New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-12-31

Bigler Uusettles Their Minds - The
Sudden Endisg Of q Meeting.
CoNrkpRrr ROADS, }
Wioh 10 In the State Nv Kentucky,
December Is, 1876.
The infamus countin out nv Tilden, the
Reform candidate, in spite Nv the Niger
KILN, bulldozin and intimidation We did to
kerry Floridy, LOzesner and South Kerliny,
will go down into histry ez the final stab 1T
the liberties of brave and Opprest people.
hev no words to express my indigna shen
at the deed, or my loathin Nv the deeders.
When think that over thousand niggers
WIZ killed in them States, and that the
KILN Nv that Thousand scared OFF at least q
Thousand more; when think nv the pains
we took to keep ablishnists from votin, and
when I think nv the mastery way we
countid in the parishes our rifle Clubs took
control Nv, and that after all this we wuz
countid out by Returning Boards and sioh,
upheld by the minyuns nv Fedrel power,
hev no hesitashen in assertin that our pre-
tense of liberty 10 @ boiler mockery, and
that the ide nv government by the people
mite ez we'll be abandoned to wunst
The Corners resolved never to submit to
the outrage, and the mint the Yoonlted
States Marshel got away, the war feelin got
40 intense that it he'd to hev vent. Their
aint only one way for the Corners to work
off it's excitement, and that is by . meetin.
I called one immejitly, and so intense wux
the feeling that every citizen nv the Cor.
ners wuz present.
l never seed SIGH feelin since wuz q
child. Their wasn't any loud, blusterin, on
necessary talk-men felt it wux no time for
talk, but rather for aekshen. Thor wus
that c0mpreshun nv lip, that stern look,
that thotful expreshen that one sees here
only in times nv grate public danger, or
when Bsscom prese nts his bill to the citi-
Gems with the hairless remark that you
don't get another drop till that is paid.
Dekin Pegram remarkt that the countin
out nv Tilden wuz . outrage to wish the
Corners wood never submit. The Corners
he'd made sacrifices afore fer constooshnel
liberty and wood sgln. Ez old ex he wuz,
he he'd shot Fedrel pikkets, and tho age
he'd dimmed his eyes and the newnis nv
Bascom's likker had affected his nerves,
he bleeved he Good do suthin in dat way
yit. He disired nothin 80 much ez to git q
crack at an sblishnist. He preferred KILN
sblishnists to niggers any day.
1ssaker Pegram wuz more in earnest. He
wantid war anyhow. He wuz tired NV all
this beatin about the bush. He he'd killed
niggers to keep en- from vOtin, wich he felt
was q base compromise. 1t WIZ an sd-
mishn that the niger he'd . right to vote of
he wuzn't killed, wich he wood never con-
sent to. He wantid an appele to arms that
the rite nv the proud Caucashn to rool mite
be established forever. His voice wuz for
war. He wuz thirsty for gore. No COM
promise for him-war to the knife.
Captain MPelter wuz for war. He he'd
suffered wunst and wuz willin to again. He
wuz glad that TIlden wuz countid out, for
it showed the South that they he'd nothin to
expect from the ablishn North War WIZ
the only resource left free people.
The resOlooshens presented breethed .
warike sperit wich almost alarmed me.
they wuz ez follows:
WAREAs. The Dlmocrisy nv the Southern
States, by virtue nv that eternal vigilepce,
wich is the price nv liberty and shOtguns,
triumphed over sblishism in Floridy, South
KeriDy and Louisisner; and
VARGAS, To do this required constant
ridin, and an expenditure NV buckshot on
paralleled in the history nv eleckshun; and
Wareas, When you hev killed Q niger or
hung q white ablishnist, YOU are entitled to
the benefits resultin from it; and
Wsreas, Ablishn off his and Returnin
Boards hev cody thrown out ell parishes
we're q decent regard for Democratic tri.
umph compelled us to prevent niger votin,
and thus given the States to the Radical
Hayes; therefore, be it
Resolucd, That the Corners, reslixin the
gravity nv the sitoosshen, and feelin the
Importance nv its ackshen, declares that it
never will stand it; that it will never sub.
init to this outrageous interference with it's
rites; that it will never consent to the inog-
gerashon nv an ablishnist, but will take up
arms, and never lay en- down till the last
vestige of Rsdikelism is wiped out.
Resolved, That the Corners is for war: and
That whether the Dimocrisy nv the North
submits or not, it never will.
RESOLVED, That we accept no compromise,
but will hev all we claim or fite
Resolred, That what we want 10 South
ern Republic, and q divorce forever from
the North, SIGH ez wuz contemplated in
1861, and for wich We struggled till We wuz
overcome by the power of The hordes wich
l. nkin hurled upon us.
These Iesolooshens wuz passed yoonapi-
mously, and three cheers and q tiger wuz
gwen with a terver that showed that the
old war sperit he'd survived, and that all |
that wuZ nessary WIZ an opportunity.
Jst at this mint j 10 Bigler rose and de-. |
aired to make few remarks. A native NV |
Krn'ucky, he shoOd 60 with his State, but |
he questioned the wisdom of goin. Eff we |
secede sgin, who is to pay the Southern war |
claimsl He understood there wuz suthin |
aud eff yoo cut off the North, who is to pay |
for emf
Bascom growed pale and hitched oneasily
ia his seat.
And then agin he sposed the brethren /
wich wuz thirstin for goar fondly imag-
ned thet eff we he'd republik nv our own
that every one nv EN- wood hev q postoftis |
and a collectorship. Fatal deloosion! The
moment eeceshin wuz esta blished and |
IN influx Nv Northern Dimocrats down
1ere, who wood take every place in tbs gift
" the government. Fernando Wood will
,Ome-
The meetin howled.
Dirty shirt Dean wood come
More bowls.
Little Sammy Cox wood come
Increased howlin.
The hundreds nv thousands wich expects
fits under Tilden wood come. the repeeters
wood g. me, Hewitt wood come, the litrery
nance wood We hav with SIGH strangers in
mr. gates2 And til IN think nv Trumbull,
" Parmef; think Nv that vast army wich
ev been IN a minority IN the North 81 long |
rushin Gown here like grasshOppers in Ne
rasky9 Tne aDIisbuist you kin shoot, but
90 can't shoot yer friends. My friend
Iascom, think NV bevin u hundred Nssbys
II goin on tick in place nv wan. and then
hink nv the poor South bein taxed to sup
ort EN- all.
Bascom hurriedly loft the house.
There wuz deep silence fell onto the
ouse, and tor q minnit every man NV US
1uz wrapped in thot. Bigler resoomed:
think Nv bein taxed for yOor own
lanes, and colleckshun bein enforced by
ay ouits A Southern bsyonit hez jest ez
eakid an end ez Northern wun, aud -"
This prospect finished em. With one pro-
,nged howl they rose ez one man, aud /,
lidid out NV the house, and afterwards in
ascom's they WIZ thinking nv the adj
aptagt yornyun, and swearin that nacher |