Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1874-09-25
CONFEDRIT Y ROADS.

CONFEDRIT y ROADS,
(Wich is in the Stait OF Kentucky,
Aug. 2T, 1874.
The Corner hev,up to very recent date,
enjoyed the most profound peace. | bein
the only one wv the old stock wich kin rede,
our people heye never been vexed with the
Beecher- Tilton scandal, aud, thank heaven,
Bascom hez recovered from the effect Nv
the croosade, and his grocery is runnin
ez yoosual.
Pollock and Bigler WIZ tendin to their
biznis tollably decent, and not botherin Nv
US very much, the niggers come to town
only ez often ez they Good help, and, in
short, the Corners Eez bin ez an average
Joon mornin. The crops wuz lukin toll
liable well, notwithstandin the difficulty Nv
gittin labor (for the nisgers wuz all workin
for therselves, and our people will never du
meeDyal seryis till they are compelled tol,
and Bascom wuz reely cheerful with the
certinty Nv gettin suthiu on account ez
soon eZ the harvest wuZ over.
Things wuz a runnin this way till one
mornin the nooze reacht Us Nv the nigger
outrages in Owen county, ez well ez SINH
lar ones in Texas and Mississippi. No
matter what nooze don't reeCh us, them OF
nigger outrages alluz comes direct and
promptly.
immediately Deekin Pogram began 10
to git Uneasy. Issaker Gavitt began to
clean his double-barrell shot gun, and Cap
tin McPeltcr appeared at Bascom's with
two navy revolvers slung to hisself
why this warlike array p 1 asked.
Why this armin Nv yourselves ez ef a
deadly and imminent fray wuz impendiu p
Capt McPelter replied that there wuz q
fiery and wicked devil abroad. The mig
gers wuz in insurreckshun III Owen county
and everywhere else, and it wuz his en-
biassed opinyun that the nggers Nv the Cor
uers and visinitv wuz meditatin an uprisin,
and for one he proposed to he prepared for
it.. The white race he'd suffered enuff from
bein' ground into The yearth by these yoo-
surpcrs, and his blood billed when he thOt
Nv it. Shood nigcers-an inferior race
lord it over the proud Caucasian? Shood
ther heels be forever on our necks ? 1t
wuz the dooty Nv every wife man TO pro-
test aginst bein thus enslayed.
And Capt. McPelter askt us all to take
suthin, wich we did with the alacrity wich
has ever distinguished the Cross Roads.
About this time Deacon Pogram came in.
1t is a singler thing, and a provldensal one,
that the Deekin allus does come in jest ez
somebody invites all present to take suthin.
He is forchunit in that respect. And one
BY one all the reglers dropped in. To these
McPelter expressed his feers Nv niger
uprisin, and after ten or dozen drinks all
round, the danger seemed so imminent
that it was deemed wise and prudent to
arm and wait for the Dustin Nv the comm
storm. Accordenly messengers wuz sent
out to git sich arms ez wuz handy at their
| respective houses. The rifles, shot guns
and revolvers wuz cleaned up and loaded,
and we waited calmly for the cumiI Nv the
| black hosts.
But they didn't come, and, after waitin
awhile, Capt. McPelter, who he'd histed in
ten or a dozen drinks, segested that the
best thing to do under the circumstances
wood be to go and look for the invaders.
This thing said the Captin, 'shood be
nipt in the bud. In sich matters ez this