Democratic enquirer. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1867-1873, 1871-08-30
The Game of the BayOnet.

prudence would dictate that the
bayonets would be kept in the
background until the Presi-
dental election, or to within a
few months of that ordeal, but
we were simply mistaken.
The Radical central commit.
tee of Louisiana called a con-
vention of niggers, carpet,b bag
gers and scal.a.wags to meet in
the city of New Orleans on the
9th inst, for the purpose of
nominating candidates for Gov
ernor, 1t. Governor and other
State officers, and to appoint
delegates to the presidential
convention etc. The conven-
ton was called to meet in the
u. S. Custom House. Early
in the morning a regiment,
more or less, Of United States
troops marched into the house,
stacked their arms and posted
their sentinels at all the doors
and windows to guard the in
gress to the house. These
troops were furnished by a lit
tie tool of Grants by the name
of Reynolds. At the hour for
the meeting of the "black spir
it's and the white" Henry G.
Yarmouth, a thief and usur-
per, followed by some eighty
of his tools, headed by a Pinch.
back niger, repaired to the
Custom House to take part in
the proceedings of the oonven.
tion, but the Federal. soldiers
met them an the door, presen-
ted their bristling bayonets and
informed them that they could
not "come in" Yarmouth
(the ostensible Governor of the
State) became highly incensed
at this rebuff, mounted an i'm
provised rostrum and harrang
ued his followers in language
neither chaste nor compliment
ary to Grant and his Fedora
tools. The nigger Pinch back
caught the contagion and ora
ted heftily in favor of any kline
of despotic government in pref
erence to such a Republic a
we have under the Grant dy
nasty. We believe the mig
gers head was eminently leve
on that proposition; but al
their rant and fustian availe'
them not a whit, for there stoo'
Uncle Sans bull dogs as ineN
orable as fate, refusing to d.
aught but their masters bid
ding. The non,plused pay
triots moved an adjournmen
to another hall and Warmoutl
got into his carriage, (every
nail, screw, piece and parcel o
which he had stolen from the
people of the State) and his
enthusiastic niger admirers
loosened the horses from the
carriage and hitched themselve'
to it and bore their chief il
triumph through the city, witt
as great eclat as Ben. Butler
bore his spoons and silver ware
We hail this appropriate
service Of the niggers, as a har
binger of better days for th'
white people of the South. W.
incline to think the niggers O
New Orleans make far better
beasts of burden than they dc
voters, governors, etc. But we
digress. The Grant Office hold
ers, headed by Oscar Dunn
formerly q barber and boot
black on a steamboat, now 1t
Governor ofLouisiana, whew J
walked in the Custom House
and feared no evil from the
"Federals" therein posted. Tc
make a long story short, the
convention protected by bayo
nets of Uncle Sans soldiers.
indorsed Grant, appointed
Grant delegates, instructed
them to vote for Grant and ap-
pointed a Grant central com
mittee, every rascal of whi,l
IS o Federal or Grant Office.
holder. The other concern
went as unfalteringly for War.
mouth and Pinchback as the
bayonet convention did for
Grant.
This is a fight in which we
feel no interest farther than is
involved in the hone of its