New national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1870-1874, 1871-05-25
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Mr.. Nasty Attempts q Ku-Kiux Enterprise
The Lamentable Failure OF the Expe-
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MT. Naeby attempts hu-fAiuN hhteTpsAse
The Lamentabie Failure OF the Expe-
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CoSFEDR1T Y ROADS,
(Which is in the State of Kentucky
April III, 1871.
We hev our dstict elemence witch go to
make up the sum total Nv society in this i'm
mejit vicinity, namely: Reglar citizens mig
gers, carpet-baggers, and scallawags. The
reglar citizens are them witch are white native,
and inhowled for the confedrit army the
scalawags are white natives Nv the sacred sol!
witch disgraced themselves sympathiZin' with
the North doorin' the late fratrislde Struggle
the niggers are niggers Nv all colors, and the
carpet-baggers are unsettled Northern men,
witch come here and buy property and impr, We
it and stay-who are not In akkord with the
prevalin' sentiment-wich is TO say who are not
Democrats. Joe Bigler is scalawag, Pollock
is q carpet-bagger, and Elijer Lubbock, the
postmaster, is of course niger, and these are
fair types nv their class.
The Corners heZ alluz felt justly irritated
against these last three classes. for combine
them and give them q chance, and they RELY
hey a majority in the township. Ii took The
moss vigorous and vociferous countiu this
spring to keep Issaker Gavitt from bein beet
for assessor by niger named Joins, notwith
standing that our Challenger committee all
stood at the polls with clubs and kept more
than fifty Nv EN- from votin at all. The closinis
NV this election and other causes Nv irritasben
determined us to clean out the whole bilin NV
EN-. We coodn't live with EN-. They he'd got
a justis wv the peece and a constable over at
Garrettstown, and the niggers witch works for
us wood sue US when We reioOsed 10 pay-thsy
woodn't patrenize Bascum, and stubbornly re-
foosed to vote the ticket we give EN-. We
wanted no trouble We wanted EN- to go pcec a.
BILE, and when, after we give EN- warnin to
leave the country, and they refoosed to go, we
improvised a temporary ku-klux Khan, Nv wi;h
/ wuz yoonauimously elected chief. With my &c
customed vigger i called a council and selected
the ground onto wich we wuz to operate first.
The north road leadin TO Garrettstown wuZ
settled for FIVE miles out with niggers carpet
baggers, and scalawags exclusively, and it wuz
resolved to clean that out, and summoned the
Khan fur activ dooty.
We presented gorgeous aspeck. We were
clothed in long black robes with white skulls
and cross bones profoosely stitched on all over
em-our hats wuZ NV the confederit SLOUGH
style, with the same cheerful insignia onto EN-,
aud our faces wuZ kivered with masks ito
witch wuz the letters Nv the order, *. h. h. :"
We wuz armed with rifles, shot guns, and
knives-each man havin of course a bottle.
We wuz all mounted, aud that cussid idee NV
mouutin wuz the okkason NV the failyoor NV
the expedition, so far eZ | was CONSERVED.
am not a horseman--I despise a horse /
am afraid nv em, and the broots, with sa-
gacity hard to account for, know it and take
advantage Nv 1t. / wsntid Bascom's mule,
witch is O stiddy goin animal but he wuz a
goin to ride that hisself, and L WIZ compelled
to 60 to Pollock and hire a boss NV him. Gus
SEES on that boss cusses on Pollock and
espeshly hot cusses on Joe Bigler.
When Joe pfishully offered to saddle that
boss and bring him out for me, l instinctiyely
felt that there was trouble ahead.
He brought her out, saddled. She wuz a
tall, gaunt animal, seventeen hands high, hard
bitted, hard -trottin, and with no more idea NV
q gentle amable or gallop than a hog hez Of
Sunday. She trots-a hard, ugly trot-with
the bit atween her teeth, and 700 kin no more
stop her when she gifts agoin than 700 Good a
crowd Of Cross Readers when sumbody SEE
Let's take suthin."
i mounted her, however, and struck out at
the head Nv the company. | he'd on a con-
federit sabre, and notwithstanding the fact that
l he'd to hold on the name Nv my warlike steed
with one hand TO keep on, | managed to ride
out, with tolabie marshel air.
Pride goeth beforea fall" We he'd ridden
four miles when l observed restlessness on
the part Nv my steed which | didn't like. She
wuz q shyin from one side Nv the road to the
OtucI-suC WIZ UP ulhu iSSs anu
snortin as though she wuz possessed. At this
mint Issaker Gavitt sejested the propriety OF
. halt for refreshments.
"Certiu," seq /, "ef / kin ever get this
cussed mare TO stand still long enuf Whoa,
700 broot!''
he'd jist got my bottle out and he'd got it
when that infooriaied animal COM
menst a series Nv gryaShens SIGH ez the world
never witnessed afore. She would elevate her
hind legs-then paw the air WITH her fore
legs-then try to lay down. and all this with
runnin accompaniment NV the most leendish
snortin. | wuz compelled TO reinguish my
holt on the bride, and seeze her name to hold
myself on, but she kicked more than ever.
Here wuZ a dilemma, coodn't hold on by
yrippin the mare with one hand eny longer
and my spare hand wuz employed in holdln the
bottle 1 coodn't cork the bottle and put it In
ny pocket, for in the melee / he'd lost the
,ork, and TO put it in my pocket uncorked wuz
% lose all its preshus contents. Never wuz
n such a strate afore. IF | held TO the bottle
shood be throwed eff / staid on the infoori-
tied animals back I'd lose 10y likker. The boss
decided the matter for me. Takin' the bit in
Ter mouth she started down the road on the
,eenest kind NV a run. She made a mile in
lbout five minutes, leaving my command Gar
o the rear. Another mile-yet another, sped
hat frantic animal, / holdin' onto her name
With one hand and the bottle with the other.
She wuz alreddy i'll the enemies country.
Kite ahead NV me wuZ Garrettstown, and 4
ooa see the niggers alredy in the streets
Fatchin' the strange apparition that wuz
'omin'. Into the village | rode, when the
'ishus broot turned a corner suddinly, slingin'
ne from his back ez q boy throws q stun.
Over and over went. landin' finally in a ditch
Iside Nv the road, where | lay clutchin' my
,oHle, but unconscious.
There wuz about thirty or forty niggers
Ibout me, and i wuz lynn in front NV the
own pump, and immejitly under the spout
hereof One gray headed niger, who breaches
o the rest Nv EN-, remarks:
"Bredin, dis yer misguided man IL one Oh /
EN- disturbin Ku-Kluxes. What shell we do |
rid hims''
Hang him ! hang him :" SHOUTED they all in
orus.
Mercy. mercy 90 shreekt in agony az
int no Ku-Klux. l." !