Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1874-10-15

"Nigger-H
CoNFEDRIT Y ROADS.
(Which is in the State NV Kentucky
August p, 1874

august -, 1914.
The Corners hev, up to very recent
date, enjoyed the NEST profound peace
bein the only one OF the stock which Kin
read, our people have never bin vexed with
the Beecher Tilton scandal. and thank
Heaven, Bascom hez recovered from the
effect OF the Croosade, and his grocery Is
runnin ez yoozual. Pollok and Bigler was
tendin TO their biznes tollerably decent.
and not botherin NV US very much: the
nlggers come to town only ez often ez
they Good help, and, ia short, the corners
hez been eZ serene ez an average Joon
mornin. The crops wuz looking toller-
ably well, Notwithstanding the diffikulty
NV gettin labor, (ior niggers wuz all work
in for them selves. and our people will new
er do meenyal servis til they are COM
PEELED to- and Bascom wuz reely cheer
fui with the certainty of gettin suthin on
account ez soon ez the harvest wuz over.
Things wuz a runnin this way till one
mornin the nooze reacht Us NV the Niger
ouuages in Owen Courty, eZ well ez SINH
lar ones in Texas and Mississippi. No
matter what nooze don't reach US, them
NV ngger outrages alluz comes direct and
promptly.
Immeditly Dcekin Porgram began to
get Uneasy. lssaker Gavitt began to eileen
his double-barrel shot gun, and Capt. Me-
Pelter appeared at Bascom's with Two
navy reyolycrs slung to him.
Why this warlike array ?" | asked
why this armin of yourselves ez liza
deadly aud imminent fray WIZ pending?"
Capt. McPelter replied that there wuz a
fiery and wicked devil abroad. The nig-
gers wuz in insurrecks shun In Owen Couu-
{ ty and everywhere else. aud it wuZ hi.
unbiased opnyun that the niggers NV the
! Corners and yisinity wuz mcditatIn au up-
! risn. and for one he proposed to be pre-
7 pared tor il. The white race he'd suffered
/ enun from bein ground Into the yearth by
. the yoosurpcrs, and his blood billed when
/ he thot NV it, Shood niggers-an inferior
race-lord it over the proud Caucashin?
Shood their heels be forever on our necks.
II wuz the dooty NV every white man to
protest asiu bcin thus enslaved
And Capt. McPelter a,kt Us all to take
suthin. wich we did with the alacrity witch
hez ever distinguished the Cross Roads.
IN. i" ii a siipu.aP ahiTs, "anu a ino'-.-
denshul one, that the Deekin alluz does
come in Jest ez somebody invites all pres
eut TO take suthin. He is forchuit in that
respect. Aud one by one all the feglers
dropped in. 10 these McPelter expressed
feers NV L Niger uprisin, and after ten or
dozen drinks all round the danger seem
ed 30 imminent that it wuz deemed wise
| and prudent To arm and wait for the bust
in NV the coming storm. Accordingly
messengers wuz sent out to get sech arms
I ez wuz handy at their respective houses.
/ The rifles. shot guns and reyolvers wuz
| cleencd up aud loaded, and we waited
/ calmly for the comm Nv the black hosts.
/ But they didn't come. and after waiting
awhile Capt. McPelter, who had histed in
/ ten or dozen drinks, sejested that the
| best thing TO do under the circumstances
would be TO 90 and look for the Invaders.
This thing" sed the Captain" shood
| be nip in the bud. In such matters eZ
this the heroic treatment is the best. Look
to the caps on your guns, and let us hen
ce.''
And takin another drink or two. we sal
lied out to find the gatherin host that he'd
determined upon our destrukshun. We
wuz a gallant force. BY the time we got
fairly under way there wuz a hundred Nv
! ha ,si,h ,.f-
fensve and defensive.
We diskivered no nigger till we got out
side the village. The first one We saw
wuz a bloodthirsty wretch who wuz hoe
in corn. He looked at US and glared de-
fiance. leanin in an offensive manner on
his hoe.
One look NV nizzen wuz suffishent to in
flame Capt. McPelter with rage.
That double-dyed villain voted the
cieen republican ticket last fall-ef he
lives he will do it agen this fall
And putting his faithful gun to his
shoulder he Civ one look at the hidjus be-
in, and shoutin ''Deth to our persecoo-
ters.- drawed the trigger.
less. for the top NV that nigger's head
wuz bowed into an adjining field.
Fortunately there happened to be ten or
a dozen niggers conspiring agin us in ez
many different feelds in. the visinity, and
when they heerd the report Nv McPelter's
gun they came running TO the spot. See
ing the lifeless body of their fellowinva-
der lying there, aud notisin that McPel-
ter wuZ calmly reloadin the empty barl Nv
his shotgun, they deiantly fed in every
direkshun. This wuz enuf. This wuz the
last feather on the white camel's back
Ef they wuz innosent of intending harm to
us, why did they fly? Do innosent men
fly like hoss thieves 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
stubble, down the guches, and over the
hills we chased the infooriated demons.
The reassurin note NV the revolver, the
swisly explosion 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 biliu. That
venerable saint, Deekin Pogram, wuz clost
behind one Of the vampires, and he'd his
shotgun raised and bead drawd onto
him. Jist as he pulled the trigger the in
famous nigger drop. and the slugs and
buckshot passed harmlessly over him. Be-
fore the good old man could cock the
other barrel the bloOdthirsty demon turned
knocked him down with his hoe, wich
weepn he he'd doubtless kept with him