The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1876-10-08
THE BLOODY SHIRT.
Brown Of Metropolis, and Joe PAuneh Rob
arts OF Murphysboro, Give It
Shake, Tell Foremost
The Radical Pow-WOw at the Cont
House Friday Might.

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were seated inside the rails about the
speakers stand, among whom were
numbered the white men Of the Republi
can party from abroad, ana those Of the
city, the latter of whom were out in full
force as we were informed by citizens
| ut least. there were some twelve or four.
teen Of them. Col W. L. Brown. OF Me-
tropolis. made the opening address. He
tory OF our government. commencing
with the Revolutionary war, ard follow
ing it down TO the election OF Thomas
.Iefierson n. the father of Democracy, back.
ing up his sketch by documentary evil
dcncc. Il was instructive aud no doubt
was interesting to some of the audience.
though We fear it was lost upon others
of the colored brethren in as.much a. they
INDUCED in a refreShin" nap. We
were sorry TO see them. she.
it, or lac, snoring away such good
opportunity for historical requirements.
The colonel looked at his audience with
the naked eye, but at ms documentary
evidence through the gig-lcnscs, or nose
Swapping glasses or spectaclc>: lie told
what bad men the "Simon-purc' tories
were; and how that, in the South, they
carried in their loin- embryo traitors,
whoFy the mysterious operations of ma
turc developed in time into i. {. Cal
houn. and eventually INTO Breckenridge,
i. +. Lee, jeff. Davis and the southern
confcdcracy. We looked for him to trace
the origin OF the rebel guns 10 the old
British guns that Washington captured
from Lord Cornwallace and his tory aids.
but 70 our regret lie didn't mention EN-.
We don't know why; maybe nc hap
pened TO think Of the barefoot soldiers
at Valley Forge. or the unhappy grand.
sons Of the wrong side" Of nature i'm
Colorado, though he didn't say word
about it. Whatever occasioned the skip,
he made it at one step, and that from
Democratic Jefferson to Democratic Til
den and though lie said the Democratic
party had always had good men in it
from that day 10 this. and while all Dem.
ocrats were not rebels, all rebels were
Democrats. For the credit of this part OF
his historical sketch, we could wish that
he had peeped through his lenses ut the
document, instead of venturing the asser-
ton with his naked eye, for 1T Is
well-preseryed, and clearly pointed
fact in the documentary history Of the
rebel and slaveholding clement. of the
country, that many of those rebels were
old line Wings, whilst the balance were
chiefly Democrats. However, those
little historical or documentary twists
and perversions should be overlooked in
the Colonel, when we reflect that he
was doing his level best to instruct, in
form and enlighten that unfortunate
class of citizens who represent those for.
where neither they nor their children
will ever be tempted to waste it, for
they secured themselves forever from
that danger by just sticking 1t snugly
into the Freedmans saving bank. But
then he did not say anything about that;
on the contrary he begged them in the
clemency OF his ample bowels for Gods
sake to vote the Hayes Republican
ticket. for though Tilden was Demo-
crat, he was at the heard of the third
attempt OF the rebels to gain the govern
ment, and then he gave sketch of his
personal experience, whilst merchant.
with the old time shin-plaster and wild
| cat money, of how it was all swindle on
the people, but how he avoided being
swindled by putting up the price Of his
goods on the people-so that he would
lose nothing, and be even with the
bankers.
How the poor people must have suf.
fered ut the hands of the rascally bank.
ers; but it is to he hoped, though he
| didn't say so. that all OF the rest OF the
merchants were too sharp TO be euch-
| cred by the bankers, and like himself
generally, took care or themselves by
putting up their goods to the dear poo.
pie to such 4 figure above the honest
profits as 10 get the vile wildcat money
out of their toil-worn palms before they
could breath scarcely; proyldent Colo
mel. | wonder if he used TO get sorry
for farming Ben. Willy, and double the
| price to him on tobacco and tar, in or
der TO help him get rid of the nasty
| shin-plasters. | wouldn't be surprised
if he did, for he looked like he wanted
TO do something Tor him again, when
Joseph Roberts, OF the Murphysboro
Era, spoke Of poor old Uncle Ben. and
how good many men were trying 10
help him now by taking all the money he
had, and waiting to help him more Just
as quick as ne gets the money for them.
But here we must cut short for while,
the Colonies solemn speaker, this 9TH
er was funny one, lie said many CAV
and pleasant things, and we were driven
to laugh much. We like HIM, We like
them both, Maj. Connolly was absent,
we did not learn why; we heard some
one speak something about Colorado,
but hardly think he could have left his
appointment to go there; hence, it is
hard to tell ii Colorado went Democ ratio;
it's no telling. how or where he went.
Das ish so.