Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1876-09-29
From the Toledo Blade.

Mr.. NAsBY PROTESTS AGAINST THE EMPLOYMENT
OF FEDERAL TROOPS IN THE SOUTHERN STATE:
ON ELECTION DAY.
CoNFEDERIr Y ROADS,
Wich is in the State Nv Kentucky,f
Sept 9th, 1876.
There is dismay in the Cross roads sence
we he'd the directions of Attorney General
Taft red to US, threatenin the employment
Nv troops in the Southern States, about
eleckshun time. We feel that all hope nv
freedom is gone, and hat we mite Jest ez
well get out our chains and 90 to clankin
Nv EN-, first ez last. When the Cross Roads
can't run its eleckshuns in its own way.
ther amt no more freedom. freedom is
throttled, and eff she don't shrek now she
is a tuffer old virgin than | ever give her
credit for bein.
What is the necessity Nv sendin troops
down here on eleckshun day? To perfect
the niggers? Can't we perteckt EN- q? Shan t
We hev the guardin Nv the ballot boz, and
won't We see that everybody votes, wich
We consider entitled to the ballot? This is
an outrage wlch is well calkelatid to on
settle the devoshen nv me and Issaker CAV
ltt TO the Government.
To show how onnessary this interference
$ | will state that We bed already made full
and ample preparashens for peeceiul and
quiet e!eckshun. We he'd organized the
white citizens Nv the corners into guard
to preserve the purity NV the ballot box, and
to see that no distur5in elemence como IN.
Wv course We excloodid from tie arrange
ment, Pollock. Bigler. and the two carpet
baggers who hev wagon factory here,
wIch .hey bllt ten yeers ago and which hez
disturbed Us ever sence, ez they are both
Republicans. We he'd taken an invoice Nv
shot guns in the naberhood, and ned de-
tailed our quickest and most akkerit shots
to yOose EN-, and he'd matters 50 arranged
that there coOdent be no disturbance at the
polls. Our method wuZ simple and states
manlike-l originated it. That ignorance
mite not be pleaded ex an eXcOose, we notl-
! fed all the niggers within the limit Nv this
precinct. that TO prevent trouble they must
not come to the polls or attempt to vote.
That eft they would keep keertuily at home
all that day they wood not be molestld or
harmed, but that if they attempted to vote
or in any way interfere with the eleckshun
trubble wood inevitably ensoo. We also,
in the intrest Nv peece, he'd men detailed to
stand on eech road to stop all nIggers wich
shood presoom to move toward the village
that day. with strict instruckshens that ei
they persisted in comm, to promptly blow
the top of ther heds off Peece at all
hazards" F" wuz our determinashen.
In the precinct below US they wuz not so
conservative. To prevent trubble on eleck
shu day they determined TO kill the helt Nv
EN- before. and very many NV onr people
insisted that that wuZ the best method. but
| reloozed to do 1t. | am materially conser-
yatiye and Yleldln.
To show how much We desire peoce will
state that we hev two niggers at the Corn
Crs wich profess Dimocrlsy. They hang
around Bascom's and We hey tolerated en-,
for they act ez neery q We do 6z is possible
for niggers They desired to vote, and
Deekin Pogram wuz in favor NV lettin Nv
en-. Our citizens protestld. " Its estab-
lishin precedent, sed lssaker Gavitt, "ei
one niger votes. why not all-and when
Niger votes the ilood-gates Is broken
down"
But, " sed |, kin we aGlrl to loose
them two votes Tor Tlden and Reform ~
" Ef we keep them out. and need them
two votes, cant YOU and !, in the interest
nv reform, vote twice sed lssaker.
And so. ruther than violate principle.
We hev txclooded Dlmocratlc votes.
This ought TO be satisfactory to the gov
ernment The niggers know very well
that the site Nv one Nv en-, IN state Nv
freedom, partikelerly ei he hez boots on
wlch hev no holes in EN- Is ospe-heliy ag-
gravatin to the proud Cawcawshen, his
sOoperior. whose boots are not waterproof.
lssgker Gavitt remarkt, with teerse streem-
IN down his cheeks
= I'll airy Niger should come into the cor
ners, on eleekshun day, rIdin Nv his own
] 10 | a m nktepupt Il
come sioOt, il wood drive me to the verge
uy madnis'
And every niger knows that when lssa-
ker Is draw to the verge nv madnis at mig
ger, ard hez his shot gun handy. that mig
ger is very apt to become a col0red angel.
/ " Mhy, then, can't they keep out Nv lssaker :
way? Why do these inferior beins goad Us
! to desperashcn with the mules. and boots
| and other cloze? Why do they provoke u s.!
| Known q well cz they do that their pres
ence irrtates US. why do they insist on
shown themselves on eleckshun days, when
we are together in sich numbers
w course eff the military comes here to
perfect these inferior belns, the Corners
will suffer loss Nv all lis preparasheus tor
keepin the peece. Our shot guns Will re-
name unused. The powder hud buck skot
We hev bought will be ded stock on our
]
wat Is worse there will be that sullen ieelln
wIch hangs upon all men who heY ther
dearest hopes crushed.
And then suppose that under the pertecS-
shun Nv these bloo-kOtld hlrelIns, the mig
ger shood all vote and shoJd elect Repub-
lkin ofli-hs Suppose them nlggers. un-
der kyer Nv FedTel muskts, sh0od lose that
dscreshun wich shot gun inspires. and
sbood presoom to challenge sch onnaturall-
zed voters ez We ginerally bring up to
swell our msiorities for moral effect. and
compel Us to reject EN- And suppose that
by this tyranny they shood carry this pre-
clnct, and get voice IN things? Suppose
they shood git the power 10 levy taxes Tor
township and mOonisspal purposes, and,
guided by Pollock. BIgior, and the carpet
baggerS shood compel Us to pay taxes, and
do work on the roads and sich In short,
suppose that the power shood pass out Nv
our hands and into heirH The Corners
shuddsrs " hen it contemplates sich possl-
bility.
warn the minyuns Nv power at Washing
ton not 10 trife, with US. We want no
Fedrel solers here-we saw enuh Nv them
some wears ago We hev accepted the SIT
yooation-disconten, is dangerous in Re
public. We may be crushed, but-rtmem-
Der Poland
Uv course we she hold meetin TO per
test agin this outrage. The Corners allu2
holds meetn when its aroused. Bascom
likes it. Becoz when We meet to pertest
agin any denyin Nv our rite to control the
nigger the citizens git excltid. and IN ther
forgetfulnis actilly pay for their drinks
the citizens like it becoz 1t gives them an
excoose for hlstn in twice eZ much ez they
otherwise wood. Whenever they take a
drink on sich occasions they feel that they
hev discharged patriotic dooty. 4 more
patriotic people never lived upon. we
Shell pass a series Nv stingin resolooshens
and then wait in digniiied silence to see oi
our pertest will be disregarded. In the in'
terest Nv peece | hope not.
PETROLEUM V. Massey, ReiOrmer.
p. 81 notis that Tweed il capchered
Ell the Dinocrisy Nv Moo York ever permit
him to come off NV a ship alive, they art
ideots. Merciful Hevins the idea Nv hi
being brot back to tell wat he knows US
rings, with Tilden eZ A reform candidate
Whenever a DlmOcratic statesman gifts thrc
with steelin he ought, for the sake Nv hls
survivors, to be immejitly killed. The
brlngin back nv Tweed is a Republlkin
| trick. It Is takin u mean advantage Nv oul
reform candidate. Ef Willyum hez th'
stub of his check book about his person
Tilden is a lost man. T. V. n.
Running IN DEBr.-I dwell on this point
for | would deter Others from entering tha
place of torment Half the young men il
this country. with many old enough to know
better, would 90 into business-that is, int
debt-to-morrow, if they could Most poo
men are so Ignorant as to envy the mer
chant or manufacturer, whose life is an inees
sant struggle with pecuniary difficulties, VIII
is driven to constant shining" and who
from month to month. barely evades the in