Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1876-09-18
CoNFRDRIT Y RoADs,
WITCH Is IN THE STATE w KENTUCKY,
Sent 4th 1876

Reedin Northern newspapers for some weeks
past, hev come to the conclusion that the peple
NV the North don't understand the troo status NV
things down here, and feel it my dooty to enliten
EN-. 1t is not nachrel that q Northern man kin
understand the feelings NV Southerner The
Northerner never wus aristokrat like us-he never
wuz a sooperior rasc. But bein mere labrin men,
or mere men Nv bisns, or SIGH, they kin hardly
be expected to comprehend how some things strike
the mind Of hawty, shivelrus peple wich hev bin
obleeged to succum TO force.
That the niger is 9 trubble to us Their amt no
question, and nobody denies Nv it, lie is wor-
rimcnt and an irritashen. and more than that an
aosloot nusence, and there never kin be peace SO
long ez he is ourestrsined and uncontrolled.
|. We are in konstant fear Nv him. Here in
the Corners there is about 200 NV ern-there wuz
more but Their repeetid assaults onto us ended in
their bein ihinned out somewhat-and them 200
keep us in constant feer. They form a bodily by
themselves, aud hev doubtlis organized to act agD
us. myself hev irekenly seen two Nv them in
close converse and they hev their own religious
meetins, which Is doubtlis kiver for their ncfs-
| rious desines.
We hev never suffered from any outbreaks NV
| thern, for the Corners is prompt. Whenever We
| antissipate DANGER and fear 4 risin. we immedia-
july rally out and kill dozen or so, wich nips it
| in the bud
2. They will not labor for us, and thus stand in
the way the progress Nv the country. This
season the follern wuz inflicted on citizens the
Corners by these peple refusin TO work for em:
| Issaker Gsvitt, four skers Nv grass.
/ Capt. McPelter, six akers, ditto.
Deekin Pogram five akers, ditto.
Elder McGrath, four aker, ditto.
And others too tejis to mention | shudder TO
think that shood hev lost all my crop eff I'd he'd
any. But ez amt, wuz mercifully spared.
This loss come direcly upon the pepe by the
abslOot refoosal Nv the niggers to cut and GIT IN
the hay. Every man Nv US wuz ct Bascoms evry
day durn the haydn season, mplonn them
wreches to git it in, but they reoosed. givin as
reason that they he'd their own TO take keer NV.
| One NV em insultipgly asked why we didn't go
and git ii in ourselvesi He never askt any more
questions. They wuz only $3.50 on his body.
And CT we lost all the hay crop we shell lose
our corn. 1t hez not been poughed or hoed, be-
coz we coodent git the labor, and how wat little
Their is NV it is to be cut and husked, Is the ques
ton that we perpetually askin ourselves at
Bascom's.
i g. They are not contentid race, and are on.
fttin themselves ez fast they kin to be an infe
rior people. They hev skools among themselves,
which is taught by emmissaries from Moo Eng
land They are not only learnin Their children to
read and SIGH. but they are flying in the face nv
Providence by learnin themselves. They hev the
impudence to discuss things, and in one naber-
coarse all this worries us. Ell they keep on in
this way they won't be fit to be agin redoosed even
eff we do git dimocrauc President l amt shoor
that it amt too late now. and that even eff Iilden
sbood be electid doubt eff we Good bring EN- to
anything near wat they yoosed to be.
/ f. They are inslent TO US TO degree that is on
I bearable. They refoose to take OFF thare hats
when they meet us, and teach their children TO
show us their disrespect. To a tru Southern gen
tleman, one Nv the sooperor rase, this is sufficient
to drive him to madbis. He hez auz taken great
comfort in the idee that Their wuz race beneeth
him, and it cuts to the quick to destroy the illu
shen. Niggers wich only year ago wuZ the
properly NV our citizens now pass us with ther
heads erect and their hats on, and even iTritate
by appearip with better close than we kin wear
Issaker Gavtt's wife wuZ only last week driven to
the very verge Of madnis by seeing Mrsndy, the
wife Nv one NV Their niggcrs, on the street with a
black silk dress on, suthin Mrs. Gsvitt hezn't he'd
sence Issaker sold Mirandy's daughter to get one
for her in 1860. This produces insubordinashen
10 our families. Mrs. Gavitt made it lively for
Issaker She told him eff he would quit loain
around Bsscom's and TO go to work ez Mirandy' 3
husband did, possibly he mite get her another
dress. Issaker coodent make her understand thss
q shivelry ccodent be expected to work in the
feeled like Niger and to escape her tongue he
didn't 20 home for two days. but slept on the aoor
at ISascoms.
i 5. This inferior race insts on votin and .akin
part in public affairs. At meetiDs called to Leeade
ez TO levy ing taxes for roads and other purpose
they come in and vote and speke, jest eZ tho they
wuz white, clsmin tibet becoz they pay taxes they
hev rite TO voice in the disposshen Nv EN-,
forgittin that inferior amt rite to mix
in anything. At u meeting last week to consider
the extenshun of road, one NV these degraded
beings come with paper, on which he had writ
ten the cost per mile, aud all about it, and he had
the impudence to hand 1t to the Secretary, Issake
Gavitt, to reed. he'd to relieve Issakers en-
barrassment by ten the inferior mao to reed it
his'elf, which be did, and in consequence the
pfoposlshen was voted down. They infiict these
bumllia,hens onto us perpetyooaly
Good cay more, but it is enuf Their is but one
way out Nv this lrubble The two races waz new
err calkelsted to live together except az master aud
servant, and tner never will be peece-ther can't
, be-t these inferior people take the place mach
er intended EN- for. The sristocrscy NV the sun
ny South will never admit EN- to an ekality. They
hev succeeded in gettin farms, and gittln foot
hold that irriates us to Q point past endoorance
We shell never be content till the old order NV
thiogs i. re-esisbli,hed Ez the stronger race we
must be relieved Nv all feer Nv EN-. We must be
wunst sgn made their guardians and protectors
, and guides. They must wunst more labor for US
and under our direckshun We shell never ask
that they be absolutely re-enslaved but they mus
n be made our wards as 1t were. They must not be
elevated to the rites citizenship till they fl
S for it. They must shut up their skoolhouses and
n their churches and resoom their normal condish
un TIL sich time ez they hev prOgre ssed fur enuf
TO be safely intrusted with the rites of freemen.
=, This is what we want, and this is wat mus
hev to hev peece. Ef the. Niger will consent t.
: this Their will be peece-otnerwise not. We can
> endooi the preset condishen things no longer
This fall will decide the matter. Ef Tiiden il
elected, all will be well. With a Democrat,
Congris, with the Southern claims all allowed
with capital and the means to compel Niger la
0 Dor. the South will enter upon a new career o
prosperity. and be almost as well oil ez it Woo
hev bin he'd we succeeded in conkerin the miny
uns NV the Goriller, LiDkin. and establishin
government NV our own. Dimocrsts Nv the Nortl
TO your posts PETROLEUM V. NAsBY.
: REFoRMEH.
: P.S. In the interests Nv reform hev arrange,
for four hundred Kentucky Dimocrats to go owe
: into IDjeany in October, provided the money TO
y their expenses is forthcomin. We are waiting
anxousIy.