The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1874-10-08
From the TUledo Blade.l
"NIGGER HUNTING"
Nasty Tells How Confederate K Roads
Was Stirred up Over the War of Races
"A Racy Letter.
CONFEDERATE X ROADS, J
{ (Which is in the State NV Kentucky,)
A,.,,,+ OF 1874


The Corners hev, up to a very recen
date, enjoyed the most profound peace
bein the only one NV the old stock wicl
can read, our people hev never BIN veXeC
with the Beecher- Tilton scandal, anc
thank heaven Bascom hez recovered from
the effect of the Croosade, and his gro
Gerry is runnin ez yoosual. Pollock anC
| Bigler wuz tendn to their bizness tola
| bly, decent and not botherin NV US very
| much, the niggers come to town only e.
often ez they Good help, and in short, the
| Corners hez bin ez serene ez an average
Joon mornin The crops was lookn tol
ably well, Notwithstanding the diffikilty
Nv gettin labor, (for the niggers wuz al
workin for themselves, and our people
won't do meenyal service till they are
compelled to,) and Bascom wuz reely
| cheerful with the certinty Nv gittin suth
in on account ez soon ez the harvest wu7
over.
| Things wuz a runnin this way till one
mornin the nooze reacht US NV the Niger
outrages in Owen county, ez well ez SINH
lar one in Texas and Mississippi. No
matter what nooze don't reach US, them
! niger outrages aliuz comes direct and
promptly.
Immeditly Deekin Pogram began to
get Uneasy. Issaker Gavitt began to
eileen his double-barrel shot gun. and
Capt. McPelter appeared at Bascom' 5
with two navy revolvers slung to him
self
Why this warlike ar:ay?' asked.
"Why this armin Nv yourselves ez if a
deadly and imminent fray wuz impend-
in p
Capt. McPelter replied that there was
fiery and wicked devil abroad The
county and everywhere else, and it wuz
his unbiased oppinyun that the niggers
NV the Corners and visinity wuz medita
tin an uprsin, and for one he proposed
20 be pr, pared for it. The white race he'd
suffered enuff from bein ground into the
yearth by yoOsurpers, and his blood billed
when he thot of it. Shood niggers-an
inferior race-lord it over the proud eau
cashin? Shood their heels be forever on
our necks? 1t wuz the dooty of every
white man to protest agin bein thus en-
shaved
And Capt. McPelter asl<t us all to take
suthin, which we did with the alacrity
which has ever distin guished the Cross
Roades. About this time Deekin Pogram
came in. 1t is a singler thing and ii
providential one, that the Deeken alluz
does come in Jest ez somebody invites ali
present to take suthin. He is torchunit
in that prospect. And one by one all the
Re glers dropped in. To these McPelter
expressed his fears Nv a niger uprisin.
and alter ten or Il dozen drinks all round
the danger seemed so imminent that
it wuz deemed wise and prudent to arm
and wait for tue Dustin NV the comm
storm. Accordingly messengers wuz sent
out to get sech 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
comm Of the black hc SITS.
But they didn't come, and after waitin
awhile Capt. McPelter, who he'd histed in
ten or dozen drinks, sejested that the
wood be to 90 and look for the inva-
ders.
| This thing" sed the Captain, should
be nipt in the bud. In such matters ez
this the heroic treatment is the best
Look to the caps on your guns, and let
US hence"
And takin another drink or two, we
sailed out to find the gathered host that
he'd determined upon our destruckshun.
We wuz a gallant lorce. By the time we
got fairly under way there wuz hun
dred NV us, armed to the teeth, with
| weapons offensive and defensive.
We discovered no Niger TIL we got
outside the village. The first one we saw
was bloodthirsty wretch who wuz a
hoein corn. He looked at us and glared
| defiance, leanin in an offensive manner
7 on his hoe.
One look Nv hizzen wuz suffishent to in
| flame Capt. McPelter with rage.
That double-dyed villin voted the
clean Republican ticket last fall-ef he
| lives he will do it agen this fall.
And putin his faithful gun to his
shoulder he Civ one look at the hidius
bein, and shoutin "Deth to our persicoo-
ters |" drawd the trigger.
There wuz one fiendish persecooter less.
! for the top NV that nigger's head wuz
blowed into an adjoining field.
Fortunately there happened to be ten
| or a dozen niggers conspirln agln us IN ez
many different feelds in the visinity, and
when they heerd the report Nv McPel
ter's gun they come runnin to the spot.
Seem the lifeless body of their fellow in
vader lyin there, and notisin that Nc
| Pelter wuz camly reloadin the empty bari
OF his shot gun, they dehantly He'd IN
every direckshun. This wus enutf. This
was the last feather on the white camel 5
| back Eff they wuz innosent OF intendin
harm to US, why did they fly like hoss
thieves in the nite2
! Capt. McPelter gave the word and a
| pursoot commenced, the heroism NV wich
hez seldom been exalted in the histry NV
the world. Away thro the corn, over the
stubble, down the gulches, and over the
| hills we chased the inlooriated demons.
| The re-asshurin note of the revolver, the
swisly explosion Nv the shotgun, the
clear, sharp ring NV the deadly rifle wuz
heerd in all direckshuns, proclaimin each
in its own sweet voice that the proud
Caucashin wood never, never, never rest
with the heel NV an-inferier race onto his
neck.
At this pint came the catastrofy wicll
set the blood NV the Corners hilins That
venerable saint, Deelxin -Pogram, wa2
clost behind one OF the vampires, and
he'd his shotgun raised and u bead drawd
| onto him Jist ez he pulled the trigger
| the infamous Niger dropt and the slugs
and bucl<-shot passed harmlessly ovel
him. Before the good old man could
cock the other bari the bloodthirsty de
mon turned and knocked him down with
his hoe, wich weepin he he'd doubles:
kept with him for the purpose. When
Issaker Gavit came up he found the
| Deekin wilterin. III hIs Soar, aud th,
feend who he'd thus Stacked his thirst toi
blood runnin away in the most insultlI
manner Issaker is a man OF decision
His shot gun wuz at his shoulder III I
ulInIt, and IN u second more that niSSei