Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1869-02-19
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tFrom the Toledo Blade !


NIENr BY TIE HOUSE. .-I.-
Posr orF1s. CoxrKDRrr RoADs,
(Wich is in the State nv KentuckyO |
.rf. February Z, 1864 ! !
THE die is mostly cast--gloom hez set !
tied like dark pal onto Kentucky. The |
last yestige NV Constitooshnel liberty is |
swept away, leavin us nothin but the name |
thereof, wich Is hOller mookery. Ef the |
SENT goes on and cencurs with the House |
witch il wild do-and the rekisit num- |
Der Of States ratifiy the sckshen of them |
two accussid bodies-wich they will do
why then all is over. Niggers will vote |
in Kentucky the same ez white men, and |
the star NV liberty is sot forever They |
may go so far, ez they will be in majority, |
ez to disfranchise the men who served In |
the Confedrit army.
Ez might hev been expected, the intelli- |
gence Affected the Corners profoundly. |
We wuz all a settip in Bascom's eZ happy !
ez we Good be- A new barrel he'd been |
tapped. Deekin Program he'd money, !
and wuz not altogether unprovided, ez
letter he'd bin dropped into the Post Offs
that mornin wich contained remittance
NV six dollars to a lottery concern in Moo
York. Ez believe lotteries to be swim.
dies and demoralizin in their nacher, |
opened the missive end condscated the
contents. will never be the means NV
leadin young men to room thro the agency
of lotteries--never.
1t wuz pleasant scene. The fire wuz
burnin brightly wich rtflectin ON our re-
spective noses, gave the room more than
usual britenis; Bascom wuz behnt the
bar, his elbows leanin onto it, waitin for
the orders wich he knew wood be made;
Capt McPelter wuz smokin his pipe,
peacefly, a watchin the clouds that ariz,
formin o sort NV halo about his head;
while Deekin Pogram and myself wus iist
in the act NV takin suthin hot wiCh had
bin fixed for u.s. AT this moment Penni-
backer's boy rode up on Bascom's mule
and hove paper at me wich contained the
fatal intelligence. / read il aloud. There
wuz no more innocent mirth that mite.
Deekin Pogram's hand relaxed its holt
onto the glass and it fell to the floor, the
precious tlooid wastin itself tbro the cracks,
and the old Saint fell from his chair in a
swoon. had more presence NV mind-I
drank mine with one convulsive gulp, and
then dropped the empty glass. The effect
so far ez manifestin greet wuz concerned,
wuz the same ez tho had droped it, lik
ker and all, and it wuz better for me- The
glass wuz Bescom's-the sensashun in my
bowels perdooct by the likker was mine.
That even constooshnel amendments cant
take away from me.
1t didn'ttake long to igger how this out
rage, eff it is consumatid, will affect the
| corners. There is in this pceceful town.
| ship sixty three loyal white voters, Nv wich
number thirty y-nine vindicated their man
hood in the Confedrit servis, the others
bein too old, ceptin Pollock, wich is from
Illinoy, and NV Ablishen proclivities.
Garrettstown is in this township, and
countin them in ther is two hundred and
forty.four adult male niggers, and ther
wood hev bin a hundred more he'd niggers
all bin born bullet and rope proof So
long ez these niggers wuz in their normal
condition of servitood they wuz indispen-
sible-since they wuz crooelly wrested
| from us we hev made EN- almost ez yoose-
full to us by hevin the law into our own
hands. They hev ez rool accumulated
suthin, for they labor. We Nv coarse held
the offices. Issaker Gavitt is Assessor
and Deekin Pogram Treasurer, and the
niggers hev bin made to pay all the taxes
that hev bin paid. They coodent help
themselves, for the law hez terrors when
weeldid by strong and willin hands, and
the hands Nv our offlshels are both strong
and willin. ..
But for these niggers the township 60 y
ernment wood be mere nothin. Issaker
didn't dare to assess Bascom for fear he'd
stop supplies onto him, nor wood Bascom
hev any Nv the white citizens taxed, for
watever they shood pay in taxes that went
either into the County or State Treasury
wuz so much lost to him. He wuz anx-
ious to hev the niggers sweat, for nv the
money COLLECTED NV them he got large
per cent, either through the Collector or
Treasurer, witch wuz clear gain, ez they
don't patronize him anyhow.
In various other ways we he'd EN-. Pen
nibacker is Justis Nv the Peece and hez
bin for yeers, and he held the scales firmly.
The niggers wood occasionally labor in
plantin time or in harvest for the white
citizens who owned land, and, filed with
the idea that they wuz free citzins, they
wood in the most insolent manner demand
pay for their services. Wv coarse they
wood be refoozed, whereupon they wood
bring SCOT before Pennibacker. The re
suit Nv their vencher il is unnecessary for
me to state
What biznis hez a niger in this yer
court ?" wood the indignant embodiment
NV the majesty Nv the law thunder forth
with face eZ black ez a cloud. And dis.
missin the SCOT he wood promptly ishoo
an execooshen agin EN- for costs. Ten OF
twenty niggers who sood white men wuz
sold out bob and sinker by the court foI
costs in sich scots, and when the costs
didn't take all they he'd, the Justis wood
fine em for contempt Nv court for comm
before him at all. The niggers after a
few experiments declined to seek iustis
at that fountain head NV the article.
Then agln in cases NV assault and bat
terry and in inquests on the ded bodies Nv
nlggers 1t was nessary to hev Pennibaclser
| Oh /
hangin to trees, and with bullet holes into
EN- wuz regleriy found guilty NV dyin by
visitation NV Providence Ez they hcdn't
votes Nv coarse none NV the offishels wuz
afraid Nv EN-. heard one Nv EN-, wunst
who he'd bin fined twenty dollars fol
striking Issaker Gavitt, which he'd in a
playful mood chased his daughter thro
the Corners, groaninly exclaim that he
wisht he'd bin born in Ireland iustid Nv
Ameriky.
But now how will it be with us? They
will vote and they hev a majority. Pol
lock will be made Justis NV the Peace, Joe
Bigler Assessor, and a niger constable
Wat sekOority hev weY Niggers will soc
us and git judgments, and the niger con
stable will serve execooshens onto us
Why, Deekin Pogram owes enuff to mig
gers to swamp every aker he holds, and
Bascom wood be sweat severely. And
when we punch one Nv their heads for in.
science to us, then to be arrested by mig.
ger, and taken afore Justis electid by
niggers, and be fined or perchance i'm.
prisoned It's toomuch. When this hap
pens will the Corners, ask, be place for
gentlemen Nv prid and culcherY Nay.
And to this it must come.
see one weak spot in the amendment,
viz: It provides that no State shei
dfsfranchise anybody becoz of race or
color, but don't say that people cant be
disfranchised for other causes, and eager
ly seezed hold Nv that ez a shipwreckt
mariner does to plank.
swat good will that do us ?" grcaned
the Deekin.