The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1874-10-07
THE PRES S.
WEDNESDAY, MORNING, OCT. 2, "a
''Nigger-Hunting."
CoNFEDRIT x ROADS,
(Which is in the State Nv Kentucky,) !

"Nigger-Hunting."
CoNFEDRIT x ROADS,
(Whlch is in the State Nv Kentucky,) I
August 27, 1874.
Inc Corners hev, up to very recent date,
enjoyed the most profound peace. bein the
only one of the old stock which kin read, our
people have never bin yeXed with the Beech
er-lllton scandal, and thank Heaven Bascom
hez recovered from the effect of the CrOosade,
and MS grocery is runnin ez yoozual. Pollok
and BIger was tendin to their biznes tolera-
Dy decent, and not botherin NV us very much;
lhe nlggers come to town only ez often ez
they Good help, and, in short, the corners hez
been ez serene ez an average Joon mornin.
Inc crops wuz looking tollerably well, not
Wlthstanding the dffikulty Nv gettin labor,
(ior niggers wuz all workn for themselves, ,and
our people will never do meenyal servis till
they are compelled to) and Bascom wuz reely
cheerful with the certainty Of gettin suthin
on account ez soon ez the harvest wuz over.
Things wuz a runnin this way till one
mornm the nooze reacht us uvthe Niger out
RACES IN owen County, ez well ez similar ones
IN Iexas and Mississippi. No matter what
nooze don't reach us, them Nv Niger out
RACES alluz comes direct and promptly
lmmedltly Deekin Pogram began to get on
easy. lssaker Gavtt began to eileen his
double-barrel shot gun, and Capt. McPelter
appeared at Bascom's with two navy revolv-
ers slung to him.
''Why this warlike array ?" I asked. tsWhy
this armin of yourselves ez if deadly and
imminent fray wuz pending?"
Capt. McPelter replied that there wuz a
fiery and wicked devil abroad. The niggers
wuz in insurreckshun in Owen County and
everywhere else, and it wuz his unbiased
opinyun that the niggers Nv the Corners and,
visinity wuz meditatin an uprisin, and for one
he proposed to be prepared for it. The white
race he'd suffered enuff from bein ground into
the yearth by the yoosurpers, and his blood
billed when he thot Nv it. Shood niggers-an
inferior race-lord it over the proud Caucash-
in? Shood their heels be forever on our
necks? 1t wuz the dooty Nv every white
man to protest agin bein thus enslaved
And Capt. McPelter askt us all to take
suthin, wich we did with the alacrity wich
hez ever distinguished the Cross Roads.
About this time Deeken Pogram came in.
1t is singular thing, and providenshul one,
that the Deeken alluz does come in jest ez
somebody invites all present to take suthin.
He is forchnit in that respect. !. And one by
one all the reglers dropped ii. To these
McPelter expressed his feers Nv niger up
rlsin, and after ten or dozen drinks all round
the danger seemed SC 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 ez
wuZ handy at their respective houses. The
rifles, shot guns and revolvers wuz cleened up
and loaded, and we waited calmly for the
comm Nv the black hosts.
But they didn't come, and after waiting
awhile Capt. McPelter, who he'd histed in
ten or a dozen drinks, sejested that the best
thing to do under the circumstances would
be to do under the circumstances would be
to go and look for the invaders.
''This thing" sed the Captain" shood he
nipt in the bud. In such matters ez this the
heroic treatment is the best. Look to the
caps OH your guns, and let us henbe."
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 a hundred Nv us,
armed to the teeth, with weapons offensive
and defensive.
We diskivered no niger till we got outside
the village. The first one we saw wuz a
bloodthirsty wretch who wuz hoein corn
He looked at us and glared defiance, leann
in an offensive manner on his hoe.
One look NV hizzen wuz suffishent to in
flame Capt. McPelter with rage.
'sThat double-dyed villain voted the eileen
Republican ticket last fall-ef he lives he will
do it agen this fall"
And putting his faithful gun to his shoul-
der he Civ one look at the hidjus bein, and
shoutin s'Deth to our persecooters p drawed
the trigger.
There wuz one feendish persecooter less,
for the top Nv that nigger's head wuz blowed
into an adjining field.
Fortunately there happened to be ten or
dozen niggers conspiring agin us in ez many
different feeds in the visinity, and when they
heerd the report Nv McPelter's gun they
came running to the spot. Seeing the life
less body OF their fellow-invader a.lying there,
and notisin that McPelter WIZ calmly re-
loadin the empty bari Nv his shotgun, they
defantly fled in every direkshun. This wuz
enuff. This wuz the last feather on the
white camePs back. Eff they wuz innosent
ofintending harm to us, why did they fly?
Do innosent men fly like hoss thieves in the
night?
Capt. McPelter gave the word and pur-
SCOT commenced, the heroism Nv wich hez
seldom bin exalted in the history NV the
world. Away thro the corn, over the stub
BILE, down the gulches, and over the hills we
chased the infooriated demons. The reas-
surin note Nv the revolver, the swisly explo-
sion Nv the shotgun, the clear shary ring Nv
the deadly rifle wuz heerd in all direkshuns,
proclamin each in its own sweet voice that
the proud Caucasian 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 biln. That venera
BILE saint, Deekin Pogram, wuz clost behind
one of the vampires, and he'd his shotgun
raised and a bead drawd onto him. Jist as
he pulled the trigger the infamous niger
dropt, and the slugs and buckshot passed
harmlessly over him. Before the good old
man could cock the other barrel the bloodthirs-
ty demon turned knocked him down with his
hoe, wich weepin he he'd doubtless kept with
him for the purpose. When Issaker Gavit
came up he found the Deekin welterin in his
goar, and the feend who had thus slaked his
thirst for blood runnin away in the most in
sulting manner. Issaker is a man of decision.
His shot gun wuz at his shoulder in mint,
and in second more that niger he'd paid the
penalty of his crime. His body wuz lead
mine.
Nv coarse after this there wuz no comper-
missing with these demons. Ii wuz a strug-
gle for life, and we realized the fact. Loadin
our guns and seein that the caps were all
good and liable to go off properly, we started
after EN- afresh. determined to protect our
homes and firesdes, at no matter what haz-
zad. The news Nv our comm preceded us,
and the conspirators, doubtless in pdrsoot Nv
their polisy, took to the woods. We follered
EN- ez rapidly ez we Good, but we only over.
took five Nv them, Them we shot at site,
and them ez we didn't find as home burned
ther cabins.
Then come another trouble onto us. We
shood hev cleened out the entire bin nv EN-,
but Joe Bigler and Pollock he'd heern NV our
summary defence, and he'd gathered a lot Nv
niggers and armed EN- and they appeared on
to the scene. Bigler remarked to me that
the party had better disperse, and he empha-
sized his remark by drawin the ugliest navy
revolver / ever saw, and kivering me with it.
'sParson." sed he ''ef there is man Nv
700 in sight in three minits, this yer pistol
| goes off, and 700 are ez dead man ez ever
wuz put under ground. Do yoo hear?
did hear, and so did all the party. They
wuz irresoloot, and Il shivered with dread.
Wood they permit me to become a corpse?
No, owed every may NV EN-, and they
knowd that the only chance Nv ever gettin
their pay wuz In my livin. Eff the mex Presi-
dent shood be a democrat, an offs wood ena-
BILE me to pay-dead, wuz good for nothin
to EN- for any purpose. They wavered a min
it-Bascom figgered ez TO wich wuz better, to
let me go and sink wat I owed him, or to
| save me and make me the indebtedness big
| ger, on the chance Nv democratic success.