The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1870-03-25
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| Mr.. Nasby's Friends at the Corners March
| In Triumph Upon Cincinnati, the Bearers
of ResOlutiOnS-The Fate Of the ReSOlu-
| lions and the Bearers ThereOf-A Letter
| from Deacon POgram.
HARP Uv ERIN S'LooN,
SIXTH WARD, Moo YORK, Feb. 81, 1905
The following letter wuz reserved
yesterday from that long sufferin old
saint, Deekin Pogram:
CoNFEDRrr X ROADS, (Which is
| in the State Nv kentucky
February 20, 1901
| My DEAR Massey: Wunst more hev 1
come to greet, witch is wat hev ben do
| in with wonderful regularity ever since
700 left this part NV the heritage. The
afflictin circumstances is ez follows:
700 remember wat an eggscitement
the ackshen NV Ohio ON the 18th Amend
meut 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 'tother-
and witch wuz connected by other holy
and tender ties and sich-and one NV
these States he'd gone and ratified an
Amendment witch placed the niggers NV
the 'tother State on a level. with her
white citizens. Nv course Kentucky
wuz indignant, and no part NV it more
|
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 700.
We hev never he'd competent chair
man senee 700 left us, consistently our
biznis goes slip-shod. But after speech
es by myself, Captain McPelter, Bascom
and others, We finally passed the follow
in resolooshens
WAREAs, Our sister State NV Ohio
whose banks are laved by the same river
wich laves the banks nv Kentucky, heZ
degraded herself by elevatin the Niger
to level with her white citizens !; and
WAREAs, BY this ackshen Ohio hez
assisted to degrade the white citizens Nv
Kentucky, by forcin them onto a level
with niggers; and
! WAREAs, Kentucky heZ alluZ contrib
bited Nv her means to support Ohio, by
buyin NV her goods and SIGH and
WAREAs, Kentucky hez self-respect;
therefore be it
RESOLVED, That Kentucky, to assert
her self-respect, declares that heucefOrth
and forever she will never hev inter-
course with Ohio in any shape, either as
buyer or seller.
The wareases and resolooshens wuz
passed with more enthoosiasm than /
ever saw manifested. The aujence rose
ez one man, and cheered vociferously.
0, how l wisht that cheer Good have
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, McPel-
ter, Bascom and myself wuz appointed a
committee to go personally to present
the wareases and fesolooshens to the
merchants NV Cincinnati, each delegate
bein empowered by the convenshun to
pay his own persnel, and SIGH other, ex-
penses ez he may contract. ''Gow sed
Issaker Gavitt, ego and be the horn
wich1l batter down the walls NV that
Ablishen Jericho!"
| "Go!" sed all the rest, land return to
tell us how their checks blanched eZ you
red to EN- their doom!.'
We went, with the perceedins NV the
meetin neatly written. Ez we approach
ed Cincinnati McPelter's heart softened
towards her. "Perhaps," sed he, "we're
too severe, Shell we hold all NV Cincin-
natl 'sponsible for the ackshen nv the
State? There are DEMOCRATS in Cincin-
nati-shel we crush them with the 9TH
ers? Shell the innocent suffer with the
!, guilty?"
wuz 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 Gin
cinnati wuZ the commershel capital NV
Southern Ohio, and the only way to
reech Ohio wuZ to crush Cincinnati.
The thunderbolt we he'd in our pockit
must fall on Cincinnati, no matter who
it crushed. Eff 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 will be cheaper here to-
t morrow he remarked, glancin at the
buildins on either side NV the street. 81
J may possibly conclood to invest to some
extent myself. When Kentucky re-
fooses to trade with Cincinnati its days
is numbered. Well buy it up and re-
: populate it with Kentuckians."
The next mornin we commenced our
, work.
eve will Begin" sed Bascom, son the
likker merchants, they bein more init
nifty connected with US. Wen crush
; the likker merchants first by refoosin to
trade with EN-, from this time out"
And we entered the first rectifying es-
adjustment we come to. We didn't go
/ very far into it. The proprietor adj
vanced to meet us-Bascom glanced at
him-he glanced at Bascom-the pro-
= prietor turned red, Bascom turned eZ
| white ez a sheet, and darted for the door,
McPelter and 1 foliowin SCOT without
KNOWN percisely wat 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
, wall to breathe. -
.Why this foot race p 1 askt NV Bas-
com.
81 owe the cuss bill for likker bought
: the year afore the war" returned he, 81
! didn't notice his name over the door or
|, shoodn't have gone in"
McPelter whisseled long, low, soft
|. whistle, and 1 coodn't avoid thinkin nv
sevral things connected with our mishun
: ez he spoke them words.
After breathin ourselves, we resoom-
ed our raid onto the merchants. We
|. entered another store, a boot and shoe
concern, witch we perposed to crush by
declinin to buy NV it. McPelter's eye
rested onto the proprietor, and he glided
out NV the store like a startled fawn.
Nv course Bascom and l foliered, and
the proprietor after US. There wuZ an
{ other chase, and more dodgin, witch re-
sultid ez before.
, "Why is this % askt NV McPeiter.
sFWhen bustid IN the boot and shoe
I trade two yeers ago, this yillin wuZ my
principal creditor. He thought / 1gGZ
, ded, but ez he's seen me in the flesh
I shell never agin hev any peece.'
The next place we essayed wuz q gen.
|, eral dry goods and noshen house. Jist
4 ez We pulled the resolooshen from our
pockit to read it the proprietor nv the
store perdoosed note nv Elder Gayitt,
n {Issaker's fatheFl on wich I WIZ bail.
j and we tried to dust out nv that place.
: But by this time BascoHl and McPelter's
j men he'd found wher they wuz, with q
: ekore or more of others who had heerd
nv our bein IA the city through these,
: and the thing got so hot that we he'd q
7, ran for il, and run we did. FeaFIn Al
D sorts Nv legal ennoy aness about obtain
e in goods undsr false pre1enses, ct settry,