Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1871-07-13

Bigler, swearin that things wuz now jest
ez they should be, and that under the ar
rangement he Good act with the Democracy
once more, invited us all to take a drink
Instantly every man NV us rushed to the
bar and we all drank to "the moo depar-
ture" and immejitly res med our pleasant
talk with the niggers.
In perhaps ten minutes Joe sed that this
wuz the proudest moment NV his life.
The people NV the Cross Roads, his ma
tive place, wuz at last Twin in harmony
and wuz all brothers. The white, the
black, the Northern man and the South
ern man wuz all standin on the same plat
form, in peace.
"Trool trool josef" sed / graspin a
pertikelerly black niger by the hand, "it
is ez it shood be. Thank Heven for this
blessed dayl"
Il jine 700 in your thankfulness," sed
Joesef. "Ef had flag / wood wave
it, but ez l hewitt a fiag-let's take a
| drinkl''
There wuz another rush, and after the
drink we resoomed our conversashen with
the niggers.
"Bascum," sed Joe, "to save time,
spose you put a gallon out on the bar
and let our reconciled friends help their
selves"
This proposishen wuz reserved with
alacrity and there wuz one more rush.
The niggers didn't git drop NV this, for
we Nv the Corners give EN- no room. The
gallon wuz consoomed in perhaps four
minits and half.
There is suthin in whiskey that lets out
whatever is mean and ugly in man. A
man in a state NV sobriety may control his
self, but when he hez whiskey down him,
wat there is in him is certain to come out
1t wuz so in this case.
Issaker Gavitt after the fifth drink he'd
the ugliest glare in his eyes / ever saw !;
McPelter, Pennibacker and Pogram be-
come suddenly reserved At this juncter
! Bigler sung out:
Another gallon, Bascumr' and that
gallon went quickly ez the other
There wuz a sudden change The moo
departure wuz forgotten. Issaker and the
rest NV EN- found there wuz niggers and
Northerners in the room, and that wuz all
they saw. The whisky he'd revived Their
dormant Dimocrisy, and brot to the sur
face Their actooal selves. They wuz Dime
Gratis agin, NV the old stripe.
wat the merry hell are 700 doin here
with white men; you black scoundrel ~
sed Issaker to the most spectacle Niger
we he'd been able to sekoor.
| Why-why-Is here becoSe-"
IssAAKER heerd no more, but struck a
well directed blow and that niger spred
hisself onto the floor. | had too much
down me to be very particular, and from
sheer force Nv habit | knocked another
one endways. The entire corner follered
suit, and with the cries of kill the id
niggers-kill the id carpet baggers, "
and so on, there was the liveliest shindy
that ever participated in.
The exershun sobered me n trifle, and
over the oaths and exclamashuns, | herd
the jeering laugh of BIGGLER and the
| fiendish laff NV POLLOCK. Then seed it
all. 1t had all.ben put up by those twin
devils. to Spite the plan had laid to cap
cher the niger vote.
1t only cost Pollock and me 50 too
see how sincere you wuz," said BIGeLER
to me the next day, "and it would hev
bin cheap at twice the money"
/ don't think we shell cit the new de-
parture to work very well. To keep our
people actin decently toward the niggers,
we must keep whiskey away from EN-.
IF we keep whiskey away from the Dino
cracy, the older ones Nv the party will die,
and the younger ones will learn to read
and will finally drift into Sunday skools
and from thence inevitably into the Re
publikin party. The conundrum is a
perplexin, one, and confess my intellect
amt ekal to the solvin of it. We must
hev, wat from the very nacher Nv things,
we can't git. Wat the end is to be don't
know.
PETROLEUM V. NAsBY, p. NJ,
(Which wuz Postmaster)