Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1868-09-16
NASBY.
Mr.. SaSby at the Instance Nv the National Gen.
trail Committee Goes South TO Organize Color
ed Seymour and Blair Clubs.

I POsT OFFS CONFEDRIT Y ROADS,
. (Wich is in the stait Nv Kentucky.
RI August %, 1868.
l. The Nashnel Central Committee
sc hevin notified me that L Good pay al
Is assessment NV $50 toward defrayiI
IS the expenses NV the company, or q
d South and organize Seymour ant
Blare clubs, 1 desired to do the latte
1t for Obvus reasons, which are:
: l. The entire community in wicI
e | reside aint got $50 ceptin BascOn
t and Pennebacker, wich, bein distill
L ers and grocery keepers hev material
, ly absorbed all the capital NV tn,
> place.
a , am fond NV travel, for else.
= where 1 find ungleaned fields anC
a pastors fresher I.find men NV wich ]
hev never bOTrered, and whose ma
r chers hey never bin sOured by un-
fOrehnit lendins. l hev nOtist that /
hev alluz done better where / aint
so well known. My zeal rather werrs
l out my friends.
For these reasons | went. NV first
stOppin place wuZ in Western Ten
I nessee, and my success wuZ glorious
T | made known my biznis to the lead.
= in DemOkrats, and they took hold NV
w the idee with alacrity. Every man
NV EN- put on his gray uniform, ez
they alluZ do when they embark into
a pOlitikle enterprize that ther De-
mocracy may not be questioned, and
: sailed out with me to electiOneer the
niggers wich were employed onto
their plantashens.
Ther method wuZ short decisive
and effective. The niggers wuz mild
" but firmly givin the choice between
ljinin n SeemOre & Blare Club and at
tendin it to heer me speak, or bein
discharged from their employment.
Ez the planters hev Il jokeler way NV
rshOOtin at site all the niggers who
hewitt any employment, the alterna-
tive might be konsidered equivalent
to death, and with an alacrity wich /
didn't expect, they all lined and all
ljined and all cum to the meetin
in the evening. One nigger,
when | wuZ half through 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 cOnserva-
tive niger to hold his place, but eZ
for hearin me clear through he'd be-
| They wood hev finisht him on the
spot, but L bade EN- fOrbear. That
nigger's vote is shOOr, and l don't
mind the insult he put onto me. "Lctl
him 60" L sed, "we hev no votes to
spare, and since BOOkannOn's time
we hen't bin able to vote dead men
to any extent" Let HoTasho SeemOre,
| EFF he is elected, remember this
thOughtfulness and self-sacrifice. Sicb
qualities wood shine at the he'd NV the
Post Offs Department. / merely thrO
this hint out by the way.
The next pint / struck wuz a cheer
full village NV perhaps q thousand peO-
| pie. Here i found better spirit pre-
vailin than | Good hev hoped for. |
Druggists and grocers were all DIM
micrats Nv the stTaitest sect, hevin
every one NV EN- served in the Con-
fedrit army. They We're delighted at
the movement. Not five minutes af-
ter l he'd made known my biZnis a j
niger cum into a drug store, NV wich
the likker (wieh wuz kept for .medis-
sinai purposes only sOOtid me, askin
for some calomel and quinine, wich is
the standard remedy here among the
nlggers for ague, the whites usin qui- |
nine and whiskey for the same dis !
ease, wich they take Omittin the quiz |
nine.
'SheH you vote for SeemOre and |
Blare?" quOth the patriotic druggist, |
Are you willin to become a cOnServ-
ative nigger, and iine the conservative !
nigger SeemOre and Blare Club ?"
NO sab ~ replied the obtuse and |
Obdurat Ethiopian.
''Then, my buck, YOU can't hev no |
medcin at this shop"
a oh III L
piled the nigger.
1T makes no difference: we can't
furnish medcin to Radikels. We
can't furnish niggers who aint willin
10 vote with Us who protected EN- in
thelr infancy, and WOrkt EN- for their
own good in their matOOrer wears.
with remidies either vegitibIe or min
er2l Jine the club, or no quinine.n -
IL matter NV course the niger lis ,
tened to reason. He wuz to wunst
convinced that the RadikeIs wuz OD- ,
posed TO his interests in all resDeX.
and he jined. They We're thoro i'm ,
their DimOkrisy in that place. They |
determined to hev perfek yoOnanimi-
ty IN their vote at the polls, and the !
three or four niegers wich positively I
to jine they hung, together
white Pennsylvania blacksmith, wich I
persisted in their '.Ioyal," ez they call
ed it, principles. 1t he'd an excellent T
persuasive effeck on the remaining ,
ones. They come in handsome and n
lned without muTmur. II
The next place | visited wuZ a | 7
smaller village, one wich TeeIv glad
dened my heart to approach. In this f
class of towns there is less NV that cold
IOrmality wieh caracteriZes more n
iensely populated seckshuns. Insich / o
places yOO find the trOO gushin child | ii
Nv nacher. 1t is a splendid corn-gro- h
N secshun, wich soil is pekOOlyerly
favorable to DimOcrasy. in fact, corn RI
lnd DimOkrasy is inseperable, and I,
md our largest majorities liz aIluz =
where there is the best and most lux n
Iriant corn. The distiIlers convert N
he corn into Whiskey, and the whis-l
Key converts original men into Demo- a
rats, and then its plain sailing. Itlu
axes three geperashens at least TO
lrlng people out NV whiSkev, and
he state NV tOelis shoes, pants busted II
n the seat, and winders stuff with
Id hats, wich alluz marks a strickly il
CemOkratic community. Its a sin IA
Her fact that we never flourish in a |
oil adapted to wheat wich hez rale- ot
odes through it. Wheat will make nj
but il is too fine favored, eI
nd the facilities for getting it to mar M
let makes it too high in price. The n
nan who invented ralerodes struck a h.
low at the hart NV the party. For 81
ur purposes we want n little Nv the OF
-ery whiskey wich corn produces, ii
nd want that little strong. But this
DEPRESSION, m
At this pint the enthOOziasm wuz m
nhounded, The DimOcrisy wuz all M
live, but ther wuzn't that dOcility M
ne niggers that l expected. These m
1sses, eZ soon eZ they saw me, and
armed my biznis, took to the woods, vc
nd we he'd to go after them to elec- 90
oneer en-, wich the DimOkrisy did, m
kin their dogs with EN-. It wuz a oh
leerin site to see en- fallerin the M
lack cusses thro the swamps, the M
lOOsic NV the yelpin NV the dogs
leerin US ON to our work. Two or
lree TefOozed to be talked to, and .
leir bodies, like John Browns wuz OF
It danglin in the air, while their es'
les went a marchin on. We believe
every u1au n alaalin for biscaIf