Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1874-09-17
Nasty.
From the Toledo Blade. !

From the Toledo Blade.]
The Troubles In Kentucky-The De-
mocracy Of the Corners Fearing . Ne-
gro Uprising, Take steps To Qusil It
The style or the stops.
| CONrEDRrr RoADsl
(Which ia in the State Nv Kentucky
| August n, 1874
The Corners hev, up to very recent
date, enjoyed the most profound peace
] bein the only one Nv the old stock witch
kin read, our people hev never bin vexcd
with the Beecher- Tilton Scandal, and
thank Heaven, Bascom hez recovered
from the effects Nv the Croosade, and his
grocery is runnin ez yoosual. Pollock
and Bigler wuz 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 hez bin ez serene eZ
an average Joon mornin. The crops WEI
lookin tolleble we'll, Notwithstanding the
difficulty wv gettin labor (for the niggers
wuz all workin for their selves, and our
people will never do meenyal work till
they are compelled toy, and Bascom wuz
RELY cheerful with the certinty Nv gcttin
suthin on account ez soon ez the harvest
wuZ over.
/
mornin the nooze reacht us Nv the niger
outrages in Owen County, ez well ez
similar ones in Texas and Mississippi. No
matter what nooze don't reech us, them
Nv niger outrages alluz comes direct and
promptly.
Immeditly Deekin Pogram began to get
Uneasy. Issaker Gavitt began to clean
his double-barrel sho! gun and Capt. Nc
Pelter appeared at Bascom's with two
navy revolvers slung to himself.
"Why this warlike array?" | asked.
"Why this armin Nv yourselves ez if
deadly and imminent fray wuz impend-
in ?"
Capt McPelter replied that there wuz
| fiery and wicked devil abroad The
County and everywhere else, and it wuz
the Corners and visinity wuz meditatin
prepared for it. The white race he'd suf
fered enuff from bein ground into the
yearth by these yoosurpers, and his blood
billed when he thought of it, Shood mig
gers-an inferior race-lord it over the
proud Caucasian Shood ther heels be
forever on our necks 1t wuz the dooty
thus enslaved.
And Capt McPelter askt us all up to
take suthin, witch we did with the alac-
rity witch hez ever distinguished the
Cross Roades. About this time Deekin
Pogram came in. 1t is singler thing
and providenshl one that the Deekin
allus does come in just ez somebody in
vites 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 wuz deemed wise and prudent to
| arm and wait for the Dustin Nv the comm
storm. Accordingly messengers wuz sent
| out to get sech arms es wuZ handy at
| their respective houses. The rifles, shot
| guns and revolvers wuz cleaned up and
| loaded, and we waited camly for the
comm NV the black hosts.
But they didn't come, and after waitin
awh lie Capt. McPelter, who had histed
in ten or dozen drinks, sejested that
the best thing to do under the circum
stances wood be to 60 and look for the
invaders.
"This thing" sed the captin, "shood
be nipt in the bud. In SIGH 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 gatherir host that
he'd determined upon our destruckshup.
We wuZ a gallant force. BY the time we
got fairly under way there wuz hundred
Nv us, armed to the teeth, with weepins
offensive and defensive.
We diskivered no niger till we got
outside the village. The first one we saw
wuZ bloodthlrsty wretch who wuz a
hoein corn. He looked at us and glared
defiance, leanin In an offensive manner
onto his hoe.
One look Nv hizzen wuz suffishent to
inflame Capt. McPelter with rage.
"That double-dyed villin voted the
eileen 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 hidjus
bein, and shoutin "Deth to our perse-
cooters!" drawd the trigger.
There wuz one feendish persecootcr
less, for the top NV that nigger's head wuz
| blowd into an adjoinin field
Fortunately ther happened to be ten
| or dozen niggers conspirin agin us in ez
many different feeds in the visinity, and
| when they heerd the report NV McPelter's
gun they come runnin to the spot Seem
the lifeless body Nv their feller-invader
a lyin there, and notisin that McPelter
wuz calmly reloadin the empty bari Nv
his shot-gu they defiantly fled in every
direckshun. This wuz enuff. This wuz
the last feather on the white camel's
back. Eff they wuz innosent Nv intendin
harm to us, why did they fly? Do inno-
sent men fly like hoss-theeves in the
mite?