The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1867-09-12

icdTiH Lnc cuoA Nv lffltaSDuD on
him, In hispresent eggsitabel state
Nv mind, | did.
l wuz askt Of had been in Moo
Orleans, and on sayin that Ihednt,
my friend accompanied mo to the
many objex Of interest in the city.
Here" scd he, sis the bildin in
which Beast Butler received the
surrender Nv the city, and where
he signed the order for the hangin
OF Mumford. SubsekentIy, in this
same room, the tothcr beast Sheri.
dan took his orders from Mayor
Monro and Abel. Ha ha ! 'twuz
retribushun," and he smiled grim.
ly several minits. "Here is the
hall where Dostie and his AbIishn
hordes gathered over a year ago,
and from wicb Dostie wuz carried
a corpse. At that, angle of the
bildin, |, with this good rite hand,
slew three niggors and q Burow
preacher. Rite here where we arc
standin, a cart containin the killed
came along. | WIZ cggsited and
infooriated at their obstinacy in
holdin the convcnshun. In my re-
volvcr there wuz one lode; in tho
cart under the corpses wus a mig
ger groanin. | mounted the cart
and turned over the corpses; the
wounded niger had on o bloc
cote, infamed with rage at the
site, | pulled trigger, and be groan.
cd no more"
I" Glorious sperit!' sed /, in egg
stacy, wringin his hand.
"Just in front NV where VIC stand
thirty odd niggors wuz killed,
and one or two nv them Burow
teechers. 1t don't become mo 10
say how many | killed, but l want
idle. In three weeks thereafter !
received my pardon from the Pres.
ident, and am now, thank God, q
citizen"
By this time wo reached the Club
again, and for hours | listened to
tales of oppression on the part of
the military satraps wlch made my
blood run cold. A citizen he'd
shot niger, and forthwith he wuz
torn from the buzzum Nv his fami-
ly and inkarcerated in the common
prizen. Another's wife he'd throwd
a buckit Nv bilin water over q
wench in the street, NV wich the
pervcrse creacher died, and she,
too, was arrested. Policemen he'd
bin discharged for refoosin to ar
rest men whose spirits coodent
brook niger ekality. and who he'd
banged EN- about somewhat, and
others had been dismisst for
hurrahin for jeff Davis and pullin
down FEDERAL flags. Their he'd bin
no liberty Nv speech or ackshcn.
This Club room he'd bin invaded,
and pistols and shot guns he'd bin
taken out by these despots, wich
was q grindin the citizens into tho
dust. But the most oppressive case
wuz that Nv one Nv of our first cit
izens, who he'd a girl in his family
who wood persist in attendin
skools after he he'd positively for
bid her doin so. He tied her up,
and in the most patriarohal man
ner gave her one hundred and four.
teen lashes. She wuz obstinit and
died. He gave her a Chrischen
berrial, but nevertheless he wuz
pulled up, and fined and imprizen-
cd Fined and imprizcned for
wallopin niger
Then biznis commenced. Lists
were bein made out, the purport
Nv which l comprehendid. EN-
ter up" said one, uilin a revolver,
"thc nest Nv of niggers on the al,
ley jist around the corner from my
house. They hov ther chapel, in
which they hev preachin Sundays
and keep skools durin the week
Aside from the annoyance it is TO
my family, it's really dangerous,
TSo hundred nlggcr children at
tend it, beside the adult niger
classes.
"Entor up" scd another, clcanin
out a shot gun, "thc grocer on the
same street. He is from Iowa and
teaches a Sunday skool class in the
same chapel. Sich incondiaries VIC
kin never tolerate. ..
"There's q nigger church two
squares from me which must be
abated, sed another; "and, by the
way, a agent nv tho niggcr mis-
sionary society and two teachers
from Connecticut boards next door.
Put em down."
aIn my part NV the tho CITY,"
sod another, "thore's four niger
draymcn who hev been impudent
onuff to scrapo together onuff to
buy ground and build en- houses.
Don't forgot to put en- down
don't. They are niggers and hev
houses. l." he added, bitterly, "I
am whito man and have nono.-
Put en- down. When Sheridan
goes-ha! haP'
And so on. Tho sekrctary en-
tered the names cz fast cz they wuz
furnished him, ontil tho name nv
every man suspected NV Yankee
proclivitics wuz registered. Tho
niggors wuz not put down, 'ccptin
them Nv sich prominence cz they
desired TO make shoor NV; it is con
siderd entirely safo to kill u mig
ger any where. Some Nv en- do
sired TO make excopshens in favor
NV certain niggers who Good be dc.
pended upon ez troo. One Nv en-
keep a keno, and L'othcr a faro bank
But thcywuz rooled out. The mig
gers, il wuz decided, wuzn't to be