The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1869-06-05
NASBY.
Posi- OFFS, CoNFEDERIT X ROADS, !
(Which is in the Stait of kentucky,)
Nav 10 1890


source NV oneasiness to the old settlers
the bloc blooded chivalry who hev alluz
bin born here, and who hev lived here from
time immemmorial. An Illinoyan by BIRTH
Abislmist by perfession, and Storkeeper
by practis, he hez, from his original advent
here, bin an onmitigated thorn in the side
NV the kentuckians witch lives at the Cor
ncrs, witch thorn hez ranked and ranked,
till it hez festered and finally broke
There are several reasons why he hez bin
onpopler. He credited the citizens NV the
Corners, on his first arrival, for SIGH goods
ez they needed, and he'd Impotence to in
sist upon pay. Deekin Pogram in less than
two months from the openin WIZ in his
debt suthin over hundred dollars, and
the wretch not only insisted upon payment,
but absolootely sood him and wood hev re-
covered the amount he'd Squire Gavitt,
who WIZ then justs NV the peace, ishood
papers. Findin that the officers of the law
NV the Corners wood not interfere in favor
Nv disturber, he refoosed to sell another
dollars with save for cash. and from that
time he hez rigedly 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, and Mey her 10
pay This iron hez bin entrin their soles
for years, and finally it was decided to hist
him, and take the chances Nv somebody else
comm in his place. The ackshen NV the
citizens WIZ fastened, by the fact that two
friends NV hizzen wuz coming from his old
home in lllinoy, to start wagon and a
cooper shop in the Corners, which wuz an
increase NV jist that number NV carpet-bag-
gers, besides wat hands they mite bring
with EN-.
This alarmed our citizens and it wuz
felt necessary to take steps to stop it. Ac-
cordin meetin wuz called Nv the natives
witch met last mite at the Church.
In assoomin the chair, q am ex offiiso
chairman NV all meetins held at the Cor
ners) l remarkt that the exigencies NV the
times demanded that suthn be done. The
peece and yoonanimity NV feelin NV the
Corners cOold not be disturbed by the influx
Of carpet-baggers. The trooly Southern
sole wuz wrung, the Southern heart WIZ
bleeding, but ther wuz pint beyond witch
the Southern sole and heart Good not 90,
and that pint WIZ carpet-baggers. The
Southern heart loathed the spawn NV the
North, and the shlvelrous Southern soul
Good nd 10 10,
ern agitators okkepyin their places and
bringin with EN- their ices, which were
allt1z in opposishen to ourn. Eff SIGH wuz
to be the case, farewell the sunny South
and her instooshens. askt in conclusion
for an expreshin Nv opinyun from the citi-
zens assembled.
To my consternashin, Joe Bigler riz, the
where he come from l can't saw. He COM
menst by remarkin that attachment to
ones native SOIL and a desire to hold offs
IN it, WIZ one of the highest and hottest in
stinks NV our fallen nachers. He Good and
did sympathize with the chairman NV the
meetin fully, and agreed with him in every
thing he he'd said. He did not believe that
needy advencherers from the cold and fro
zen North shood come here and possess
themselves NV the soil to the excloosion NV
them native and to the manor born
Never. never! never. He he'd a Southern
heart and Southern soul, and he wood
never consent to be crowded out by them
alien to us. He he'd drawd up resolooshens
which he begged to submit, viz
Resozued, That the native born citizens NV
the Confederit X Roads, witch is in the
State of Kentucky, denounce ez disturbers,
interlopers and carpet-baggers wich can't
be tolerated. all these within her borders
witch WIZ not born here.
Resolred, That when SIGH a person ez is
contemplated in the above resolution holds
an offs or asks for one, his presence is par
ticularly insufferable.
Resolped, That we do to once clean out
ov the Corners all SIGH persons, quietly, eff
possible, hut by force eff needs be.
The rc5olooshens struck the citizens ia
vorably, and they WIZ about to pass en-
Bigler's nigger's NV course all votin for
um, when an idee struck me. I saw the
strategy Nv the detestable wretch tn wunst
1t was me he was amin at l wuz the
mark NV his internal machenashens. l re-
membercd for the first time in four years,
that WIZ not native of Kentucky; that
| WIZ Northerner, and that had come
to Kentucky an advencherer! In agony
rose and protested, but too late! The reso-
looshen passed yoonanimusly, and Joe Big
Ter stood GRIMM at me like feend.
"Now.' sed he, "now that kin act by
authority; now that kin wunst more act
in accordance with the wishes NV my fellow
citizens, from whom hev bin so long un-
happily separated, perpose to 60 for car
pet-bagger. Parson, your time hez comet
And the wretch made for me vishusly,
and he'd me by the throat in less than
second.
Immejitly Bascom and Pennybacker,
McPelter, and the rest interfered and drag
ged the villin away.
swat does this % they askt.-
why this assault?
"Why? % Isn't the Parson afore us
carpet-bagger askt Bigler. ''Wuz he
born at the Corners? Hez he rite to stan
on the soil of Kentucky and say, thank
Hevin too am Kentuckian. Possibly |
may hev misunderstood the tenor NV the
resolooshens which l writ, and witch 700
passed. Eff so forgive my ZEAL
''But Josef" said Deekin Pogram, "the
Parson is not, accordin to our idee, a car
pet-bagger.''
"Too troo,'' said Bigler in reply, she
he'd no carpet bag when he came
THAT isn't precisely wat mean. The
ParsOn is a Constooshnel Democrat. He
agrees with us in sentiment, and
"A lite breaks in onto me- remarks
Bigler. l see a distinckshen. We de-
nounce men ez carpet-baggers and interlo-
pers, and SIGH, not becoz they are carpet
baggers, and interlopers, but becoz they
don't interlope according to yoor noshens.