The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1876-08-15
Massey
Mr. yasty hns ma Argument I'm tho
Course OF which sse Consinces
an Ex-confrderaIc that he
should Vote for Tiiden.

I Mr. Sassy hns ma Argument I'm tho
Course OF which sse ConSinces
an Ex-confcdernIc that he
should Vote for riiden.
CoyrEpnrr Y RoDns.
wfcn Is ~ THE SrArE Nv KENTUCKY.
o Jooly 10Th. 1876.
I hev wished thousand times that I
he'd tie fool-killers mallct, for jist a
yeer. L shood redoose the Dimecratic
majority yerv much, ef yoosed il, but I
silool hev the satisfaction of hev;n a
betlor breed NV men Tor the next gem
erashuu. Death dou't more than half
10 its dooty in this visinity, or rather
il amt discriminating enuN Ef death
uuz ez discriminatin ez il is industri-
.ns, there wood be easier work here
! he'd a set to with a venerable old
J moss-baok here, who never voted any
| thing bat the Dimocratic ticket, and
VINO got into his wooden head that wat
the people onght to hev wuz more
green -hax; anu who, in conscience, he'd
/ made up iiis nina 10 oppose Tilden.
I He didn't want no OILS, aud 80 l COO
dent bring any argoomeuts that were
satisfactory To mo. 10 bear onto him;
aud "a he wnz simply agoin for wat he
/ bleeyeu to be the interests nv hiSself
aud the c1untry he'd TUT time with
I him
He WIZ bound 10 vote agin Tilden
anyhow, and he'd put mp a banner onto
/ his house on wich he he'd inscribed,
death to Tillcn aud the bioated hard
money aristocrats," and WIZ organiziu
| a movement Nv Dimocrats ngin HIM,
aud NV course l he'd to go for him. j
won't hev any insubordinashen in the
/ Cross RJdes.
1 he'd some trouble with him, but
| ilneliy brought him to his milk.
"Why do you oppose TildenY ask
ell him hsvin first got lim into corn
er where there was NJ escape.
"Becoz," sed lac, "Ivant more green
/ bax. Becoz / want to be emancipatid
1 from the dolninyum nv the bloated ar
/ keep MP the era nv prosperity wich we
| hev enjoyed ever sence u mule wood
/ bring two hundred dollars, aud sich. "
"Is them the only questions wich is
! involved IN this campane?" l asked
] him.
"rhey is enu9 fer me-" wuz his re-
ply.
"My friend" / retorted, "wuz 700 a
suifrcr oy the unholy war prosekootid
agin-ns NV the South by the goriller.
Liukin?'
II wuz, d--n him. NY plantashen
wuz oycrrnn by his hordes four times,
I two hundred likely niggers WIZ stolen
i from me by his unconstooshnel procla-
lnashcn, and all the satisfacshen / got
/ wuz the KILN nv dozen or so w
/ Fcdral pickets, nj mite, while they wuz
encampted near me. Wuz 1 suffrer?
/ You bet.
Every good. 700 hate the Ablish-
nists?"
"Hate EN-? shood say So"
"Oh my venerable freDd," / gushed,
fallin onto his neck. ''Martered ez voc
hev bin by the enemies NV the South
suffer that yoO are by the uuholy per.
secoosheus nv Linkin's minyuns-how
kin yoo vote To pat power into the
nands OF them men? How kin you let
sich little matter ez currency, or any
thing else. stHud in the way nv yoor
vengeance? How kin yoo let sich mat
ters eZ green bax or gold stand in the
way NV yoor gittin pay for them mig
gers NV vich yoo were bercftid?"
"Oh, Ijeotl do 700 know who Sam1
| Tilden is? Don't 700 know that door
in the late fratrisidle war hs wuz the
best frend yoo he'd? Don't 700 know
,ha. he stood by yoo--by us and did
watever he GOOD to give us the success
We So arden;ly desired? Wuzu't he and
John MorrisSey. and Horasho Seemore,
and the other Dimocratic statesmen NV
Moo York, our constant aud close
lllics?"
"To 60 back on Tilden now is the
rankest ingratituds. Tho Southern
man wat let's his9eH forgit hisself to
the extent nv casiin vote agin Tilden,
forgits the glories NV Ball Run and
! CaaLcellOrsyille. 700 he'd son in the
glorious victory of Fort Pillsr. Kin
700 cast 'liscrcdit on his services in the
coz NV the South? While he wuz slaw-
trim niggers there, Tilden our friend
wuz backin them ez wuz a KILN NV EN-
in Nuo York. Every man who kivered
hisself with glory destroyin the nigeeI
orphan asylums in Moo York, in 1863,
il to-day throwin up his hat---ef h.
hcz one-for Tilaeu, and every one ~
em will vote ez many times for him ez
he is paid for.
"In breef. my friend. Sam1 Tilden is
a Dimucrat. aud only IN the Dimocrat-
ic party kin we NV the South hev any
hope. Tlcy are our natural allies, aud
any Southern man wat gses agin that
party don't know his interests.
Besides. now do you know tha,
rilden amt soft money? He hezn't
sed. hez he, wat hs is. He hezn't wri,
his letter yet. but I will ceucher to say
when he does send it cut, il will satisfy
yoo, ez well ez every other member NV
the party. no matter vat his beleei
may be. Saml Tildin amt agoin 10
write eny letter that yoo, or any Que
else, no matter wat his views. kin lnd
any fault with il. For Kentucky il
eill be construed ez soft money, aud
fnr Moo York il will be hard. Ain't
Hendrix on there with him, and won''
they come To some agreement that will
SCOT all arouud?'
NV talk he'd the proper effect. My
old friend wuz so affected by 10 that ht
not only promised 10 vote for Tilden
hisself, but he sot down and bed me
write letter to his son. Caihoon, who
lives in Inieany. urgin him 10 do the
same. He sed IL Calhoon Good get
somebody to reed that letter TO him
that IL wood doutless convince him. tho
he WIZ terribly sot for more greenbax.
He he'd an idec that ef the greenbsS
theory wuz adopted, there would be Q
million or two nv nashnel money dis
tribited 10 Posey Comfy, pro rata.
The only thing that worries me now
Is, the suspishus conduct nv nigger
who hccrd the copverssshep, aud whip
ped out pensil aud took notes nv wa
sci. Cusses on the Higger skools
7 kin talk wat I want 10 among the
wlitc Dimocrisy nv the corners with
ont any danger nv its bein took down
hat the piggers is different The 10
fcrior race mostly reed and write, an,
some NV en- talk fiooidly. Oh for Tia
good old days when we held en- cz on
own, and Good control eml
PrrRoIxrN v. NAsBy,