The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1880-09-01

hold me there if | or any member OF my
family ran the slightest risk of being in
suited And here | may say that have
one of the incest families in the south, My
two girls are well educated and 50 are my
boys, and this we owe to the southern
schools associate with the white people
as much as do with the black They call
me into saloon and treat me and
shake me by the hand and talk over the
condition of the crops with me, and | treat
them in return. know that your best
Republicans don't treat the colored man
that well IN Cairo or anywhere else north
of the OHIO river. have lived here and ]
know how they treat them and | never
want to live north Of the Mason and
Dixon line again, Doyou know Corliss''
R,-"The radical Republican of Metro
polls"
T,-"The same. He comes down south
every once in while and he is the best
poker player III the United States
R-"So they say and he made an effort
for the senatorship in his district lately"
T-"And he didn't get III"
R--"No; didn't get it,"
T--"That's too bad ordered half
barrel Of whisky from him when he was
down at my place a few days ago and he
can tell you that what say about the
south is true, as can all colored men who
live here who have worked TOR me Right
On this street Twelfth street. between
! Poplar and Commercial, lives s. J. Red
man, a co,ored man who knows the situa.
ton, who will repeat to you my very words,
and Peter Saup, Henry Winter and John
I sullivan, who lives On Twentieth street,
and for whom drayed while in Cairo, and
all Others who know me, can all testify 70 it
that am accustomed to speaking the truth
and, Tor that matter, will make al affi-
dayit to everything have said,
R--"Iou must be Democrat"
T-No sir. don't know what party |
belong to, but I propose to vote for the best
man. haven't yet concerned myself
about the merits Of either candidate for the
presidency, and therefore am at present un.
able to say who will vote for
R-"Do the coored people vote the
Democratic ticket without compulsion
d0wa therei"
T--"They vote whatever they please and
whenever they please on election day. The
people about the polls are as
ORDERLY A. CHURCH GATHERING,
and do not attempt to influence or modest
the colored man. Our county election
comes of week from Monday and we
elect representative Oh the same day.
Our candidates for the other Offices are Mr.
Collins, q colored man and Mr. McVay.
The latter is the ablest lawyer IN the state
and was rebel general during the war &C
cldentally met him on the street last week
and he told me that his coIorei opponent
would undoubtedly be elected But we
all look upon this as a matter OF course
and there will not be the least i'll feeling
on account Of it, He knows that he will
receive many colofed votes without max
ing an effort for them, but not enough to
elect HIM. AS told you before, the at.
tcntion the people white as well as
black, give to politics down there is but
little, indeed, when compared to the atten.
ton they give to cotton, corn and SOW.
belly.
R-"But you occasionally kill a man
down there and you all carry concealed
weapons"
There you're wrong, We kill no
more men down there than you do in the
north. The only difference is you make a
big ado over a small fracas in the south,
and publish lengthy accounts Of it in all
the papers Of the Union, whereas II the
same occurrence had taken place in the
north it would be regarded as too small a
matter to receive any attention. So far as
our
CARRYING CONCEALED WEAPONS
Is concerned, that is also an erroneous idea.
I The law in the south is much more strict in
this regard than it is in the north Why
only a few days ago Mr.. John Cowden,
who owns large plantation in Tennessee
was passing through our city with his fam
lily. Owning much land in our county, he
stopped there to pay his taxes and as he
mounted the court house steps to reach the
sheritfs Office, his foot slipped and pistol
fell from his pocket, He was at once ar
rested and fined fifty dollars and trim
mings, which he paid, He is a rich and
prominent man, but prominence and riches
don't save them from the clutches az the