Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1868-09-25


nlsh niggers who ain willin to vote with I
who protected EN- in their infancy and work
EN- for their own good in their matoore
years, with remedies either Vegitableor or mir
eral. Jine the club or no quinine
Ez matter Nv course the nigger listene
to reason. He wuz to wunst convinced tha
the Radikels wus opposed to his interest
in all respex, and he jined. They Wer
thoro in their Democracy in that place
They determined to hev perfeck yoonanimi
ty in their vote at the polls; and the thre
or four niggers Wich positively refoosed t,
jino they hung, together with two whit
Ohio farmers and one white Pennsylyan.
blacksmith, wich persisted in ther loyal,
ez they called it, principles It he'd an ex
cellent persuasive efTeck upon the remainin.
ones. They come in handsome and jiueC
without marmur
the next place | visited wuz smaller
village, one wich RELY gladdencd me to -
proach. In this class Nv towns there is Ess
nv that cold formality wioh characterkes
more densely populated secshuns In ich
places yoo find the troo gushin child ofha.
cher. 1t is a splendid corngrowing secsnn
wich soil is perkoolyerly favorable to De.
mocrasy In fact, corn and Democraeyiz
inseperable, and our largest majoritiesiz
alluz where there is the best and most luiu-
RANT corn. The distillers convert the orn
into whisky and the whisky converts oFgi-
nal men into Democrats, and then its pIin
sailin. It takes three generashuus at lest
to bring a people out NV whisky and tie
state Nv toelis shoes, pants busted in tie
seat and winders stuff with old hats, wicl
allus marks strictly Dimokratic communi
/ ~. It's singular fact that we never hout
ish in a soil adopted to wheat, wich hG
ralerodes thro it. Wheat viii make whit
Ky, but its fine favored, and the facilitbs
for getting it to market makes it too hish
in price. The man who invented raleroCes
struck blow at the hart NV the party. For
our purposes we want little of the fry
whisky wich corn produces, and want tiat
little strong. But this Is a depression. At
this pint the enthoosiasm was uhboundd.
The Democracy wuz all alive, but tlar
WASH that doeiity among the niggers that
/ expected. These eusses, es soon ez they
saw me, and learned my biznis, took to .he
woods, and we he'd to 20 after EN- to elc-
tioneer EN-, wich the Dimocrasy did, taEin
their dogs with EN-. 1t was a cheerin ste
to see EN- follerin the black cusses thro the
swamps, the moosic NV the yelpin NV the
dorgs cheerin us on to our work. Two or
three refoosed to be tolked to, and their
bodies, like John Browns wuz left dang
lin in the air. while ther soles went a march
in on. We believe in every man choosin
for hissef, in the greatest freedom NV
speech and opinion, providin alluz ther aint
nothin incenjiary in it. Ez eyerythin that's
sed agin us we count incenjiaIy it simpli6es
matters wonderfully.
[ got one good meetn NV EN-, however, to
wich wuz indebted to a Moo York dry
goods merchant, who is here maxim siren
uous efforts to re-establish his trade wick
edly and erooely broken up by the wicked
onpleasantnis wich Linkin inaggerated by
resistin The South 10 1861. He is a conser-
vative who is after trade, and consekentlv
is willin to do anything. He told me NV
Niger funeral to take place in the afternoon
and suggested that score Nv US arm our
selves, surround em and keep EN- in whether
or no, ontil had made my speech. 80
ankshus am |, y he sed to a retailer w dry
goods, lit wuz dry goods he wuz sellin, by
singler coincidence 'for the success NV cor
rect principles, that | viii guard one NV the
doors myself :" And he did it, swearin
at Yankees all the time, and pronouncin
COW 'caow, the while. | notist it, but it
mattered not to me. Why shood we be
partikler ez to the tools we yoose? When
we shake hands with sich, can We put on
gloves?
We surrounded the church and notified
EN- that they Good mt pass till we was thro,
and commenced my speech, and spoke it
thro. insisted that their interests lay
with their kind, good masters-that they
he'd bin grevousy deceived in sposin that
there wuz any antagonism between the
races. Who, askt, gave the colored man
the rite to vote in Moo York? The Dimoc-
risy. Who gave the colored man the rite
to stay in Ohio? The Dimocrisy. What
Vice President he'd nig-or rather colored
woman-for a wifi, wich wood hev been
mistress Nv the White House, he'd the
President bin Republican, and consekently
worth our while to assassinate him2 Rich
ard NJ johnson, Dimocrat. Who hey
bin
AT this pint pert mulatto remarked that
he he'd word to say, and | gave place to
him. He wnz himself a conservative niger
Nv the most conservatest kind. He shood
vote with his white brothers cheerfuIly. but
not for the reasons wich the speaker (meanin
me) he'd given. He shood do it from
higher, holier motive than any advanced. |
He should do it from motives of consan- |
guinity. He he'd alus bin a humble niqger |
believer himself to be Nv an inferior race.
but sence he had been free he had been |
searchin his pedigree. He he'd been agree |
aby surprised. He found he he'd the best
blood nv Virginny coursin thro his veins. |
The Confederit candidate for Congris wuz
his half brother, halleloogy, and he was
closely related to two thirds Nv all sed candi-
dates supporters, bless be Lord, and ub
course he'd vote lim, for de man that
woodn't take car nv his own blood is wuss
nor an infdel lie felt grateful to the con-
candidates family. Troo, he wuz
half niger, but he prided hisself on the
tother half. He felt all the pride NV race
Nv wich he he'd heerd so much. His ances-
tors ION his fadder side) he'd been probably
the comrades NV Washington, and he wood
ent degrade hisself BY mixen with men NV no /
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