The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1870-10-22

produce, &c. You can go around and
see what you can do before you come
to me-"
There was colored man from the
Rust place, who carried q bale of cotton
to town to dispose of. Before going to
Mr.. Brewster's, he went around and
was offered Is cents by Mr.. Gerson. He
then carried it to Mr.. Brewster, who
looked at it, and said, "This is pretty
good lowland; will give you II cents
for it.' "Stop," says the colored man,
"I was offered more than that for it,"
i" Where ?" asks Mr.. Brewster. Ground
here at Mr.. Gerson's they offered me 10
cents.' "Well, but you were to take
it in goods" eyes" says the colored
man, cor a part of it," "Ah, WE'LL"
says Mr.. Brewster, 'sthey put such
high per cent. on the goods there, that
it will not amount to any more than
the II cents that 1 offer you. I Twill sell
you my goods cheap enough to make
up the three dollars difference on the
hundred" So the colored man let him
have the cotton and suffered the cheat
to be palmed Off on him in that way.
If Mr.. Brewster sold goods to him
like he does to other colored people, he
made more off of him than any one else
would have done; he actually cheated
that man out of ut least forty dollars on
that one bale of cotton. I know it, be-
cause was selling cotton at the same
time, and it was selling for eighteen
cents. So this is again that HI of a
| saint O. III. B!
Well, don't know, whether or not,
1 should keep on longer; but there are
u few more things L want you all to
know. There was another cOlOred man
who came into this store and bought
goods to the amount of 81 90. The man
took out a five. dollar gold piece, and
handed it to Mr.. Brewster in payment.
He picked it up and put it in the
drawer, and asked the man if he wanted
anything more. He said no. Then I
will give you the change, said Brewster.
So he pulled out u one dollar 9reenback
bill and gave it to him. Gold was worth
at that time twenty cents; but you see
| he cheated this poor cOlOred man out OF
all that difference between his gold and
! the greenbacks.
Now, I suppose you all think Mr..
Brewster to be a smart and educated
| man. will tell you how far his smart
| ness and education goes. If any of you
were to go to work for him tomorrow
he would not know how to draw up in
| writing an obligation to bind the bar
! gain. This Is the smart man, O. II. b.
That is just what caused the split in the
Convention he did not want any man
that was any smarter than himself to go
to the legislature, and that is the reason
he kicked upso. He wanted to take An
thony OvertOn, because he knew that
| in his company, he would not be detected
when he exposed his ignorance. That
| is what is at the bottom of all this mans
cutting up. He did not want to go in
| company with n man that knew more
| than himself. Mr.. Brewster told me
before, that he did not care about the
office, but that he had to tlt,bble az pol
tiles u little SO as to carry OH his store
| business, and that he would abide the
decision of the convention, let the NOM
inees be who they might. He thought,
as he has told me, that all the colOretl
population belonged to him, but after
he found they did not all work to suit
him, then he kicked up Il row and flew
of:-the saint, &c.
The last Convention that met, the
members all being assembled, uncle
George Green, good old honest Re
publican, while they were discussing
the proceedings Of the first convention
| trying to make them out illegal, ven
tured to say that they were not illegal
according to his best understanding
whereupon one of Brewster's friends
shouted: "Put him out! Kick him out
into the street!' So they cast him out
and that for no other cause than that he
had had one of his eyes opened.
| Now, gentlemen, don't want to bee
You to vote for me: that is not my OBJ.
ject. I only want to lead you into the
light, that you may see what sort of q
! man the Hon. o. H. Brewster is. Vote
for whom you please, but vote the Radi'
cal ticket; for we shall be victorious, as
sure as there is a God in heaven. The
Democrats themselves have already adj.
mitted it. So mote it be!