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'It's bringin' money to the place, said he. 'But in a sense you can buy money too dear. It isn't doin' us any good. People are laughin' at us. That's what they're doin'.... Now, with regard to that Vote of ours you may have heard talk about.... 'For Gorze sake, chuck that votin' business, cried an elderly man at the door. 'Money-gettin' or no money-gettin', we're fed up with it.
I've seen men put out for votin' Liberal; I've seen 'em put out for free-thinkin'; all sorts o' things I seen em put out for. 'Tes that makes the bad blood. A man wants to call 'is soul 'is own, when all's said an' done. An' 'e can't, not in th' old country, unless 'e's got the dibs." "And yet you never thought of emigrating?"
There ain't but thirty votin' names in this place except the chaps off fishin', and they won't be back till fall. Fifteen is for you and fifteen for Gaius. Most astonishin' agreement of difference ever I see. We'll never have a president, at this rate. "He winked. 'Won't, hey? he says. 'Sure you've counted right? I make it thirty-one. "'I don't see how, says I, puzzled.
He's a charter member, too. Don't he rent the parlor for a pollin' booth on votin' day, hire himself for a scrooteneer, and have my uncle Henry for constable? "Your father wouldn't do them things, eh! Well, maybe he ain't never had the chance. "The first political meeting I went to?
To-be-sure, I thought mebbe you'd got your back up 'bout somthin'." "Yes, that's all," said Dick quietly, and did not explain how he had spent everything in his search for the wealthy hardware merchant's daughter. But perhaps Uncle Bobbie needed no explanation. "Well, let me tell you, you're goin' anyhow; and you're goin' t' have votin' power too.
'D'ye think ye're votin' f'r th' best? says I. 'Why, man alive, I says, 'Charter Haitch was assassinated three years ago, I says. 'Was he? says Dugan. 'Ah, well, he's lived that down be this time. He was a good man, he says. "Ye see, that's what thim rayform lads wint up again.
It means both sexes when it relates to punishment, taxin' property, obeyin' the laws strictly, etc., etc., and then it goes right on the very next minute and means men only, as to wit, namely, votin', takin' charge of public matters, makin' laws, etc. "I tell you it takes deep minds to foller on and see jest to a hair where the division is made. It takes statesmanship.
But now a culled man ain't so much better off 'bout votin' an such some places yet, ah hears dat." "Yes'em, they come an want hosses once in awhile, an they was a rarin' tarin' time atryin to catch them hosses fo they would run into the woods befo' you could get ahold of 'em. Morgan's men come fo hosses once, an ol Mars, get him's hosses, fo he were a Reb.
If dey had a-wanted to de Yankees wouldn' a-let 'em. My old marster didn' vote an' if anybody knowed what was what he did. Sense didn' count in dem days. It was pow'ful ticklish times an' I let votin' alone. "De shawl-strop folks what come in to take over de country tol' us dat us had a right to go to all de balls, church meetin's, an' 'tainments de white folks give.
They're probably votin' for Adams or Madison or somebody like that." "My stars!" said Rebecca. "What ever shall we do ef this old machine goes on back of the Revolution! I should hate to go back an' worry through all them terrible times." "We'll be lucky if we stop there," said Phoebe. "I only hope to gracious we won't go back to Columbus or King Alfred."
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