The bee., 1883-04-28
SCRAPS AND NOTES
FoLlfiCAL PHILOSOPHY; rLANrA-
TlO% ECHOES

toI the purpose of attending court and
taking with neighbors and friends;
Ihe colored people, with whom he is SO
wen-known, gave him quite an ovation
sid, says he held a conference last
ing over one hour and "A half, with
something like thirty-five or forty of
the leading men and endeavored to ex-
plain the political situation to them as
he found it in Washington. After the
conference adjourned, he was called to
side 10y one of the "old leaders" who
desired a few words.
'Mr. Vaughan, you've been up dar
near de throne, amt you?'
Yes, | have been in Washington all
the winter.
Mr., Vaughan, who is riding de white
horse?
President Arthur, Mr.. Garfelds sue.
cessor.
Who put him dar?
He was elected along with General
Garfield, by the Republicans in 1880.
Is dis Mr.. Arfur, wild General
Grant?
Oh, yes; he and the general are close
friend.
Umpgh, yes; well dats jist what /
exsired to fine out, case if Grant amt
mid him, needer is i, for I'm for
General Grant, all de time, and taint
tur file tell me muffin. / fairly bleives
in dot man. l got letter from de
general when dis ere re-juster exturb-
ance fuSt got TO sturbing desc Dimi-
Gratis, and he says to me in dot letter.
Mr.. Watkins, egvise you to vote mid
General Mahones, dats de best thing
for you and your people to do, well sir,
until dat letter come de colored folks
was all torn up, clare Mr.. Vaughan.
dey war awfully frustrated, but gem-
men dat letter from Grant, sir.
it fOtch EN-. We flung dat bal
lit jist like he AK us to do
case we does pintly know dat if de
thing wornt right, de gineIal, he gwine
to let de colored ones know. Yes,
indeed, all de white people about here
farley raved and dey charged case de
black ones all said dey was gwine to
fling dat juster ticket, dey worked
night and day on EN- and tried to
swade EN- not to 60 wild Gineral Ma
homes, and dejusters, but twan't no use,
muffin doin, dey flung dat ticket, jis as
hard, jis de same like dey use to do Re-
publican ticket. tell you, Mr..
Vaughan, de rebels and de ftinder
Dimicrats is mad wild lis till dis dav
about dat same thing, and dey amt
been so hot wild us fore since freedom.
l suppose you are still a Read
iuster and follower of Senator Ma
hone?
Who, me? Indeed is, l count N.Y.
self de most spunctous man de gen
eral got in my decinct. I'm sporting dat
ticket all the time, know tis right for
me to do dat, for de reason case why is
dis. De funders and Dimicrats, dey
hates Gineral Mahones and dat ticket,
and dare is whar l know tbs right for
we black folks to stand for it, for if it
twern't good for us dey wouldn't be so
pizen again it. When l see an old
Dimicrat agip thing, gwine right
dar, for know if he be again it, dats
de thing for me.
How will your people vote this fall
on the State ticket2
We amt making any exturbance
about de issue we gwine to vote wild
dem whor done so much for de schools.
gin us better juries busted dat capita
tion tax, and when dey counts our bal
lots, taint no issue wild us, We voting
along side dem whor done made our
freedom wuf some augmentation.
Oats hit, and tell you, Mr.. Vaughan,
de funders and old Dimierats and dem
whor amt wild General Mahoncs, is
doing more arguing wild de colored
folks den dey has ebber done before.
But taint no use, desc black folks is
clean gifted and gone wild de justers,
and dey is jis as hard for dem now as
dey used TO be for de Publicans. On
election day dey gwine to vote dat way.
Mr.. Vaughan, when You get back dar
send me some government doins. |
got six grand children, all on EN- kin
read and write. and if you see General
Grant, tell him how de for me-tell
him dat all de colored folks sends derc
best expects. Tell de general he
must be shure and write to me.
Prof. Greaner said in a short address
at Bethel, that we should quit the habit
of making distinguished Inen out OF
persons who had no claims upon us
other than we liked them personally.
Said he, before man or woman should
be made great something full of sub
Stantial evidence should be done by the
person.
The professor is right. We mustnot
be too quick at hero worship, neither
too slow to DO honor where it is de-
served. When persons write books
they should be anything but narrow
minded; neither must they entertain
personal preiudices, prejudiced per-
son cannot be said to be the proper
one to write history. We have an
author in our mind now who wrote
"Recollections of prominent men" and
omitted three of the most prominent
men in certain state because they
were personally offensive to him, and
on the other side he mentioned the
names of others and the truth he told,
there were persons residing in the esame
village did not know what the book
meant by referring to at least one
character who had resided there all the
days of his life under the cognomen of
do nothing, dead something to all
what is wanting to a people, fellow
whose ONLY qualification SO far as ever