The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1867-11-28
Established 1925.

workt about the same number u
hands. tho Nv fancy stock his ia
ther always kept the most, wicl
accounted for his bein more ball
headed than the Deekin.
Kernel MGPeltor wanted no pay
He wanted bis niggers. To accep
pay wood be to acknollcgo tie
rite of a lIlinoy goriIler to release
en-. Tich he wood never do. HI
he'd onc-he saw her to day--wicl
he wood hcv back agin. Her and
her husband, wich he'd been mar.
.ried seBce they wuz torn from him
he'd purchist ten akers nv ground
up toards Garrettstown, and wuz O
Twin onto it. Nv course, ez the
emancipashen wuz illegal, the pro.
dux NV their labor sence that time
wuz hizzen, jest ez though they
he'd remained in their normal con
dishcn. The ten akers woodent
make him good, but they he'd two
children born to EN- sence, wich et
niggers brought cny price, wood be
suthin toards it.
Bascom preferred to hev the Gov
eminent pay their vaIyoo, and let
EN- stay free. He he'd arrived at
this coLcIushnn after givin the
subject matoor cOnsiderashun. They
all he'd some property now-least.
waye they Good all do wat they
pleased with their money. Troo,
the heft Nv the proceeds nv their
labor went to Pollock for dry goods
and groscries and sich, but he
bleeved they was initiative race.
Efso, and they followed the eggs
ample sot em by their white sooper-
iors, they wood in time leave the
hett nv it at his bar. He he'd q few
Nv EN- under trainin now, and he
notist that they wuz better custom
crs than the whites, ez they didn't
ewaller their rashcns and tell him
to ',jist chalk it down"
A sense nv the mectin WIZ then
taken, and majority voted to fust
try to redoose them to their normal
cohdlshcn, and ef that wuz decided
to be impracticablc, then we Good,
with still better grace, demand
their valle of the Government.
"Yes,' exclaimed Kernel Nc.
PeItcr, "and for this great work
ther is no better time than now.
The Yoonun ez it wuzp Foller
me p
And forthwith the entire congrc-
gashen piled out, rushin toard the
nigger settlements on the CARROTS
town road.
Arrivin at the settlement, a con-
wuZ held. 1t wuz de-
cided that | shood advance to the
doors nv the hOuses and demand
surrender, but l declined. Kernel
McPelter volunteered. and we all
awaited the result. He knockt at
the door nv the first house.
"Wha'd dye want ~. exclaimed
. voice.
II want yoo r. sed the Kernel
AVA foah ?"
any friend" said tho Kernel, i'm
prcssivcly, "ef l recognize yoor
dulcet tone yoor my niger. Four
years ago 700 wuz set free, 700
sposed, by Linkin, but we've done
away with that. Come forth and
give yourself up; you shel, ef 700 go
poaceably, hev yoor old quarters a.
gin and be treated ez Nv old"
"Go way, white man, and stop
yoor foolin. Dis nigga's in bod"
"Break down the doors!" yelled
he Deckin, "and hev done with
tl' and rush wuz made.
The doors wuz broke down. and
N a mint the nigger and his wife,
md two children wuz out in the
street, bound, and the Kernel he'd
he furnitoor packt, ready to take
% his own house. In tho mean
.ime, assaults he'd bin made on two
,ther houses with ruther different
'esulls. Deekin Pogram led one
IN the house Nv q former slave Nv
and wuz disabled by q
,harge Nv shot in his leg, and the
nfooriated Niger threw open tho
sinder, and swOre that he'd emp
y tothcr barrel into into the head
Nv the first man who came within
'ange. The whole settlement wuz
,y this time alarmed, and lites
'prane up. and we Good hear the
lick Nv the cocks Nv muskets, and
he pilin up Nv furnitoor afore the
loors. 1t wuz decided that the at
.empt to re enslave en- be given
,ver for that nitc, and carryin the
Deckin, who wuz weak from loss
Nv blood, we made our way to the
Corners agin.
The result demonstrated to me
.ho impossibility Nv the two races
Twin together in harmony. Ther
s natral antagonism between EN-
vich must resultinevitably in war
Nv races, onless the status Nv tho
.wo races is fixed by onalterable
aw. 1t can't be denied that so
ong ez they are among us, so long
shel we be tempted to subdoo EN-,
md so long will sich sole. .harrowin
scenes ez that NV last mite result.
ISz | hear the groans nv that pros
.rated saint, Deekin Pogram, (this
Is written at his bedside in the in
.ervals Nv feedin him likker with
a spoon,) ! feel ez though | must
vindicate nv birth by goin out and