The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1871-05-12

gers about me, and wuz a lyin in front
NV the town pump, and immejitly un.
der the spout thereof One gray headed
Niger, who breaches to the rest Nv EN-,
remarks:
"Bredrin, dis yer misguided man is
one oh dem dsturbin Ku-Kluxes. Wat
shell we do wild him p
Hang him hang him u SHOUTED they
all i'm korus.
Mercy mercyl' | shreekt in agony.
" Il amt no Ku- Klux ="
Don't 90 fur to add lies to yoor Cd
der SINS" sed the old man; eff you
amt no Ku-Klux wat does you wear
dar yooniform fur? Why dis sword
and pistols ~
There was brief consultashen NV the
elder ones while the younger niggers
wuz a riggin a rope TO tree, | layin the
while shiverin with an ague fit Nv fear
"Hang him!" shouted one.
Burn him ~ shouted another.
Bredrin," sed the old man, dem
punishments is too lite. I'll sarve him
out. Put him under the spout" sed
that hory-headed wretch, " and-pump
vigorous y
How long that cussed stream wus
poured out onto me | know not, for
wuz in state of seml-unconshusnis all
all the time. When they had amoozed
themselves sufficiently in that way, the
white headed old villain (he ought to
hev been cheef tOrturer in a Spanish
lnquisishen) took a quart cup, and, ill
lin it with water, sed, without relaxin a
single mussle NV his stern face, Drink
it I"
Man man. / shreiked in agony,
"hev you no mercy Hev 700 no bow
els Nv compashin ! Do you know wat
you require NV me? Take and hang
me and be done with it. will not
drink it. | never did cannot"
But wild with laughter those GRIMM
feends seezed me and holdin open my
jaws pored full quart Nv that hooid
down me, and peltin me for fifteen min
its with mud and sich things, left me.
don't know how got home-l only
know that | wuz picked up at the door
NV Bascom's delirious, that wuz put to
bed with iniamashen NV the bowels,
and that my life wuz despaired NV for
two weeks. | did not lack for attend
ance. | owe every man at the Corners,
and they watched me with tender soils
situde. The only qualification | he'd
wuz to know that after my horse run
away with me, the rest NV the party
made it lively for the niggers and car
pet baggers on the other road. They
whipped twelve Nv EN-, shot three who
resisted, and burnt three houses and
four barns.
| hev written out statement Of the
outrage inflicted onto me and sent it to
Washington. But | hev no idea that
it will effect anything. | don't suppose
that when that butcher Grant roads it
that he will admit that we hev to deal
with dangerous classes, or will take any
steps for protectin Nv or, give me re-
dress. 1t will be Just like him to send
a squad Nv Federal cavalry down here
TO arrest and imprison us.
PETROLEUM V. Massey,
WITCH wuz Postmaster.)
P. S. ! hev just learned that that
villin Bigle, aided and abetted by that
other villin Pollock, put plaster Nv
Spanish flies under the saddle Nv the
boss they give me, which article will
make blister in about twenty minutes.
That akounts for her cavortin-that ak
cunts for her kickin, snortin, and infer
nal runnin away Bigler called on me
! and confessed it. He said, with q grin
on his face, that the mare was dull and
lazy, and he desired, for my sake, to inn
prove her ackshen The scoundrel
ID W n