New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-09-03
Nasty.

Is in Peace to preserve what in Battle was wo
New York Graphic.
Nasty.
His Account of an ssOccurrence,' at fh
Corners-A True Statement of tn
Killing of Six ''Niggers''-How tn
Chlvalry Were Forced into a Coilisi0
Of Races.
Wich is in the State Nv Kentucky.
August 10, 1876
To prevent misrepresentation at tn
North bassen to give a troothful accoun
Corners last week, wlch is regretted b
every citizen. 1t will be publisht in ever
ADl:shun paper Nv the North that the Dem
ocrisy nv the Corners killed six niggers las
TOOsday, without COZ. The kiln admit
the COZ insist the niggers turnisht theil
selves.
This is . troo statement nv wat will b.
called the "Corners Massacre"
John POgram, the Deekin's oldest son, is
and alluz hez bin, and alluz will be, tro,
Southern shivslry. He wsz reconstructed
and accepted the sitOoauion, but nigger'
rifles him, wioh he is not to be held account
able for, for it's cOnstooshnel.
John wuz in . frame Nv mind Toosday
MOxulus AX0 LOU = dAcI6 Nv kEAS6 WlCI
needid cuttin, and he he'd tride in vane to
git some one to do it. Not niger could
he hire for love or money, ez they WIZ all
cuttin their own, and, ez We hevnt eny
Northern whites here, Nv course no white
man Good be he'd to do manyel labor.
And to add to his discomfort Joe Bigler
he'd sejeeted to him that to save the grass
he (POgram) mite cut it hisself; witch insult
he darsent resent, Joe bein handy with his
revolver.
John he'd bin layin on oils back in Bss.
CONS fur two hours, argooin that the South
wuz goin to room fur want Of labor, when
some one remarkt to him:
There goes Joe"
Joe wuz II say ar,l-, for Joe isn't now
formerly a slave Nv Johns father, and John
knew that he heGn't to do that wuz
pressin, and he went out and hailed him:
"StOp, 700 id black son of -"
What do you want" wuz his lnsolent
reply.
Il want 700 to cut that grass Nv mine,
back of the barn, d-n your black
heart ~
Il can't do it, wuz the anser
l will not give the conversashen in full,
but enutf to say that the niger wuz az i'm
poodent ez he Good be. Finally, when
pressed fur reason for not cuttiH the
grass, the niger sed plumply that he'd do
the work ef John wood pay him Al SO that
ned ovid him fur work over two yeere,
and pay for this in advance.
Wv course, John he'd but one thing to do.
Housed by this insult to mdnis, he sailed
into Joe. and Joe he'd the insolence to strike
oak. And the awdashus niger wood hev
whaled him eff the rest NV us hadn't come
to the reskOo.
In the melee the niger wuz killed, and
We went back and took q drink.
1t occurred to US that this ackshen nv
Joe's wuz intenhid to bring on q collision
Detwixt the two races, and we determined
20 nip it in the bud.
'Anticipatin dreadful conf1ik we armed
ourselves, determined to sell our lives
iearly. Race wars are alluz bloody.
we went to the late JOe's house and found
nat no he'd q shotgun, an AZ, and q hoe,
arms to be yoosed agin us.
On the way to another nigger's house to
earch tor arms, We diskivered the niger
his field pretendin' to be at work. On
eein' us he run ontil Issaker Gavitt, who
death on nigger at sixty yards, put
'all through him and he stopped.
Wv course that niger intendid to rise
gin the whites. Eff he didn't, wat did he
IN for' Troo, we he'd shotguns, rifles and
evolvcrs, but wat rite he'd he to spose that
7e meant to yOOse 'em on him.
Inc next house we cum to we found the
lgger lOafn in his front door yard. He
ed his haydn all done, and was harnessin
10 mules to cum to town. There Good be
ut one lnterpretashen put onto this move.
Ia wnz q gOin to the CORNERS to line the
iovement agin US. When we asked him
where in hi he wuz a goin!' he ansered |
the most teendish manner that he wuzn't
ware that 1t wuz any Nv our biznis, and
'ent on harnessin his animals
~ a measure Nv safety his he'd wuz |
lowd of, and we went on
can not defend the ackshen Nv our neo- |
10 after this, except by sayin that thew |
uz maddened by wOt they had diskivered, |
nd shot every niger they Good fluid. Nor |
in blame EN-. The niggers hev withheld
ON us that confidence necessary to good |
elm: Ever sence they got the moose NV
lat Hamburg trouble they hev showed
leirselves ez little possible, and when they
'me to the corners to trade they irritateG
oy gon to Poliock's and gettin home ez
lddenly as they could.
Think Nv it. Here we wuz in the midst
poPulashen Nv inferior beins q thirstin
enacln us in every way. We found axes
ID hoes in or about every house, and fire.
'ntiV ehotguns, wich they he'd bin too
lnnin to load till they wanted to yoose en-,
And wat wuz more dsmnin evidence nv
er quit, the moment we appered to EN-
. blood-thirsty wretches, feelin that ther
lrposes wuz discovered, run like rabbits.
Dt one Nv en- he'd the nardihood to stand
ore US ana answer the questions We put
EN-.
l will say that things wuz done under the
at Nv passion, which can't apologize for
NO wimmim wuz killed, but it wiz acc,.
ntai. lsaker Gavitt he'd his rifle ded
to the husband of one Nv EN-, and the |
prudent woman rushed afOre him and
seeved ball that wuzn't intended for
r. Inc other aboOsed Captain M'Pelter
Orderin him out of her house. and nv
urse his shotgun went off and she expired.
new no apology to offer for the takin off
the first two niggers; our sitooashen
lst be considered. These people witch is ,
thlrstln tor our blood wuz wunst our ,
oPerty, and we eggsactid Nv EN- not only
eJens, but respect. Now, by the ackshen {
tyranlcle government, they hev be-
ne voters. an0 insist that afore the law
y are our ekals. When thew meet ma !
" bow, but they refOose to tako OFF ther
rs, or acknowledge that they are, in any {
lse, inferior beins. They come to the !
es beside US, they won't work for us on 4
they choose to, and in every way they I
pose upon US.
Kin heightened shivelry endoor this? II !
1t be expected. We want peece. but y
y must observe the only condishns onto I
n peece lie possible. n
md in their insubordinashen thew are F
'etted by that feend Joe Bigler. When q
skln POgram, that blessed saint. wantid | v
Ter Tom, wich wuz afore the War his MIG. n