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Updated: June 14, 2025
I guess you be scared. They run the colored folks away from church a lot of times. That was about equalization after the freedom. That was the cause of that. There was uprisings like I'm telling you but the colored folks didn't have nothing to go in a gun if he had one. White folks make them give up a gun. The first votin I done I was workin for young Henry Larson back in Mississippi.
Th' ain't nothin' mo' innercent than a lighted candle, kep' away up on the wall out o' the draft, the way they are in church, an' so, when it come to votin' on it, why, I count peace an' good-will so far ahead o' taller thet I voted thet I was good for ez many candles ez any other man would give. An' quick ez I said them words, why, Enoch Johnson up an' doubled his number.
"Yes," sez I, "do you spoze, Lorinda, if intelligent mothers helped control such things they would let their children be made sick and blind and the money that should be used for food for poor hungry children be squandered on on-necessary books they are too faint with hunger to study." "But wimmen's votin' wouldn't help in such things," sez Lorinda, as she stirred her angel cake vigorously.
"I've noticed pretty darned well 't I don't belong to no town, only when it comes to votin' some on ye into offis' up there and payin' taxes," said one of the Basin group Captain Dan Kirtland, Vesty's father. "I ain't a-goin' to pay no rates, nor work 'em out on no roads neither.
Don't think it right the way the men settin' round and deir wives workin' fer livin' and votin'. The women can vote if they want to but I don't think it right. Seems lack the cart in front ob de horse now. "It wouldn't do no more good to vote in the Primary than it do in the General election. It don't do much good nohow. "Fur as I ever knowed the slaves had no uprisin's.
"Dis heyah registrashum fo' de draf' am a whole lot like 'lection votin', ain't it?" he asked uncertainly. "Yes," answered the kindly registrar. Rastus scratched his head in troubled doubt. He was thinking deeply. Presently his brow cleared and a smile spread over his face. He had come to a decision. "Den I votes for Julius Jackson ter be drafted," he said. "I nebah did hab no use fo' dat niggah."
And we talked about it how he wuz carryin' everyday reason and common sense into Sunday religion. Sez Arvilly, "He teaches young voters that while prayers are needful and necessary, votes are jest as needful, for bad or careless votin' destroys all the good that Christian effort duz, all that prayer asks for and gits from a pityin' God.
But Josiah wus more sot than usial that mornin' aginst wimmen's votin'; and he had begun himself on the subject to Cicely; had talked powerful aginst it, but gentle: he loved Cicely as he did his eyes. He had been to a lecture the night before, to Toad Holler, a little place between Jonesville and Loontown. He and uncle Nate Burpy went up to hear a speech aginst wimmen's suffrage, in a Democrat.
They rather go to the penitentiary or the county farm or get killed than to do what is right. Voting and Vocational Experiences "I used to vote. I never had no trouble about it. "They tried to whip me once since freedom, but not about votin'. A man tried to whip me down in Stoneville because another man give me a drink. He tried to cut me with his knife. I knocked him down.
From the headin' way that he kerries on hyar, a-body would s'pose he air older 'n the Cumberland Mountings! But he hev turned twenty- one that's a fac' an' he voted at the las' election." "I knows that air true," said Birt, who had wistfully admired this feat of his senior. "Waal Nate don't set much store by votin'," rejoined Mrs. Griggs.
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