Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1876-09-22
From the Toledo BLADE
FROM Jne IOItuO bIiut
MASSEY ON NEGRO EQUALITY.
How Nasty Keeps the Peace-The
2ridsOf the eAmerieanIzed African
Nakby Wants Peace and Is a Reform

That the nigger is a trouble to US ther
amt no question, and nobody denies NV it.
He is a worriment and an irritation, and
more than an absloOt nOOSence, and there
never kin be peece so long as he Is unre-
strained and uncontrolled.
1. We are in constant fear Of him. Here
| In the Corners there is about 200 Nv en-
there wuz more, but their repeated assaults
| unto us hez endid in ther bein thinned out
samewhat-and them 300 keep. US in con-
stant feer. They form boldly by their
selves. and hev dOubtls 0rginized to act
agin us. / myself hey frekently seen two
Nv EN- in close converse, and they hev their
own religious meeting, which is dOuh1Iis a
kiver for ther .nefarious -desines. We heV
never suffered from outbreaks of theirn,
for the Corners is prompt. When we ever
antissipate danger and fear a risin, we i'm
medjetly sally out and kill dozen or so,
wieh nj ps it in the bud.
2. They will not labor for US, and thus
stand in the way nv the progress NV the
country. This season the follerin losses
wuz inflicted on the citizens Nv the Corners
by these people refoosin to work for EN-
llSaker Gavitt, four akers nv grass Capt.
McPelter, six akers, ditto; Deacon POgFam,
five akers, ditto; Elder McGrath, four
akers, ditto, and others too tejus to men
ton. l shudder to think that shoOd hev
lost all my crop eff I'd he'd any. But ez
amt was Inercifully spared. = z
The loss come direkly upon the people by
the absoloot refoosal Nv the niggers to cut
and git in this hay. One of them nsultlnly
asked why We didn't go and git 1t IN our
selves? He never asked no more questions.
There wuz only 81 80 on his body. And
as we lost the hay crop, so we shall lose the
corn. 1t hez. not been ploughed nor hoed,
becoz we coodnt git the labor, and now wat
little ther is nv it is to be cut and husked,
is the question we are perpetyooaliy asklnn
ourselves at Bascom's.
3. They are not a kontented race, and
are onfttin themselves as fast ez they kin
to be an inferior people. They hev skools
among themselves wich is taught by ennis
saries from Moo England. They are not
only learning their children to reed and
| sich, but they are fyin in the face Nv Prov
! idenee by learnin themselves. They hey the
! impudenee. to discuss things, and in one
| naborhood they hev reely started debatln
skool. Nv eoorse all this worries US.
r Il Fhey are inslent to US sto a degree
that is onbearable. Niggers yich only a
fewsyears ago wuz the property Nv our eiti-
zens now pass us with ther heds erect and
ther hats on, and even irritate us by apper-
| in with better cloze than we kan wear Is
fsaker Gavitt's vile waz only last week driv-
en- to the very verge Of madness by seeing
Mirandy, the wife Nv one NV ther niggers,
ION. the street with black silk dress on
| suthin Mrs. Gavitt hesnt he'd since Issaker
sold Mirandy's daughter to -gitone for heI
in fS60.z-~T- = Fv1--
8. This inferior race insist on votin and
takin part in public affares. y At a meetIn
last week to consider the eXtenshun NV q
road, one NV these degraded beings come
with a paper. on which he he'd written the
cost per mile, and all about it, and heTheo
ii denee to hand it to the secretary
Issaker Gavitt, to read. he'd 70 reieeye Is
saker's embarrassment by telIin the nteri61
man toreed it hisself. which hedid. and II
eonsekens the propesishen was voted down
They infict these huniliashuns onto. u
perpetyoely. = =. m,
I Good say more, but this is enUf. The
is but one way out uy this tFubble. Tn
two races Wuz never calculated. to live to
1Fgether except as master and servant, ant
ther. never will be peeee-ther cant be-tll
these inferior people take the place naehe
! ! intended EN- for. This is what ne want
and this is wat we must hev to hey 'peece
Eff the nigger, viii consent to this ther wi
be peeeeEotherwise not. We cant endoo
| thepresent eondishen Nv things no longer
l.