The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-08-04
COLORED VOTERS.
Practical Illustration of the Fifteenth Amend.
ment In the SOuth-signifcan and Amusing
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Practical Illustration of the Fifteenth Amend
ment In the south-signifcant and Amusing
Scenes mt the Polls.
The Louisville Journal of the I'd inst. has the
following
The election yesterday, contrary to the expec-
tations of many, passed off in a quiet and orderly
manner. The greatest facility was afforded
every voter.
Sambo was in his glory. Congress had invested
him with a privilege that he had aspired to only
by proxy; and now that he was to really have
the right to vote, just like the white people,
pleased him as q toy pleases a child.
They came arrayed in their best habiliments,
as If to do honor to the occasion. They were at
the polls long before the white people got up,
hour, and at 9 o'clock the Radical ticket was
actually ahead. But from that time their vot tie
slackened, and the steady tide of Democratic
voters soon overcame the little majority, and
finally left the black ticket far in the distance.
The park was a salient point of attack with
Sambo q Co. The night before it was announced
in their churches and places of meeting that it
wouldn't do to vote for the park, because it was
said it was to be for the white people eXclu-
sively. So nearly every negro, with scarcely an
exception indeed, pumped his vote against the
park. Said one darkey, 81 objec' to de park, >"
and dow went his name against it. Another
remarked with something of elegance, 81 don't
prefer de park" And so il was with the darkey
vote and the property holder. who was against
further taxation, and those who didn't care q fig
about it. The park was beaten.
a lew u6OTOeb, Olu anu respectful INHABITANTS,
voted the Democratic ticket. 1t gave deep
offense to the mass of the colored population,
who uttered imprecations, both loud and deep.
Said one, "Boys, don't you think - voted
wild de Democrats? He did, and my 'pinion is
any nigga which would vote wild de Democrats
ought to be drummed out of town." eyes" said
another, she ought to be drummed out of de
world"
At the courthouse q Democrat paid a negro q
quarter to vote his ticket, but the darkey fooled
him, and finally slipped out into a crowd of his
people, and enjoyed a hearty laugh with them
over the trick he played. A slab-sided, corn-fed
can't vote dat way. My boss agreed to give me
fifty cents q week, and he cheated me outen
twenty-five cents. 1 can't vote the same ticket
he does" An old negro man said to another
.'Chile, I never did 'spect to see dis day, and I
with just enough white blood in his veins
to make him a scamp, was persuading q
youth to go up and vote. The boy said, 81
won't. / is only nineteen years old, and it amt
right" The tempter told him nobody would
know it, but the boy refused and left.
At the Seventh ward a negro offered to vote.
"Where do you live?,' said the Judge. "Over
yonder-up dat street; been living dar twelve
months" ''What street is that?' asked the
Judge. "Don't know its name, sar." ''Where
did you live before you moved there?" Cup
town, sar." o what street," ''Don't know
de names of de streets, sar; l js come to town.
He was permitted to depart.
But few of the negroes could read their tickets,
but there was no difficulty on that score, aS
there were plenty of white men at the poll te
call out the names of the candidates for them. q
1t was quite amusing to watch them as they
gathered at the polls. One of the bravest would
march in and vote, and then the others would
gather around him and eagerly inquire as to the
modus operandi of casting a vote. One old darkey
was heard to say to several others:-"It amt ne
trouble to vote. It's jess as easy. Any niggel
dat amt got sense enough to vote ought to bt
knocked in de head" IFt'