Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1874-10-15

(which is in the State of Kentucky,
August "a, 1874.
The Corners hev, up to a very recent
date, enjoyed the most profound peace.
pein the only one of us wich kin read,
our people have been vexed with the
Beecher-Tilton scandal, and thank Heaven
Bascom heZ recovered from the effect of
the Croosade, and his grocery is running ez
yoozual Pollok and Bigler was tending
to their bizness tollerably decent, and not
bothering Nv us very much; the niggers
come to town only ez often ez they Good
help, and, in short, the cornerr hez bin ez
serene ez an average Joon mornin. The
crops wuz lookin tollerable we'll, notwth-
standin the difficulty Nv gettin labor, (for
the nlggers wuz all worknf or themselves,
and our people will never do menyal SER
Wis till they are compelled toy and Bascom
wuz reely cheerful with the certainty Nv
gettin suthin on account ez soon eZ the
| harvest wuz over. ss8
Things wuz runnin this way till one
mornin the nooze reacht US NV the Niger
outrages in Owen County, ez well ez SIM
liar ones in Texas and Mississippi. No
matter what nooze don't reach us, them
Nv nigger outrages alluz comes direct and
promptly.
lmmejitly Deekin Pogram began to get
Uneasy. Issaker Gavitt began to eileen his
double-barrel shot gun, and Capt. McPel-
ter appeared at Bascom's with two navy
revolvers slung to himself.
"Why this warlike array ?' I asked
why this armin NV yourself ez if dead
ly and imminent fray wuz impending? P"
Capt. MePelter replied that there wux
fiery and wicked devil abroad. The mig
gers wuz in insurreckshun in Owen
County and everywhere else. and 1t wnz
his unbiased opinyun that the niggers NV
the Corners and vicinity wuz meditatin an
uprisin. and for one he proposed to be pre-
pared for it. The white rase he'd suffered
enuf from bein ground into the yearth
10y the yoosurpers. and his blood billed
when he thot nv ii. ShOod niggers-an
inferior race-lord it over the proud eau.
cashin? Shood their heels be forever on
our necks9 1t wuz the dooty nv every
white man to protest agin bein thus en-
shaved.
And Capt. McPelter askt us all to take
suthin, which we did with the alacrity
wich hez ever distinguished the Cross
Roads. About this time Deeken Pogram
came in. 1t is a singular thing. and
1
does come in jest ez enybody invites all
present to take suthn. He is forchnit In
that respect. And one by one all the reg
lers dropped in. To these McPelter ex-
pressed his fears Nv nigger uprisen, and
| after ten or dozen drinks all round, the
danger seemed so imminent that it wuz
deemed wise and prudent to arm and wait
Tor the Dustin Nv the comm storm. Ac-
cordingly messengers wuz sent out to get
seen arms ez wuz handy at their respect
i've houses. The rifles, shot guns and re-
volvers wuz cleened ont and loaded, and
we waited calmly for the comm NV the
black hosts. .t
But they didn't come, and after waiin
awhile Capt. McPelter, who he'd histed in
ten or dozen drinks. sujested that the
| best thing TO do under the circumstances
would be to just 60 and look after the in
vaders.
This thing said the Captain, "shood
be nipt in the bud. In such matters ez
this, the heroic treatment ez the best
Look to the caps on your guns, and let us
hence
And takin another drink or two, we SAL
lied out to find the gatherin host that he'd
determined upon our destrukshun. We
wuz gallant force. By the time we got
fairly under way there wuz hundred NV
US. armed to the teeth, with weapons Of
fensive and defensive.
We discovered no nigger till we got
outside the village. The first one we saw
wuz hoein corn. He looked at us and
glared defiance, leanin in an offensive
manner on his hoe.
One look NV hizzen sufiized to inflame
Capt. McPelter with rage.
That double-eyed villain voted the
eileen republican ticket last fall-ef he
lives he will be sure to do it agen this
fall'
And putin his faithful gun to his should
er he Civ one look at the hidjus bein, and
shoutin "Deth to our persecooters !" he
drawed the trigger.
There wuz one feendish persecooter less,
for the top NV that nigger's head wuz
blowed into an adjinen field.
Fortunately there happened to be ten or
dozen niggers conspirin agin US in ez
meny different feelds in the vicinity. and
when they heerd the report NV McPelter's
gun they came running to the spot. Seein
the liieless body NV their fellow-invader q
lying there, and notisin that McPelter wuz
caimly reloadn the empty barrel Nv his
shot gun. they defiantly fled in every di-
last feather on the white camel's back.
FL they wuz innocent of intendin harm 10
us, why did they tlyp Do innocent men
fly like hoss-theeves in the night?
Capt. McPelter gave the word and
pursoot commenced. the heroism NV wich
hez seldom bin exalted in the history NV
the world Away thro the corn. over the
stnbble, down the gulehes. and over the
hills we chased the infooriated demons.
The reassurin note NV the revolver, the
swisly explosion Nv the shot gun, the cleer
sharp ring NV the deadly rifle wuz heerd
in all direkshuns, proclaimin each in its
own sweet voice that the proud Caucashin
wood never, never, never rest with the
heel NV an inferior race onto his neck.
AT this pint came the catastrofy wich
set the blood Nv the Corners bilin. That
venerable saint, Deekin Pogram, wuz clost