Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1869-05-21

will remember at the polls them witch
hev stood yoor friends, NV whom am
witch"
Dumfounded, staggered over to an
other who was candidate for Treasurer,
and to my surprise and horror he not
only gave $40 but took me by the arm
in most afieckshent manner, and insist
id on takin me around and assistn me
in raisin the amount l needid. Feelin
that so far ez hatin the niger wuz con-
ccrned, all wuz LOST, / recklessly went
with him, and RELY lid raise Sl60 cash
off NV the condinates for the county Off
ces, and one witch desires okepy seat in
Congris. Only wmst wuz this wretch
nonplussed. Turin corner sharp, we
came upon suthin like fifteen gentlemen
who wuz workm on the streets with a
ball and chain attached to EN-. The
mint his eyes struck EN- he loosed his
holt Of me and shot ahead, keepin in adj
vance till we turned the next corner.
"Why this vancouver ?"-asktI l, thank
full that he had even that much NV orig
incl Democratic feelin in him.
"My dear sir |" replied he, 700 will
excuse me, bat the fact is I'm in a pre-
carious situashen. I'm candidate and
it's close. Them gentlemen with the ball
and chain hev votes, and hev most
crooil protocols agin those NV your color.
We must humOr their idiosyncrasies, till
we can correct EN-. The time is comm,
and I'm laborin for it mite and day, when
it will all be removed. Ny deer sir, at
the polls this fail will you and yoor flock
remember the sacrifs / hev made and
am maxim %
But 1 did come to greet. Oneuv these
candidates insisted upon takin me, mig
ger ez he supposed me to be, home to his
house to dinner. Injoodishus ez it wuz |
went, and ther met my fate. He led me
to a chamber, and without thinking Nv
the burnt cork on my hands l undertook
to wash EN-, wich / make pint NV doom
reglerly twice week. The first splash
in the water showed me my blunder.-
Off come the color and | stood afore him
a white man in disguise. He gave one
look at my hands, and the kickin ! Ig
anonymously he led me to the front dool
and one kick landid me on the sidewalk
Thank Heaven he coodent kick the $16(
out of my breeches pocket
1t is needlis too pursoo this disgustiI
subjick further.
Ez niger wuz welcomed when
wuz known that | wuz white man
wuz ANONYMOUSLY kickt! Is this the be
ginning Nv new order Of things l
the niggers to receive all the smiles here
after Nv Dimocrats who want Office ?
fear me. No sooner is thera probabilit,
Nv this race gitin vote than the Dim
ocratic leaders, forgittin their proud eau
cashen blood, forgitten the difference il
the anatomical structer Nv the two race
and forgittin that the minnit they Civ
the niger vote, Their daughters mus
all marry niggers they forgit all this
and cuddle with them the same ez the,
alluz hev with other inferior classes.
| returned home weary and sad, AM
silent. | he'd nothn to say to Bascom
no cheerin words to sling at Deekin Pc
gram. They didn't know wat went fol
nor how | went, nor shell they ever know
| am, however, satisfied that / must in
mejitly make shift into suthin. M
time here is rapidly DRAWN to close
the shadders is elosin round me, and tn
mite is at hand.
PETROLEUM Y. Massey, p. NJ,
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