Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1871-03-30
C0NFRDRIT Z ROADS,
witch Ia in the StRta nv KaptpnLyy I

March IL, 1871.
The Corners hez bin agitatid recently, at
the report which hez bin spred abroad that
committee WIZ agoiG to visit us for the
purpose NV investigatin the trifin matter
w the KILN IVA lew niggers and North
ern white men in this part NV Kentucky.
The Corners courts investigashen. SHE
hez alluz bin e2 law .abidin ca could be ex
pectid under the circumstances under WITCH
she hez bin placed and hez no fears Nv
any ialr inquiry but for fear that wat hez
bin done mite be misunderstood, ef
evidence shood be taken by prcioodist
committee, me and Deekin Pogram de-
cided that ! shood make NV myself Court
Nv ggsaminashen, aud report precisely
the status Nv affairs in this pertikeler.
Last Toosdy summoned the lcedn citi-
Zens Nv the Corners atorc me in the back
room NV Bascoms, and put en- THO the
most sarchin eggsamiuashen.
Capun Hugh McPelter wuz the first
man eggsamined. / sworc the Witnesses
on spellin book, witch we capchered from
the last niger skool-housc witch wuz burnt
last year, | swOre Elm on spcllin book
that the oath mite be more bndin Men
alluz hev reverence for that witch they
can't comprehend and for that Nv witch
they are ignorant, and a spellin. book alluz
Al
awe The cant;n siatid ,bo, we o,t, ",ln
he'd hin committed IN liz - 80
visipitv tbat no WIN, ,s,,,o,. = u
the niggers witch he'd workt on bis farm.
Pcnnibackers, Deckin Pogtam's, Suton's
and lsaakcr Gayitts, all summer, rcf3ozcd
to cOntinyoo work ontil they he'd bin
paid suIhin They held Il meetn to
Co der wat they shood do, aud hcarin
citizens and an disreys, nn, r,5, H., y ,,l
lie safptv In Inc d;snar,;n nj rI',o, P' ~,
ON VIM ocridentslly kitls1 anal e. NIX
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700 knoWd NV any violence htln offered to
any oIleF fgSldehts NV thl6 Nl5tnltYy
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litu n1t 'ih a" ''t 'haJ 'hct' hed hIn
aay PeiuNeitI Insurance IN inns FiSiuliY,
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~ars IN '' tnatIs Worra't,,,. w., ','g ''4
NOR ,bat hn l,,n,,i ~, ,,@''"" "" n"'oi1
WESTON ny THE NoNNisSloN-llcy
So9 OH '"''e uY my lhahttSa$hnp NV %
ugsltG 70 Fo'Se violence ioalds niEEcrs or
N"i t1eI" lisA
~ NSE "-bIens yo"r sole, no last lAll
,h''g q, ul,Ese'9 uht attempt 10 vote, atoro
Joe hlster got 70 the p1El', and nv course
We ulNn stahl lnat ~ WIZ aa losuii To
HpV'htrh ol'"u WIt'l we cood'nl rnooor
ano 'hey WV promptly hn"eNt down.
cno NV ,ho'h nv o2cR, aad lhe three WIZ
ir'nh'J'llE poub"vU over tue head with
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