The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1878-06-28

Prime "cry eicctlons mat cvrybody is q kickin
mp sich devil Of q fuss about? Who is it an
what isit, any how? An what is the difference be-
tween bcin candydate an runnin fur a candy-
.uate! Ihccr heap of foax at mectin an uotherins
"taikin an explainin an tcln how il is, but drot
any hide if can understand the thing sum how
an don much believe they do nuther. But
mister editur (now aint running fur n candy
nate an amt stckin' the poplar side) my senti-
'ncnt Is Jist this ct the biggest end of the peo-
pie wants = trimery election or n prime merry
election or cornvention, let EN- have it, This
US q free Kuntry, an evry man in it has cot the
~ ~ ssS as N .tst Rs Ssisi Sasss s sSs
who has any ilee ov what a Pu6likin guvment
's, would be fulish enuf or selfish enuff to speak
agIn mans rights under the constertution.-
mt we all born free an equal; Aint we all vol
u4eered to be tuck back into the bosom of our
nion Aint all of us (mighty nigh) voted fur
nigger candydates an done suffered as much
fur freedum anybody else, since the war p
Our pcpel is all free, but sum how or nuther
thar fredum don't seem too be wuth much too
en- Thar Is so much of it hangin an lyiu round
loose that its like confcd money uster be- an
iawyears an doctors, and publick schue teachers
an missionaries an pore land pore fsaks is
now, it aint considered any grate blessin. An
with all our libity, what worries me as bad is
we can't git anything else. Don't 1T look to gu,
kline friend and Editur, when man has q right
too do as he.plsases that he has got rite too do
Constitutional Ibity, 'wodlasA1s,ss Now all
90 us would please to have trimery elections an
rAes .sak-.aEiectiQps on cornoentions corn
whiskey' nm the aA,,soms closea-Aad still l haus
ses opened, an q standn army raised to back the
temprence cause, and the Roman Catholics and
the Mormons, an tho Chinamens, sent back too
the place whar they cum frum, an religions on
political liberty duly exercised, and this kuntry
be just exactly what it is-yu kno 1t would no,
20 popular to say it aint-an what George Wash
ington an sum body elsa man by the name
OF Tom Pain-an our Four Fathers said it should
be, ''the land with the home for tho free and
tho brave or sich like. And we all want mon
ey, an most us gits poorer every day; an we wants
our children to be as good an as putty as enny
oody else children, an all our trends too DO
candyuates (Which last is mighty nigh sol and
the people wants all thar children to be lawyers
ana doctors an preachers an book keepers an
n professional men, sich as honerbul Editurs ns
y yurse!f, my friend. (Tho aint runnin for
want popularity an hope yu nor
y &e public won't make my he'd sore fur what l
trSe t%e said or will say fur ain gwinc too tell the
tho L. And the poor man piedses TO go too the
49,
represent his interests thar, and the intrust of
The kuntry; IN the intrust on the debt ougt to be
represented; an the muneyed man, an the big
larmer an the little farmer, want to 60 thar
cause they nave intrust to represent; an the
Doctors and the women an the children, all
want 10 60 thar, causeevery boley thinks his
own privatsintrust is the hole kuntry's Cum
TOO think ov it, the preachers ought to represent
ChutSh 100, DuL teller rum the prin-
tin oils frum big city told me tother day the
Roman Cathlics was tendin too that in thar old
fashioned way. Don't know what he ment
ct yu doc, kline fren, explain in yore next
But have wandered from the subject: Oh
yes had like to forgot 'em-them Ia,cvear,
thar's gitten too be so many of um thew will
neeu separate govement entirely too represent
EN-, an If they should find it necessary to cmi-
CRATE In body to Liebeery or some other ieeoia.
yea kuntry, whats too become of US ignrint, law
lay
aint sicken popularity. Then thars the high
STOCK racey, they wants too be ripseuted too;
out then eoery6odys agn it. An this is anuther
thing can't see intoo, Deer Editor and friend;
whar the man that don't claim too be and his
famerly a leetle better nor sumbody else and
his family =? If yu or emmy other man knows
Oh sich ax yu too rise an expane. Every man
80 fur MS l hav viewed round in this delitcful DO
ton ov the globe, seems to be redy to cdmt that
nc III, MS ioax Is better nor crate many other
people and thar foax but he will not edmit that
any body else On thar foax is head of his foax
and him In emmy pertikler. Now, kind Editor.
wouldent it be dangrus and unsel6sh an KILN
business fur us to refuse the high-stock racy
representation ON libirty. Whar wauld zoe be
then! AK the intelergent an thoughtful of
our common kuntry to paws reflect. (but
amt sickin no office). would close this line
or my remarks by axen-whars the man that
am got long line of ancestors? Even the
niggers is gitten up high stock racy among
EN-. Now my amible friend, these reflections
go to explain that we have got so much lib.
erty that we haven't got no place ON yeath
big enuf to hold It. These is my honest
opinions, kline fren; but amt striven fur no
place OF public trust, bar that in mind. We are
like the feller that got lost in the wilderness.
he had the liberty to 60 whar he pleased but
had no place too 60 too nuthin 10 % thar
with. Yu understand me kline frein ; sumwhat
like the fix yu'd be in with yore paper eff you
don't please me ever body else, with wore
editofes, On let us have free thought an free
written in yore paper, yu understan deer Editor
what lmean. Yu see my frend, it seems to be
mighty hard to get up the peple to emmy kind
of gineral agreement. Thay oil kin agree
Dimicrats, RAIDS, negers. injuns, chinese, wimen,
children, an even the devil hmself-about hav.
An liberty, but that is fur as thay stick toeeth-
or. Now l hopn that some kind of hormony
will he rugged up before long among the voters
have got resolution prepard as 'durn yo,r
resort. rs the iaWyears say when man settles
q case by arbitratin, which l will send 10 YOU
next week. SUMP PUNKINS
CoNGnEss MISUNDERSTANDING d. c..
June. .226rnft7 o'clock this. morning Congress
adjoarde6 sfter session o. ei9nt months s4pS.