The Union and journal. [volume] (Biddeford, Me.) 1858-1882, 1866-10-19
NUMBER 43.

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.t. -t'.U-st o.. ss7.-ss,i C.ta'slp'vE
nen wux assembled. esceptn ths nlinoy
SorekeePe!, sbo didn't :tscnd 70 .: much.
! stated briefly and sloksntly Il hsv im:
proved 10 public speakin sense ] heercd
hh Serene Highness Androo, all tho way
tho bgethrcn to caso their minds. u
Squire Gayitt he'd .obseved the progress
Nv them niggers with the most proioundest
alarm. He bed noticed um comm to the
Corners dressed bsttes nor BIZ family dress-
ed, and sellin tho produx Of thsir and to
that wretch ,L....,r- .-.,.. i.g.-..,
AZ ibis point the Illinois store.keepcr
came In and tho Squire proceeded.
- --he shood cay nv. Pollock, and he had
nade inquiries and found that ono family
had sold three hundred and seveniy.fve
dollars worth Nv tuck this season. Nv which
{. they he'd laid out III hundcd for clothes and
[, books, Leaving um ono hundred and seven.
y.fye dollars In cash, wich was moro mon.
ey than be he'd made sensc Tho accursed
Enlin passed the emancipaslicn proclama.
don. And what div the iron intO his soul
wuz the fact that oue Nv them niRgcrs wiz
.Ahis" nigger. Tho money they .hcv, "pur.
sood the squire. @is my money, and that
man worth $500 Il my man his wife Is
my woman. her children my children
J. "Thsi's literal fset," shouted Joe Big.
Ter. q ,dunken returned Conisdht soljer;
.thev hev your nose eggzactly, and they're
the meanest ysller brats In the settlement"
This unhappy remark endid in Q site un.
plcasantnea wich rcsultid In the 6quirc's
I,oin carried on, minus ono car, and his
nose smsshed. Joseph remarked he bed
wanted TO yet at him ever sense he would
not lend him half dollar two months ngo.
Z He was now satisfied, and hoped this little
episode wouldn't mar tho harmony Nv the
meetin.
Elder Smathers observed that he he'd no.
tist with pain that them niggcs alluz he'd
money, and wuz allcn drcst well, while We
their soopcriop he'd no money and nutlin
to boast Nv In the way Nv clozo. tic would
ray
Pollock the lllinoy storc.kceper put in,
Ef the Elder wood work ez them niggcS
wus workin. and not loaf over hall the
time at Bascomb's grocery. he might posi-.
bly, how full SCOT Nv close, and now AMI
then dollar In money. Il wux hero ns il
wuz In all strikly Dimckratic communities,
the grocery keepers absorb all tho aoatin
capital, aud
lie wuz not allowed to proceed. Bascom
flung char at him, and four or five Nv
his constituents iell on him. He wux car
ried out for dead. Bascom remarked that
he wuz for the utmost Freedom Nv Speech,
but in the discussion OF great cons,itoosl'.
mel question no lllinoy ablishnist shood put
in his yawp. The patriotic remark wuz
checrcd, and when Bascom askt tho whole
meetin out to drink, the applause wus up
roarious. i,ascom all,iz gets applause
knows how 10 move nm audience.
Deckiu Pogram sed ;ied born with them
niggcn till his patience wuz gin out. Tie
endoored II ill last Sunday. After service
he felt rensivc, rither. and walked out to.
wards Garrotistown. meditatin as he went
on the sermon be he'd listened to tlIat morn.
In on the necessity Nv the spread Nv the
GospiL Mournin in sperit over tho con'li-
lion Nv tho heathen, he didn't notis where
he wuz Ill he found fisself in tho Niger
settlement. and in front Nv ono Nv their
houses. There be saw site wich parn-
lyzed him. There wuSa niggcr wich wus
wunst his niggcr, wich Linkin deprived
him NV, scttin under his porch. and a pro.
Eanin the Holy l,ible by teachin his
child to read Il. Kin this be endoorcd ?
the Deekin asked.
Deekin Perkins sed he must bear his un.
worthy testimony agin these disturbances
They he'd. he knowed whereof he spoke,
hired female woman from Massachusetts,
to teach their children! Tie he'd bin In
their skool.room and with his own eyes
witnest It.
Baseoui, the grocery keeper, he'd been
shocked ut their conduct. lie was con.
vici that niggcr was beast. They come
to the corners to sell the produx OF their
landslide they spend their money at his
bar1 Nary! They spend sum oft al the
store NV disorganizcr for lllnoy. who Is
hero interenn with the bizness NV troo.
Southern men. but he he'd never seed ono
Of 'em inside his door. lie he'd no bust.
ence with 'cm, and believed sunthin shood
be done to I'D the community Nv sich
yooseless inhabitnncs. Ef they ever git
votes thcy'r sgin us. No ,nan who dodges
my bar ever votes stnight Democracy.
Ginral Punt moved that this mectin do
to-wunst proceed to tho settlement and
clean em out. They wuz q repmach to
Kentucky. OF course, ez they werc hea.
thens and savagcs, sich goods rz they he'd
wood fall to the righteous, Nv whom we
wuz which, and he insisted upon fair di.
vide. All he wanted wuz bureau and =
set Nv chairs he had seen.
The motion wuz aminded 10 mcleod Pol
lock, and Illinoy store. keeper, and Il wuz
at wuna acted upon.
Pollock wuz reconstructed first. Filled
with zeal for the right, his door wuz bustid
In, and In q jiffey the goods which he wuz
. contaminatIn our people with, wuz dis.
tributed among the people, each tnkin sich
AZ sooted en-. Wun man scjested that ez
they WIZ made by Yankees, and brought
South by Ysnkecs, that there wuz contemi.
nsshcn IN the touch Of cm. and that they
bo burned, but he wux hooted down, our
people secin distinction. The conAmi.
nssheu wuz in payin for em-ginin EN-
grniooitously took the cuss of.
t.lated, the crowd started for tho settle
ment never saw more zeal manifested.
A half hour brought us there, and then n
scene ensoOd wich filed mo with Joy un-
spcekable. The niggen wuz routed out
and their goods wuz bonded aAcr en-
The Bibles and skool books wuz Destroyed
frst coz we bed no use for them then
chairs. tables and bureaus, clothin and bed
din WIZ distributed. A woman bed the
impudencc to beg for sunthin she Gancicd,
when the righteous zeal Nv my next door
neighbor, Pettns, billed over. and be struck
her. Her h,,sband, forgetting his color,
struck Pcttus and the ouirsgo wux com.
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