Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1866-10-17
Written for the Toledo Blade.
n AS B Y.
Mr.. Nasby at Home. How his Pe0pI
were Outraged.

PosT OFFS, CoNFEDRIT x ROADS,
(which is in the Stait Nv Kentucky,)
September 10th, 1866.
1 found my flock in terrible state Nv
depression, at which, when wuz told the
cause, l didn't wonder at. There wuz,
back of the corners on the side hill, over
towards Garretstown about three quarters
Nv a mile this side of Abbott's grocery
1--WE estimate distance here from one gro
Gerry to another) five or six families Nv
niggers. The males of this settlement had
all been in the Federal army ez soljers,
and he'd saved their pay and bounty and
sich, and he'd bought Nv disgustin Con-
federate, who proposed to find in Mexico
that freedom wich wuz denied him here,
and who bein determined to leave the
country, didn't care who he sold his plan
tashen to, so ez he got greenbax, three
hundred acres, wich they he'd divided up
and built cabins onto EN-, and wuz a cul-
twain it. There wuz a store-keeper at
the Corners who come here from Illinoy,
and who he'd been so greedy Nv gain, and
so graspin ez to buy their prodoose Nv EN-,
and sell EN- sich supplies ez they needed.
These accursed sons and daughters of
Ham was livin there in comfort. The
thing was a gittin unendoorable. They
come to the Corners dressed in clothes
without patches, and white shirts, and
hats on and the females in dresses and
hoops under en-; in short, these apes he'd
assoomed so much Nv the style Nv people
that eff it hadn't bin for their black
faces they wood have passed for folks.
Our people become indignant, and ez
soon ez l retuI ned I was requested to call
meetln to consider the matter, which
Nv course, did.
The horn was tootin, and the entire
Corners wuz assembled, eggscepting the
Illinoy store-keeper who didn't attend to
US much. stated briefly and elokently
Il hev improved in public speakin sense
l heered His Serene Highness, Androo
! the | all the way from Washington to
] Looisville), and asked the brethren to
ease their minds.
Square Gavitt he'd observed the progress
Nv them niggers with the most profound
| est alarm. He he'd noticed EN- comm to
the Corners dressed better nor his family
| dressed, and sellin the produx Nv their
land to that wretch
At this point the Illinoy store-keeper
come in, and the Squire proceeded.
-uC 6nOOA 4A4As I OAAOCnB o4A AC AO0
made inquiries and found that the family
he'd sold three hundred and seventy-fve
dollars worth Nv truck this season, Nv
which they he'd laid out for clothes and
| books two hundred dollars, leaVin EN- one
hundred and seventy-fve dollars in cash,
which was more money than he he'd made
sense the accursed Linkin passed the
emancipashen proclamation. And what
he'd drIv the iron into his soul wuz the
fact that wun of them niggers wuz hi
niger. The money they heV,' pursood
the Squire, is MY MONEY, that man worth
$500 is my man; his wife is my woman
her children my children
That's a literal fact shouted John
Bigler, drunken returned Confederate
soier; they heV yoor nose eggsactly, and
they're the meanest yaller brats in the
settlement
This unhappy remark endid in site
unpleasantness, wich RESULTED in the
Sources bein carried out minrs one ear,
and his nose smashed. Joseph remarked
that he'd wantid to git at him ever sense
he woodn'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 Smsthers observed that he he'd
notist with pain that them niggers allu7
he'd money, and wuz alluz drest well
while we, their sooperiors, he'd no money
and nothin to boast Nv in the way Nv
close. He wood say
Pollock the Illinoy store-keeper put in.
Eff the Elder wood work ez them niggers
Wuz workin, and not loaf over half the
time at Bascom's grocery, he mite posi-
bly, hev hull SCOT Nv close, and now and
then a dollar in money. It wuz here ez
it wuz in all strikly Dimekratic commu-
mites, the grocery keepers absorb all the
foatin capital, and
He Wuz not allowed to proceed. Bascom
flung a chair at him, and four or five Nv
his constituents fell on him. He wuz
carried out for dead. Bascom remarked
that he wuz for the utmost freedom Nv
speech, but in the discussion Nv CRATE
constooshne1 question no IllinoY ablish-
mist shood put in his yawp. The patriot
ic remark wuz cheered, but when Bascom
ask't the whole meetin out to drink, the
applause was uproarious. Bascom allus
gets applause-he knows how to move an
audience.
Deekin Pogram sed he'd bore with
them nlggers till bis patience wuz gin out
He endoored it till last Sunday. After
service he felt pensive, rather, and walk
ed out towards Garrettstown, meditatin
as he went on the sermon he he'd lis
tened to that mornin on the necessity Nv
the spread Nv the Gospil. Mournin in
spirit over the condition of the heathen,
he didn't notis where he wuz till he found
hisself in the niger settlement, and IN
r. khain hn1ona fHhaPo ha
saw a site wich paralyzed him. There,
wuz niger wich was wunst his niger,
wich Linkin deprived him Nv, settin un-
der his porch, and profanln the holy
Bible by teachin his child to read 1t! Kin
this be endoored2 the Deekin asked.
Deekin Parkins sed he must pear his
unworthy testimony agin these disturb
ers. They he'd, he knowd whereof he
spoke, hired female woman from Mas
sachusetts to teach their children! He
he'd bin in their skoolroom and with his
own eyes witnest it.
Bascom, the grocery keeper, he'd bin
shocked at their conduct. He wuz con-
vinct that niger wuz beast. They
come to the corners to sell the produx OF
their Landslide they leave their money at
his bar? Nary They spend sum Nv it, at
the store Nv disorganizer from llllnoy,
who is here interferin with the biznis Nv
troo Southern men but he he'd never seed
one Nv EN- inside his door. He he'd no
pashence with EN-, and believed suthin
shood be done to rid the community Nv
sich yooseless inhsbitance. Eff they ever
git votes they'r sgin US. No man who
lodges my bar ever votes straight Dimoc-
risy.
Ginral Punt moved that this meetin do
to wunst proceed to the settlement and
clean EN- out. They wuz reproach to
Kentucky. OF course, ez they were heath
ems and savages, sich goods ez they he'd
wood fall to the righteous, Nv whom we
wuz which, and he insisted upon a talr
divide. All he wanted wuz bureau and
set Nv chairs he he'd seen.
The motion wuz amendid to lnciood
Pollock, the Illinoy store-keePer, and 1t
wuz to wunst acted upon.
Pollock wuz reconstructed first. Filled
with zeal for the right, his door wuz bus