The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1893-05-11

AN oSrrproductfOH OF Alliance Dtn-
ner but he Would not Eat Of 1.-THE |
state Guard what Captured james CITY. /
HIGHLANDS. n. G. May i. 1893.
Nix. BUTLER, DEAR SIR:-I wrote /
you a letter some time ago about |
them State Banks Capt. Coke said |
we were to have this spring. saw
you printed my letter in your paper, |
but | amt got no answer vet. |
reckon the Captain amt home is the
reason; he may be off making Ali
ance speeches. SO thought | would
write you another and tell you
about that gala day these ALI
ance fellows had posted up on the
trees everywhere for the 4th of May.
Well, sir, it worried me at first but
then | thought they did not know
they were dead and perhaps that
would satisfy them when they tried
to have a blow and failed, so day be-
fore the 4th it rained and blowed all
day, and it tickled we fellows to see
how serious DR.. Nicholson, Joe Hall,
and Ned Francks looked. So we
kinder thought over the matter and
said to ourselves they won't have
over 80 or 60 next day and that they
had their ''gala day. the Bird instead
of the 4th from the way the wind
blowed, and we expected it would be
raining next day, but bless your life
it was as fair as lilly. We had the
thing fixed up, we had told our ten
ants that were Democrat that these
Third party fellows said they did
not want no d-n Democrats to eat
their grub, so that made them mad
and they stayed home and plowed
just like we wanted them to do, and
a few of we intelligent fellows went
out to see their doings. We scare
our boys telling them these party
fellows are trying to get another
war. So we got out there early to
see if anybody did come. SO after
while Jim Crvanaugh come up rid
ing little Texas mule, got off and
hitched him to the fence. He looked
mighty lonesome, and we fellows
smiled to ourselves, but it want long
before some more come and they
kept coming and then we wished
then it had err rained They began
to caucus in Steeds back lot, and
/ first thing we knowed out they come
on horseback. [ did not see any
guns, but got little uneasy. They
all put out up the road, and then
Ned Francks he got in a buggy and
G away he went feeling like he weighed
400. 1t want long before | seed him
coming back just tearing with a
r stranger in the buggy with him and
all these fellows on horseback right
after him. Somebody said 1t was
l Col. Skinner. so thought it was the
calvary coming, and / come jam
nigh leaving the place, but the Other
fellows told me to hold on, they
: would see me out, so did, but by
! that time the whole village was in {
work with people, and | wished i
> had er rained, SO we caucused a lit
tie and decided we would hear wha
they had to say.
The wind was blowing right hare
and they had heard we Democra
!, Methodist were not going to let then
v speak in the church and we kinde
smiled again to ourselves. But sir
they did not say word about ;
n house to speak in, they just took thu
i old campaign stand and put 1t side o
i the school house and soon ever.
- thing was ready, and they tappe'
u the bell and the crowd gathered, an
d we fellows kinder moved up closer
~ DR.. Cy Thompson had got back fror
~ the west where he had been to wax
1t up the Alliance, he introduced tina
J. Mr.. Skinner what was to do tn
~ talking. He riz, he did and com
+ menced to talk mighty clever like
~ so got little closer. He is a pow
e, full fine looking fellow, but | ha
j., made up my mind | did not car
what he said he could not chang
to me, and did not believe he could an
A. of the rest of US fellows. But let m
% tell you, he is a smart fellow, fC
70 John Nets said so and he tells all L
III fellows how to do. Mr.. Skinne
o. started off mighty slow, but after b
- got warmed up he fairly ragged.
io know his ma sent him to Sunda
II school whep he was boy, for tie
s. you he knowed all er bout Mos'
70 saving his people, and | reckon /
" thinks he is going to save his poop
n for he told about little fellow 6
b. ing ahead of the army with the fla
ho while they were shooting and tt
he Gen. told him to bring the flag bat
ry to the men, and he told the Gen.
lie bring the men to the flag and said
=, how he had done that in his par
u and when they called him to con
as back he told them to come to hill
II He talked a whole lot about su
: Treasury and finances, and 1t d
10 seeem like to me he was telling
er- the truth because it was just like
no. said, there was no money and o
stuff brings nothing. He talk
ILL mighty honest to the colored poop
ar he said the whites were the hight
/ and they must rule, but they Dug
=. to give justice to the colored man.
ne liked that mighty we'll. He told
the about the constitution from W
les. back, and when he begun to call
= Mr.. George Washington, Mr.. G
u houn and Mr.. Patrick Henry a
ov- some others I forgot, | begin, to {
flv uneasy for | had never seen so ma
81 people in Richards IN my life SCI
ih' like. They said there was a thu
Il III Sanu, ana fechou tHeIo was, en'
g a thought from what our fellows b
, :. said they had buried them ] pa
IL head foremost face foremost a
are every other way, and that the Leg
ici- lature had killed the Alliance,
= if they did this was resurrection {
WY with them for it seemed to me ca
hat one had not only scratched out h
the self but had dug up two more &
brought EN- along with him, q
'eh- when he begun to call up those
ses- men way back yonder and
and them about constitution my pants
80 gun to shake. for I expected ev
gnu minute one would pop up, if Il
ay1 had should have left that crc
hon and err burnt the wind" AT