The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1867-11-21

/ 4 Meeting at the Corners to take into Con
! Sideratioa the Best and Most FedSibt
! Methods tty Preserving to the DelpOcrac
! the States they 1UoH this Fall.
POsT OFFIs, CONFEDRIT Y ROADS, J
(wich is in the Stait NV Ky.,)
October 30, 1867.
I was a sittin in the Post offs, day
before yesterdays a cogitatin over the
glorious results Nv the Ohio and Pen
sylvania elections, and hopin for ar
ekalIy good report from Moo York
thinkin the while that perhaps eff my
hopes wuz realized, and such a Con-
stOoshnel Dimokrat ez PendletOn Of
Seymour shOOd be elected, 1 mite in
cousiderashen Nv my long, and l be,
lieve valuable services, aspire to suthin
higher, and better, and more profta-
BILE than a Post Offs, sich ez 1 am at
present hOldin. I do not complain
for the posishen hez bin the means uy
establishen a credit upon wich I neV
lived thus far comfortable, hut yet ]
shood prefer a place where the salary
wood be sufficient to give me enuff SC
that I Good lay up suthin for old age
The time is not far off when my indi.
vidoOeI exertions will not supply my
wants.
I felt good over the victry, and il
seemed to me ez tho we ought to speak,
ez Kentuckians, toour brethren North
instructin NV EN- how to hold the
Stats wich they hev won for US
When 1 decide upon a pint, 1 alluz
act, and so it wuz this time.
give nOtis, by Issaker Gavitt, that
the Corners wood assemble at the toOt-
in Nv the horn, for the purpose Nv
sending forth the voice Nv Kentucky
to the Stats North. The Cvenin come,
the horn wuz footed from the steps NV
the church and the entire Corners wuz
there. Deekin Pogram wuz in his
.regler seat, Issaker Gavitt wuz in his
sainted fathers place, wich hez gone
hentz, Kernel McPelter wuz there
and also the others who made up the
male population Nv the Corners, and
their wives. 1t wuz a glorious meet
in, and I wuz a rubbin my hands and
feelin good at the prOspeck Nv an i'm
provin Occashun, when, to my utter
disgust, saw the door open and Joe
Bigler, who wuz born to be my pest,
come in, with Pollock, and twenty OF
twenty-five niggers, old and young,
male and female, white, yaIler and
black, and all NV EN- took seats tOgeth-
er in the corner Nv the church.
knowd bv the meek look Nv the mig.
gers, and the eggstreem quietOOd Nv
Bigler himself, that suthin wuz up,
wich wood Nv course develop ITSELF
BigIer and Pollock generally develop.
I opened the meetin by remarkin
that the times wore an aUspishus look.
The power Nv the niger in Amerikin
politics he'd bin demonstrated. The
niger he'd bin so manipulated in
Ohio and PennsyIvany, ez to give us
these Stats, wich we Good hold eff we
choose. But the DimOcrisy Nv Ohio
and Pennsylvany he'd a work to do,
wich they cannot neglect with safety.
They he'd declared the niggers inferi,
or to the Caucashen, wich he undeni-
ably is, and they must keep EN- so.
The niger must be kept jist eggsack-
" wher he is to serve ez a irritant to
Dimocrisy. Ohio gives the niggers
of that State, certain facilities for
Iearnin to read and write, accom-
pIishments wich no Iaborin class Wich
is to be guided, controlled and worked
exclusively by a sooperiOr class,
needs or hez any biznis with. So soon
ez a man begins to reed, he begins to
hev an enquirin mind, and begins to
feel a dissatisfaction with his speer.-
Let Ohio respect these laws to-wunst,
that the niggers may not"
oReverse the arrangement, . sed Joe
BigIer, risin, "and get to be the 500
perior NV the white. Is that it, Per
fesser ?"
sNot eggsackIy that, )" returned /
not KNOWN wat he wuz driYin at,
ubut ez Hevin ordained the niggers
to be inferior to us, and serve us, it
looks rather dangerous to"