Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1876-08-14
Nasty.
Mr.. Massey HAS AN ARGUMENT IN THE COURSE
OF WHICH HE CONvINCES AN Elk CoNFEDER-
ATE THAT he SHOULD VOTE FOR TnDEN.

H..
OF WHICH HE CoNvINCEs AN Elk coNFEDER-
ATE THAT HE SHOULD VOTE FOR IILDEN.
CONFIDENT X ROADS, }
WITCH IS IN THE STATE w KENTUCKY, :
July Doth, 1876 \
l hev wished thousand times that he'd the
fool killers mallet, for jist yeer. l shood
doose the dmocratic majority very much, eff
yoosed it, but shood hev the satisfaction of hevin
a better breed NV men for the next generashun.
Death don't more than half do its dooty in this
visnity, or rather it amt discriminating enuh. Eff
death wuZ ez discriminating eZ it is industrious,
there wood be easier work here for me.
he'd a set to with a venerable old moss-back
here, who never voted anything but the dimocrat-
ic ticket and who got into his wooden head that
wat the people ought to hev wuz more green
bax; and who, in consequence, he'd made up his
mind to oppose Tiden. He didn't want no OILS
and so | coodent bring any argooments that were
satisfactory to me to bear onto him; and ez he
wuz simply agoin for wat he bleeved to be the in
terests NV hissef and the country he'd tutf time
with him.
He wuz bound to vote agin Tilden any how, and
he'd put up banner onto his house on witch he
he'd inscribed, death to Tilden and the bloated
hard money aristocrats,' and wuz organizin
movement NV dimocrats agin him, and NV course
he'd to go for him. ! won't hev any insurbordna-
shen IN the Cross-Rodes.
l he'd some trouble with him, but | finely
brought him to his milk.
"Why do you oppose Tilden?' l asked him,
was no escape.
"Becoz," sed he, 81 want more greenbax Be-
coz l want to be emancipatid from the domnyum
Nv the bloate aristocrats Nv Wall street, and
want to keep up the era NV prosperity witch we hev
enjoyed ever sence mule wood bring two hun
dred dollars, and SIGH"
SIS them the only questions WITCH is involved in
this campane p asked him.
They is ennff for me- wuz his reply.
MY FRIEND" l retorted. "wuz 700 suffrer by
the unhOly war prOsecu It'd apin ma nv the Sonth
by the goriller, Linkin :"
81 wuz, d-n him. My plantashen wuz over
run by his hordes four times, two hun
dred likely niggers wuz stolen from me by his un
constooshnel proclamashen, and all the satisfac-
shen got wuz the KILN NV dozen or so NV Fed
raj pickes, at mite, while they wuz encamped naar
me. Wuz suffer? You bet"
Very good. 700 hate the Ablishnistsi"
"llate EN- ! shood say so'
ooh, my venerable friend" gushed, falling
onto his neck, chartered ez VOC hev bin by the
enemies NV the South-suirer that 700 are by the
unholy persecooshens Nv Linkin's minyuns-how
kin 700 vote to put power into the hands NV them
men, How kin 700 let SIGH little matter ez
currency or anything else, stand in the way NV
yoor vengeance? How kin 700 let SIGH matters
ez greenbax or gold stand in the way NV yoor
gitun pay for them nigsers NV witch yoo were
bereftid 7"
"Oh, ljeot do 700 know who Saml Tilden is !!
Don't 700 know that doorin the late fratrsidle
war he wuz the best friend 700 he'd Don't 700
know that he stood by yoo--by us--and did wat
ever he Good to give us the success We ardenty
desired' Wuzn't he and John Morrissey, and
liorasho Seemore, and the other DEMOCRATIC
statesmen NV Moo York, our constant and close
allies p
"To go back on Tilden now is the rankest in
gratitude. The Southern man wat lets hisself
forgit hisself to the extent NV castn vote agin
Tilden, iorgts the glorles Bull Run and Chan
cellorsvile. ZOO he'd son in the glorious victory
of Fort Per. Kin 700 cast discredit on his
services in the coz NV the SOUTH While he wuz
slawtrin niggers there, Tilden, our friend wuz
backin them ez wuz KILN EN- in Moo York
Every man who kivered hisself with glory dcs-
troyin the Niger orphan asyums in Moo York,
in 1868, Is to-day THROWN up his hat-ef he hez
one-for Tden, and every one NV EN- will vote CT
many times for him ez he is paid for.
I'm breef, my friend, Sam'l Tilden is Dino.