Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1876-08-18

WITCH Is IN THE STATE Nv KENTUCKY,
Jooly Goth, 1876
hev wished thousand times that
I he'd the fool-killer's mallet for jist
a year. l shood redoose the Dime
cratic majority very much, eff yoosed
it, but l shood hev the satisfaction of
hevin better breed NV men for the
next generashu. Death don't more
than half do it's dooty in this vlsinity,
or rather it amt discriminating enutf.
Eff death wuz ez discriminating ez it
is industrious, there would be easier
work here for me.
l he'd a set to with a venerable old
moss back here, who never voted any
thing but the Dimecratic ticket, and
who got into his wooden head that
that wat the people ought to hev wuz
more greenbax; and who, in conse
quence, he'd made up his mind to op-
pose Tilden. He didn't want no
offs, so I coodcnt bring any argoo-
mcnt that were satisfactory to me to
bear onto him; and ez he wuz simply
agoin for wat he believed to be the
interests NV hisselt and the country,
l he'd tuff time with him.
He wuz bound to vote agin Tiden
anyhow, and he'd put up banner on
to his house on wich he he'd inscribed
death to Tilden and the bloated
hard-money aristoerats," and wuz or
ganizin movement NV Dimecrats
agin him, and NV course l he'd to go
for him. | won't hev any insubor-
dinashcd in the CROSSROADS.
l he'd some trouble with him, but |
finally brought him to his milk.
"Why do you oppose Tilden?" l
asked him, hcvlng first got him into
a corner where there was no escape.
"Becoz," sed he, 81 want moro
greenbax. Becoz l want to be eman-
cipatcd from the dominyun Nv the
bloated aristocrats NV Wall street,
and want to keep up the era NV pros
perity which we hev enjoyed ever
sence mule would bring two hun
dred dollars, and SIGH"
Ts them the only questions which
is involved in this campane?" | asked
him.
''They is enuff for me-" "wuz his re,
ply.
sMy friend" rctortcd, "wuz 700 q
suffrer by the unholy war prosekootid
agin us NV the South by the goriller.
Linkin?"
ooh, my venerable FRIEND" | gush-
ed, fallin onto his neck. chartered
cz yoo hev bin by the enemies of the
South-sutfrer that 700 are by the
unholy persecooshens NV Linkln's
minyuns-how kin you vote to put
power into the hands ov them men?
How kin 700 let sich little matter
ez currency, or anything else, stand
IN the way NV yoor vengence? How
kin yoo let sich matters ez greenbaX
or gold stand in the way NV yoor
gittin pay for them niggers NV which
yoo were bereftid?"
81 wuz, d--n him. My plantashcn
wuz overrun by his hordes four times,
two hundred likely niggers wuz sto-
len from me by his unconstooshnel
proclamashen, and all the satisfacshen
I got wuz the killing NV dozen or
so NV Federal pickcts, at mite, while
they wuz encamped near me. Wuz l
suffrcr? You bet"
every good. You hate the Abish-
nists?"
"Hate EN-? l shood say so.''
ooh, Ijeot! do you know who Sam
Tilden is? Don't 700 know that
doorin the late fratrisidle war he wuz
the best friend 700 he'd? Don't yoo
know that he stood by yoo-by us
and did whatever he Good to give us
the success we so ardently desired?
Wuzn't he and John Morrissey, and
Horasho Seemore, and the other
Dimccratic statesmen NV Moo York,
our constant and close allies?
"To 90 back on Tilden now is the
rankest ingratitude. The Southern
man wat lets hisself forgit hisself to
IIlC cAJcllU NV CdoIlIl IL NOCC dSih LII
den, forgits the glories NV Bull Run
and Charlottesville. Yoo he'd son
in the glorious victory NV Fort Plller.
Kin yoo 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 Nv EN- in Moo York. Every
man who kivered hisself with glory
destroyin the niger orphan asylums
in Moo York, in 1868, is to-day athrow-
in up his hat-ef he hez one-for
Tilden, and every one NV EN- will vote
ez many times for him ez he is paid
for.
"In breef, my friend, Saml Tilden
is Dimecrat, and only in the Dime
cratic party ken we NV the South hev
any hope. They are our natural
allies, and any Southern man wat
goes agin that party don't know his