Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1869-06-11
PosF 0FFls, CoNFKDpIT \ ROADS,
Which is in the State Nv Kentucky.
May 10, 1869.

The presence Nv Pollock the ltiiHuy store
keeper, at the Corners, bez allaz bin source
NV oneasiuess to the old settlers--the bloc
blooded ehiyalry. who hev alluz bin born
here, and who hev lived here from time i'm /
n,emmorial, An Illinoyan by birth, an Ab- |
lishnist by perfeshin, and a Storekeeper BY
practis, hebez, from his originel advent here, |
bin an oumitigated thorn in the side NV the
Kentucky wich lives at the Corners, wieh |
thorn hez ranked and ranked, till it bes fes
tered and finally broke.
There are several reasons why he hez bin
onpopler. He credited the citizens uv the
Corners, on his first arrival, for sich goods ez
they needed, and had the impoodenee to IN
sist upon pay Deekln Pogram in less than
two months from the openin WIZ in his debt
suthin over hundred dollars, and the wretch
not only insisted on payment, but abslootly
sood him and wood hey recovered the amount,
he'd Squire Gavtt, who wuz then Justis Nv the
Peace. ishood papers-Findin that the Off
GERS nv the law nv the Corners wood not in
terfere in favor nv disturber, he refoozed to
sell another dollars wurth save for cash, and
from that time be hez regidly adhered to that
rool. Ez he keeps the only stock Nv dry
goods there is in the Corners, the citizens are
compelled to paternize him, aud they hare to
pay This iron hez bin entrin their soles for
years, and finally it wuz decidid to hist him,
and take the chances Nv somebody else com
in IN bis place The aekshen Nv the citizens
wuz FASTENED, BY the fact that two friends Nv
hizzen wuz comm from his old home in Hi
noy, TO start Wagon and a Cooper shop in
the Corners vich wuz an increase Nv jist that
number Nv carpet baggers, besides wat hands
they mite bring with EN-.
This alarmed our citizens, and it wuz felt
necessary to take steps to stop it. Aecordin
a meetn wuz called Nv the natives, wich met
last night at the church.
In assoomiu the chair, i am ex olhsbo
chairman nv all neetins held st The corners
remarkt that the exigeucies nv the times
demanded that suthin be done. The peece
aud yoououimity Nv feeIin Nv the Corners
cooId not be disturbed by the influx of carpet
baggers. The trooly Southern sole wuz
wruug, the Southern heart guz bleedin, but
ther wuz pint beyond wieh the Southern
sole aud heart Good not go, and that pint wuz
carpet baggers. The Southern heart losthed
the spawn Nv the North. and the shyerous
Southern soal Good not and wood not bear to
hev Northern agitators okkepyin their places
aud bringin with EN- their ices, witch we're
alluz in opposishen to ourn. Eff sieh wuz to
be the case farewell to sunny South and her
| instooshens. | askt in couelooshin for an
expreshin NV opinyun from the citizens as
sembled.
10 my consternashin Joe Bigler riz, tho
where be come from l can't say. He com
ueust BY remarkin that attachment to ones
native soil, aud a desire to hold offs in it,
wuz one uy the highest and holiest instinks
NV our fallen nachers. He Good and did
| sYmpathize with the chairman Nv the meeiin
| fully, and agreed with him in everything he
he'd said. He did not believe that needy ad-
yeucherers from the cold and frozen North
shood come here and possess themselves nv
the soil to the excloosion Nv them native and
to the manor born. Never ueyerl never
He he'd a Southern heart and a Southern
sole, and he wood never consent to be crowd
ed out by them alien to US. He hed drawd
up resolooshens which be begged to submit
viz:
ReSolced, That the native born citizens nv
the Coufedrt Y Roads, wich is in the State
/ NV Kentucky, denounee ez disturbers. inter
lopers and carpet baggers wich can be toler
ated. all these within her borders wich wuz
not born there.
Resoleed, That when sich a person ez is
contemplated in the above resolution holds
an offs or asks for one, his presence is per
tkelerly unsuiferable.
Res0lccd That we do to wunst clean out Nv
the Corners all sich persons, quietly eff posi-
bic, but by force ef needs be.
The resolooshens struck the citizens favor
ably, and they wuz about to pass EN-, Bgler' 5
niggers nv course all votin for EN-, when an
idee struck me. ! saw the strategy Nv the
detestable wretch to wunst 1t wuz me he
wuz amin at. wuz the mark uv his infer
nal mashenashens. l remembered for the
first time 10 four years, that wuz not ma
tive NV Kentucky; that wuz Mortimer, and
that had come to Kentucky an advenchererl
In agony arose and protested, but too late !
The resolooshen passed yoonanimusly, and
Joe Bigler stood grimm at me like a feend.
''Now sed he, "now that kin act BY
authority; now that kin wunst more act in
accordance with the wishes Nv my fellow-eiti-
zens, from whom hev bin SO long unbappily
separated, l perpose to go for a carpet bagger.
Parson. your time hez come :"
And the wretch made for me vishusly, and
he'd me by the throte in less than a second.
Immeiitiy Bascom and Pennipacker, Ne
Pelter, aud the rest interfered and dragged
the vilin away
"Wat does this mean ?'' they askt. "Why
this assault %
''Why Isn't the Parson afore US a carpet
bagger ?" askt Bigler. "Wuz be born at the
Corners? Hez he a rite to stand on the soil
Nv Kentucky and say, thank Hevin too am
Kenuekian Possibly may hev misun-
derstood the tenor NV the resolushens wieh |
writ, and wieh 700 passed. ESQ forgive my
zeal
"But josef" said Deekin Pogram, "tbe
ParsOu is not, accoroin to our idee, carpet
bagger."
Too troo, said Bigier in reply, she he'd
no carpet bag when he came"
THAT isn't precisely wat mean The
Parson is Constooshne! Democrat. lie
agrees with US in sentiment, and
"A lite breaks in onto me-" remarks Big
Ter. ~ see disinksheu. We denounce
men ez carpet-baggers and interIopers and
sich, not beeoz they are carpet baggers end
interlopers, but becoz they don't interlope ae-
cordia to your noshens. The Parson isn't
Objectionable to the Corners, beeoz the Par.
son kin punish ez much sod corn whiskey eg
any Nv yoo, and votes the Demokratie ticket
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