The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1866-09-28
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written for the Toledo Blade.l
Mr.. Nasty at HOme---H0W His Pe0-
pie We're Outraged.
Posr Offs, CoNFEDRIT K RoAps,
(Which is in the Staff NV Kentucky
+ September, Is, 1866.

of depression, az wien, Wnen Wu1
told the cause, / didn't wonder at.
There wuz, back NV the corners on
the side-hill, over towards Carrots
town about three quarters Nv mile
this side of Abbott's grocery, 1--WE esti-
matt distance here from one grocery to
another) five or six families of niggers.
The males of this settlement had all
been in the Federal army ez soljers,
and he'd saved their pay and bounty
and SIGH, and he'd boWt Nv disgustid
Confedrit, who proposed to find in
Mexico that freedom witch was denied
him here, and who bein determined
to leave the country, didn't care who
he sold his plantashen to, so ez he got
greenbax, three hundred acres, Wich
they he'd divided up and bilt cabins
onto EN-, and wuz a cultivatin it.
There Wuz store. keeper at the cor
ners who cum here from Illinoy, and
who he'd bin so greedy Nv gain, and so
graspin as to buy their produce Nv
EN-, and sell EN- such supplies ez they
needed. These accursed sons and
daughters of Ham was Twin there in
comfort. The thing was a gittin unen-
doorable, They cum to the corners
dressed in clothes without patches
and in white shirts, and hats on; and
the females in dresses and hoops un-
der EN-; in short these apes he'd as
soomed~so much Nv the style Nv the
people that eff it hedn't bin for their
/ black faces they would hey passed for
1 folks ~ s5l, tqasi4
Our people become indignant, and
ez soon ez [ returned | was requested
/ to call a meetin TO consider the mat
ter, which Nv course did. .35.f 4g,3
The horn wuz tootid, and the entire
| Corners wuz assembled, eggcepting
the Hlinoy store-keeper, who didn't
attend to us smueh,g 4 stated briefly
and elokently Il. Hey improved in
public speakin sense, | heerd His
| Serene Highness,i 'Androo the 1. all
! the way from Washington to Loois-
Wiley, and asked the brethren to ease
their minds. .6klif
+ Squire Gavftt he'd observed the
progress 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 ov their land tc
that Wretch-t3a.aod so -ise1s.i
At this point the Illinoy store
keeper. come in, and the Squire pro
ceeded. els hsil.5uaae yusid
he shood say Mr.. Pollock, and he
he'd made inquiries and found tina
one family he'd sold three hundred
and seventy-fve dollars worth ny
truck this season, Nv which they heC
laid out for clothes and books two
hundred dollars, leavin EN- one hun
bred and seventy-fve dollars in cash
(which was more money than. he heC
made sence the accursed Linkin pass
ed the emancipashen proclamation
And what he'd driv the iron into hi
soul wuz the fact that wun of then
niggers Wuz has niger. The none,
they hev," pursood the Squire, i
MY MONEY; that man, worth 81, SOC
is my man; his wife is my woman, he
children my children"
"That s literal fact, shouted 10
Bigler, drunken returned Confeder
ate solier: they hev yoor nose eggs
actly, and they're the meanest Yale
brats in the settlement"
This unhappy remark endid in
site unpleasantness, witch resulted i
the Sources bein carried out minu
one ear, and his nose smashed. 10
seph remarked that he'd wantid t
git at him ever sense he Woodn't len
him a half dollar two months age
He was now satisfied, and hoped thi
little episode woodn't mar the harmC
, ny NV the meetin.
Elder Smathers observed that h
he'd notist with pain that them niger
alluz he'd money, and wuz alluz dres;
we'll, while we, their sooperiors, he
no money and nothin to boast Nv
the way NV close. He wood say
Pollock, the IlHnoy store-keepe
put in. Eff the Elder wood work {
them niggers wuz workin, and nj
loaf over half the time at Bascom
" grocery, he mite possibly hev a hu
SCOT Nv close, and now and then
dollar in money. 1t wuz here ez
wuz in all strikly Dimekratic comml
mites, the grocery keepers absorb a
the hoatin capital, and ft'|
He wuz not allowed to procee
Bascom flung chair at him, and for
or five NV his constituents fell on hin
3 He yuz carried out for dead Ba
com remarked that he wuz for the u
most freedom NV speech, but in Il
discussion Nv a CRATE constooshn
d question no Illinoy ablishnist shoe
put in his yawp The patriotic r
mark wuz cheered, but when Basco
ask't the whole meetin out to drin
the applause wuz uproarious. Basco
alluz gets applause-he knows how
= move an audience
= Deekin Pogram sed he'd bore wit
them niggers till his patience wuz G
out. He endoored it. till last Sunda
After service he felt pensive, ruthe
d. and walked out towards Garrettstow
meditatin as he went on the serm,
be he'd listened to that mornin on Il
necessity Nv the spread of the Gosp
Mournin in sperit over the cOnditi,