The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1869-06-10

Posr oFrrs. CoxYgDEnir RotDs,
fWich T. IN the State nv kentnrky,)
May 2s, 1869.
Confedrit X Roads cannot be said
to be. in the Northern sense of the
term. a prosperous town. The fact
is its rail- DAD facilities are not nv
the best, the nearest one to us bein
some twelve miles away, and It's
other roads are not so GORGEOUS ez
Good be desired. They are passa-
bic for wagons in Joon, Gully and
August; for mules in April, May,
September and October, and the
balance nv the tine they mite pos
sibly be navigated by fiat boats, eff
the citizens he'd anything in pertik-
eler to leave the town for, or eff
anybody pertikeler desired to come
i to it.
The citizens, now that they are
onct agin in full akkord with the
General Government, and been
thoroughly RECONSTRUCTED, felt that
they he'd borne neglect Nv their in
terests in silence ez long ez they
Good be expected Nv the imPetuous
Southern nacher; and also, that the
time he'd come when the leadin cit
les NV the South shood make some
effort to avail themselves NV the
material advantages w their position,
and wrest from the North the full
share NV the trade NV the Continent,
to which they are entitled. We NV
the Cross Roads felt that we he'd too
long accepted a second rate CONNER
shell posishen, and we felt that we
Good not endoor it longer. 1t wuz
therefore resolved to hold a COM
mershel convenshen at the Cross
Roads, to take these matters into
consideration, with sich others as
mite suggest therselyes.
Inyitashens wuz sent to all the
principle leaders NV the Southern
masses, and Nv EN- it wuz confident
IL expected that Breckenridge, Lee
and Boregard would be present.
The convenshen assembled on the
day sot. 1t was one NV the largest
and most enthusiastic it hez ever
bin my lot to attend. There was
delegates present from Secesssion~
vile, Davistown, Boregard, and all
the towns in that section NV the
State, representa- the intelligence
and wealth NV the real old Ken
tueky stock Nv those localities.
Gen. McDingus, late c. S. A.,
NV Secessionville, wuz made Presi-
dent, with thirty-two Vice Presi-
dents, wich comprised all the dele
gates present. This wuz done ez
all NV EN- seemed TO want to be Of
fcers.
Gen. McDingus stated the object
NV the eonvenshen to be the devisin
NV means to increase the COM
mercial importance of the section.
to develop her resources, to increase
her manufakterin interests, and to
show the recooperative power the
South possesses. Kentucky wants
manufakters, Kentucky wants pop
ulashen, and to devise means uv
gittin these is the objiek Nv odr-as-
semblin. He begged the members
to-commence to-wunst.
Kernel McPelter, from the Com
mittee on Invitashens, wuz about to
perceed to read letters he he'd re-
ceived from prominent SOutherners,
when Capt. Podgers, of Davistown,
begged leave to offer a resoloo-
shen. He saw sittin in the conYen-
shen, with oz much ashoorence ez
tho he he'd a rite there, a wretch,
with whose name he woodent sully
his mouth, who he'd come from
Massychoo-nO, he woodent sully his
mouth with the name NV that State
from a ablishn State, and he'd
startid in Davistown a factory for
maxim pig iron employin therein
thirty-fve men, which he'd bot a
plantashen NV distrest planter and
put thereon twenty houses, skool-
house and a church He stigma
tized this man ez a carpet-bagger.
He he'd been repeatedly warned by
the citizens Nv Davistown to leave,
but he he'd lafft at the warnin. On
threatenin his factory, he he'd arm
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