The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1877-10-31
A DEPENDENT MEEIIN.
At which Lem. o'x"de Attends.

At which Lem. O'Nade Attends.
EDS. CLARION: There was a meeting
near where live the other day and as |
did not know what it was about, | went
over. When got there saw stand for
speakers. On one side was a crowd
dressed in red shirts, and on the other
anotherM crowd in ragged shirts. The
latter had banner On which was '"Pub-
lican Union Club, 1878" Time had
used the banner roughly and could
scarcely read the inscription. l couldn't
understand exactly what it meant, it
looked so much like the old Radical
Black Line, SO | asked one of the follow
ers of the banner what kind Of meeting it
was. He replied, Il dunno dey say
faint Publikin meetin' but Depend
Sc ent meetin'" | didn't understand at
first. Very soon a gentleman came for
ward on the stand and introduced Mr..
Thingumbob, a candidate for the Legis-
lature without regard to conventions or
parties. | took it all in at glance.
From Mr.. Thingumbobs' appearance he
is Dependent on office for a living and
the smile he gave the Publican Union
Club showed that he was Dependent on
the black liners for their votes. There
fore it was a Dependent meeting.
Mr.. Thingumbob said Fellow Citi-
zens and Friends Glowing to the club
| acknowledge with deep regret that the
pledges made in 1875 by the Dem
A voice among the red shirts singing:
Cheer boys, cheer, Wen march away to
battle,
Cheer, boys, cheer, for your sweet hearts
and your wives,
Cheer boys cheer, We'll march away to bat
tie,
our lives.
And the red shirts all cheered. For
about twenty minutes nothing but cheers
could be heard except occasionally ''sweet
hearts and wives" and earns and hearts
and lives" Mr.. Thingumbob waved
his hands and charged about on the plat
form and wagged his jaws, but gave forth
no sound. The ghosts of the black-line
slowly and sadly, one by one, melted
away, and at the end of twenty min
utes nothing could be seen of it but the
banner which had been left upon the
field. The three gentlemen upon the
stand Independent of what was going on
resolved to dissolve the meeting and in
haste adjourned. Walked over to the
red shirt crowd and who should be the
man that raised the tune but my old
friend, LEM. O'NADE, ESQ. Do you re-
member Lem? [ expect not. When in
1875 after election day
"Our stern alarms changed to merry meet
ings,
Our dreadful marches to delightful meas
ures,
And -yisaged war had smoothed his
wrinkled front.'-
When "Justitia," and observer" and
"Many Voters" and ''Vox Populi, and
others were writing of the services of the
Generals, and Colonels, and Majors, and
Captains, and Judges, and recommend
ing them for United States Senators, and
Clerks, and Sergeant at Arms, ETC., ETC.,
| wrote letter which the CLARION pub
lished, recommending Lem. for the U.
S. Senate. Well this is the same fellow,
Lem. O'Nade. 1 shook hands with him
and all the boys. looked around for
the letter writer's and all the Generals
and Colonels, ETC., etc., but they were not
there. Lem. dismissed the boys and
told them that there was to be another
Dependent meeting in the 9th Supervl-
sor's district; that they must be there and
to remember to ''cheer, boys, cheer, for
" your sweethearts and your wives. We
shook hands all around and Lem and |
rode away together. l had not met
him since we parted at Vaughn's
Station in 1875-the time when Ames'
militia didn't come; | asked him
where he had been; he said he hadn't
taken much stock in politics since, except
once or twice in jefferson county in 1876.
He said Jefferson was asleep in 1878, and
he went down to help wake her up II
1876; he learned that song down there
1t Truly works well at Dependent
meeting. "But oh, !" says Lem, sit didn't
" do any good; the Lectoral Commission
g counted out the man we elected.
+" knowed that would be the upshOt of i
"when l hearn of that Hamburg bnsi
&c ness in South Carolina. If | had beer
cup on the Ohio or Patomac rivers,
i" would have made a speech and called
:" them fellows murderers, and said theY
i" oughter be hung, but I'm glad l didn'
now; 1 reckon they did the best they
= knew how. but they did come might.
g near numbering the Mississippi plan
g If l hader had them boys that was a
!" Vicksburg and Port Gibson, and Gin
i" ton and Vaughans Station,at Hamburg
&c there wouldn't have been any Radica
Z" votes left for a Returning Board to 81
ION, and we might have took some
splinters off the Returning Board itsel
Them are bad boys, when they 81
started. But by the way" says Lem
81 am thinking of going down t
q Adams county and try and Sc
tif the boys and can't wake tn
" old lady up. She slept mighty soune
q in 1856, and I understand that tn
!" old black line is meeting and marchln
/" and a drumming, and calling Conven
s. tions, and SIGH like, not this serpen
"with the new head and same old ia
" that they call Dependent movement
" but the genuine old black-line, hea
g and all It wouldn't work worth
% cent where live. don't see how oil
q lady Adams can stand it; and whs
r I" are the Adams boys doing, cant SET
, +" they must all been killed in the war
| We parted. Mr.. Editor, O'Nade don
l want any office, but 1 thought you woul
like to hear from him, so have writer
, Tr.r,S EpVEND