The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1867-09-12

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them two wuz imprisoned three
months each. But, thank God, I'm
free agin-I'm free J" and fell onto
!, my neck and askt me to take drink
with him, wioh, ~fearin the effex NV
Eirritashn ON him, in his present egg
stable state NV mind, did.
I wuz askt if / he'd bin in Moo Or
leens and on saying ! hed'nt, my
friend accompanied me to the many
! objecks NV interest in the city.
Here,n sed he, "is the buildins
in which Beast Butler received the
surrender NV the city, and where he
signed the order for the hanging NV
Mumford. Subsekently, in this
same room, the tother beast Sheri-
dan, took his orders from Mayor
!, Monro and Abell Ha! ha! 'twuz
retribushcn," and he smiled grimly
sevral minits." 'sHere is the hall
wher Dostie and his Ablishn hordes
gathered over year ago, and from
which Dostie was carried corpse
At that angle in the .bildin I, with
this good rite hand, slew three mig
gers and a Burow preecher. Right
, here wher we ar standin, cart con-
tainin the killed came along. I wuz
existed and infuriated at their OBJ
stinacy in holding the Convenshen.
In my revolver ther wuz Que load
in the cart under the corpses wuz a
niger groanin. I mounted the cart
} turned over the corpses-the wound
ed niger had on bloc cote-in-
famed with rage at the site, | pull
ed the trigger and he groaned no
more.' .r# ae.
! '"Glorious sperit y sed I, in eggs
tacy wringin his hand.
"Just in front Nv wher we stand
thirty odd niggers wuz killed, and
one or two NV them burow teach
| ers. It don't become me to say
4 how many I killed, but want tidle.
La three weeks thereafter I,reeeved
. my pardon from the President, and
am now, thank God, a citizen -
/ BY this time we reached the Club
again, and for hours I listened to
/ tales of oppression on the part of
/ the military satraps which made my
blood run cold. A citizen he'd shot
nigger--and forthwith he wuz torn
from buzzum. NV his family and in
karsarated in the common prizn y
Another's wife he'd thrown buckit
Nv bilin water over a wench in the
street, NV wich the perverse creach-
er died, and she, too, wuz arrested.
Policemen he'd bin discharged for
refoosin to arrest men whose spir-
its coodent brook niger ekality ,and
who he'd banged EN- about some
what, aud others had bin dismisst
for hurahin for Jeff Davis andpullin
down Fedral flags. Their he'd bin
no liberty NV speech nor ackshen.-
! This Club room he'd bin invaded, ,and
pistols and shot guns he'd bin taken
out by these despots, which wuz a
grindin the citizens ir to the dust
But the most oppressive case wuz
that NV our first citizens, who he'd a
girl in his family who wood persist
in attendin skools after he he'd pos
4 lively forbid her .doin so. He tied
her up, and in the most patriarchal
manner gave her one hundred and
fourteen lashes. She, wuz obstinit
and died. He gave her Chrischen
berriel, but nevertheless, he wuz
pulled up, and fined and imprizened
Fined and imprizened for wanopin .
niger!
Then biznis commenced. Lists
were being made out, the purport
:. NV wich I ycomperhended. ENTER
up,' sed one, oilin revolver, 'sthe
nest Nv niggers on the ally jist round
the corner from my house. They hey
ther chapel, ,wich they hey preechin
Sundays, and skools durin the week.
Aside from the annoyance it is to
my family, it's really dangerous
Two hundred nigger children attend
: it, beside the adult niger classes"
'sEnter up" sed another, cleanin
out shot gun, '"the grocer on the
same street He is from Iowa, and
teaches q Sunday shool class in that
same chapel. Sich incendiaries we
, kin never tolerate" 'FIhere's mig
; ger church two squares from me
:; wich must be abated," sed another
s'and, by the way, q agent Nv the
' nigger missionary sosiety and two
5 teachers from Kennetikut boards
next door. Put EN- down" "In
/ my part NV this city, sed another
e there's four nigger draymen who
: hev bin impudent enuff to scrape to-
r gether ennff to buy ground and build
: EN- houses. Don't forget to put EN-
D down-don't. They are niggers and
e hev houses. 81" he added, bitter
. ly, ssI am white man, and hev non
Put EN- down. When Sheridan goes
: ha ha"
} And so on. The sekretary enter.
ed the names ez fast ez they Wuz
81 olfurnisht him, ontil the name NV ev-
: cry man suspected Nv Yankee per
/ clivities wuz registered. The Mig
J gers wuz not put down, ,ceptin 'enl
NV sich prominence ez they desired
: to make shoor NV, it is considered
entirly safe to kill Niger anywher
Q Some NV EN- desired to make excep
5 shens. in favor NV certin niggers
Il who Good be depended upon ez troo
e One Nv EN- KEEP keno, and t'othel
: a faro bank. But they wuz rooled
out. The niggers, it wuz desided
v wuzn't to be trustid Their impu-
y Edence, in persumin to keep fare
e banks, wl1z friteful.
y, The next day, brite and early,
b wuz at the Club, when received an
/ other. despatch. The members
b aockt around me. as il done