The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1886-09-16
OOLORED POLITICS.

| OCENE. -HeCty' s grocery, HulaSkl, len
nessee.
TIME:-Aug. Z, 1856. 10 o'clock A. NJ.
DRAMATIs PERSONAL - Yves. Rorens.
Professor Nickerson, Abe Smith, all
OF them negroes.
Professor Nickerson: The election is
over; times will be dull for some time
How much did you make out of the
CANVASS?
Yves. ROrens: got heap hicks an
dimes, soEie fifty censes an dollars an
one ten dollar note.
Abe Smith: l didn't git Eothin. How
does you all git money from de lection
never hearn of sich thing befo.
Prot: Uncle Abe, where have you
been all this time?
Abe: l lives on Aignew Creek-bin
dere ever since "Paul's time"
Prof thought you lived in the
backwoods. You are twenty-five years
behind the times.
Yves: 'Fessor, he amt cotch on, has
he? Why, Uncle Abe, you don't know
nothin'. You amt been no whar.
Abe: What does you mean? How
does you git de money? OATS what /
wants 10 know. OATS what l is
sarchin fur.
Yves: L tell you how I gifts it, When
de canvass starts gifts de list of de can
dldates. Den | gifts some edicated mig
ger to read de names over to me till
learns it by heart, Den 'quires about
de candidates; finds out where dey
lives; what sort of men dey is; what
sort of talk suits 'em; an how mach |
money dey gently carries in DER flanks. !
Den begins de business of de cam |
paign. Ia de last campaign dere was !
three or four for sheriff. L went to one |
an told him was fur him, an would do |
all could fur him. l axt him to loan
me dollar to buy medicine fur nv sick
wife, (but l had no wife, lie LEFT me
have fifty Gems, an said it was ALL ne /
had. Den l goes to the next Candidate
an tells him L was for him and axt him
for dollar, and he gin me quarter.
He said he had just bOrried it an dat he
EFF his pocket book in his other brecbes
lat mornin. Den l goes rom on do
candidates and promises to vote for ali
Of 'em, an berries from oil of ;em
Some times l told 'em L need tho D1one1
Tor medicine, sometimes for bread an
neat, sometimes to treat an use NV
1uence wild higgers What's apaist 'en1
told 'em anything to git de money. I
never talk to but one at time. an he
never tells de others bout me. an dis is
lie way bleeds 'em all. l bleeds all dc
candidates for all de offices from de
line de canvass opens till de lection.
IN lection day ] sells out to all can
IN votes TOT which one l pleases. But
low de lection's over and its gWine to
De awful dull.
But lem me tell you, don't you never
'other wild poor white trash candidates,
ase pc man amt no business runnin.
N he can't do you nor hisself no good.
Abe: is heap older dan you boys ia.
was raised an bOrnd in Paul's time
When l was young de niggers studied
bout passes, patrOllers and bull-whfps
1ut but knOwed nothin bout Elections,
IN l amt never larned yit. Ny ole
narster always try to keep us honest.
He use to read de Bible to us niggers
md talk to us bout doin right. He was
4 good ole man; an ] know he is in
Heaven wild de angels now. l amt
never gone back on what he teached me,
N l amt gwine to. Yves, de way you
says you gifts de. money amt no better
han stealth. is glad 1 amt learned
none OF desc new tricks what de darkies
mas been playful sense de war.
Prof: Why, Uncle Abe, you are very
honest.
A be: hopes is. 1 tries to be a
honest ole fashion niger. l amt got
no 'arniR an don't try to larn any man
,ricks. don't want to know 'em.
Prof: pity you, Uncle Abe. You
zee slave. You had no chance to get
an education. l was born about the end
IF the war; | was free. IneVer felt the
ash. l have been to college, and
graduated ] know all that the white
men know, / am fond of politics and
elections. / have considered the whole
matter and concluded that we colored
people ought to make all the money we
can out of the whites. They brought
our forefathers to this country as slaves
held them in bondage for centuries; and
we would be in slavery to-day but for
the war. By that we got our liberty
not because the north cared for US but
because by freeing us the north could
injure aid cripple the south. Since the
war the whites look down upon us;
they have no respect for ms; they like
us only so far az they can use us. We |
have no incentive to be honest nor hon |
orable. We cannot get office; we are |
shut out from all the more honorable |
stations in life; we owe them nothing, |
and can never get even with them. |
whites whenever / can. Uncle Abe, !
they care nothing for your honesty. |
They do not stop to consider whether
you are thief or an honest man. 1t Is
all Que with the whites. They see that
you are a negro and that is all they
want of you.
Yves: Now you sees what de Fessor
says. What does you say bout dat?
Abe: Wal. l can't argy wild you edi-
Gated niggers; but is gwine to live an
die honest.
Prof: That is all right. 1t Is natur-
al that you should. Your master read
the Bible to you and prayed over you
he told you of the devil and hell, to
brighten you from the melon patch and
hens nests. But such devices are OF
no avail now. The educated colored
people cannot now be controlled by
such shams. Our policy is to be on
the make. Get all we can and keep
all we get.
Yves Oats my 'ligion.
Abe: don't know nothing bout it.
Prof: The time will come when we
colored voters will elect all the officers
in the south. 1t will happen in this
way. There will be no organized re-
publican party here. The democratic
party will be the only political Organi-
cation. There will be factions in that
party. We colored people will hold the
balance OF power and will support the
man or faction which pays us best. We
can them elect who whoever we please.
Then a rich harvest awaits the colored
voters. Then we will get our rights.
Exit ALI NAE SIGMA.
THE RECORD.
At noon on Tuesday, Aug. 10th, the