Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1876-12-02


elected Mr.. Tilden. Murray for the
niger. Next thing you hear of these
Radicals will be tryin' to take away
his vote, or colonize him in some fur
rim land.
But it is too late-the dog is dead.
They may talk about intimidation and
countin' out and holdin' on, but it can't
be did. Knaves don't take kings in
this game. They stocked the cards
and had the shuttle and deal, and we
won it, and the stakes we are bound to
have. Well fight on it, sur. Yes,
sur; if the worst comes to the worst
we'll whip EN- agin. Two hundred
and fifty thousand majority has settled
this question. As General Gordon
said: Stand up, my countrymen, stand
up; don't wilt nor wither we have
met the enemy and they are ours-that
is if we can keep 'em. | know they.
are slickery as cells, but We must hold
'em. The life of the nation depends
on it, Liberty and free speech and
hG6eas corpas are all in peril, -Four
more years of Radical rule and this
country will be as lifeless as an Egypt
ian mummy. They mustE't be allowed
to steer the old ship any longer. Its
agin natur. Its agin the law of Moses
and Revelations, and the Shorter
Catechism, and the long meter doxol-
ogy., My wife says if the fight must
come, the women ought to take hand
this time, and she is ready to tare hair
with old Mother Hayes, If that's her
name, or any other woman who is
mournin' for the niger.
Mr.. Watterson, sur, We have patti
emily bided our time. We saw this
glorious event comm. If it WASH t
a star in the East, it was roarin Dor
calls In the North. We knowed there
was justice and generosity in the bos-
oms of Northern Democrats. For q
long time we've been listenin' to the
rumin' thunder of their indignation
Ever and anon:it has Vibrated upon
the air like the shake of young earth
quade, and we've lived in hope and
defied despair until at last the pent-up
storm came down upon EN- like an
Alpine avalanche, or a simeon in the
desert, or typhoon of the tropics,
or a cyclone of the raging seas. Oh it
was terrible, terrible Excuse me for
CROWN eloquent, if you please, for it
seems to me | still hear the mighty
voices of three millions of honest Dem
ocrats exclaimin' with trumpet tongues
Get out of these Augean stables and
let us turn the Potomac in. The
stencil of your corruption has over
spread the land. We have made the
rich richer and the poor poorer. Ye
have smothered honesty, garoted in
dustry and sowp disoorc among kim
dred. Ye have put your Southern
brethren in pit and died their shirts
in pokeberry juice, and called it blood
to deceive the people, but like Joseph
of old, they will yet be put in power
and save the land from ruin and de-
struction. Josephy's brethren repent
ed in tears and sorrow, but We will not
repent. They did not steal his silver
cup, but ye will steal and carry away
in your carpet bags not only the cups,
but the saucers aud the spoons"
Why, sur, the first official advertise
ment Mr.. Tilden will putin the Wash
ington papers will be fxin' a day Of
thanksgivin', and calm for sealed
proposals for a penitentiary big enough
to accommodate 10000 Radical thieves
who have stolen thousand million of
dollars from the national treasury.
Mr.. Watterson, sur, Uncle Sammy
Tilden is agoin to take his seat in that
cheer-if he lives. There's doubts a
bout heap of things in this suhloon-
airy world, but there amt no doubt
about that. Let EN- rip and roar and
snort and cayort like dyin' alligator
if they want to, but my private opinion
is a heap of EN- had better be marshall
in their assets for transportation to
some Turin and unknown cline. In
timidation Oh my country Amaz-
in impudence Who has been in
Inundated for the last ten years ?
Haven't they kept US under bayonets
all the time. Haven't they divided
the army about half-and half between
US and the Iniunsq Let EN- hunt for,
intimidation nearer home. Why, sur,
there was thousands Of humble Dem
ocrats in Ohio and PENNSYLVANIA who
wanted to vote for Mr.. Tilden, but
their bread and meat depended on not
doing it. How about all of the work
men in the shops, mills and factories
that belong to the Radicals who made
their bloated fortunes out of the late
war There was no intimidation, of
course, but the boss calls them all up
says; "Fou can vote as you please,
but if you don't vote for Hayes didn't
you say that was his name) you can
come to the captain S office and settle,
and get your walkip' papers"
The truth Is, MIR. Watterson, those
Radical towards have been afraid of
Us so long that they have got intimida-
ton on the brain. Ben Butler was in
vited to go 20 New Orleans to help
count, but he didn't go. He replied
by telegraph-"Great spoons l can
not :go. / feel intimidated. :" Now,
the worst case have heard Of is Jack
Allans. He had three hundred mig
gers on his sugar plantation, and bein'
pressed for labor he offered every
darkey who would stay at home an ex-
ira dollar In silver, and they stayed.
The shine of the coin intlmidated em,
and so Louisiana is to be set down
for-did you say his name was Hayes
Now for the other side of the plct-
ure. These Radical rasoals made the
poor niggers believe that if Mr.. Tilden
was elected they would all be put up
on the block and sold into slavery
They ,0ds made to belieUe u lie and put
in fear ofIosin' their liberty and if that
wasn't intimidation what was it p
Why, sur, in the last ten days IL of
EN- have aged me to by EN- when
the sale comes off, but I'm afeerd to
do it. They have follered these Rad
icals so long I'm afeerd they'd steal
everything I've got. Sur, if there was
some high and mighty arbiter of these
issues who would speak to us from
the clouds-some great and supreme
judge a settin' on the tonmost peak OF
the Rocky mountains lookln down
with majestic wisdom upon this be-
deyilled and bewildered land, he would
throw out every niger vote that such
intimidation earried 10 Hayes, which
they say is bis name. Sur, the ltIml-
dalton was all on the other side. Even
the CARPET haggers and scalaWags who
roost around US like buzzards watchin'
a sick horse. would have voted for
Unkle Sam if they hadn't been afeard
of losin' their offices. They was in
timidated, and now they are lamentin
thew didn't do like Sam Bard, and fee
from the wrath to come before it was
too late, and make themselves unani-
nous,
Sur, know that all of US, more or
less, are Twin under a measure of in
timidation. The fear of the law, the
fear of society, the fear Of the devil, or
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