Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1871-03-31
NAsBY.


CoNFEDBIT RoAps.
tWich Is In the State nv Kentucky,1S
March IL, 1871.
TIE Corners hez bin aRitatid recently a,
the report which hez bin spred abroad tbat
committee wuz agoin to visit us for the
purpose Nv investigator the triflin matte,
NV the KILN Nv few niggers and North
ern white men In this part Nv Kentucky
Ihe CORNERS courts investiQashen. s6t
nez alluS bin ez law-abidin ca could be ex
Pectio under the circumstances under wict
sne nez bin placed, and hez no fears NV
any iair inquiry, but for fear that wat hes
yin done mite be misunderstood, q
evidence shood be taken by preioodist
committee, me and Deekin Popram de-
cloea that shood make NV myself a Court
Nv Eggsamihashen, and report precisely
the status NV affairs in this pertikeler
Last Toosdy summoned the leedin citi
zens Nv the Corners afore me in the back
room NV Bascom's, and put em thro the
most sarchin eggsaminashen.
Captin Hugh McPelter wuz the frs,
man eggsamined. swore the witnesses
n spellin book, wich we capchered from
the last niger skool-house wich wuz burnt
last year. l swore em on a spellin-b book
That the oath mite be more bindin. Men
alluz hev reverence for that wich they
can't comprehend and for that NV wich
tney are lgnerant, and spellin-book alluz
strikes the average Cross-Roader with
awe. The Captin statid that no outrapes
he'd bin committed in the Corners or
visinity that he wuz aware Nv. Last fall
the niggers wich he'd workt on his farm.
Pennibacker's, Deekin Pograms, Sutton's
and Isaaker Gavitts, all summer, refoozed
to continyoo work ontil they he'd bin
paid suthin. They held meetin to
consider wat they shood do, and hearin
NV that meetin he did organize a party NV
citizens and did disperse EN- for the pub.
Lie safety. In the dispersin, thirteen NV
EN- wuz accidentally killed, and on their
way home the party did burn five cabins
wich he understood wuz inhabited by mig
gers.
By THE CoMsussIoN-(wich wuz me.)
State how the accidental KILN took
place.
ANsER-The boys he'd with EN- double
barrelled shot guns, wich, by singular
coincidence happened to be loaded with
ball and buck-shot They pinted them
guns in the direcshun Nv the niggers ez
they wuz runnin from the meetin-house
In wich they wuz assembled, and they
went off. We wuz surprized to see the the
thirteen layin there shortly after the
volley, with the tops Nv their heads
blowed off.
QUESTION BY THE CoMNr1ssIoN--(me, J
The burnin Nv them five cabins wuz ac-
cidental, wuz it9
ANsER-Not so much so. II wuz did
partly in jocose sperit, and partly from
sentiment Nv pity. The heads Nv fami-
lies wich dwelt in EN- he'd bin killed in
the affair at the meetin house, and ez there
wuz nobody to take keer NV them houses
but wimmin and children it wuz consid-
cred best that they be burned; and ez the
wimmin and children wood hev hard
time NV it without houses, it wuz consid-
cred humane to put EN- out Nv a cold, un.
feelin world, and they wuz accordinly
knockt on the head ez the torch wuz ap-
piled to their dwellins.
QUESTION BY THE CoMMIssIoN-Hev
yoo knowd Nv any violence bein offered to
any other residents Nv this visinity?
ANsER-None but wat wuz deemed nes-
sary to the safety Nv the community. A
stun-mason by the name of Albrite come
here from Injiany, and ez he took five
Northern papers we knowd he wuz car
pet'bagger wich gloated over the misfor-
tunes of the sunny South. We warned
him to leave, but he stubbornly retoosed
whereupon some of the boys put on masks
one mite, and took him out Nv his house
and hung him. He wuz long time kick
In, and his struggles wuz so amusin that
the boys felt that they he'd bin amply re.
paid for the trouble they had bin to.
The same mite they bustid in the front
NV Pollock's store, and wood hev hung
Pollock he'd not that unreasonable man
appeared at second story window with
Joe Bigler, both Nv them hevin revolvers
in ther hands.
Deekin Pogram wuz next eggsamined.
He'd not bin aware that there he'd bin
any perhkeler disturbance in this visinity.
1t was troo that Issaker Gavitt and some
others Nv the young men he'd, at times, in
Jolly mood, put on masks and mountid
their horses, and, to perfect themselves, he'd
taken sich rifles, and shot-guns, and re-
volvers, and knives, and axes ez they he'd
handy, and he'd made it lively for the Mig
gers up toards Garrettstown, but nothin
more that he knowd Nv.
QUESTION BY THE CoSIsIIssIoN-Hev
you bin aware NV any manifestation NV a
. desire to yoose violence toards niggers or
Northern men?
ANsER-Bless yoor sole, no. Last fall
three niggeIs did attempt to vote, afore
Joe Bigler got to the polls, and NV course
we didn't stand that 1t wuz an insult to
Southern blood wich we coodent endoor,
and they wuz promptly knockt down.
One Nv them hit back, and the three WIZ
lmmejitly pounded over the head with
fence stakes. l believe one of EN- died
on the spot; another in perhaps half an
hour, and tother in the afternoon; but it
wuz agreed that it wuzn't the poundin
that killed EN-, but the inflamashen that
sot in afterward. Amos Dlbble, a Con-
necticut Yankee, offered his vote at the
same election, and he wuz also pounded
with hickory club, and he likewise died.
1t is possible that others wood hev bin
pounded similar, he'd not Joe Bigler and
Pollock come up jist at that time.
QUESTION BY THE CoMMssIoN-To
wat do yoo ascribe the blame for these
Irregularities?
ANsER-There can't be no doubt as to
where the blame ought to rest. The mig
gers hev got an insane idea into em, that
they are RELY citizens by virtoo of the
10Th amendment, notwithstanding the
fact that every justice Nv the peece in Ken
lucky has declared it unconstitooshnel
and consekently void and NV no effect.
They 'bleeve they hev rites ez citizens,
and they won't be managed ez they yoosed
to be. They insist on bein paid for labor,
wich alluz irritates the Southern mind,
and they insist upon continyooally insul-
tin us by offerin their votes, wich amt to
be tolerated for mint. Eff they wood
quietly resoom their normal posishen, and
let us rool em as we yoosd to, ashoor 700
there wooden't be no trouble whatever.
Ez to the Northerners, they are really at
the bottom Nv the whole trouble. They
come down here and buy land, and try to
build factrys, and set the niggers wild by
hirin NV em, and payin NV EN-, and they
take incendiary periodicals, and do their
level best to disorganize things generally.
and we can't hev no peece so long ez they
are permitted to be here. In all that hez
been done our people heV simply acted in
selfdefense.
Issaker Gavitt was eggsamined.
Didn't know wat all this fuss wuz about.
He'd helped to skeer the niggers-he liked
it. He wuz very fond NV dressin hisself
in mask, and loadin up his shot gun, and
or0in ont with tho hOUa and chanriv Nv aTn