New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-12-11
Nasty.
Mr.. Nasty Lamenteth Over the Ham
pcring of the Democracy in New York
at the Late Election.

at the Late Election.
HARP ERIN sLOoS,
Sixth Ward. Moo York November IL, 1870.
The eleckshun in Moo York is over for
witch Heaven be praised. MY sole sinks
within me when look back and think Nv
the alarmin progress our wunst free cOun-
try hez made in the direckshun of despot-
ism-hOw gradually, but how shOOrly our
rites are being wrested from us. The last
eleckshun in New York wuz conducted in a
manner witch calls blush on my cheek
whenever l think NV it.
The tyrant and despot who sits entrenched
in state in Washington, perfected by bayO-
nets, has PERSONNEL to attempt to control
an eleckshun by military power Bayonits
at an eleckshun! Bloc coated hirclins sent
to city to infiooence an eleckshun Moo
York yOtin-not eZ she pleases-but ac-
cordin to law nv Congress, sed law bein
enforced by debased and degraded soljery,
EZ an American citizen l shudder at this.
and SO does Teddy ORourke and Tim
O'Shaughnessy. wich WIZ judges NV the
eleckshun with me in our deestricA in the
Sixth Ward.
We he'd bin notified by the chiefs Nv Tam
many the day before the elckshun that sol
jers he'd bin sent to the city, whose biznis it
wood be to see that everybody voted who
wanted To. and that we mustn't refOose no.
boldly. We took our seats in the mornin in
state of mental depreshun witch may be
imagined but can't be described. From
time immemorial our deestrick he'd bin yoo-
unanimously dimocratic, and it wuz the pride
Nv the DimOcrasy to keep it 80. They had a
simple rOOl by witch it wuz managed Eff a
man offered to vote whose name didn't begin
with O. or Nc he WIZ requested by the chal-
lcngers to show his ticket to them. Ell he
refOoseH, or, in the event NV his complying.
eff it wuz anything but the strate Tamlnany
-. L IL Ill liz,
come to the cOoclOOshun that he didn't care
about votin and got away ez soon ez possible.
But all this wuz to be changed by the ex-
ercise Nv brOOt forse on. the part NV the
tvrant Grant. and we he'd bin notified to
yield to it. O'Shaughnessy and OROurke
wept like children. There is in the deestrict
some thirty niggers, and the boys he'd pro
cOOred clubs NV sOoperior strength and
length. especially to meet the exigencies Nv
that case The polls bein at my place. had
procoored three barrels NV pecoOlyer
whisky with red pepper in it to inflame EN-
| to the proper pitch for SIGH an emergency,
| and our other preparations for fair eleck-
| shun were made in a most complete manner.
We sat behind the ballot-bOx-Ine and
O'Rourke and O'Shaughnessy. Before the
box stands Patsey Farrell, Tiny O'Ryan.
| Jimmy Donahue and a score Nv Others. all
| with a dozen drinks in 'em and new clubs
in their hands. Up comes man and offers
| vote, giving his name ez Thompson. Last
| wear tho man by the name Nv Thompson
| would hev bin pounded into jelly before
| the word he'd escaped his mouth, for lie
| wuz born in Connecticut, and sich hez
never been allowed to vote at these polls.
| l see by the ticket which he hands me that
| it's a Republican ticket. Patsey Farrell
| raises his club, but l warn him by look
| not to strike. take the vote, put it in the
| box with sinkin sensashun at the pit Nv
| nv stOmick, and Thompson goes away I'M
! hurt The knowledge that the pOundin wv
Thompson would bring down upon us the
bloc cotcd hirelins NV the military despotisnl
under which we live, subjects the deestricls
to the disgrace Nv receivin Republican
vote from Connecticut man. Good Lord
| are we in free Ameriky or Austria! Free
| Ameriky forsooth!
| But it didn't end with Thompson. Mig
gers came up and voted. The inferior race
he'd the lmpOodence to fall into line with
white men, and vote after them and before
| them. This cost us ut least one hundred
votes. Teddy O'Donnel he'd voted twice on
a contract he had to vote eight times at this
polls. 1t SO happened that each time be
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 was ez befOre-he WIZ sandwiched
| in between two niggers. Indignant at this
| land who can blame him y Teddy askt me
| eff this thing wuz to 20 Oh all day! eff he
waz to be compelled to put in his other five
votes behind niger each time, and be
prevented all day from KILN one NV EN-
l soothed Teddy all Good. l told him
| how it WIZ, the situashen we WIZ in. and
begged him to be pashent and endoOr wat
4 he cOOdent help.
But he woodent. The chivalric nacher OF
the man wuz so stirred up that he refoozed
to vote again. Rather than have him lose
| his DAYS work l took the five votes al
wunst and certified for him that he had
voted EN- ez per contract, that he might
| draw his money. wuz not altogether dis
interested in this either. The entire sun
Will be in nv till in less than week. fol
Teddy's wife manages to keep the children
! clothed, which leaves him entirely free Nv
the more .roveln cares of life.
| But l want it distinctly understood tina
interference NV the oligark at Washington
didn't affect the general result particle
| We didn't count the votes till late at mite
after Tweed had heard from the rural dees
j tricks. A messenger come into the room
and announced that everything wuzread,
| now to be counted.
allow much majority do you require u'
me!'
"Lemme see," said the messenger, run
| ming his finger down a list, "this is the 81 <
teenth deestrick NV the Sixth Ward. fO'
are set down for 3l2 majority. Did yo'
pole that number of vOtesw
mo; only go, and Nv that number prob
ably 40 wuz for Woodf0rd."
'srhat don't matter. Count EN- 3l2, and
all for Huffman We hAv hoen 1Osin in aOm