The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1880-10-23
OLD HICKORY.
For THE REPUBLICAN.
A Democratic Prayer.

dissent lie before Thee. We have
been deceiving the people, 10, these
many years, but to day we face our
doom. Help US now, 0 Lord we be-
seech Thee; but if, as seems, the
Lord be far removed from us, then,
. Satan, thou who art ever with us,
deliver us. We are no respector OF
Gods any more than of principles,
and unto whatsoever power we can
successfully appeal, in this our hour
Of sorest Meet, we willingly bow
down. We helieye, O Lord, that We
are thy chosen people, "born to
rules" and O Satan, we know that
our terms with thee have ever beer
the most amicable. 1t is in sorrow,
Lord, and in sadness, that we revert
to the "patriarchal" days, when we
could "wallop" our niggers, q Lord
to our hearts content; when we were
clothed in purple and fine linen and
Jared sumptuously every day we
toied not, neither did we spin. We
said to one slave git" and he got :;
to another, come" and he came.
We lived IN ease and affluence, and
if we played and lost, we could sell
men and women, and continue our
game, O Lord, as was well pleasing
in Thy sight.
But, Lord, in a fatal hour, whose
inscrutable mysteries we cannot
fathom, the vile radicals" elected Il
President, and, 0 Lord, we could not
stand that, so we rebeled. Thou
knowest the rest. We fought long
and well. We killed great many
"Yanks," o Lord, and we wish we
had killed twice as many more
enough 10 have given us the victory,
but they We're too many for US in
the end, and we had to 90 under.
When the war ended, our slaves
were gone, our occupation as rulers
was gone, and o Lord, we had to
make our living as other people do.
We haye been. politically speaking.
starving "away on the mountains SO
coids" We have hung shivering on
the ragged edge of despair" We
have appeared all things unto al.
men that by all means we might
save s0ne"--0f the Offices. What
haze nc not done to secure the Offices i!
When the radicals" proposed
manhood suffrage, we believed the
people We're as selfish as ourselves,
and opposed 1t. When they proposed
to strengthen the public credit, we
believed them dishonest and opposed
it,. When they proposed to redeem
their promise to pay, we again be-
lieved that the people were not hons
est. We spoke against resumption,
o Lord, we wrote against it, and we
voted against it, thinking if the hard
times continued we could surely
"achieye the executive" But now,
Lord, dishonesty is not going to win
and we must make-believe that we
are the honest party. But this is a
perverse, hard-hearted, a stiff.
necked and gain saying people; they
even remember, o Lord, one year
what we did and said the year pre-.
vious. They read us by our acts and
not by our words. q, if the people
would only take our word We have
done about everything to succeed that
the imagination could conceive of.
We have corrupted the public morals
by bribery we voted forty thousand
fraudulent votes in single State, o
Lord, in one year ; we have commit
ted thousands of political murders iu
the Sunny South; by violence and
fraud we have suppressed million
''radical votes when it was not ex-
pedient to kill radicals" 0 Lord to
carry State, we stuffed the ballot
boxes with tissue ballots in Mary
land, o Lord, we used "puddin' "
tickets, and thus cheated the "radi-
calls" and conservatives of our own
party. out of the man they elected.