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William Hepworth Dixon, White Conquest: Volume 2, Chapter 14: Charleston. (search)
door-keeping, whose desire was legislation. A shrewd fellow, thirty-five years old, and yet obliged to mind a door for bread, Griffin thought the time had come for him to rise. His neighbours shared the public spoil-why should not he? Hence, to the amusement of his employers, he was running as a candidate in the seventh ward of Philadelphia. On which side in politics do you stand? I asked the candidate. Republican, Sah. Republican! Then you are running against Bardsley and Patterson, men of your own opinions, giving your enemies, the Democrats, a chance of slipping in? Guess that's so, he answered; but we like to have our share, and the Republicans cheat us every way. Indeed! I thought they gave you liberty, and fought for you against their brethren in the South? Guess that was long ago. That dead and buried. I am speaking of to-day. We coloured people vote the Republican ticket. When they get in, by coloured votes, they give us nothing. We have a Wh