The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1866-10-11

y. sa.t Sept l6, 1853.
I found my dock In . terrible state Nv
depression, at which, when I wus told
the cause, I didn't wonder ct. There
wux hack Nv the corners on the aide hill,
over towards Garretstown about three
quartsrs Of mile this side Of Abbott's
grocery 1--WE estimate distance here from
one grocery to another) nve or six fAmi-
lies NV niggers. The males Of this settle
ment he'd al been in the Federal army
ez soljezs and he'd saved their pay and
bounty aud sich, and he'd bought NV q
disgusted Confederate who proposed to
find that freedom In Mexico which was
denied him here, and who bein deter
mined to leave the country, didn't care
who he sold his plantashun TO, % e. he
got greenbax, three hundred acres which
they he'd divided up and built cabins
onto em, and wuz cultivatin it. There
wuz storekeeper at the Corners who
come here from Illinoy, and who he'd
bin SO greedy Nv gain, and 80 graspin ez
to buy their prodoose NV EN-, and sell
em sich supplies ez they needed. These
accursed sons and daughters Nv Ham
wuz liven there in comfort. The thing
wuz q gittin unendoorable. They came
to the Corners dressed in clothes without
patches, and white shirts, and hats on !;
and the females with dresses aud hoops
under can; and in short, these apes he'd
assoomed so much Nv the style NV the
people that if it hadn't been for their
black faces they would have PASSED for
folks.
Our people become indignant, and ez
soon returned wuz requested to call
a meeting to consider the matter, which
Nv course, I did.
The horn wuz tootid, and the entire
Corners wuz assembled, eggscepting the
Illinoy storekeeper who didn't attend to
us much. Istated briefly and elokently.
Il hev improved in public speakin sense
heered His Serene Highness, Androo,
all the way from Washington to Loois-
ville) and asked the brethren to ease
their minds.
Squire Gavitt he'd observed the pro-
gress Nv them niggers with the most
profoundest alarm. He he'd noticed
them comm to the Corners dressed bet
ter nor his family dressed, and sellin the
produx NV their land to that wretch.
At this point the Illony storekeper
come in, and the Squire proceeded.
He shood say Mr.. Pollock, and he
he'd made inquiries and found that one
I aenars xsC<A -1sssss S1arcc uur1urcu anu sew
enty-five dollars worth Nv truck this
season, Nv which they he'd laid out for
clothes and books tu hundred dollars,
leavin EN- one hundred and seventy-five
dollars in cash, which wuz more monny
than he he'd made since the accursed
Linkin passed the emansipashun proc
lamation. And what did drive the iron
into his soul wuz the fact that one Nv
them niggers wuz his Niger. 1.-THE
money they hev," pursooed the Squire,
''is MY MONEY, that man worth $500 is
my man; his wife is my woman, her
children is my children"
"That's literal fact" shouted Joe
Bigler, a drunken returned Confederate
soljer; "they have your nose eggsactly,
and they're the meanest yaller brats in
the settlement"
This unhappy remark ended in slight
unpleasantness, which resulted in the
Squire's bein carried out minus one e1k,
and his nose smashed. Joseph remarked
that he wantid to get at him ever sense
he wouldn't lend him a. half dollar two
months ago. He was now satisfied, and
hoped this little episode woodn't mar the
harmony NV the meetin.
| Elder Smathers observed that he he'd
noticed with pain that them niggers
alluz he'd money, and wuz alluz drest
well, while we, their sooperiors, he'd no
money and nothin tn boast Nv in the way
NV close. He would say
Pollock the Illinoy storekeeper put In.
Ef the Elder wood work ez them niggers
wuz workin, and not loaf over half the
time at Bascom's grocery, he might
possibly hev full SCOT Nv close, and now
and then dollar in money. 1t wuz here
ez it wuz in all strikly Dimocratic com.
munities, the grocery keepers absorb all
the doatin capital, and
He wuz not allowed to proceed. Bas,
com flung chair at him, and four or five
Nv his constitoonts fell on him. He wus
carried out for dead. Bascom remarked
that he wuz for the utmost freedom NV
speech, but in the discussion NV q great
constitooshnel question no Illinoy
ablishnist shood put in his yawp. The
patriotic remark wuz cheered, bpt when
Bascom ask't the whole lneetin out tu
drink, the applause wuz uproarious.-
Bascom alluz gets cheered-he knows
how to move an audience.
Deekin Pogram sed he'd bore with
them niggers till his patience wuz gin
out. He endoored 1t till last Sunday
After service he felt pensive, rather, and
walked out towards Garrettstown, med
itatin ez he went on the sermon he he'd
listened to that mornin on the necessity
Nv the spread Nv the Gospel. Mournin
In sperit over the condition NV the
/ heathen he didn't notis where he wuy