The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1871-05-18
ON the Toledo Blade.
CoNFEDERIT x ROADS,
witch is In the staff of Kentucky,
Anril 10Th. 1871

witch is in the staff of Kentucky I
April 10th, 1871.
We hev our distinct elemence wich go
tn make up the sum total ov society to
this immejit vicinity: namely: Regler
citizens, niggers, carpet-baggers, and
scalawags. The regler citizens are them
witch are white, native, and to the man
ner born, and wich either served in, or
howled for the confederit army +; the
scalawags are white natives Nv the sa-
cred soil wich disgraced themselves SYM
pathizin' with the North doorin' the
late fratisidal struggle the niggers are
niggers Nv all colors, and the carpet
baggers are unsettled Northern men,
wich come here and buy property and
! improve it and stay-who are not in ak
kord with the prevaiiin sentiment-wich
is to say they are not Democrats. Joe
Bigler is a scalawag, Pollock is a carpet
Dagger, and Elliger Lubbog, the post
master, is of course niger, and these
air fair types Nv their class.
The Corners hez alluz felt justly irri-
tated against these last three classes, for
combine them and give thenra chance, and
they really haye majority in the town.
ship. 1t took the most vigorous and
vociferous countin this spring to keep
Issaker Gavit from bein' beet for assess
or by niger named Joins, notwith-
standin' that our challengin' committee
all stood at the polls and kept more than
fifty Nv EN- from votin at ALL The
closenis Nv this elecshun and other caus-
es of irritashen determined us to clean
out the entire bilin Nv 'em. We Good
ent live with EN-. They had got Just
is Nv the Peece and a constable over at
Garretstown. and the niggers witch workt
fur us wood sue us when we refused to
pay-they wooddent paternize Bascom,
and stubbornly refoosed to vote the tick
ct we give EN-. We wanted no trouble
We wanted EN- to go peaceably, and
when after VIC give EN- warnin to leave
the country, and they refoosed to go, we
improvized a temporary Klu-K lux- Klan
With my accustomed vigor I called a
council and selected the ground onto
wich we wuz to operate first. The north
road leadin to Garretstown wuz settled
for five miles out with niggers, carpet
baggers and scalawags exclusively, and
it wuz resolved to clean that out, and
| summoned the clans for active dooty.
We presented gorgus aspeck. We
wuz clothed in.long black robes with white
skulls and cross-bones profoosey stitched
on all over em-our hats wuz of the
Confederit SLOUGH style, with the same
cheerful insignia onto EN-, and our faces
wuz kivered with marks onto witch wuz
the letters Nv the order TX. K. K"
we wuz armed with rifles, shot guns,
and knives-each man havin Nv course a
bottle. We wuz all mounted, and that
cussld idee Nv mountin wuz the ckka-
sion of the failure Nv the expedition, so
far as l wuz conserved
am not horseman-I despise a
horse. am afraid NV EN-, and the
broots, with sagacity hard to account
for, know it, and take advantage Nv it
[ wanted Bascom's mule, which is a
steddy goin animal, but he yruz goin to
ride that hisself, and [ wuz compelled
to go to Pollock and hire a hoss NV him.
Cusses on that boss cusses on Pollock !
and espeshley hot cusses on Joe Big
lerl
When Joe ofishusly offered to saddle
that boss and bring him out for me.
instinctively felt that there wuz trouble a
head.
He brought her out. saddled. She
wuz a tall, giant animal, seventeen
hands high, hard-b itted. hard trotting,
ard with no more idee Nv gentle am
bic or gallop than hog has of Sunday
She trots-a hard. ugly trot-with
the bit atween her teeth, and 700 kin