Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1876-09-05
NGsby.
MIR. Nasty has an Argument in the course
OF which he Convlnces nh Er-t""te"
crate that he should Vote for Tiiden
CoNFEDRIT Y ROADS.
WICH Is IN THE STATE Nv KENTUCKY,
Joojy %. 1876.

Daaih don't more than halt do It's dooty
in this visiGIty, or rather IL MAT JiScfInl-
mating ennll. II death wnz eZ diicrim-
mating ez it is industrious thcro wood be
easier work here iUI me.
! he'd set tO with venerable uid
mossback here. who never voted any
thing but the Dimocratic ticket. and who
got into his wooden head that wat the
people ought To hev wuZ moro green
haX; and who IN consequence bal made
mp his mind IN oppose rIlder. lie didn't
ant no oils, and 81 | condrnt bring any
argOoments that were satisfactory 10 me
10 bear onto bin; and ~ be wuZ simply
agoin for wat he b,ecvcd To be the inter
csIs Nv hisselt and the country | he'd q
tuil time with hIm.
lie wuz bound - vote agin Tildon any
how, and he'd put up banner onto his
house on which he he'd Inscribed, death
TO Tildvn and The bloated hard money
arisiOcrats." aad WIZ organi2in move
ment nv Democrats aein him, and NV
course he'd 10 20 tur him. wont hcv
any insuboIIinashcn IN tho CroSs-Rodes.
| he'd some tror0le with him but
iinelly bIough. MIN 10 his milk.
why 40 you oppose Tilden ?" | asked
him, hevin first go! him into q corner
where there wuZ no escape.
"BecoZ,n sed he, IL want moro green
baX. liccoz | want 10 bo emancipatld
from the dominyun nv th" bloalcd aristo-
Gratis NV Wall street. ana want 10 keep
up the era Nv prosperity witch We hcy On
l0ycd ever sence n mule wood bring two
hundred dollars aud sich."
"ls them the ouly questions wich IS IN
volvcf in this campauc? - asked him
They is enull tor me-" wuz his reply.
"My friend retorted, "wuz VOC a
us nv the south by tho goriilor, Linkiu ?'
Il wuz. d-n hun. My PlantashrD
wuz oyorrun hy his hordes Tour times,
two hundred likely niggers wuZ stolen
from me 10y lis uncons,uooshnol proca-
mashcn, and all the satislacshen / 20,
wuZ the KILN Nv dozen or so Nv FedrAl
picScts. At mite while they wuZ eucamped
near me. Wuz Il sullrer? You bet"
Very good. Yoo hate the Ablishin-
isls?"
"llatc en-? shood say SO"
"Oh, my venerable friend" | gushed.
falling onto hi. neck, "Martered Ell 700
hev been 10y the enemies NV the South
sullrer lhet 500 are by the uuholy perse-
cushens nv LinkiG's minyuns-how Kin
700 vote to put power into the hands Nv
them men? How Kin 700 lei SIGH little
matter ez currency, or anything else,
stand IN tho way nv yoor vengeance
l.. bin 10 gtnb hoy
or gold stand in the way nv yoor gittln
pay for them niggers Nv witch 700 were
bcreltid?"
"Oh. lit! do yuo snow who Sam' Til
den is +? Don't yco know that doorin the
late iralrsdlc war he wuZ the best friend
700 he'd? Don't 700 know that he stood
by yoo-by us-and did watover he Good
To give US the success We 80 ardently de.
sired? wasn't he and John MorrisSey.
and lloratio Seemore, sud the other Dim
ocratic statesmen NV Moo York, our con
slant and close allies ?"
TO 60 back on Tidcn now is the rank
est iugratilude. The Southern man wat
let's hisseli forget hi-Selt to the extent Nv
castin vote agin riden. forgets the Clio.
rles Nv Bull Run and Charlottesville.
700 he'd II son in the glorious victory oil
Fort Piller. Kin 700 cast discredIt on
his services in the coz " the South
While he wuz slaugh,crin niggers there,
Tilden our friend, wuz backin them eZ
wuz a killen NV EN- in Moo YORK. Every
man who kiVvered hsself with glory
destroyin the Niger orphan asylums in
Moo York. in 1868, is to-day THROWN
up his hat-ei he hez one-icr Tildcn
and every one NV EN- will vote ez many
times Tor him ez he il paid for.
In breef, my trend, Sam'l Tilden is q
Dimocrat. and only in the Dimocrat party
kin we Nv the South hev eny hope. They
are our natural allies, and eny Southern
man wat goes agin that party don't know
his interests.
Besides. how do Yol know that Tilden
amt SOFT money? HI hezen't sed. hez
he. wat he is. lie hezn't writ his letter
yet. but | will vencher to say when no
does send it it will satisfy 700. ez we'll ez
every other member Nv the party no mat
ter wat his belief may be. SAM Tilden
amt goin TO write O letter that you or
eny one else, no matter wat his views, kin
find cny fault with il. For Kentucky it
will hc construed eZ soft money, and for
Moo York il will be- hard. Amt lie .lrix
On there with him, a,d won't they come
TO some agreement that will SCOT all
around?'
My talk had the proper effect. My old
friend wuz so effected by it that he not
only promised to vote for Tilden hisself,
but he sol down and he'd me write let
ter 10 his son Calhoun, who lives in In
leany, urgin him to do thc same. He sed
ef Calhoun Good git somebody to reed
that letter to him, that il wood doubtless
convince him, tho ho WIZ terribly sot tor
more greenbaX. Ne he'd IN idee that Ell
the greenbax theory wuz adopted, Their
wood be million or two Nv nashnel
money distributed in Posey County. pro
rata.
The only thing that worries me now.
is the suspicious conduct Nv Niger,
who heerd the conversation. and whipped
ont peusil and took notes Nv what sed
kin talk wat want to among the white
Dimocrisy NV the Corners without eny
danger nv its bein took down, but the
niggers is differeIt The inferior rase
mostly reed aud write, and some nv them
talk ilooidly. Oh Tor tho good old days
when we held um eZ ouT OWL. and Good
control UNI.
PETROLEUM V. Nasty,
witch wood like TO be Postmaster.