work
y for one dollar and forty cents day and ther
: take the profits off their labor to spend il
4 carryin' the election White side, aye
/ Black side, nay.
Isn't it sin and shame fur white pepe
) NV the North tew go deown onto the South
? and drive honest white pepel from theil
homes and give them tew niggers2 White
side. aye. Black side nay.
Then isn't it the dooty of every voter teu
, go tew the poles and try TO stay this torrent
of reeking corruption that is sweepin' US al
{ hellurds? White side, aye. Black side
nay.
When we tux these votes the white mer
e (many uf which were nice young men that
o had belonged tew the Templers, but which
/ were induced tew jine the Tanners on &C
e count uf Grant whiskey,) left the wigwan
s and destroyed their lamps. The Blacks sol
n | there awhile, like the forlorn hope Nv thC
= Council Chamber uf Pandmonium. The
!, next time we seed them was on last Satur
day, when they were onto the streets march
in and playin' Aaddin's Lamp. They
looked fur all the world like disconsolat,
. party, that had sold themselves, got the pd,
!, and spent it, and were out Nv funds, ant
;, played out themselves. We couldn't sta
) with them no longer, because we seed s.
much cheatin' and colonizin' of voters
: Sometimes one man would bring to the As
a SCISSOR fifty or sixty names onto one ward, a
: one time. This we didn't like, and we dom
believe that an 'onorable man would holt
# onto an offs when elected that way. The
d we didn't like the way some pepel sold thei
rights merely for the sake rf retainin' thei
posishun at the works, and how they sol
their principles tew. We couldn't STAN
:, these tricks no longer. When they proposed
. in the Tannery, tew dress up wimmin il
:, mems clothes and take them tew the pole
Z tew vote as young men between twenty-on
- and twenty-five, we sed it was cheatin' u
y - wimmen and men both, and so we come on
y from among the foul party. And when w
seed the conduct of the Red Republicans o
Saturday and Saturday mite, we felt thank
le full that we left the party and took twelv
% more along. There wus about two hur
is dred lightnin' buggers in the processhur
7, some from Ebensburg, some from Altoona
"a and an on. but the one thousand Allegheu