Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1870-12-02

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SRHI ~ SSf TRs SrssooSt Enc tcY 4 N EfM va foRf
AT THE LATE ELECTION.

try hez made In the direckshun NV despot-
ismv-AoR gradually but how shoorly our !
rites are bein wrested from us The last
elecltshitn In Moo York wuz conducted in
lpanner wieh calls blush to my checks
whgneyer ! think NY IT, ~. :, a.. s.,
The tyrant and despot who sits entrench-
ed in State in Washington perfected by
bayonits hez, PERSONNEL to attempt to con
trol an eleckshun by military power Bay.
onitsht an deckshun / Bloc coated hire.
Inns sent TO d city to inflooence an eleck
shttt Moo York votin--not ez she pleases
but according to q law NV Congress- sed
lay. bein enforced by debased and degra-
ded solieryl Ez an AmerilSin citizen /
shudaer at this and so does Teddy
O.Reurke and Tim O'Shaughnessy wich
wIiz Judges ltv theseleckshun with me in
our deestticlSiin the 9th Ward. - "a
We he'd bin notified by the chiefs NV
Tsmmany the day before the eleckshun'
that soldiers he'd bin sent to the city whose
bisiniseit wood be to see that everybody
voted who wanted to, and that we mustn't
refuse, nobody. We took our seats in the
mornin IN a state NV mental depreshun
wich may be imagined, but can't be de-
scribed. From time immemoral this dces-
trick he'd bin yoonanimusly dimocraticy
and Il Avllz the pride iuvCthe Dimocrasy-to
keep it so. They he'd a simple rool by
wich it wuz managed. Eff man offered
vote whose name didn't begin with an o.
or Nc he wuz requested by the chal-
lengers to show his ticket to them. Eff he
refeoSed, gOPoip the event ny his complying,
eff Hdzianythng but the estrate Iamlnany
ticket ne wuz dubbed about the head till
he come to the conclooshun that he didn't
care about vOtin, and got away cz soon oz
possible.
43dtalfthiswuz to be changed by the eX
ercse NV broot forse ON the part nv the
tyrant. Grant and we he'd bin Notified TO
yield to it! O'Shaughnessy and o RourHe
went like children, There is in the dces-.
triet some tlirtyniegers, and the boys he'd
procoored clubs NV souperioT strength and
length, expressly To meet theeNigeneies Nv
that case The polls bein at my place, /
he'd procoored three barrels NV pecoolyer
whiSkey with red pepper nit to inf1ame
em'to the proper pitch for such an emer-
gency, and our other preparashens for fair
eleekshun were made in n most complete
ma~ner.
We sat behind the ballot boX-me and
ORoufke and o. 'Shaughnessy. Before tile
box Stands Patsey Farrell, Tiny O'Ryan,
Jimmy Donahue and a score NV Others, all
with dozen drinks in EN- and new clubs
in their hands. Up comes man and Of
fers a vote, giving his name ez Thompson.
Last year the man by the name Nv ThOmp-
ssnMo0d hev bin pounded into a Jelly be-
fore the word he'd escaped his mouth for
lie wuz born in Connecticut aud sich hez
Tie8er bin allowed to vote at these polls.
Fsee by the ticket wich he hands me that
its a Republican ticket Patsey Farrell
raises his club but | warn him by look
not to strike. Itake the vote, put it in
tie box, with a sinkin sensashun at the
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away unhurt The knowledge that the
poundin NV Thompson would bring down.
uppnNfs the bloc c0teIl hirelins NV the mil
itaTy despotism under which we live. sub
iects the decsti'ick to the disgrace Nv re-
ceiyinaa Republican vote from ConneGti1
cut, man! Good Lord are we in free
&merky or Austria? FREE AMERIKY,
fofsOoth
10 But it didn't end with Thompson. Mig
gers came up and voted. The inferior race
Red the impoodence to fall into line with
white men, and vote after them and before
them. This cost us at least one hundred
votes Teddy O'DOnnel he'd voted twice,
ON a contract he he'd TO vote eight times at
this polls. 1t so happened that each time
he came up there wuz a Niger before him
in the line, and one behind him. The third
time he came up to vote the third name on
his list, it wuz ez before-he wuz sand
wiched IN between two niggers. Indignant
at this, (and who can blame him?) Teddy
asktgme if this thing wuZ to go ON all day ?
ef he wuz to be compelled to put in his
oshersfive votes behind a nigger, each time,
am be berventid all day from KILN one NV
en-? .-.....r Ann
= soothed Teddy all Good. told him
,how it wuZ-the situashen we Wuz in, and
begged him to be pashent and endoOr wat
slhe coodent help.
- But he woodent. The chivalric nacher
: nv the man wuz so stirred up that he re-
foosed to vote agin. Rather than hev him
lose his days york took the five votes al
Wunst and certified for him that he he'd
voted EN- ez per contract, that he mite
draw his money. / wuZ not altogether
disinterested in this either. The entire
sum will be in my till in less than week
for Teddy's wife manages to keep the
children clothed, wich leaves him entirely
free ov the more grovelin cares Nv life.
1aaBut I want it distinctly understood tina
this interference NV the 'oligark at Wash
inton7ditlnt affect the general result a par
utiele. We didn't count the votes TIL lat
lat mite, after Tweed had heard from tn
'srural distriks. A messenger come int,
the room and announced that everything
wuz ready now to be counted.
"HoW much majority do you require u
q, mes"
ss0 "Lemme see" said the messenger, run
ming his finger down a list, " this is tn
sixteenth deestrick NV the 9th Ward. Yol
are set down for 3l2 majority. Did yol
spole that number Nv votess'
s.-r" Mol only 210, and NV that numbe
probably 40 wuz for Woodford."
-- That don't matter. Count EN- 31E
and all for Hoffman. We hev been losil
in some NV the rooral deestricks and il
some NV the wards in the city, and it mus
me made up"
This is perhaps eZ shoor a way NV dOiT
il ez the other, but it isn't ez satisfactory +
the people. 1t does away With the seryi
ces NV great many repeeters wich he
alluZ made livin by yotin, and ez the
aint no tightin at the polls, great man
shoulder hitters lack employment The
agin, it is open to another obieckshun. w
made the vote in this deestrick yOOnoni
mus for Hoffman. There hez bin NOR
than thirty men of the deestrick who he
come out in the papers, Stain that the
voted for WoodtOrd, with vieN
nv maxim trouble Nv course it won
, amount to anything, for we run he.Court
and everything else in the State, but it
-, unpleasant and disagreeable. Ef these fe
lows had bin knocked on the head whe
they offered their votes, ez has bi
11the custom, they would not be able to sa
now that they actilly voted for WOOdforC
E'F7 But all this trouble results from the apa
thy and cowardis NV the Dimocrisy them
q, . selves Had we he'd the nerve TO hev shOl
dered muskits in 1864, and rescood Rich
mond from the grasp NV the Ablismists-
ef we he'd establisht the Confederacy e
,s we shood hev done, we never shood he
o, seen our rites going from us one by one
But we didn't do it, and we are driftin int
~ worse than despotism In Moo Yor
~ alone hev we any rites, and them is bein
81 7assailed perpetooally. Ishoodnet wonde
eff ut the next eleckshun Il Federal Office
shood hev the countin NV the ballots!
.f... PETROLEUM Y. Nasty,
(Which wuz Postmaster).
.esry~ ~ A Firm Hand. sT