The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1867-11-28

splinin NV EN- at say $500 each -. 11,OOe
To one Niger gal, Jane, Is years old,
nearly white, with bloc eyes and curly
to 20 too Moo Orleans ............... $500
To other wenches Nv oil shades and ages,
IL in number, averagin say $5O0...... 5000
S25, 900
This bill he he'd determined to put in,
becoz Nv this property he he'd bin rob-
bed. Last mite he heerd NV the result
nv the Moo York and Moo Jersey cleo
sbuns, and he felt that more yit wuz
due him from the unconstooshnel gov
ernment under wich we were forst to
live. He wanted pay, not only for the
twenty-five thousand dollars worth Nv
niggers, but legle interest on the
amount from January 1st, 1868, to
date, incloodin wat he paid to hev the
calculation made, and the interest fig
gered onto it, and he wanted it in gold,
ez he considered greenbax jest as un-
constooshnel ez emancipashen.
Issaker Gavitt remarkt that, on be-
half Nv his fathers estate he he'd claim
on the oppressors. He he'd made out
no bill, ez yit, ez the nigger witch alluz
did the fggerin for his father he'd got
to be impudent, and woodent do it no
more. But he shood git somebody ez
Good write to copy the Deekin's bill,
wich wood anser, ez the two farms
workt about the same number Nv hands,
tho NV fancy stock, his father he'd alluz
kept the most, wich accounted fer his
bein more bald headed than the Dee
kin.
Kernel McPelter wantid no pay.
lie wantid his niggers. To accept pay
wood be to acknollege the rite Of H.
linoy goriller to releese EN-, wich he
wood never do. He he'd one-he saw
her to-day-wich he wood hev back
agin. Her and her husband, wioh he'd
been married sence they wuz torn from
him, he'd purchist ten akers NV ground
up toards Garrettstown, and wuz livin
onto it. Wv course, ez the emancipa-
shun wuz illegal, the produx Nv their
labor sence that time wuz hizzen, jest
the same ez though they renamed in
their normal condishen. The ten akers
woodent make him good, but they he'd
two children born to EN- senee, wich eff
niggers brought eny price, wood be
suthin toards it.
Bascom preferred to hev Govern
ment pay ther valyoo, and let EN- stay
free. He he'd arrived at this concloo-
shun after givin the subjeck matoor
considerashun. They all he'd some
property now-leastways 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
groceries and sich, but he bleeved they
wuz initiative race. Eff so, and they
followed the eggsample sot EN- by their
white sooperiors, they wood in time
leave the heft NV it at his bar. He he'd
a few NV EN- under trainin now, and he
notist that they wuz better customers
than the whites, ez they didn't swaller
their rashens and tell him to ''ist chalk
it down."
A sense NV the meetin wuz then Ia
ken, and majority voted to fust try to
redooce them to their normal condish-
en-, and eff that wuz decided to be i'm
practicable, then we Good, with still
better grace, demand their value Nv the
Government.
eyes," exclaimed Kernel McPelter,
"and for this great work ther is no bet
ter time than now. 'The Yoonun ez it
wuz!' Foller mel"
And forthwith the entire congrega-
shun piled out, rushin toward the mig
ger settlement on the Garrettstown
road.
Arrivin at the settlement, a consulta-
shen wuz held. 1t wuz decided that |
shood advance to the doors Nv the
houses and demand surrender, but de-
clined. Kernel McPelter volunteered,
and we all awaited the result. He
knocked at the door NV the first house
"Wha' dye wantp exclaimed a
voice.
II want yoo!" sed the Kernel.
eva foah F'
"My friend," said the Kernel, i'm
pressively, "ef / recognize yoor dulcet
tone yoor my Niger -Four yeers ago
yoo wuz set free, yoO sposed, by Lin
kin, but we've done away with that
Come forth and give yourself up; 700
shell, Of 700 go peaCoably, hev yoor old
quarters agin and be treated ez Nv DID,"
$50 way, white man, and stop your
foolin. Dis nigga's in bed"
"Break down the doors' yelled the
Deekin, "and hev done with it," and
a rush wuz made.
1 The doors wuz broke down, and in q
mint the nigger and his wife, and two
children wuz out in tho street, bound, /,