The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1869-02-18
NASBY.
fne Lnst outrage tpon KeBtucky-pdss6n
OF the Constitutional Amendment by thc
House.
Posr OFTIs CoSFEpERirt X ROADS
(Which is In the State Nv kentncky,)
February 7. 1869.

Posr OFT1s CONFEDERATE X ROADS
(Wich is In the State Nv kentncky)
February 7, 1862
The die is Mostly cast-gloom he's
settled like q dark pail onto Ken
tdcky. The last veatige NV Consti-
tooshuel liberty is swept away, leav.
in us nothin but the name thereof,
wich is hollor mockery. Eff the Sen +.
IL Coca on and concurs with the
uouse---wich it will do-and the
rekisit number Of States ratify the
ackshen of them two necussid bodies
-wich they will do-~-rhy then all is
over. Niggers will vote in Kentuck !
the same OF white men, and the star
NV liberty is sot forever They may
90 so far, ez they will be in major.
ity, ez to disfranchise tho brave men
who served in the Confedrit army.
Ez might hev bin expected the in.
telligence affected the Corners pro-
foundly. We wuz all n seltin in
at Bascom's ez happy ez we Good be.
A new barrel he'd been tapped. Dee
kin Pogram he'd money, and 1 wuz
not altogether unproyided, ez let
ter he'd bin dropped into the Post
Offs that mornin wieh contained a
remittance NV six dollars to lottery
concern in Moo York. Ez 1 believe
lotteries TO be swindles aud demoral-
izin in their nncher, / opened the
missive and conhscatid the contents.
/ will never be the means NV leadin
young men to room thro the agency
of lotterics-never.
IL wuz pleasant scene. The FIRE
wuz burnin brightly, wich reflect
in on our respective noses, gave the
room a more than usual briteness;
Bascom wuz behint the bar, his ell
bows leanin onto it, waitin for the
orders wich he knew wood be made;
Capt. McPelter wuz a smokin his
pipe, peacefy, watchin the clouds
that ariz, formin a sort Nv halo about
his head; while Deekin Pogram and
myself wuz just in the act NV takin
suthin hot wich had bin fixed for us.
At this moment Pennibacker's boy
rode up on Bascom's mule and hove
paper al me wich contained the ia e
tai intelligence. / read it aloud
There wuz no more innocent mirth
that mite. Deekin Pogram's hand
relaxed its holt onto the glass aud it
fell to the floor, the precious Aooid
wastin itself thro the cracks, and the
old Saint fell from his chair in a
swoon. 1 he'd more presence NV
miud-I drank mine with one con-
vulsive gulp, and then dropped the
empty glass. The effect, 50 far ez
manilestin greef wuz concerned, wuz
the same ez tho he'd dropped it, lik
ker and all, and it wuz better for me-
The glass wuz Bascom's-the seusa-
sheu in my bowels perdoosed by the
likker wuz mine. That even consti-
tooshnel amendments can't take away
from me.
1t didn't take long to fgger how
this outrage, CT it is consummatid
will affect the corners. Their is in
.L;- re-" ~f,l township sixty three
| loyal white voters, NV wich number
thirty. nine vindicated their manhood
in the Coniedrit sorvis, the others
bein too old, ceptin Pollock, wich is
from Illinoy and NV Ablishen pro-
clivities. Garrettstown is in this
township, and countin them in ther is
two hundred and forty-four adult
male niggers, and thcr wood hev bin
a hundred more he'd niggers all bin
bora bullet and rope proof. SO long
ez these niggers wuz in their normal
condishen NV servitood they wuz in.
dispcnsable-sence they wuz crooelly
wrcstcd from us we hev made en-
most es yooscful to us by hevin the
law into our own hands. They hev
ez n rool accumulated suthin, for
they labor. We NV course held the
offises. Issaker Gavitt is Assessor,
and Deekin Pogram Treasurer, aud
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 oiiishels are both strong aud will
lin.
But for these niggers the town
ship government wood be a mere
nothin. Issaker didn't dare to assess
Bascom for fear he'd stop supplies
onto him, nor wood Basoom hey any
NV the white citizens taxed, for wat
ever they shoOd pay in taxes that
went either into the County or State
Treasury wuz so much lost to him.
Ho wuz anxious to hev tho niggers
sweat, for NV the money colIectid Nv
them he got large per cent, either
through the Collector or Treasurer,
wich wuz clear gain, ez they don't
patronize him anyhow.
In various other ways We he'd EN-.
Pennibaeker 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, filled with the idea
that they wuz free citizins, they wood
in the most insolent manner demand
pay for their services. Wv course
they wood be refoosed, whersupou
they wood bring SCOT before Penui-
backer. The result Nv their yenchur
il is unnecessary for me to state.
"What biznis hez a niger in this
yer court ?" wood the indignant en-
bodiment Nv the majesty NV the law
thunder forth with face as black as
a cloud, And dismissin the SCOT he
wood promptly ishoo an exocooshen
agin EN- for costs. Ten or twenty
niggers who 5000 white men wuz sold
out bob and sinker by the court for
costs in sieh scots, and when the
costs didn't take all thew he'd tho