The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1868-12-10

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Past OHs Confedrf y Roads. J
( Which IS m mHe Sfnt U0 Ky)
Noe 10. 1865
To Ulysses 9. Grant General and Presden
Elect
SIR:-The elcckshnn is o:'r! -
, The die is cast, Nv wich die th,
DImocrisy hev the most Nv it -.
Frankly weadrnit that We are beat
cn. | studied tie ,l,ckshun returni
carefully, and | hev come to tha
conclusion. He'd we carricti Ohio
Pensy ylvania, lnjiaDy, lllinoy, Con
necllcut, Wisconsin. Iowa, Missouri
Kansas and CaIiicrny, and he'd
Virginhy, Texas aud Missis
slppi bin allowed to vote, the result
would hev bin different. But we
didn't, therefore we submit. We
mite resist, but cz we hevn't the
strength 10 do it, VIC bow cheerfy
to the will Nv the people. and re.
cognize you cz our Chief Magis
trate, in the place Of a. johnson
deceest.
Now the question wich agitates
us is wat do 700 intend to do?-
That's wat want to know, and
that's wat Deekin Pogram, Capt.
McPeltor and is aker Gavitt is
demaddin in thunder tones Wa! do
700 intend TO do? Are 700 goIn
To adopt the merciless policy Nv
the extreme Radikels, or are. 700
goin to adept c)nsIitOry policy.
prcsoom that 700 don under.
stand the sitOoashcn in the South.
alluz preston that shood 700
visit the Corners, 700 wood find
here two classes OF people, whose
tastes, habits, inclinashens and in.
tcrests vary widely. On the ore
hand are the original Kentuckians.
Nv wieh Bascom. Dcckin .Pogram,
Capt. McPeIter, and lssaker Gavitl,
are brite and shinin specimens.
and on the other there is Bollock,
the lIlinoy storckeeper, Joe BigIer.
who wuz confederit sojer. but
who has back slid into Abllshnism,
ten or twenty families nv North
crncrs who have bought land here.
abouts, and niggers wIch were
freed BY Linkin and the Constoosn-
mel Amendment.
These two antagonistic elements
are perpetualIy at war, aud the re
suit is chronic onpleasantnis wich
hcz seriouIy retarded the growth
Nv this scckshun. The fault il Nv
coarse with Pollock, Bigler. the
Northern farmers, and the niggers,
The original Kcntuckians desire
pcece- they long a5d hanger and
thirst for It, But these other cur.
ses won't let US have it. The
Northern farmers wood come here
and buy land and continyooaly
irritate us with their presence; /
they wont adopt our habits and
customs, but persist in kecpin up
their own, and cz we know EN- to
be Republilins the site of ono on |.
our streets perdoOses species Nv
frenzy on oar citizens wich hcz at I
times resulted scrioHSIy = TO them
They hold prayer mcetins at each /
others houses, they take Norhern
noospapcrs wich wood rizen the .
minds Nv our people but for the !
blessed fact that our people don't .
read to any ularmin eXlcnt, and .
they hev established skools among .
the nigger children, and are teach.
in them to be above the spccr TO
wich nachcr and cur theology ns
sincd en- Bascom told me that |
they had newer spent tour dullars !
all told at his bar How kin we live /
in peece with sichl he nlggers
won't work for US onlcss We pay
EN-, and the result is our farms
are runnin down. But little is
pcrdooscd by us, and the old orig
inal Kentucky stock is gettin to
be as secdy Il set cz your eyes ever
rested onto.
Now in regard TO us wat are 700
Il goin to do? Are 700 a goin to
perfect us or them? Are yoo goin
TO bring yoor power 30 bear on
their side or ourn? Is Dorkin
Pogram's niggers to be protected
in their ;nsOlent rcfUoSal to submit
to his guidance and direction, or
are they 10 be left to him TO
be dealt with AS he chooses? Is
the citizens Nv the Corners to hev
the rite, wich is theirs, to chastiSe
these beings in their own way-to
reduOse EN- to their natural level
ez they see fit, or are they to be
hampered by sojers and sich, and
bc forced To the hoomiliashen Nv
socin EN- ekul in all respects? In
short. shcl We under your admins
lrashun hev the rite TO hang mig
gers and tar and feather northern
settlers cz we hev bin doin or not? d?
That's the question witch our peo.
pie ask, and on your ansor depends
he support nv you. The Corners
is open to proposals. TIE Cor.
ners can be sekoored to your ad. {
ninistrashun, or it can be driven
nto an allitood Nv defiance.
1t hez bin sed that 700 are a
,hpinx. Wat a sphinx is | don't ;
Know, nor is there any one at'the
Corners who dose. But it must be .
'omolhing ojus or 700 woodent hev
bin so called. The great question
$, are 700 agoin to coutinyoo to
olay the sphinx" Are you agoin J
o conlinyoo in the groove into
vich yoN hev sot yoorscif into our
rms? That's the question that's
lgitatin mo and the Corners tz
we'll.