Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1871-05-24
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MR NAebr ATrEurs a kuELtz ENrERrRIsE-
The LAuExrADLE Failure or TuE ENrEDI-
TloN.
Confedrit Y Rord-. (wieh is il the state of
Kentucky.) April 10, lo7I-Ne hev our
distinct eIcmcnce wieh 70 To make up the
sum total in this immejit yIsinity, namely !,
Rcglcr citizens, uiggers. 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 c1nfedrit army the sealawags are
wife natives uv the sacred soil wich q i-graCcd
theirsclyes svmpathizin' with the North
dO0rin' the late iratrisidlc struggle the
Diggers are niggers of all c5lOrs, and the car
pet-baggcrs are unsettled Northern men j.
gich come here and buy property and i'm
prove it and srav-wh9 are not in akkord
with the prevallin' scntiment-wich is to
say who are not Democrats. Joe Bigler Is a
scaIawag, POLLOK is j carpet bagger, and Eli
ier Lubbock the postmaster, is NV course
Niger. and these are fair types uv their
class.
The Corners hez allus felt justly irritated
against these last three classes, for combine
against them and give them chance, and
they RELY hev majority in the township
1t took the most vigorous AMI voclierous
countin this Spring - keep lssaker Gayt
from bein beet for Assessor by Niger nam
ed Johns notwlthstandin that oar challengin
committee al stood at the polls with cinbs
and kept more than fifty Nv them from votin
al all. TIE clOsnlss this eleckshen and
other causes of irIitashun determined Us -
clean out the entire bilin Nv en- They he'd
got a Justis Nv Peece ard a constable over at
Garrettstown and the niggerH wlch workt
for u wood sue us when we rOto9zed to pay
they woodent psternize Bascom. and stub
bOrnly rofoozed to vote tie ticket we give
en- We wanted EN- To 90 Peacabie, and
wien, after we give EN- warnln % leave the
country. and they rofoozed to 20, we imTro-
vized a temprary ku-klux klan, nv wich
was yOonanImousIv elected Chief With my
accustomed ygger | called a council and re-
Iected the ground onto wich We wuz 10 up-
perate first The northr0ad le4din to Gar
rettst wn wuz settled for five miles miles out
with niggers, caTpet-Daggers and scalawags
exclusively, and it wuz resolved 70 clean
that out and / summoned the X Ian for actIv
dooty
We presented a gorgus aspcck We wuz
clothed IN long robes with white skulls and
cross-bones profusely stitched on all over en-
our hats wuz Nv the Conlederit slouch style,
with the same cheerful insignia onto EN-, and
our faces wuz kIvered with masks onto wlch
wuz the letters NV the order . X. X. X.
We wuz armad with rifles, shot guns and
each man hevin Nv course bottle. we wuz
all mounted, and that cussid idee of mountin
was the okkason Nv the tailyoor Nv the ex-
peditiOn, SO far q | wuz COnserned.
am not q hOrseman- i desplse horse
am afraid Nv EN-. and the broots, with a
sagacity hard to account for, know it. take
advantage Nv it. | wantid Bascom's mule,
wch is a stiddy goin animal, but he wuz
z goin TO ride that hsself, and wuz COM
PEELED to 90 to Pollock and hire boss Nv
him. Cussess on that hoss !-cusses on Pol
lock and espeshly hot cussess on Joe Big
Ter.
When Joe othshusly offered to saddle that
boss and bring him out for me, instructive
y felt that there wuz trouble ahead.
He brought her out saddled. She wuz
tall. gaunr animal, seventeen hands high.
hard bItted, hard-trottin, and with no more
idea NV gentle amble or gallop than hog
hez of Sunday. She trOts- hard ugly trOt
with the bit atween her teeth, and yOo kin
no more stop her when she gifts agoin than
VOC Good a crowd Of CrossRoaders when
Somebody sez :. Let's take suthin."
mounted her, however, and struck out
at the head Nv the company. | had on
Confederlt sabre. and NOTWITHSTANDING the TACT
that he'd to hold on to the name OF my war
iike steed with one hand, to keep on, man
agtd to ride out with tollable marshal air
;. Pride goeth before fall" We ned
ridden four miles when | observed restlIs-
nis on the part Nv my steed wich | didn't
like She wuz a histin up her hind legs and
snortin as though she was possessed. At
this mint Issaker Gavitt sejestid the pro-
priety of halt for refreshments
| :. Gertin,' . sez ''ef kin ever get this
Fcusscd mare to stand stilI long euuf. Whoa,
yoo broot "
he'd iist got my bottle out and had got
,t uncorked, when that lnloorlated animal
commenst a series Nv gyrashens sich ez the
world never witnessed atore. She WOOD