"'What office do you mean, uncle?' I asked, as I never knew pop held any office.
"'Why, de office ob candidate, Marse John; yoh pappy was candidate fo' many years.'"
A good story is told on the later Senator Vance. He was traveling down in North Carolina, when he met an old darky one Sunday morning. He had known the old man for many years, so he took the liberty of inquiring where he was going.
"I am, sah, pedestrianin' my appointed way to de tabernacle of de Lord."
"Are you an Episcopalian?" inquired Vance.
"No, sah, I can't say dat I am an Epispokapillian."
"Maybe you are a Baptist?"
"No, sah, I can't say dat I's ever been buried wid de Lord in de waters of baptism."
"Oh, I see you are a Methodist."