Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1871-05-10
AUGUSTA Me- WEDNESDAY, MORNING. 0.
NO. 10.
NASBY.

from the Toledo (O.,) Blade, 22d.
CoNFEDERIT X ROADS,
(Which is in the State of Ken.,)
April 10, 1871.
We hev four distinct elemence wich 90
to make up the sum total NV society in this
immejit visinity, namely: Regler citizens,
niggers. carpet-baggers and scalawags.
The regler citizens are them wich are
white, native and to the manner born, and
wich either served in or howled for the
confedrit army; the scalawags are white
natives NV the sacred soil wich disgraced
themselves sympathizin' with the North
doorin' the late fratrisidle struggle; the
niggers are nigners Nv all colors, and the
carpet-baggers are unsettled Northern men
wich come here and buy property and inn
prove it and stay-who are not in akkord
with the prevailin' sentiment-wich is to
say who is not democrats. Joe Bigler is
scalawag, Pollock is carpet-bagger,
and Elijer Lubbock, the postmaster, IS NV
course nigger, and these are fair types
nv their class.
The Corners hev alluz felt justly irri-
tated aginst these last three classes, for,
combine them and give them chance
and they really hev majority in the
township. 1t took the most vigrous and
vociferous countin' this spring to keep Is
saker Gavitt from bein beet for Assessor
by niggcr named Joins, notwithstand-
ing that our challengin committee all stood
at the polls with clubs and kept more than
fifty Nv em from votin at all. The closenis
Nv this eleckshen and other causes nv irri-
tashen determined us to clean out the en-
tire bilen Nv em. We coodent live with
em. They had got Justis NV the Peece
tab ot Gav
the niggers witch workt for us wood sue
us when we refoozed to pay-they woodent
patronize Bascom, and stubbornly refoozed
to vote the tikket we give EN-. We want
ed no trouble. We wanted em to go
peaceable, and when, after we give EN-
warnin to leave the country, and they re-
foozed to go, we improvized a temprary
Ku-Klux Klan, Nv wich / wuz yoonani-
mously elected Chief With my accus-
toned vigger l called council and Sc
lected the ground onto wich we wuz to
operate first. The north road leadin to
Garrettstown wuz settled for five miles
out with niggers, carpet-bagger and scala
wags exclusively, and it wuz resolved to
clean that out, and | summond the Klan
for active dooty.
We presented d gorgus aspeck. We
wuz clothed in long black robes with
white skulls and cross-bones profoosely
stitched ON all over em-our hats wuz NV
the Confedrit slouch style, with the same
cheerful insignia onto EN-, and our faces
wuz kivered with masks into witch wuz
the letters Nv the Order TX. X. K" We
wuz armed with rifles shot guns and
knives-each man hevin NV course bot
tie. We wuz all mounted and that cussid
idee NV mountin was the okkasion Nv the
failure of the expedition, so far ez wuz
conserned.
l am not a hossman-I despise hoss.
l am afraid NV em, and the broots, with q
sagacity hard to account for, know it, and
take advantage Nv it, l wantid Bascon's
mule, which is stiddy goin animal, but
hire hoss NV him. Cusses on that hoss
cusses on Pollock and espeshly hot GUS
ses on Joe Bigler!
When Joe offishusly offered to saddle
that hoss and bring him out for me, l in
stinctively felt that there wuz trouble
ahead.
He brought her out, saddled. She wuz
a tall, gannt animal, seventeen hands
high, hard-bitted, hard-trottin, and with
no more idea NV gentle amble or gall
lop than q hot hez NV Sunday. She trots
"a hard, ugly trot- with the bit between
her teeth, and yoo kin no more stop her
when she gifts agoing than yoo Good
crowd of Cross Readers when somebody
sez Lets take suthin."
| mountid her, however, and struck out
at the head NV the company. | he'd on =
Confederit saber, and nothwithstandin the
fact that he'd to hold on to the name Nv
my warlike steed with one hand to keep
on, managed to ride out with tollable
marshel air
pride goeth before fall" We he'd
ridden four miles when observed rest
lessnis on the part NV my steed which
didn't like. She wuz shyin from one
side of the road to the other-she wuz
histin up herhind legs and snortin es though
wuz compelled to 60 to Pollock and
she was possessed. At that mint lssaker
Gavitt sejestid the propriety NV halt for
refreshments.
"Certin,n sez set kin ever get this
cussed mare to stand still long enuff.
Whoa, yoo broot!
he'd Jest got my bottle and he'd got it
uncorked, when that infooriated animal
commenst series NV gyrashens sich ez
the world never witnessed afore. She
wood elevate her hind legs-then paw the
air with her fore legs-then try to lay
down, and all this with running accom-
paniment NV the most feendish snortin.
wuz compelled to relinquish my holt on
the bride. and seeze her name to hold my
self on, but she kicked more than ever.
Here wuz dilemma. | coodent hold
on by grippin the name with one hand any
longer, and my spare hand wuz employed
in holdin the bottle. coodent cork the
bottle and mt il in nv pOeket for in the
melee he'd lost the cork. and to put 1t In
my pocket uncorked wuz to lose all its
preshus contents. Never wuz in sich
strate afore. Eff held to the bottle !
shood be throwd--ef stayed on the in
furiated animals back, I'D lose my likker.
The hoss decided the matter for me. Takin
the bit in her mouth, she started down the
road on the keenest kind nv run. She
made mile in about five minutes, leayin
my command far in the rear. Another
mile-yet another, sped that frantic AMI
NAL, holdin onto her name with one one
hand, and the bottle with the other. s.l Sns