The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1871-08-10
4 RADICAL LoVEFE4ST.
An nsAstounding Orgy on Edisto Island
Bowen on the GuberHaiorial War
Path,

The beligerent Bowen has again assumed MS
war paint and feathers and Is on the war patn Hls
plan orcampaignis to lure the credulous colored'
masses to retired groves upon the Islands Of the
sea by such devices as the seductive ginger cake
and the exuberant root beer, and, having eK.
| hibted 10 them such daintIes, 10 innict
| upon them speeches from improvIsed and
and rustic platforms, wherein he lays his hand
upon bis heart and begs to know II they, his aa-
dience, whom he is glal to see and proud to call
his brethren, eau believe Of him, who thus ad-
dresses them, the scandalous and wicked tales
that are spread broadcast by those malicious
emssarles Of the Evil One, by which he begs to
be understood as meaning the Democrats, whose
hearts are deceltful above all things, and desper
ately wicked? Whereupon his dusky audience,
with lively sense Of ginger cake to come re-
spond with shouts Of "Hearl hearI' "Ki yil
"Bress de Lamb,n and in divers other incoherent
and irrelevant manners, express their hearty
reverence for the gentle Bowen, and their high
appreciation OF the bovine barbecue.
lovefeast OF this character took place last Sat.
urday night, at the Camp Ground on Edisto Is.
land. 1t Is described with gushing enthusiasm by
some OF its attendants, and from all accounts 1t
must have been sort OF cross between colored
camp meeting and Voudou lncantation. The am.
bilious Bowen exhorted and expostulated. berated
and besought and pumped the excitement In his.
shouting audience up to fever heat. BE argued
and they applauded, he gesticulated and they
roared, he danced and they Frustrated
themselves in convulsions OF delight, until
the audience resolved itself int1 promiscu-
ous squirning, perspiring mass of odori.erous
enthusiasm. Men shouted and women howled, the
little pickannies lost their ginger cakes BY
being crushed to Nubian jellies In the seething
mass; the Saturnalian echoes resounded from the
trees and scared the solemn owls down from their
resting places, who circled round the scene ahd
.gazed with big.eyed wonder. Next a rush was
made for Bowen by the enusire' shades, VINO re-
fused to be psciaed, except by shaking hands
with their new apostle. They hustled him OF
Of the platform, and, stretching their numbers
out in two long lines, the shaking Of hands
began. The martyred orator passed down the
CENTRE his arms on either side working up and
down, as seized by the dusky gauntlet, and
looking like the levers OF an erratic pump.
Ole blind men, toothless and tottering came
and put their hands upon him because they
''wanted to see dis man Bowen;" women jostled
out Of the line by the stronger men, reached their
hands through the ranks, plucked the hem OF
Bowen's garments, and shouted with rapture:
81 touched 'um l touched 'um y, and mothers
brought rags and handkerchiefs, laid them up
against their new found Moses, and took them
away to lay on their SICK babies. In fact the
dusky mass did every thing that gushing idiots
cold do under the strongest stimulant Of excite
ment, and then The cakes and beer superVening,
they devoured them with eager avidity, until,
With the disappearance Of the last ginger cake,
and the squeezing Of the last beer bottle they
wended their devious ways back TO their various
dena- making night hldeous as they passed with
crazy shouts Of "Bowen for Governor Oh letmy
people ge"