Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1870-03-11

tFrom the Toledo Blado.l


BEARERs THERKoF-A LETTER FROM
DEACON PooRAM
6rH WARD, Moo YORK, Feb. e. 1870.
THE following letter wuz received
yesterdy from that long suiferin old saint,
Deekin Pogram:
CoNFHDRIr ROADS, (wich II
in the state nv Kentucky
February 90 1870
MY DEAR NAsDY-Wunst more hev
come 10 greet, wich is wat hev bin doin
with wonderful regularity ever scnce 700
LEFT this part Nv the heritage. The afllict-
In circumstances is ez follows
Yoo remember wat an eggscltement the
ackshen Nv Ohio on 10Th Amendment per
doosed in Kentucky. Here wuz two
States contiguous TO each other, the same
river lawn both Nv their banks, one on one
side and 'tother on the 'tother-and wich
wuz connected by other holy and tender
ties and sich--and one NV these States he'd
gone and ratified an Amendment wich
placed the niggers Nv the 'tother State on
level with her white citizens. Nv course
Kentucky wuz indignant, and no part NV
IL more 80 than the Cross Roads. Our
citizens billed over when they got the news,
and ez we alluZ do when we effervess, we
called a meetin.
l need not say that we missed yoo. We
hev never he'd competent chairman sence
700 left us, and consekently our biznis
goes slipshod. But after speeches by my
self, Capt. McPelter, Bascom and others
we finally passed the followin resoloo-
shens:
Wdreas, Our sister state NV Ohio whose banks
are layed by tho same river wich layes the banks
nv Kentucky, hez degraded herself by olcvatin the
niger to level with her white citizens, and
ndreds, By this ackshun ohio has assisted 90
| devrnde white Kentucky.
them onto a level with niggers, aud
| Wdrods, Kentucky has alluz contribitod nv her
means to support Ohio, by bnyin goods and sich;
WareSdS, Kentucky hez selfrespect, therefore
RssolUed, That Kentucky TO ASSERT her seltrespect
declares that henceforh and forever sho will never
hev intercourse with Ohio, In any shape, either eH
| buyer or seller.
The wareases and resolooshuns wuz
passed with more enthoosiasm than ever
saw manifested. The aujence riz ez one
man, and cheered vociferously. o, how |
wisht that that cheer Good hev reached
Cincinnati How tho bloated merchant
princes NV that aristocratic city wood hev
quaked he'd they heard II
To give the akshen doc effect, McPelter,
Bascom and myself wuz appointed com
mittee TO go personally to present the
wareases and resolooshens to the mer-
chants Of Cincinnati, each delegate bein
empowered by the convenshun to pay his
own persnal, and sich other, expenses ez
he mite contract.
"Go" sed Issaber Gavitt, ego and be
the horn wich'll batter down the walls Nv
that Ablishen Jericho"
GO" sed oil the rest, "and return TO
tell us how ther cheeks blanched ez you
rcd to EN- their doom !"
We went, with the peroeedins Nv the
| Itr I'll h.aA
Cincinnati McPelter's heart softened
toward hor Perhaps" sed he, "we're
too severe. Shel we hold all NV Cincinnati
'sponsible for the ackshen NV pOrshen
NV her citizensp Shel we hold Cincinnati
'sponsible for the ackshen NV the State
There are Dimocrats in Cincinnati-shel
we crush them with the othersp Shel the
innocent suffer with the guiltyP"
| wuE disposed TO side with McPelter,
but Bascom wuz inflexible He wood
never go back an inch. This insult wuz
put upon Kentucky by Ohio, and Cincin-
natl wuz the commershel capital NV
Southern Ohio, and the only way to reech
Ohio wuz to crush Cincinnati. The
thunderb0t we he'd in in our pockit must
fall on Cincinnati, no matter VINO It
crushed. Ef the Dimocrats in that city
didn't want TO be smashed let EN- git out.
McPelter yielded with sigh, and we
entered the city, Bascom smilin grim
smile ez he put his foot on its pavements
"Reel estate win be cheaper here to.
morrow he remarked, glancin at the
buildins on either side NV the street. "I
may possibly conclood To invest to some
extent myself When Kentucky refooses
to trade with Cincinnati its days is num-
berd. Wen buy it up and re-popilate II
with Kontuckians."
f The next mornin we comMenst our
work.
1--WE will begin" sed Bascom, "on the
likker merchants, they bein more intimitly
connected with us. Wen crush the likker
merchants first by refoosing to trade with
EN-, from this time out" And we entered
the first rectifyin establishment we come
to. We didn't go very far into it. The
proprietor advanced to meet us-Bascom
glanced at him-he glanced at Bascom-
the proprietor turned red, Bascom turned
ez white ez u sheet, and darted for the
door, MoPelter and / followin SCOT with
out KNOWN precisely wat for. Down the
street we rushed, the proprietor close be-
hind us; till finally by dartin down an
alley we elooded him and leaned up agin
u wall TO breathe,
"Why this foot-raceS" l askt ,uv
Bascom.
az owe the ouss bill for likker bought
the year afore the war;" returned he II
, didn't motifs his name over the door or
shoodn't hev gone in."
MoPeltor whisslcd long, low, soft
whistle, and coodent avoid thinkin NV
several things connected with our mishun
ez he spoke them words. After breathin
ourselves, we resoomed our raid onto the
merchants. We entered another store, a
boot and shoe concern, wich we purposed
to crush by declinin to buy NV it, McPel-
ter's eye rested onto the proprietor, and
he glided out NV the store like startled
tawn, Wv course Basoom and follered,
and the proprietor AFTER us There wuz
another chase, and more dodgin, wioh re-
suited ez before.
Why is this" asked NV McPelter
"When hustid in the boot and shoe
trade two years ago, this villain wuz my
principal creditor. He thought wuz dead
but ez he's seen me in the flesh / shel
never agin heV any peece."
. The next place we essayed wuz a gen.
raj dry goods and noshen house. JiSt "a
we pulled the resolooshen from our pockil
to read II tho proprietor NV the store per.
/ doosed note Nv Elder Gavitt Qssaker's
iather), on wich / wuz bail, and we tried
, to dust out NV that place. But by this
time Bascom and McPelter's men he'd
found wher we wuz, with skore OF more
nv Others who he'd heerd NV our bein in
the city thro these, and the thing got so
hot that we he'd to run for it, and run We
did. Fearin all sorts NV legal annoyances
about obtainin goods under false pretences,
ct settery, We didn't stop till we he'd goi
well out NV the city and the next day We
hailed boat and sailed for Louisville.
l can't say that our visit RESULTED in &C
eomplishin wot we desired We didnn
| git chance TO read our rasolooshun al
, ALL OWN to the coopidlty of the mer
| chants who, with grovelin merconary
spirit wich l never saw exalted, appeared
/ to be more anxious TO git wot we already
. owed EN- than TO listen to resoloOshenl
. deolinin TO trade with EN-, or 10 open new
!. accounts, and Cincinnati don't know L
Q this day the doom wich hung over her.
Q We sed very little NV the result NV oul
:. trip on our return, Mcpelter did intimat,
that Radicalism he'd reserved stuniI