Show ECHOES OF THE ELECTION mrs B B Nesbitt WW taylor H H voss von mrs W W taylor and uncle andrew campbell appeared on the streets last tuesday morning they were surprised and startled to observe that fifteen or twenty of the best and most influential members of our race were engaged in working in the interest of the democratic party it had been reported on good authority that all the above mentioned ment ionea persons had pledged the entire negro vote of this city to the leaders of the republican party but on an the day of the election they could not deliver the goods for more than one hundred ot the most intelligent negroes recorded their votes in favor of the straight democratic ticket every drop of southern blood which courses through our veins boiled with indignation when we observed the way the negro democrats were treated by those who profess to belong to the opposite party jake greenwald and a number of other republicans came very near getting into difficulty by attempting to interfere with colored men who were determined to vote the democratic ticket and man many y of the whites stared at the colored men who wore democratic badges like gaping idiots in one instance a person who wore a grand army button approached P pro adach ached ed us and exclaimed that he had bad fought three years in the rebellion for no other purpose but to free the negro and that no negro under the present circumstances had the right to be a dern dem oc we instantly I 1 replied by saying that hat every person black or white has the right to affiliate with any political party and that we had lost an uncle at the battle of get lesburg who had laid down his life for the sake of the union and manity nu when we had concluded our dur little talk he decided that he did not desire to converse with any negro who had left the grand old party it was clearly demonstrated on tuesday that judge IL B johnson Job W W taylor and the other would be leaders do not carry the negro negm vote of this city round in their vest test pockets |