New national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1870-1874, 1871-03-30
From the Toledo Blade. |
NASIBY.

From the Toledo Blade.
NASBY.
Mr.. Nasty holds an Examination Of the
Citizens Of the Corners, that he may give
the world the Truth TO the Alleged
Outrages Committed by the Ku-Klux I'm
the Vicinity Of the Corners.
CoNFEDRIT Y ROADS,
{wich is in the State NV Kentucky
March l2, 1871.
The Corners hcz bin agitatid recently at the
report witch hez bin spred abroad that a com
mittee wuz agoin TO visit us for the purpose Nv
investigator the triflin matter Nv the KILN Nv
few niggers and northern white men in this
part NV Kentucky-the Corners courts investi-
gashen. She hez alluz bin ez law -abiding ez
Good be expected under the circu stances under
witch she hez bin placed and hez fears Nv
any fair inquiry, but for fear that what hez bin
done mite be misunderstood. ct evidence shood
be taken by a preioodist committee, me and
Deekin Pogram decided that | shoOd make NV
myself court of organization, and report
precisely the status affairs in this partike
Ter. Last Toosdy | summoned the leedn citi-
zens NV the Corners afore me in the back room
NV Bascoms and put EN- thro the most sarchin
eggsaminashen.
Captin Hugh McPelter wuz the first man
eggsamined | swore the witnesses on q spell
lin book witch we capchered from the last
niger school house witch was burnt last year.
i swore EN- on a spellin-book that the oath
mite be more binding. Men alluz aez a rever
ence for that witch they can't comprehend and
for that Nv witch they are ignorant, and a spell
lubbock aluz strikes the average Cross
Reader with awe. The Captin statd that no
outrages had bin committed in the Corners or
visinity that he wuZ aware NV. Last fall the
niggers witch he'd workt on his farm, Penn
hackers, Deekin Pogram's, Suttons, and
Issaker Gavitt's, all summer, retoozed to con-
tinyOo work ontil they he'd bin paid suthin.
They held a meetln to consider wat they shOOd
do, and hearin NV that meetin he did organize
a party Nv citizens and did dispense EN- for the
public safety. In the dspsrsin thirteen Nv EN-
wuz accidentally killed, and on their way
home the party did burn five cabins which he
understood was inhabited by niggers.
BY the Commission-(wich wuz me)-State
how the accidental KILN took place.
Anser-The boys he'd with EN- deuble-bar-
relied shot-guns, wich, by a singular coincidence,
happened TO be loaded with ball and buck
shot They pinted them guns in the direcshun
NV the niggers ez they WIZ runnin from the
meetin-house in wich they wuZ assembled, and
they went off. We wuz surprised In see the
thirteen a-layin there shortly after the volley,
with the tops their beds bowed Oh.
Question by the Coinmission-(me)- The
burnin NV them five cabins wuz accidental wuz
it?
Anser-Not SO much so. Ii wuz did partly
in a jocose spsrt, and partly from a sentiment
NV pity. The heads Nv families witch dwelt in
EN- he'd been killed In the affair At the meetn-
house, and ez there wuZ nobody TO take keer
NV them houses but winmin and children it
wuz considered best that they be burned and
ez the wimmin and children wood bey bard
time NV it without houses, it wuz considered
humane TO put EN- ont Nv cold, unfeeln
world, and they wuz akkordinly knockt on the
head ex the torch wuz applied to their dwellins.
Question by the CommlssIon-liev you
knowd Nv any violence ben offered to any other
residents Nv this vicinity?
Anser-None but wat wuz deemed nessary
to the safety Nv the community. A stone ma
son by the name of Albright come here from
lnjiany, and ez he took five Northern papers
We knowd he WIZ a carpet-bagger wich glOated
over the misforchoons NV the sunny South.
We warned him to leave but he stnbbornly
refOosed whereupOn some NV the boys put on
masks one mite, and TOOK him out OF his house
and hung him. He was long kickin, and
his struggles was so amuzin that the boys felt
amply repaid for the trouble they he'd bin to.
The same mite they busted in the front NV Pol
locks store, and wood hev hung Pollock he'd
not that unreasonable man appeared at q second
story window with Joe Bgler, both NV EN-
heyin revolvers in their hands.
kDeekin Pogram wuz the next examined
He'd not been aware that there he'd bin any
peftikeler disturbance IN this visinlty. 1t wuZ
troo that Issaker Gavitt and some others NV the
young men he'd at times, In Jolly mood, put
on masks and mounted their horses, and to
protect themselves he'd taken sich rifles, and
shot-g guns and revovers, aud knives, and axes
ez they he'd handy, and he'd made it lively fur
the niggers up towards Garrettstown, but
nethin more that he knowd NV.
Question by the Commission-Hev you bin
aware NV any manifestation Nv desire to
yoose violence towards niggers or Northern
men?
Anser-Bless yOor sole. no. Last fall three
niggers did attempt TO vote, afore Joe Bgler
got TO the polls, and NV course We didn't stand
that. Ii wuz an insult to Southern blood wich
we coodent endoor, and they wuz promptly
knockt down. One NV EN- hit back, and the
three wuz immejitly pounded over the head
with fence-stakes. 1 believe one NV EN- died
on the spot another in perhaps half an hour,
and tother in the afternoon but il wuz agreed !
that it wuzn't the Poundin that killed EN-, but
the infiamashen that sot in aiterward. Amos |
Dibble, Connecticut 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 just 1T that time
Question by the COMMISSIONER wat do 700 !
ascribe the blame for these irregularities
Anser-There can't be no doubt ez To where
the blame ought 10 rest The niggers hey got
an insane idea into EN-, that they are RELY ctl-
Zens by vlrtoo NV the 18th amendment, not
withstanding the fact that every justis NV the
peace In Kentucky has declared il unconstoosh-
mol, and CONSISTENTLY void and NV no effect
They 'bieeve they hey rites as citizens. and
they won't be managed they yoosed TO be-
They insist on BEN paid for labor, vich alluz
irritates the Southern mind, aud they insist
upon contlnyooaily insultin us by ofiern their
votes, witch amt to be tolerated for a mint
Ef they would quietly resoom their normal
pOsisben, and fet US rool EN- ez We yoost to, |
ashoor 700 there wooden't be no trouble wat
ever. 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 Diggers wild by hirn NV
EN-, and payin NV EN-, and they take incendiary
periodicals. and do their level best to dishor-
ganize things generally, and we can't have no
peece SO long ez they are permitted to be here.