The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1868-09-19

They determined to hev pertec yOonanlmlty
in their vote at the polls, and the three or
four niggers witch positively refoosed to jine
they hung, together with two white Ohio
farmers und one white Pennsylvany black
smith, wich persisted in Their "loyal," ez
they called it, principals. 1t he'd an excel
lent persuasive efl'eck upon the remaining
ones. They come in handsum and jined
withouta murmur.
The next place visited wuz smaller
village, one witch RELY gladdened me to re-
proach. In this class NV towns there is less
Nv that cold formality witch Characterize more
densely populated secshuns. In SIGH places
you find the troo gushin child of nacher.-
1t is splendid corn. growing seckshun, witch
soil is perkoolyerly favorable to Democracy.
In fact, corn and Democracy il inseperable,
and our largest majorities IL alluz where
there is the best and most luxuriant CORN
The distilers convert the corn into whisky
and the whisky converts original men into
Democrats, and then its plane sailin. 1t
takes three generashuns at least to bring
people out of whisky, and the state Nv toels
shoes, pants busted in the seat, and win
ders stuff with old hats, wich alluz marks
strickly Demokratic community. 1t is o
singler fact that we never fourished in a
soil adapted to wheat WITCH hcz ralerodes
thro it. Wheat will make whisky, but its
too fine favored, and facilities for gettin it
to market makes it too high in price. The
man who invented ralerodes struck a blow
at the hart Nv the party. For our purposes
we want a little Nv the fiery whisky that corn
produces, and want that little strong. But
this is disgresson.
At this pint the enthoosiasn wuz unbound.
ed. The Dimocrisy wuz all alive, but Their
wasn't that docility among the niggers that
expected. These cusses, ez soon ez they
saw me, and learned my biznis, took to the
woods. and we he'd to 60 after EN- to cleo
tioneer en,, witch the Democrisy did, takin
their dogs with EN-. 1t was cheerin site to
see EN- folerin the black cusses throo the
swamps, the moosic NV the yelpin nv the
dorgs cheerin us on to our work. Two or
three refoosed to be talked to, and their
bodies, like John Brown ), wuz left danglin
in the air, while ther soles went marching
on. We believe in every man a choosin
for hisself, and in the greatest freedom NV
speech and opinion, provdin aluz ther amt
nothin incenjary in it. Ez everythin that's
sed agin us we count incenjary, it simplifes
matters wonderfully.
I got one good meetin NV EN-, however, to
" ich l wuz indebted to Moo York dry
goo is merchant, who is here maxim siren
nous ,tfort to re. establish his trade wickidly
and crooelly broken up by the wicked on
pleasantnis wich Linken inaugerated by re-
sstin the South in 1861. He is conserva-
tive who is after trade, and consekenly is
willin to do anythin. He told me ola niger
funeral to take place in the afternoon, and
that a score Nv US arm ourselves,
surl ound EN- and keep EN- in whether or no,
Ontil : he'd made my speech. $50 ank.
shus am L." he sed to retailer Nv dry
goods, (itwuz dry goods he wuz sellin, by a
singler coincidence) "for the success NV
principals, that WI guard one Nv
The doors myself And he dil. it, swearin
at Yankees all the time, and pelrouncin
cow" coaw," the while. notist it, but
It mattered not to me. Why shood we lie
partikler ez to the tools we yoose? When
We shake hands with SIGH, can't we put on
gloves?
We surrounded the church and notified
EN- thay they cood'nt pass till we wuz thro,
and l commenced my speech, and spoke it
hro. insisted that ther interests lay with
her kind, good masters; that they he'd bin
,revously deceived in sposin that there wuz
any antagonism between fine races. Who, l
lskt, gave the colored man the right to vote
n Moo York? The Democrisy- Who gave
he colored man the rite to stay in Ohio?-
The Democrisy. What Vice President he'd
l colored woman for wife, which wood hev
Din mistress Nv the White House, he'd the
President bin Republican, and consistently
,ur while to assassinate him? Richard NJ.
Johnson, a Dimokrat. Who hev bin
At this pint pert mulatto remarked that
he he'd a word to say, and I gave place to
lim. He wuz himself conservative mig
ger NV the most conservatest kind. lie
,hood vote with his white brothers cheerful
" but not for the reason witch the speaker
meanin mel he'd given. He shood do it
N h,nhar hn1,ar ot, than nu-
He should do it from motives of
He he'd alluz bin humble
bigger, bleevin himself to be one Nv all in
error race, but sence he he'd bin free he
ned bin searchin his pedigree. He he'd bin
,greeably surprized. He found he he'd the
pest blood NV Virgnny coursin thro his
'eins. The Confederit candidate for Con.
yris wuz his half brother, halleloogy! and he
vas closely related to two-thirds Nv all sed
supporters, and Nv course he'd
yote him, for de man that woodn't take car
" his own blood is wuss nor an lnfdel.
He felt grateful to the conservative can
lidate's family. Troo he wuz half niger,
,ut he prided hisself on the tsther half
He felt all the pride Nv race NV witch he had
lecrd so much. His ancestors ION his fad
ler's side) he'd bin probably the comrades
" Washington, and he woodn't degrade
himself by mixin with men Nv no family
rom the North. He wuz poor, but his pro
enitors ION his ladders side) wuz gentle
men, and he stood on blood.
And the niggers, Dustin with latter at the
age witch they saw depicted onto the count
Nv their white friends, got up to
cave. We tried to stop EN- so that | Good
'peek further, but ez they he'd more revolt
Ters than we he'd, and didn't appear to be
lisinclined to yoose EN-, we didn't attempt
orce. The most Nv these niggers he'd bin
n the servis, and 700 can't make men do
,ile who hev borne arms. shell continyoo
NY work, however, never miudin these tenn
oorary backsets.
PETROLEUM V. Massey, ?. NJ,
(Wich is Postmaster.)
WYOMING VALLEY" Gray beard,' of the
Press, is responsible for the
statements:
"The entire erea of the Wyoming Valley,