Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1867-10-25

turning over the eoTpses-the wounded nIg-
ger had on a bloc eose-iufamsd with rage
at the site pulled the trigger and he grean-
ed no more.
Glorious sperit!" sed /, in .eggstaey,
wringing his hand
Just in front nv where we stand thirty
old niggors was killed, and one or two nv
them Burow teachers. 1t don't become me
to say how many / killed, but wan t idle.
In three weeks thereafterI received my par
don from the President, and am now, thank
God, a citizen
By this time we reached the Club agin,
and for hours listened to tales Of oppres-
shun on the part of the military satraps
which made my blood run cold. a citizen
had shot a nigeer-and forthwith be was
torn from the buzznm nv his family and in
karcerated in a common prizen. Another s
wife had throwd buckit Nv bilin water over
a wench in the street. uvwhieh the peryerse
creature died, and she, too, was arrested.
Policemen he'd bin discharged for refoosin
to arrest men whose spirits co0dent brook
nigger equality, and who had banged EN-
about somewhat, and others had been dis
misst for hurrain for jeff Davis and puilin
down Federal flags. There had been no lib
erty NV speech or ackshen. This Club room
he'd bin invaded and pistols and shot guns
he'd Leel taken out by those despots which
was grindin the citizen into the dust. But
the most oppressive case wuz that Nv one Nv
our first citizens, who he'd girl in his FAM
lily who wood persist inattendin skools, after
he had positively forbid her doin so. He
tied her up, and in the most patriarohal
manner gave her one hundred and fourteen
Iashes. She. was obstinit aud died He gave
her a chrischen burial, but nevertheless he
wuz pulled up, and fined ard imprizened
Fined and imprisoned for waIlopina nigger
Then biznis commenced. Lists we're bein
made ont the purport Of which ! compre-
hended. Enter up, sed one oilin re-
volyer. the nest uf niggeFs on the alley
jist around the corner from my house.
They hev ther chapel in which they hev
preechin Sundays, and skools doorn ithe
week. Aside from the annoyance it is to
my family, it's really dangerous. Two
hundred niger children attend it, beside
the adult niger classes.
Enter up, sed another, eleanin out a
shotgun, the grocer on the same street.
He is from Iowa, and teeehes a Sunday
skool class in the same chapel Sich incen-
diaries we kin never tolerate.
There's a niger church two squares
from me which must be abated, y sed anoth-
er, and, by the way, 4 agent Nv rhs uigger
missionary society, and two teechers from
Connecticut, boards next door Put EN-
down In my part Nv the city, sed
another, there's four niger draymen who
hey been impudent enuf to scrape together
enuff to buy ground and build EN- houses
Don forgit to put EN- down-don't They
are niggers and they hey houses. l, he
added, bitterly, Il am a white man and
| have none. Put en- down When Sher-
idan goes! ha. Ia
And so on. The Secretary entered the
names ez fast ez they wus furnisht him, on
til the name Nv every man suspected Nv
Yankee proclivities wus registered. The
niggers waz not put down 'certin them nv
sieh prominence ez they desired to make
shoor uy; it is considered entirely safe to
kill nigger anywhere. Some of them de-
sired to make excepshens in favor uy GER
tain niggers who Good be depended upon
ez troo. One Nv EN- KEEP keno, and
t'othera fairy bank. But they wuz rooled
out. The niggers, it was decided, wuzu't
to be trusted. Their impudence. in presu-
min to keep faro banks, was friteiul.
The next day, brite and early, was at
the Club, when I received another des-
patch. The members fockt around me.
Is it done p shroekt they Is Stanton
out?"
t'He l., said I, slowly, he is, but"
''But wat? OH relieve our suspence.
''But Grant is in, returned l, droppin
the message, and sinkin on sofa in brown
study But they was delited
"Its better than we hoped, sed they
''Grant hez come over at last. Bless the
Lords His name viii give the Admins
tration strength" They cheered ike loo
natics
Finally, one mornin I got despatch that
Sheridan would be relieved that day, and
the enthusiasm billed up agin--this time l
shared in it, for felt that that wuz throoly
soothin. 1t wuz impossible to restrane the
gentle lambs Nv the club any longer. Ez
sort Of a lunch, preceding the feast that
was to come, they sailed out and made it
lively for sich niggers ez they Good git safely
near to. At noon, the next despatch came
to me. The entire membership Nv the club
wuz gathered around impashent to hear me
sound the glad tidins over Egypts dark sea.
Ibroke the seal.
sheridan is removed this day -
"Ror Ror Ror 70 checred the club.
And Thomas is appointed in his place p
So read this despatch. There wuz nary a
chee1 follered It. The most death like 81
leuce pervaded the room One by one the
members skulked out to settle with the Mig
gers whose heds they he'd bustid in the
mornin, and to ashoor EN- it was ali joke.
The lists wuz destroyed and the revolvers
aud shot guns was all packed away, At a
meeting held immejitly the following reso-
looshens wuz passed
Rcsolycd, That it is possible for men