The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1870-03-11

d HF. EaSby's Friends at the Corner
u March in Triumph Upon Cincinnati
the Bearers of ReSOlUtiOnS-fh
: Fate OF the Resolutions and III
Bearers thereof Letter from Dea
J cen POgFam.
. HARP w ERIN S'LOON,
i 9TH WARD, Moo YORK,
February, y, 1870.
The following letter wuZ reseevet
Il yesterday from that long sufferin oil
i saint, Deekin POGRAM:
CONFEDERATE Y ROADS,
Il (which is in the State NV
: Kentucky Feb, %, 1870.
: Ny DEAR NAsBY-Wunst NOR
: hev l come to greet, which is wat
hev bin dOin with wonderful regular
7 ity ever sence 700 left this part upth
! heritage. The affiictin circumstan
ees is ez follows:
YOO remember wat an eggscite
o ment the ackshen NV Ohio on the 15tl
: Amendment IerdOosed in Kentucky
+ Here wuz two States contiguous t.
! each other, the same river lawn boil
: Nv their banks, one on one side anC
'tOther on the itOther-and which WI
: eonnectid by other holy andtendel
I ties and sich-and one NV these State,
he'd gone and ratified an Amendment
I which placed the niggers Nv the 10th
eF State on a level with her white
citizens. Wv course Kentucky wul
! indignant, and no part Nv it more Sc
E than the Cross Roads. Our citsZens
billed over when they got the news
, and eZ we alluz do when we Gfervess
we called meetin.
need not say that we missed 700.
We have never he'd Il competent chair
man sence yOO left us, and cOnsekent-
ly our biZins goes slip-shOd. But after
speeches by myself, Capt. McPelter,
Bascom and others, we finally passed
/ the following resOloOshens
Wdreds, Our sister state NV Ohio
whose banks are laved by the same
river wich laves the banks NV Ken
tucky, hez degraded herself by eleva-
tin the nigger to level with her
white citizens, and
Wdreds, By this ackshen Ohio hez
ASSISTED to degrade the white citizens
NV Kentucky, by fOrcin them onto a
level with niggers, and
WdredS, Kentucky heZ alluZ con-
tribbited NV her means to support
ShIoi ny buy III Nv hCi SOouo alAu oiOhi
and
VARGAS, Kentucky hez self-respect,
therefore be it
RcSOLyed, That Kentucky to assert
her self-resPect declares that hence
forth and forever, she will never hev
intercourse with Ohio, in any shape,
either eZ buyer or seller.
The wareases and resOlOOshens wuZ
passed with more ethOOsiasm than
ever saw manifested. The aujence
riz ez one man, and cheered vOcifer-
Ously. o, how | wisht that that cheer
Good hev reached Cincinnati! How
the bloatid merchant princes NV that
aristOcratic city wood hev quaked he'd
they heard it!
To give the ackshen doc effect,
McPeIter, BascOm and myself wuZ ap-
pointed a committee to go personally
to present the waTeases and reSOlOOSlHs'
ems to the merchants NV Cincinnati,
each delegate bein empowered by the
eOnvenshun to pay his own persnel,
and such other, expenses ez he mite
contract.
"Go ~ sed Issaker Gavitt, "gO and
be the horn which'll batter down the
walls NV the Ablishen Jerrico ~
"Gom sed all the rest, "and return
to tell us how there cheeks blanched ez
you red to EN- their doom ~
We went, with the perceedins NV
| the meetin neatly written. EZ we
approached Cincinnati McPelter's
heart softened towards her. "Per-
haps." sed he, "we're too severe
Shel we hold all NV Cincinnati 'spOn-
sible for the ackshen NV pOrshen NV
her citizens? Shel we hold Cincin-
natl 'sponsible for the ackshun NV the
| State +? There are Democrats in Gin
cinnati-shel we crush them with the
others? Shel the innocent suffer with
the guilty?
1 Wuz disposed to side with McPel-
| ter, btu BascoDl wuz infleXible. He
wood never go back an inch. This
insult wuz put upon Kentucky by
| Ohio, and Cincinnati wuz the COM
mershel capital NV Suthern Ohio, and
| the only way to reech Ohio wuZ to
crush Cincinnati. The thunderbOlt
we held in our pOckit must fall on
Cincinnati, no matter who it crushed.
Eff the DimOcrats in that city didn't
want to be smashedlet EN- git out.
EMcPelter yielded with sigh, and
we entered the city, BascOm smilin
grim smile ez-he put his foot on its
pavements.
''Reel estate will 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 daysIis numbered.
TO
with Kentuckians."
The next mornin we commenst our
work.
"We will begin," sed BascOm, son
the likker merchants, they bein more
intimitly connected with us. Well
crush the likker merchants first by re-
foOsin 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-Bas-
com glanced at him-he glanced at
Bascom-the proprietor turned red,
BascOm turned eZ white ez sheet,
and darted for the door, McPclter and
| folIowin SCOT without KNOWN pre-
cisely wat for. Down the street we
rushed, the proprietor close behind us,
till finally by dartin down an alley We
eIooded him and leaned up agin a
wall to breathe.
"Why this foOt-race?" L asked NV
BascOm.
sI owe the cuss a bill for likker
bought the year afOre the war, ," re-
turned lie. al didn't nOtis his name
over the door or | shOOdn't hev gone
in"
McPelter whissled long, low, soft
whistle, and coOdent avoid thinllin
NV sevral things connected with our
mishun eZ he spoke them words.
After breathin ourselves, we re-
soomed our raid onto the merchants.
We entered another store, a boot and
shoe concern, which we peFpOsed to
crush by declinin to buy NV it. McPel-
ter's eye rested onto the proprietor,
and he glided out NV the store like a
startled fawn. Wv course BascOm and
followed, and the proprietor after
us. There wuZ another chase, and
more dodgin, which resulted ez before.
"Why is this?' | asked NV McPel-
terA.
"When I bustid in the boot and shoe
trade two years ago, this villain wuZ
my principal creditor. He thought |
wHz dead, but ez he's seen me i'm the
flesh | shel never again Eey any
peace"
The next place we essayed wuz
general dry goods and nOshen house.
Jist ez we pulled the resOlOOshen from
our pOckit to read it the proprietor NV
the store perdOosed note NV Elder
Gavitt, Hssaker'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 wher
we wuz, with a skOre or more NV 9TH
ers who he'd heerd NV our bein in the
CITY thro these, and the thing got SC
hot that we he'd to run for it, and run
we did. Fearin all sorts Nv legal an
noyances abont Obt9inin goods under
false pretences, ct ;ettry, we didn't
stop till we he'd got well out NV the
city, and the next day We haileda boat
and sailed for Louisville.
/ can't say that our visit resulted in
accOmplishin wat we desired. We
didn't git a chance to read our resOlOO-
shen at all, OWN to the cOOpidity NV
the merchants who, with a grovelin,
mersenary spirit which never saw
exalted, appeared to be more anxious