The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1879-09-03

Massey.

II NABBY.
MR.. MASSEY DIsPAIRIN6 OF A FROST, o.
i ANY GREAT CALAMITY IN OHIO a0E
i TO MISSISSIPPI, TO ASSIST THE DI
MOCRACY THERE.
KEMPERvILLE,
j Wich is in the State NV Mississippi.)
! Aug Is, 1879.
| hedn't the pashense to wait .
Pettusville, in Ohio, for frost. Th'
thermometer woodn't do nothin fol
me. Mite after mite l sot up, til
morning, hopin for it to 60 down II
the freezin pint, 80 that it wood de
stroy the corn, but it woodn't &c
down.
l hoped for some sort Nv smast
in the iron market, for some terrible
distress to come upon the manufac'
turers and operativee-I prayed fol
defalcashers, for bankruptcies, foI
anything that wood make distress
and make the people dissatisfied with
the existin condishen nv things, but
nothin nv the kind happened. Lab.
rim men WIZ all employed. their en-
ployers paid em promptly and in good
money, and when l went onto the
streets and howled sgin hard times
and Republikin misrool, 1 wuz laft to
skorn. l saw EN- gittin on go easy
that / wuz temptid to quit Dime
kratik polytix and 60 to work my.
self. But an anshent habit prevail.
ed, and nipt that resolooshen in the
bud.
Feelin that must do suthin for
the Dimocrisy / left for Mississippi,
wich is . more promisin field, and
got full nv the old fashioned kind nv
Dimocrisy onto which ] wuz once
wesned.
ana happy here. Here we hev
the undilootid article. Here there is
distress in ded airhist Here the
Dimocrisy hev no money, and never
will hev, and kin talk hard times
with some effeck.
Ny biznis sence / hev bin here is
to assist in ssvin the County from che
fell spirit nv disorganizashun. There
is more niggers than white men here,
and jist after the war great many
disorganizsrs from Ohio and Moo
England settled in the county, put
ting up saw mills and buying large
quantities Nv land, and spendin mon
ey on improvements and sich. Not
contentid with reversin the reglar
habits Nv the kentry they insisted on
taking part 10 polytix, and ez the
niggers votid with them, they car
ried the County several years after
the war, and xep the Dimocrisy gro
min in spirit.
But at the last Presidenshel eleck-
shun the Dinocrisy girded up its
loins and refused to submit to this
infamus rool. 1t wuz determined to
carry the County for Tilden and Re-
form, and the Republikin majority Nv
two thousand wuz changed to Dim
ikratic majority Nv about the same
number. The Dimocrisy quit groan-
in and loaded ther shot-guns. 1t wuz
a crisis and it wuz boldly and cheer
fully met. / do not know how many
niggers wuz killed, for no akkount
wuz ever taken NV EN-, nor do !
know how many Nv ther white alb
bettors wuz permitted to leeve the
County, bat ez it wuz boldly pro-
claimed that the freedom and puri-
ty nv the ballot box wuz sgin to be
maintained, even at the muzzle nv the
shotgun, the number must hev bin
considerable. The niggers wuz Offer
ed ballot, in akkordance with the
amendment, with the condishp:: stern
ly insistid onto that it wus to be the
Dimekrstic ballot without skrstch
onto it. very few of them wus
abandoned enuff to offer their votes,
and, ez, ! remarkt, the Dimocrisy
carried the county, triumphantly for
Tilden and Reform.
This yeer the Dimocrisy met and
nominated tber tikkit. 1t wuz .
good tikkit, and ther wuz no reason
under heven why any man, black or
white, shood refoose to vote for it.
The candidates wuz all eligible.
Every one nv en- he'd owned niggers
sfore the war, and every wun nv EN-
he'd served in the Confedrit army.
/ bleeve tber wuzn't wun on it that
he'd bin anything less than captin,
and one, the candidate for Sheriff, bed
participated in the glorious affair ct
Fort Pillow. All Nv EN- he'd bin ac-
tive in ridding the kentry nv disturb
ers. Col. Sharkey, the candidate for
Sheriff, hevin killed fust and last, o
hundred niggers. His shotgun wuz
alluz shoor.
To our surprise q disturber named
Thompson disentid from the action
nv the convenshun. He wuz born in
the county, but he'd disgraced his
State by being reconstructed and act
in with the rsdikels.
He called . convenshun nv the
"citizens" and snnounst hisself ez o
candidate for Sheriff.
Ez mite hev bin expectid this aroused
indignashun, in the kentry. Wuz this
to be permitted ! Never.
II thought they wuz doLe with
this nonsense" sed Col. s, "but they
drive me to it,"
And be wiped out bis shotgun and
laid in q stock nv buckshot.
The Dimocrisy organized to pre-
vent this outrage. Headed by Col.
ShsrkeY, every man nv EN-, with bis
shotgun in his hand and determins-
shun on his brow, marched to the
hall where the disorganizers WIZ in
session. Thompson he'd jist bin nom-
mated and wuz maxim . speech in
wich be wuz urgin devoshun to the
yoonyun and the laws. Col. Sharkey
stopped him, remarkin be he'd suthin
to say.
"Do you RELY and in ded ernest
propose to be . candidate for sheriff?n
he asked nv Thompson.
Certainly ! do" wuz the inslent
reply. "In this free kentry anybody
kin BE- = candidate wich kin get .
nominashuu.
"My dooty 10 eleer," sed the intrep-
id Sharksy. II am . law-sbidin citi-
zen and viii hev nuthin bat law and
order. Wat / am about to do 10 my