The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1870-03-24

Bera March in Triumph uDOn
Cincinnati, the Bearers Of
ResOlutIOns-The Fate OF the
Resolutions and the Bearers
ThereOE-A Letter from Dea.
con POgram,
HARP Nv ER1N s'LooN,
9Th WARD, Moo YORK,
February q, 1870.
The following letter wuz reserved yes
terday from that long sufferin old saint,
Deekin Pogram:
CoNFEDRIT K ROADS, (which
Is in the State NV Kentucky
February 20, 1870.
Ny DEAR NAsBY-Wu moro hev
come to grief which is wat hey bin dOin
with wunderful regularity ever senee yOo
left this part Nv the heritage. The affllctin
circumstances is ez follows:
Yoo remember wat an excitemunt the
ackshen Nv Ohio on the 10Th Amendment
perdOOsed 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 'tothsr-and
wich wuz connected by other holy and
tender ties and sich-and one Nv these
ment wich placed the niggers nv the 10th
er State on a level with her white citizens.
Nv course Kentucky wuz Indignant, and
no part Nv It more so than the Cross
Roads. Our citizens billed over when they
got the news, and ez we alluz do when we
effervess, we called meetin.
/ need not say that we missed yoO. We
hev not he'd a competent chairman senee
yoo left Us, and consistently our biznis
goes sIip-shOd. But after speeches by my
self, Capt. MePelter, Bascom and others,
we finally passed the following resOloO-
shens:
Wareas, Our sister State nv Ohio,
whose banks are lavsd by the same river
wich laves the banks nv Kentucky, hez
degradid herself by elevatln the nigger 10
a level with her white citizens, and
Wareas, By this ackshen Ohio bez as
sistid to degrade the white citizens Nv
Kentucky, by fOrciu them onto X level
with niggers, and
Wareas, Kentucky hez alluz eontribbit-
ted Nv her means to support Ohio, by buy
In Nv her goods and sich; and
Wareas, Kentucky heE self-respect,
therefore be it
Resolved, That Kentucky to assert her
self respect, declares that henceforth and
forever, she will never hsv intercourse
with Ohio, in any shape, either eG buyer or
seller.
The wareases and resOlooshens wuz
passed with more enthOOsiasm than 1 ever
saw manifested. The aujenee riz ez one
man, and cheered vOciferOusly. o, how I
wisht that cheer Good hev reached Cincin-
natl How the bloatid merchant princes
Nv that aristOcratic city wood hev quaked
he'd they herd i'll
To give the ackshen doc effect, McPel-
ter, BascOm and myself WIZ appinted a
committee to go personally to present the
wareases and resOlOOshens to the mer-
chants Nv Cincinnati, each delegate bein
empowered by the convenshun to pay his
own persnel, and sich other expenses, ez
be mite contract.
"Gop' sed Issaker Gavitt, "Go and be
the horn wich'n batter down the walls
Nv that Ablishen Jericho!"
"Go ~ sed all the rest, "and return to
tell us how their cheeks blanched ez 700
red to EN- their doom"
We went, with the percBedins nv the
meetfn neatly written. Ez we approach
ed Cincinnati McPelter's heart sOftened
towards her. "PerhaPs," sed he, "we're
too severe. Shel we hold all nv Cincinna-
ii 'sponsible for the ackshen Nv portion
Nv her citizens? Shell we hold Cincinnati
'spOnsible for the ackshen Nv the State !?
There are DimOcrats in Cincinnati-shel
we crush them with the Others7 Shell the
innocent suffer with the guilty ?"
! wuz disposed to side with McPelter,
but BascOm wuz inhexible. He wood
never go back an inch. This insult wuz
put upon Kentucky by Ohio, and Cincin-
fC1 fa1 y
Southern Ohio, and the only way to reach
Ohio wuz to crush Cincinnati. The thun-
der-bolt We he'd in our pOckit must fall on
Cincinnati, no matter who it crushed. Ef
the Dimocrats in that city did MT want to
be smashed let EN- git out.
McPelter yielded with a sigh, and we
entered the city, BascOm smilin grim
smile ez he put his foot on its Psvemeuts.
''ReeI estate will be cheaper here tO-mOr-
row - be remarked, glancin at the build
ms on either side Nv the street. 81 may
possibly cOnclOOd to invest to some extent
myself. When Kentucky refOOses to trade
with Cincinnati its days il numbered
Wen buy it up and re-Popilate It with
Kentuckians."
The next mornin we conmenst our
work.
wen begin, {" sed Bascom. ''on the lik-
ker merchants, they bein more intimitly
connected with US. Wen crush the lik-
ker merchants first by refoOsiuE to trade
with EN-, from this time out" And we en-
tered the first rectifyin establishment we
come to. We did MT go very far into it.
The proprietor advanced tn meet us-Bas-
com glanced at him-he glanced at Bas-
com-the proprietor turned red, BascOm
turned ez white ez a sheet, and darted for
the door, McPelter and l fOllOwin SCOT
without KNOWN precisely what for. Down
the street we rushed, the proprietor close
behind US, till finally by dartin down an
alley we elooded him and leaned up agin
a wall to breathe.
"Why this foot race ?" askt Nv Bas-
scm.
81 owe the cuss a bill for Iikker bought
before the war" returned be. 81 did It
uotis his name over the door or shOOd MT
hev gone in"
McPelter whissled a long, low, soft
whissle, and cOOdent avoid thinkin Nv
several things connected with our mishen
ez be spoke them words.
After breathin ourselves, we resoomed
our raid onto the merchants. We entered
smother store, a boot and shoe concern,
wich we proposed to crush by declinin to
DuN NV lBs OACA CAlCA . AC'tCO OAAbO sAAC
proprietor, and he glidcd out Nv the store
like startled fawn. Nv course Bascom
and follered, and the proprietor after US
There wuz another chase, and more dOdg-
in, wich resulted ez before.
'Why is this ?" I asked nv McPelter.
mWhen bustid in the boot and shoe
trade two years ago, this villain wuz my
principal creditor. He thought I wuz dead,
but ez he's seen me in the flesh she'll new
er az hev any peace"
The next place we essayed wuz gener-
al dry goods and noshen house. Jist ez
we pulled the resoloOshen from our pockit
to read it, the proprietor Nv the store per-
doosed a note NV Elder Gavftt, (Issaksr's
father) 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
where we wuZ, with a skore or more Nv
others who he'd heerd nv our beiu in the
city throo these, and the thing got so hot
we he'd 10 run for it, and run we did
Fearin all sorts NV annOyances about OBJ
tainin goods under false pretences, ct set
try. we did Mt stop till we he'd got well
out Nv the city, and the next day we hail
ed boat and sailed for Louisville.
can't say that our visit resultid in ac-
complishin what we desired. We did mt
git a chance to read our resolOOshen at all,
OWN to the coopidity Nv the merchants,
r,Lo with a OrOvelin merspuarV spirit