Indiana American. [volume] (Brookville, Ind.) 1865-1872, 1866-10-19
MAS 3 Y.
Mr.. Nasty yat Home How his People were
Outraged.
Posr OFFIs, CoSFEDRIr X ROADS, \
(wieh is in tho Stait ~ Kentucky, :
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IoST Offls, OoNfEDRIT y ROADS,
(wieh is in tho Stait n Kentucky,
.e September Is, 1866.
found my flock in terrible state u
depression, at which, when | wuz told In
cause, l didn't wonder at. There wuz
back Of the corners on the side hill, owe
towards Garretstown, about three-quarter
Nv mile this side of Abbott's grocery
1--WE estimate distance here from one gro
Gerry TO another) Eve or six families u
niggers. The males nv this settlcmen
had all been in the Federal army ez sol
Jers, and he'd saved their pay and bounty
and sich, and he'd bought NV disgustid
SSaesssEa!s ssS s ss EA2 Pran0sasS % Ss T. Aaa IL Asz
here. and who, bein determined to leave
the country, didn't care who he sold his
plantashen to so ez he got green bax, three
hundred acres, wich they he'd divided uT
and built cabins onto EN-, and wuz a cult
yatin it. There wuz a store keeper at the
Corners who come here from Illinoy, and
who he'd been so greedy Nv gain, and SC
graspin. ez to buy their r-odoose NV EN-
and sell em sich supplies 81. they needed
These accursed soEs and daughters of Ham
was a liyin there in comfort. The thing
was a eittin unendoorable. They come to
the Corners dressed in clothes without
patches, and white shirts, and bats on; and
the females in dresses and hoops under
em-in short, these apes he'd assoomed 50
much uv the style Nv people that ef II
hadn't bin for their black faces they wood
have passed for white folks.
Our people become indignant, and e7
soon cz I returned l was requested to cal
meeting to consider the matter, which
NV course did. The horn wuz tootid, and
the entire Corners wluz assembled, eggs
cepting the Illinoy store keeper. who
didn't attend to Us much. i stated briefly
and elokently, and asked the brethren tC
case their minds.
SQUIRE Gayitt he'd observed the progress
NV them niggers with the most profound
est alarm. lie he'd noticed EN- comm tC
the Corners dressed better nor his family
dressed, aud sellin tie produx NV theii
land to that wretch
At this point the Illinoy store keeper
come in, and the Squire proceeded:
he should say Mr. Pollock, and he
ICu AV0b0 tH~t Oht
family he'd sod three hundred and seven
" live dollars worth NV truck this season
Nv which they he'd laid out for clothes anc
books two hundred dollars, leavin EN- one
hundred and seventy Eve dollars in cash
which wuz more money than he he'd made
sense the accursed LiBkin passed the en-
aucipashen proclamation. Aud what hcI
driv the iron into his soul wuz the fac
that wun Of them niggers wuz his niger
The money they hev,' pursood the Squire
is my money; that man worth 81, 800 i
ms uau his wife is my woman; her chill
dren my children"
That's literal fact shouted Joe Bi
ger. a drunken returned Confederate sojer
they hev yoor nose eggsactly, and they'r'
the meanest yaller. brats in the settle
nent'
This unhappy remark endid in a slii'
oupleasantness, which resultid in the
Squres bein carried out minus one ear
aud his nose smashed. Joseph remarked
that he'd wantid TO Git at him ever sense
he woodn't lend him a half-dollar tw'
months ago lie was now satisfied anC
hoped this little episode woodn't mar th'
harmony NV the meetin.
Elder Smathers observed that he he,
noiist with pain that them niggerS alIu
he'd money, and wuz alluz dresst well
while We, their sooperiors, he'd no none.
and nothin to boast NV in the way u
close lie wood say
Pollock the Illinoy store-keeper put in
Ef the Elder wood work ez them nigger
wuz workin, and not leaf over half tn
time at Bascom's grocery he mite possibl
hev hull SCOT NV close aud now aud lhei
dollar in money. 1t twuz here ez it WI
in all strickly Dimekratic communities
the grocery keepers absorb all the tloati
capital, and
lie wuz not allowed to proceed. Bas
com flung chair at him, and four or NV
NV his constitooents fell on him. He WI
carried ous<c1r dead. Bascom remarke
that he wuz for the utmost freedom u
speech, but in the discussion Of graf
constooshnel question no Illinoy ablishnis
shood put in his yawp. The patriotic re
mark wuz cheered, but when Bascom ask
the whole meetin out to drink, the applaus
wuz uproarious. Bascum alluz gets ap
plause-he knows how to move an audi
enee.
Deekin Pogram sed he'd bore with then
niggers till his patience wuz gin out. ii
endoored it till last Sunday. After ser
vice he felt pensive, ruthet, and walke'
out towards Garrettstown, meditatin as h
went on the sermon he he'd listened I
that mornin on the necessity Nv the sprea
of the Gospil. Mournin in sperit owe
the condition Of the heather, he didn
notis where he wuz till he found hisself /
the niger settlement, and in front Nv on
NV their houses. There he saw site vic
paralyzed him. There wuz niger vic
wuz wunst his niger, wich Linkin de
prived him Nv, settin under his porcl
and a proiaDin the Holy Bible by teachi
his child to read il Kin this be indoor
cd |? the Deekin asked.
Deekin Parkins sed he must bear h
unworthy testimony agin these disturber
They he'd, he knowd whereof he spok'
hired female woman from Massachuseti
to teach their childrenl lie he'd bin i
their school-rooni and with bis own eye
witnest it.
Bascom. the grocery keeper, he'd bi
shocked at their conduct. He wuz cor
vinst that nigger wuz beast. The
come to tho Corners to sell the produx I
their lands--do they leave their money
n III. .~ouI ann, .,v