The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1876-08-29
THE .CoRNERs, MASSACRE.
How "Six Niggers met Their
T Dunes That Peace and Frater-
nifty Might be Maintained.
C0NFEDRIT Z ROADS,
IyIcH is IN THESrArE O KENTUCKY,
August 10Th, 1876.

August 10Th, 1876.
To prevent misrepresentation at the
North fhassen to give a troothful account
Of an occurrence which took place at the
Corners last week, which is regretted by
every sitizen. It will be publisht in every
ablishan paper Nv the North that the
Dimocrisy NV the Corners killed six mig
gers last Toosday, without coE.g The
KILN i admit--the COZ j insist the mig:
gers furnisht themselves.
This Is troo statement NV wat will be
called the "Corners Massacre"
John Pogram, the Dekin's Oldest son,
is, and allux hez bin, and alluz will be, a
troo suthern shivalry. He wuz recon
structed, and accepted the sitooashun,
but niggers riles him, wich lie is not to be
held accountable fur, fur its constooshnel.
John wuz in frame Of mind Toosday
mornin. He had four acres OF grass wich
needed cuttin, and he had tried in yane
10 get some one 10 do IL. mot !, a,higger
could he hire for love or money, ez they
wuz all cuttin their own, and ez we hevn't
any Northern whites here, Nv course no
white man Good be he'd TO do manyel la
bor. t:t
And 10 add to this discomfort Joe Big
Ter he'd sejested 10 him that to save the
grass, he (Pogram) mite -cutit hisself,
Wich, insult he darsent present, Joe beip
handy withihisr sreyplyer. Z y sigI0S
John he'd besni1ayin ID his backin
Bascom's fur two hours, argooin that the
South wuz agoin to room for want NV la
Dor, when some one remarkttohim:
'"rhere goes Joe"
Joe wuz q say ipHs, for Joe isn't now,)
formerly a slayeuv Johns father and
John knew that he hedn't nothih to do
that wuz pressin, and he went ON and
"stop, you id Black son Of a-s.P
"What do yoo want" wuz his inselent
ii want yoo TO cut that grass Nv mine,
back Of the. .barn,d-nyoureblaek heattt;
~ can'tdo itP wuzthe tanser. $y
l will. not give the conyersashuh in
full, but enuff 10 say that the nigger wuz
ez impoodent ez he Good be. Finally,
when pressed fpr'a reason for not cuttin
the grass, the niger sed splumply that
he'd do the work eli ohm wood pay. him
81 80 that he'd owed him fur work over
two years, and this in advanced ~ 20 !,
w course John he'd but. one thing 10
do. R6dsed by this insult to nadnis, he
sailed into Joe, and Joe he'd the insolence
TO strike bak. And the awdashuS nigger
wood hev whaled him If the, rest nv US
heda't came to the reskoo. 81 .aA N
t, In the melee the niger wuE killed,
and We went -bak and took radrink. ~
toccurred' TO as that this aeksheuny,
Joe's wuz intendid TO bring on a collision
betWixt tthe two races and ne determined
10 nip II itinthe,bud. q AL hiTSY. .lysn9i
Anticipatin "a dreadful .copaick, We
armed ourselves, determined to sell our
lives dearly. Race wars are allus bloody.
We went to the -iate- J6e's house and
found that. he he'd shot gun, an axe, an
ah6e, evidently arms to;be yccsed agin
! Onthe way to another nieger's house
to search for arms, We disiiyered the mig.
ger In his field pretendin 70 be u work.
On seeing us he run ontil lssaker Gayitt,
WHO Is death on \ niger At GO yard, ,pnt
a ball through him and ha stopped 4 IL
Nv course that Niger intehdid 10 rise
agin the whites, Efhe didn't wat didthe
run for? Troo, we bed shot guns rides,
and revolyers, but wag rite he'd he TO
spose We meant to yoose EN- onhiml
The next house We cum. to we found
the niger Q loafn in his front door yard.
He he'd his haying all done, and dtwas har.
nessin his mules 70 cum 20 town; There
Good be but wun interpretash hen put onto
thismoSe, He wnz. d. goin 10 the Cor.
ners, to iipe the movement agin u.s. When
we asked him aWhere iHsh-l he wuI
goip,g he ausered In The most ieehdish
manner that hewuEnt aware that itwut
any Of our biinis, and he went Eon har-
nessin hbanimals, - &.
Fl Q measure Nv safety his he'd iWuz
blowed Of, and'Ne went on ~ III
Icannot defend The asAshen Nv Gun
people after this, except by saying, flIat
they wuz maddened BY wat lhey he'd dis
kiyered, and shot every Niger they lcpod
fnd. Nor kin qbiame EN-. The iliggets
have withheld from US that confdence,
aecesaTy.togood 'ieelin.- Ever seneethey
got the moose, pf that Hamburg tFoubIe
they hey showed theifselyes e 1itt1e ei
possible, and when they. came TO the Cor
n6rs TO trade they itfithted US by going
TO Pollock's, and gettin home ez suddenly
e4 u tssy | GOOD ,, 49,. aaa,y !, a, s9 RI.
NV populashun, uy interior .rbei8a a
thirstin fhf our Blvd, armed eEI lhey
showd, an menacin US In every way. We
found axes and hoes in OF about every
house, and frequently shot.guns, wich
they had been TOD cunHin 10 load tiIl they
wanted to yoose them.
And wat wuz moro Ydanrnin evidence
Nv their guilt the moment We appeared
TO EN- the blud-thersty wreches, efeelin
thet tier jpurposes wriEl diskuvefdI fdn
like rabbits. Not one NV EN- had the
hardihood To- oetAnd atore Us and anser the
questions we put to EN-.
IwilLsay that things was-doue under
the heat Nv passhun, wich l can't apollo
giEe fur. Two women wuz killed, but It
wuE accidental. Issaker ,Gayitt he'd his
rife ded onto the husband Nv one nv EN-,
and the imprudent woman rushed Afore
him and received a ball thet wuIn't In.