The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1871-05-09

witch ia in the State of Kentucky,) !
~, qryara April 10, 1871.
We hey our distinct elemence wich 90
TO make up the sum total Nv sosiety in
this immejit visinity, namely: Regler
citizens, niggers, carpet baggers and scala.
wsgs. The regler citizens are them witch
are white, native, and 70 the manner born,
and wlch either served In or howled for
4 the cOnledrit army; the scalawags are
white natives Nv the sacred soil witch dis.
graced lthelrselTes sympathiEin' with the
North dOorin' the late siratriside struggle;
the mggeTs- are niggen nv all cOlors, md
the cArpetbsggers are unsettled North
ern men, witch come here and buy prop.
erty and improve It and stay-who are
not In akkord with the preVailin' senti.
ment-Wich ITO say who are not Demo
Gratis. Joe Bigler is q scalswag, Pollock
is carpet-bagger, and Elijer Lubbock,
the postmaster, Is nv course q Niger, and
! these are fair types Nv their class.
The Corners heZ alluz felt Justly irrita-
ted against these last three classes, for
combine them and give them u chance,
and they RELY heYa majority in the. town.
ship. Il took the most vigorous and Vo-
ciferous countin this Spring to keep Issa-
ker Gavitt from bein beet for Assessor by
niger named Joins, Notwithstanding that
our challepgin committee all stood at the
polls with clubs and kept more than fifty
Nv EN- from vOtin at all. The closenis nv
this eleckshen and other causes Nv irrita-
shCn determined lis to clean out the entire
bilin Nv en-. We .cOodn't live with EN-.
They he'd got Justis Nv the Peece and q
constable over OF GaTrettstOWn, and the
niggers witch workt for US wood sue US
when we refoozed 10 pay-they woodent
paicrnize BascOm, and siubbornly reloOz.
I'd 10 vote the ticket we give EN-. We
wanted no trouble. We wanted EN- 10 20
peaceable, and when, after we give EN-
warnin TO leave the country, and they re-
fO0zed to 20, we improyfzed atemprary
Ku Klux Khan, Nv witch | Wuz yOonanis
mously elected Chief With my accus-
toned vigger | called o council and select
ed the ground onto witch we wuz to oper-
ale nrSt. The north road lcadin 10 Gar
reltstOwn wuz' settled for five miles out
with niggeB, carpet-baggers and scalA.
wags eXClOOsively, and II wuz resolved to
clean that out, and summoned the Khan
Tor acliv dooiy. ..| .r..' Es"f-l
We presented gorgus aspeck. We
wuz clothed in long black robes with
white skulls and crnss.bones proiOosely
stitched on all over em-our hats wuz NV
the Confedrit slouch style, with tho same
cheerful insignia onto en-, and our faces
Wuz kiYered with masks onto wioh wuZ
the letters Nv the order az. n. K" We
wuz armed with rifles, shot guns and
knives-each man hevin Of course a bot.
tie. We wuz oil mounted, and that Gus.
sid idee Nv mountin was the Okkaslon Nv
the failyoor Nv the expedition, so far ez |
WIZ conserved.
am nota horseman-I despise q horse.
I am afaid Nv EN-, and the broots, with
sagacity hard to account for, know Il, and
take advantage Nv It. Iwantid Bascom's
mule, which Is a stiddy goln animal, but
he wuz a goin 10 ride that hlsself, and !
wuz compelled 10 60 TO Pollock and hire
a hoss NV him. Cusses on that boss -
cusses on Pollock and espeshly hot
cnsses on Joe Biglerl
When Joe ofishusly offered 10 saddle
that hoss and bring him out for me, / In.
stincliyely felt that there wuz trouble
ahead. .-.y--,s.,r....-
lie brought Der out, saddled, She wuz
a tall, gauntanimal, seventeen hands high,
hard.bitted, hard.trottin, and with no
more idea Nv gentle amble or gallop
then a hog hez Of Sunday. She trOls-a
hard, ugly trot-With the bit atWean her
teeth, and you KIN no Inorestop her when
she gifts u goin than you Good crowd Of
Gross. Readers when somebody seq "Lets
take suthin."
l mounted her, however, and struck
out OF the head Of the company. l he'd
on Coniedrit sabre, and notWithStAndin
the fact that he'd to hold on 70 tue name
Of my warlike steed with one hand, to
keep on, l managed to ride out with u
tollable marshel air. III "a,
"Pride goeth before q fall" I'VE he'd
ridden four miles when l observed res
tlessniss on the part nv my steed which 1
didn't like. She wuz shyin from one
side NV the road TO the other-she was
histln up her hind legs and snortin as
though she was possessed. Atthis mint
IssaEer Gavitt sejested the propriety Of a
halt for refreshments a
"Certin," seZ l, "efI kin ever git this
cussed mare to stand still long enuii.
Who's, 700 brootr
l he'd jist got my bottle out and he'd got
Il uncorEed, when that inEooriatyd ami.
NAL commenst a series NV gyraShens SIGH
as the world never witnessed alore. She
wood elevate her hind legs-then paw
the air with her fore legs-then try to
lay down, and all this with a r1nnin &C.
compartment NV the most ieendish
snortin. / wuz compelled to relinquish
my holt on the bride, and seeze her name
to hold myself oh, but she kicked more
than eyet.
Here wuz q dilemma IcOOdent hold
on by grippen the name with one hand
any longer-and my spare hand wuz EN-.
ployed In holdin the bottle! | cOOdent
cork the bottle and put It In my pocket,
for In the melee l he'd lost the cork, and
to put 1t in my pocket uneorked wuz 70
lose an is preshps contents Never wuz
Lin SIGH q strate afore Ell held to the
bottle l shood be throwed-ef stayed on
the infOoriatedi animals back I'd lose my
likkeF. The hoss decided the matter for
me. Takin the Bit in ermouth she start.
ed down the road on the keenest kind Nv
q run. She made q mile in about five
minutes leavin' my command far in the
rear. Another mlle-yet another, sped
that frantic animal Z lholdlh, .Sonto her
name with one ham, and the bottle with
the other. o she Rhz already In the enc
mics country Pile ahead NV me was
GarrelstoWn, andI mood see the niggers
alfeddy In the streets walchin' the strange
apparition that wuz comm. Into the vi.
lage rode, when the yishus 6root turned
a corner suddenly Slingin' me from his
back ez u boythrowS stun. Over and
over went, landin' finally ina ditch aside
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