The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1866-10-18
From the Toledo Blade.
Massey.
Mr.. NaSby at 1HOme-HHOW His PeOs
pie were Outraged

PIE were outraged
Posi- OFFIs, CoNFEDmr X ROADS,
| (Which is in the Stait NV Kentucky9 :
September 10th, 1856.
found my flock in a terrible state Nv
depression, at which, when wuz told
the cause, | didn't wonder at. There
wuz, back OF the corners OH the side-hill,
over towards Garretstown about three
quarters Nv mile this side of Abbott
grocery 1--WE estimate distance here from
one grocery to anotheD five or six tami-
les OF niggers. The males Nv this set
tlemeut had all been in the Federal ar
my ez sQjers, and he'd saved their pay
and bounty and Sich, and he'd bought
NV disgustid Confederate, who pro-
posed to find in Mexico that freedom
which was denied him here, and who
bein determined to leave the country,
didn't care who he sold his plantashen
to, SO eG he got greenbax, three hun
dred acres, witch they he'd divided up
and built cabins onto EN-, and wuz u
cultiyatin it, There wuz a store-keeper
at the Corners who came here from Hi
noy, and who he'd been SO greedy NV
gain, and 50 graspin ez to buy their pro-
doose NV EN-, and sell EN- sivh SUPPLIES ez
they needed. These accursed sons and
daughters Of Ham wuz livin there iu
comfort. The thing wuz a gittin unen-
doorable. They come to the Corners
dressed in clothes without patches, and
white shirts and hats on; and the te-
males in dresses and hoops under EN-; s.;
in short, these apes he'd assoomed 50
much Nv the style nv people that ef it
hadn't bin for their black faces they
wood have passed for folks.
Our people became indignant, and ez
soon ez | returned was requested to
call "A meetin TO consider the matter,
which NV course did.
The horn wuz tootid, and the entire
Corners wuz assembled, eggScepting the
Iliinoy Storekeeper who didn't attend to
us much. Stated briefly and elokently
Il hev improved in public speakin sense
| heered Ills Serene uighness, Androo
the | all the way from Washington to
Louisville, } and asked the brethren to
case their minds.
Squire Gavitt he'd observed the pro-
greSS NV them niggers with the most
profoundest 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
came in, and the Squire proceeded.
he shood say Mr.. Pollock, and he
he'd made inquiries and found that one
family he'd sold three hundred and sew
enty-fiye 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 seyenty-hve
dollars in cash, which was more money
than he he'd made sense the accursed
Linkin passed the emanclpashen procla-
nation. And what he'd driv the iron
into his soul wuz the fact that wun NV
them niggers wuz MS niggert "The
money they hev," pursoodthe Squire,
SIS MY MONEY, that man worth $500 is
my man his wife is my woman, her
children my children" t I'll
"That's II literal fact" shouted Joe
Bigler, a drunken returned Confederate
sojerj "they hev yoor nose eggsactly,
and)theyr'e the meanest yaller brats in
the settlement" .... "a
This unhappy remark endid in Site
wich resulted in the
Squires bein' carried out minus one ear,
and his nose smashed Joseph remark
ed that he'd wantid to git at him ever
sense he woodn't lend him half dollar
two months ago. Hewa now satisfied,
and hoped this little episode woodn't
mar the harmony Nv the meetin.
Elder Smathers observed that he he'd
notist with pain that them niggers alluz
he'd money and wuz alluz dresst well,
while we, their sooperiors, he'd no mon
ey and nothin to boast NV in the wayuv
close. lie wood say 2
Pollock the store-keeper put in. Ef
the Elder wood work ez them niggers
wuz workin, and not loaf over halt the
time at Bascom'S grocery, he mite pos
sibly hev a hull SCOT Nv close, and now
and then a dollar in money. 1t wuz
here ez it wuz in all 'strikly Dimekratic
communities, the grocery keepers alb
sorb all the floatin capital, and H
He was not allowed to proceed.
Bascom flung achair at him, and four or
five of his c0nstituentsfell on him. He
wuz carried out for dead. Bascom
that he wuz for the utmost
freedom NV speech, but in the discus
sion NV a CRATE Constooshnel question no
Illinoy ablishnist should put in his yawp.
The patriotic remark wuz cheered, but
when Bascom ask't the whole meetin
out to drink, the applause wuz uproari-
Gus. BasCom alluz gets applauso--he
knows how to m0yean audience. - h.' =!