Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1869-05-01
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III the Dhnocrisy NV the North arri't
satisfied by this time that the ultimate
iitehsheh NV the Ablishnists is to sab.
jooRate EN- aud redoose en- 10 the level
NV the Nigger, the voice NV one riain
from the dead woodn,t avail notbin.
Yesterday the last outrage wich a chiv.
alrous people has been compelled TO bear,
wuE peFpetrated onto citizen nv the
Cofnety. "A NioGER Is NOW AN OFYIs
HoIDEh Ar 11BR CoRKEKsi / shel state
the case calmly:
The pJaishen nv Assessor of Internal
RevenOo for the Deestrick nv wich the
Ccrpers is the center, hez bin held since
a. JOhnson hez bin President, by Can't.
Hugh McPelter, late NV Morgan's cav.
airy, &. =. A. That he hez held the
pOsishen to the satisfaction NV the citi-
zebs uv the Corners. no ono denies. He
is distiller; In fact, he and Elder Pen.
nibacker run the two dstilleries in the
town, and they hev did thrivin biznis.
McPelteF wuE Assessor, and Pennibacker
Collector, aud ez d conscience none Nv
the capital NV the Corners Leg biznis
subtracted aid carried to Washington
TO feed the Ablishep thieves on. EE no
tax hez bin paid oh the whisky at this
place, Bascem beg hin enabled to CON
tinyoo to sell il At tive cents per drink,
while everywhere tise tht regler price
is ten aud fifteen. There wuz other ad,
van,ages in havin the Aisessorship and
Collectorship in their hand. BY simply
hintin 60 EN- that Il wuz my dooty ez a
Federal offs holder to investigate their
modes NV doin the Government biznis. /
hev not only bin the happy recipient Nv
scores Nv twO-gall0n jugs, but hev bin
enabled, at divers aud sundry times, to
prokoor loans nv en- Nv various amounts.
the lowest ben 81 IS, and the highest
reacllin $50.
This happy condishun NV affairs is bus
It'd. Gabriel batcoek, a nigger-that is,
half niggcr, formerly the property Of
Deekin Pogram, and who looks enuff
like the Dcekin's oldest son Jehicl to be
his halt brother, wux last week appinted.
and confirmed Assessor in the place of
Capt. McPeltrr, and imejitly he entered
onto the discharge nv his dooties.
There are many fecchers pckooyerly
agravatin in the appointment To begin
with, this Babcock wuz notoriously
obnoxyus TO the Corners doorin the late
OBpleasaHtnis AT the beginAin thereof
he ran away from Deekiu I'c gram and
entered the Fedral servis. His knowl-
edge nv the country made him yooseful
to the Fedral officers ez guide and
scout, and at least one Fedral victry is
chargeable direct to the informashun he
brot. Then his wife wuz knowd to hev
hid FIVE Fedral soljers who he'd escaped
from Andersonville. When he finally
fell into the hands Nv Capt. McPelter, at
Fort Pillow, kin it be wondered at that
be wuz left for dead? Or kin it be won.
dered at that people NV the Corners wuz
surprised when he appeared among EN-
at the close Nv the war with one leg off
and one arm stiff? Not much. Capt.
McPelter wuzn't in the habit NV halt
doin his work, and the appearance NV
this nigger who he'd passed through his
hands ruther astonished the Captin.
DoOrin his absence he bed learned to
read and write, and he wuz made a
teacher in the Freedmen's Skool wich
wuz establish in this place, and now he
is Assessor, with Pollock on his bend.
Ez a matter nv course we despair NV
the Republic. Wat Freedom kin there
be for MS with nigger in ofhshcl po-
sishen TO tyranize over usp Wat mall
NV culcher, uy cdjucaslien, NV refinement,
kin afford to live in community where
disgustin mulatto is made not only our
ekal but our soopcrior?
Deekin PUyram said this Indignantly
to Joe Bigler, who imejitly asks the
DeekiD whether or not he didn't count
Rabcock's mother his ekal thirty years
ago? Wich question wuz askt in the
presence nv the Deekin's wife, who hel
temper, wuz the occasion NV severe re-
marks between the worthy pair. Joe
Bigler delitcs in openin old sores.
The FIRST act NV this Blbcock in his
ofiishel eapassity wuz the shuttin up NV
McPelter's and Pennibacker's dis,illeries
and BascUm's bar, on the skore that none
! NV them he'd never taken out licenses, OF
even paid any taxes. Their wuz the most
} terrific ebulishn NV feelin at the act NV
tyranny that it hez ever bin my lot te
witness.
"Kill the d-d nigger!"
"HaDg the black ouss u
"Down with the Afrikin despotr'
Shoutid the infnristed citizens. Will
refinement of cro0elty wich Good only
be the offspring NV a most depraved and
vishus mind, he shut up these places a,
O'Clock in the mornin, before one Nv
the citizens he'd his mornin bitters! He'd
he postponed it an hour we might hes
fought IL out for some ono else wood
hey prokoored supply before noon, and
things wood hev gone on normal. But
here wuz the entire populashen nv the
Corners at 4 A. NJ. with throsts like lime
kilns and nary drop to be he'd for love
} or money. The skeem wux well consid
cred aud successful. The citizens Good
hold out bat fifteen minutes, and they
} surrendered. They gave bonds to which
they all appended their marks TO indem
!; nifty the Government for back taxes, ans
J compelled Baseom to take out license
This done, the nigger, who wuz back
!. up by Bigler and Pollock, opened hi
! doors, and the multitood surged in anS