The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1876-09-28
NAsBY ON THE FEDERAL TROOPS.
From the Toledo Blade.1


There IS disnlay in the Cross Roads
Sence we he'd the directions Of Attorney
General Taft red 10 US, threatinin the
employment nv troops in the Southern
States, about eleckshun time, we feel
that ali hope nv freedom is gone, and
that we mite jest ez well git out our
chains and go to clankin Nv EN- first ez
last, When the Cross Roads can't run
its elecksIuI1s IN its own way there ain
no more freedom. Freedom is throttied,
and eff she don't shreak now she is
tuffer old virgin than [ ever give her
credit for bein.
What Is the necessity Nv sendln troops
down here on eleckshun day? To per-
tect the niggers? Can't We perfect
them Shan't we hey the gaardin Nv
the ballet-box, and wont we see that
everybody votes, witch we consider en-
titled to the ballot This is an outrage
witch is well calkelatel to onsettle the
devoshen Nv me ana Issaker Gavitt to
the government.
To show how unnecessary this inter
ference is 1 viii state that we he'd al
ready made full and ample preparashens
for peaceful and quiet cleckshen. We
had organized the white citizens OF the
corners into a guard to preserve the pur-
ity Nv the ballet-box, and to see that no
disturbin elemence come in. Wv course
we excloodid from the arrangement,
Pollock, Bigler, and the two carpet
baggers who hev wagon factory here,
hez disturbed US ever sence, ez they are
both Republicans We he'd taken an
invoice Nv the shotguns in the nabor-
hood, and he'd detailed our quickest and
most akkerit shots to yoose EN-, and he'd
matters SO arranged that ther coodent be
no disturbance at the polls.
Our method wuz simple and states.
lnanlike-I originated it. That ignor-
ance mite not be pleaded ez an excoose,
we notified all the niggers within the
limit of this precinct, that to prevent
or attempt to vote. That eff they wood
keep keerfully at home all that day they
wood not be mclestid OF harmed, but Ell
they attempted to vote or in any way in
terfere with the eleckshun, trouble wood
inevitably ensoo. We also in the inter
est of peece, he'd men detailed to stand
on each road to stop all niggers wich
shood presoom to move toward the vii
1age that day, with strict instruckshens
that eff they persisted in comm, to
promptly blow the top Nv ther heads of.
ssPeece at all hazards wuz our deter
minashen.
In the precinct below us they WIZ not
SO conservative. To prevent trouble on
eleckshun day they determined to kill
the heft Nv EN- before, and very many
Nv our people insisted that that wuz the
best method, but 1 refoosed to do it. I
am naturally conservative and yielden.
To show how much we desire peece I
will state that we heY two niggers at the
Corners witch profess Dimocrisy. They
hang around Bascom's and we hev toll
Grated EN-, for they act ez neerly ez we
do ez is possible for niggers. They de-
sired to vote, and Deekin Pogram wuz
in favor Nv lettin NV EN-. Our citizens
protested. ''It's establishin a prece-
dent, sed Issaker Gavitt, 'tef one mig
ger votes, who not all-and when a mig
ger votes the flood gates is bro Ike down -
''But," sed I, ''kin we afford to lose
them two votes for Tilden and Reform ?''
''Ef we keep them out, and need them
two votes, can't you and I in the inter
est NV reform, vote twice p sed Issaker.
And SO, rather than violate principle,
we hev exclooded Dimocratic votes.
Thi- ought to be satisfactory to the
government. The niggers know very
well that the site Nv one Nv EN-, in a
state Nv freedom, partikelerly eff he hez
boots on wich hev no holes in en-, is es-
peshelly aggravatin to the proud Cav
cawshen, his sooperior, whose boots are
not water proof. Issaker Gavitt remarl1t,
with teers streemin down his cheeks
EFF airy niger should come into the
corners, on eleckshun day, ridin u7
his own mule, while L, his sooperior, am
obleeged to come afoot, it wood drive
me to the verge Nv madnis."
And every niger knows that when
Issaker is druv to the verge Nv madnis
at niger, and hez his shotgun handy
that niger is very apt to become col
ored angel. Why, then, can't they keel
out NV Issaker's way Why do these
inferior beings goad Us to desperashur
with the mules, and boots, and other
cloze? Why do they provoke US Know
in as well ez they do that their presence
irritates us, why do they insist on show.
in themselves on eleckshun days,
when we are together in SIGH numbers +!
Nv course eff the military comes here
to perfect these inferior beins, the Cor
ners will suffer loss Nv all its prepare
shens for keepin the peece. Our shot
guns viii rename unused. The powder
and buck shot we hev bought viii be
ded stock on our hands till the military
are removed, and wat is worse there will
be that sullen feelin witch hangs upon
all men who hev their dearest hopes
crushed.
And then suppose that under the pro-
teckshun Nv these bloo-kotid hirelings,
the niggers shood all vote and shood
elect Republican offishels Suppose