The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-09-11
TOM GOODwIN's RECOLLECTION OF
HARD TIMES.

Tom said in his speech on Friday night
last, to sixty persons, ali told, Of whom only
twenty five were colored people:
The first thing that | remember to have
ever heard on politics, more than fifty years
ago, was that times were hard. and that some
body was to blame for it; and 1 have heard
that same tune, with slight variations, every
day since, Sundays Included 1t began, as
near as can learn, in the early part of the
year 1, about the time that old Mr.. Adam had
to make aprons out of fig leaves and dig pota-
toes in the hot sun. He was not unwilling to
work, but he preferred to be engaged in some
thing more genteel than farming. He would
rather buy and sell real estate, or keep a
grocery, or practice law, or even preach; but
somehow he could get nothing to do IN either
line. 1t was very common for him of even
ings to say to his wife, al declare I never saw
times so hard before"
Tom forgot to tell his little audience the
whole story. Just before the hard times Of
which Tom speaks the devil had been inter
fering with Adams affairs, and persuaded
Adam and Eve to violate the law, and in
this way subject themselves to the multi
piled inconvenience of the hard times.
This same devil has been hobnob-
bling with the radical party, and has
persuaded Tom Goodwin, the real estate
shark, to deny the inspiration of the Bible,
the resurrection of the body and the divin-
ity OF Jesus Christ, and finally so masked
him in brass that he has the impudence TO
espouse the cause of the thieving radical
party, and IN the wealth of his perfidy en-
destvor to beguile the colored people of Indi-
annapolis. II the devil had kept out of Ellen
Adam would have never experienced the
hard times of which Tom heard about fifty
years ago, and if the devil had kept out oil
| Tom he would not have made an ass of him-
self on Friday night The devil was evil
IDENTIFY in the radical party when to help
Shylocls and Cypress the people it made
bonds payable in greenbacks payable in gold
and in this way put $500, OO0, 900 of money
into the pockets of money sharks by taking
it out of the pockets of the masses. Tom
Goodwin applauds this deyiIish act of rob
berry, and so does the. devil. The devi
was in the radical party when il
filed the south with carpet bag agents to In
and rob. and the cloven hoofed autccrat O.
hel. evidently influenced the radical party
when IL filed the south with federal bayO
nets to stab states and dispense legislatures
These things forced hard times upon TIT
south and kept them in operation for years
until the democratic party ousted devil
carpet-baggers and the radical party all abou
the same time. The work of contracting tn
currency, by which the country has beef
filled with idleness, poverty, beggary an'
crime, evidences conclusively that the dew
was in the councils of the radical party an,
contributed his full share in bringing abou
the hard times now crushing the people, ant
il Tom Good win had sense enough TO dis
tinguish between the Bible and dim
novel he would not be helping the devil an
the radical party to mislead the colored pee
pie of Indianapolis Tom Goodwin's recol
lection of the hard times he heard about fit,
years ago is defective.