Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1871-05-26
Nasby as a Ku-KluN.
CoNFEDRIT y ROADS, J
(wich is in the State of Kentucky,) :
April 10, 1917.

to make up the sum total OF seslety In
this immeiit visinity, namely; Regler cit
izens, niggers, carpet-baggers and scala
wags. The regler citizens are them wich
are white, native, and to the manner born
and wich either served in or howled for
the confederit army the scalawags are
white natives NV the sacred soil, wich dis
graced themselves sympathizin' with the
North doorin' the late fratrisidlestruggle;
the niggers are niggers of all colors, and
the carpet-baggers areunsettled Northern
men who come here and buy property
and improve it and stay who are not in
akkord with the prevailin' sentiment
wich is TO say who are not democrats.
Joe Biggler is scalawag, Pollock is a
carpet-bagger, and ElJer Lubbock, the
postmaster, is Nv course a niger, and
these are iair types NV their class.
The corners hez allus felt Justly irrita-
ted against these last three classes, for
combine them and give them chance,
and they reely hev a majority in the
township. 1t took the most vigorous and
vociferous countin this spring to keep
Issaker Gavitt from bein beet for assessor
by a nigger named Joins, notwithstandin
that our challengin committee all stood
at the polls with clubs and kept more.
than fifty NV EN- from votin at all The
closnis of this eleckshen and other caus
es Nv irriatshen determined Us to clean
out the entire billin NV EN-. We coodent
live with EN-. They had got justis NV
the peace and constable over at CARROTS
town, and the niggers wich workt for
us would sue us when we refoozed TO pay
they woodent paternize Bascom, and
stubbornly refoosed to vote the ticket we
give EN-. We wanted no trouble. We
wanted EN- to go peaceable, and when,
after we gave EN- wsrnin to leave the
country, and they refoozed TO go, we i'm
provized temporary ku-klux klan, NV
wich | was yoonanimously elected chief
With my accustomed vigger | called
council and selected the ground onto
wich we wuz to operate, first. The north
road leading to Garrettstown wuz settled
for FIVE miles out with niggers, carpet
baggers and scalawags exclusively, and
it was resolved to clean that out and /
summoned the khan for active doety.
We presented gorgus aspeck. We
wuz clothed in long black robes with
white skulls and cross,bones profoosely
stitched on a ] over em-our hats wuz Nv
the confedrit slouch style, with the same
cheerful insignia onto EN-, and our faces
wuz kivered with masks onto wieh suz
the letters Nv the order "K X. X :" We
wuz armed with rifles, shot guns and
knives-each man hevin of course bot
tie. We wuz all mounted, and that Gus
sid idee of mountain was the okkasion
NV the failyoor Nv the expedition, so far
ez | wuz eonserned.
lam not horseman 1despisea horse.
| am afraid Nv EN-, and the broots, with
a sagacity hard to account for, know it,
and take advantage Nv it. wantid Bas
CONS mule, which is a stiddy goin ami
NAL, but he wuz goin to ride that his
self, and wuz compelled to go to Pol
lock and hire a hoss Nv him. Cusses on
that hoss !-cusses on Pollock and es-
pecially hot cusses on Joe Bigler
When Joe offishusly offered to saddle
that boss and bring him out for me in
stinctively felt that there wuz trouble
ahead.
Hebrought her out, sa9dled. She wuz
a tall, gaunt animal, seventeen hands
high, hard bitted, hard trottin, and with
no more idea of a gentle amble or gallop
than hog hez of Sunday. She trots-
hard, ugly trot-with the bit atween
her teeth, and 700 kin no more stop her
when she gifts agoin, than 700 Good
crowd of Crossroaders when somebody
sez Let's take suthin."
mounted her, however, and struck
out at the head Nv the company. / he'd
on a eonfedrit saber, and not withstand
in the fact that | he'd to hold on to the
name NV my warlike steed with one hand
to keep on, ! managed to ride out with
tollable marshel air.
"Pride goeth before fall" We had
ridden four miles when | observed rest
lessnis on the part Nv my steed wich |
didn't like. She wuz a shyin' from one
side NV the road to the other-she wuz
histin' up her hind legs, and snortin' as
though she wuz possessed. AT this mint
Issaker Gavitt sejestid the propriety of
halt for refreshments.
Certain" sez |, EFF | kin ever get
this cussid mare to stand still long enuff
Whoa, VOC broot y
he'd jist got my bottle out and he'd
got it uncorked. when that infooriated
animal commenst a series NV gyrashens
sich ez the world never witnessed afore.
She would elevate her bind legs-then