The Portland daily press., 1876-09-02
Nasty JustifieS the Cross Roads Mas.
Sacre,

Nasty writes that the Confederate Cross
Roads has been the scene of an occurrence liza
BILE to be misrepresented at the North, six mig
gers having been killed by the Democracy He
hastens to give truthful account. of the cir
cumstances, to show that the latter were not
= to blame. John Po2ram, the deacon's son,
had four acres of grass that wanted cutting
and cried in vain to hire "a niger" to do it. as
they we're busy at their own work.
John he'd bin layin on his back 10 Bascom's
inr TWO hours, areooin that the South wuz goin
10 room fur want Nv labor, when some one re-
marked to him:
There goes Joe"
Joe wuz Il saw uuz for Joe isn't now for
merly a slave of Johns father, and John nu
that he hedn't nothin to do that wuz pressin
and he went out and hailed him:
stop yuu d black son of a!
"What do you want?" wuZ his insoleLt re-
II want you to cut that grass Nv mine, back
nv the barn, d--n your black heart
81 can't do it" wuz the auser
will not give the conversation in full, but
enuff to say that the niger wuz ez impoodent
ez be Good be. Finally, when pressed tur a
reeson fur not cuttin the grass, the niger said
plumply that he'd do the work eff John wood
pay him 81 80 tibet he'd owed him fur work
over Two yeers, and pay him fur this in ad
vance
Nv course John he'd but one thing to do.
Reused by this insult to madnis he sailed into
Joe, and Joe he'd the insolence to strike back.
And the awshashus niger wood hev whaled
him ct the rest Nv US hedn't come to the res
cue.
In the melee that fo!lered the niger wuz
killed. and We went bak and all took drink.
1t occurred to us that this ackshen Nv Joe's
wuZ intended to bring on a collision betwixt
the two races, and we determined to nip it in
the bud.
On the way to another nigger's house to
seach for arms, we diskivered the niger in his
field pretendin to be at work. On seenin US
he run ortil lssaker Gavitt. who is death on a
niger at 60 yards, put ball through him and
he stopped.
Nv oorse that niger intendid to rise agin
the whites. EFF HE DIDN'T WAT DID HE RUN
FUR2
The next house we cum to we found the
niger loafn in his front door yard. He he'd
his haydn all done and was harnissin his mules
to cum to town. There Good be but one inter-
probation put onto this move. He wuz a goin
TO the Corners, to jine the movement agin us.
when we askt him where in HI he wuz a
goin, he ansered in the most feendlsh manner
that he wuzn't aware that it wuz eny Nv our
biznis and went on harnissin his animals.
Ez measure Nv safety his he'd wuz bowed
Gil, and we went on.
after this. except by sayin that they wuz mad
dened by wat they had discovered, and shot
every Niger they Good fiud.
Two wimmen wuz killed, but it wuz acct
dental. Issaker Gavitt he'd his rifle ded onto
the husband Nv one Nv EN-, and the imprudent
women rushed afore him and received ball
that wuzn't intended for her. The other
aboosed Capt. MPelter by ordrin him out NV
her house, and Nv course his shot gun went off
and she expired.
Instid Nv its bein yoosed ez reason for
votin aginst Tilden it affords the best reason
for supporting the great reformer. Elect him.
and he will hev the niggers in SIGH shape that
they cannot give US reasons for killing NV EN-.
Give us the control Nv the government four
years and we will make EN- so valuable to us,
that we can't afford to yoose our shot guns on
EN-. For this reason every humanitarian,
every luver Nv the niger ought to work mite
and day for our success.