The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1876-09-22

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North that the Democrisy NV the.
Corners killed six niggers last
Toosday, without coz. The
KILN l admit coz / insist
the niggers furnisht themselves.
This is troo statement nv wat
will be called the Corners Massa-
cre."
John Pogram, the Deekin's
Oldest son, is, and alluz hez bin,
and alluz will be troo Southern
shivalry. He waz reconstructed,
and accepted the sitooashen, but
niger rifles him, witch he is not to
be held accountable for, for it's
constooshnel.
John wuz In q frame Nv mind
Toosday mornln. He he'd four
akers Nv grass which needed cut
tin, and ne he'd tried in vane to
git some one to do 1t. Not mig
ger could he hire for love or mon
ey, es they wuz all cuttin their
own, and ez we hevent any North
ern whites here, nv course no
white man Good be he'd to do man
vel labor.
And to add to his discomfort Joe
Bigler he'd sejested to him that to
save the grass he (Pogram) mite
cut it hisself, wich insult he darsent
resent, Joe bein handy with his
revolver.
John he'd bin layin on his back
in Bascom's fur two hours, argoo-
in that the South wuz q goin to
room for want NV labor, when
some one remarkt to him:
"There goes joe"
Joe wuz II say wuz, fur Joe
isn't now formerly a slave Nv
Johns father, and John knew that
wuz pressln, and he went out and
hailed him:
"Stop, you ID black son of
a ~"
"Wat do 700 want?" wuz his in
solent reply.
81 want 700 to cut that grass ny
mine back NV the barn, d-n
your black hearth
'I can't do it" was the answer.
1 will not give the conversation
in full. but enuff TO say that the
niger wuz ez impoodent ez he
Good be. Finally, when pressed
for a reason fur not cuttin the
grass, the niger sed plumply
that he'd do the work eff John
wood pay HIM $3.50 that he'd
owed him fur work over two years,
and paw for this in advance!
Nv course John he'd but one
thing to do. Reused by this in
suit to madnis, he sailed into Joe,
and Joe he'd the insolence to strike
bak. And the awdashus niger
wood hev whaled him eff the rest
NV US hadn't come to the reskoo.
In the melee the niger was
killed and we went back and took
a drink.
1t occurred to us that this ack
shun NV Joe's was intendid to
bring on a collision betwixt the
two races, and we determined to
nip it in the bud.
Anticipatin dreadful conflik
we armed ourselves, determined to
sell our lives dearly. Race wars
are alluz bloody.
We went 10 the late Ioe's house,
and found he had q shotgun, an
, axe, and hoe, evidently. arms to
be yoosed agin Us.
On the way to another nigger's
house to search for arms, we dIskvi-
cred the niger in ais field preten-
din to be at work. On seeing US
he run ontil Issaker Gavitt, who
is death on a Niger at 60 yards,
put ball through him and he
stopped.
or course that niger intendid
+ to rise agin the whites. Eff he
DIND'T WAT DID He RUN FOR? Troo,
we he'd shot guns, rifles and revol-
vers, but wat rite he'd he to spose
t that we meant to yeose EN- on
him? $40.
The next house we cum to we
found the niger a loafin in his
front door yard. He he'd his haydn
all dime, and was harnessin his
mules to cum to town. There
Good be but one Interpretation
put onto this move. He wus a
goin to the Corners to iine the
movement agin us. When we
asked him "Where in HI he wus
goin,t he ansered in the most
feendish manner that he wuzn't
aware that it wus any nv our
biznIs, and went on harnessin his
animals.
: Ez a measur NV safety his ana
t NAL head wuz blowd of, and We
went gu.
) 1 can not defend the ackshen
: NV our people after this, except
: by sayin, that they wuz maddened
by wat they had diskivered, and
; shot every niger they Good find.
/ Nor kin / blame EN-. The niggers
! hev withheld from US that conf
: dence necessary to good feelin. Ev-z
er sence they got the nooze nv
that Hamburg trouble they hev
t showed themselves ez little ez
possible, and when they came to
, the Corners to trade they irritated
US by goin to Polloek's, and gettin
home as suddenly as they Good.
: Think nv 1T. Here we wuz in
, the midst NV populashen NV in
, ferior belns a. thirstin for our
: blood, armed ez hev showed,
and menacln us In every way.
: We found axes and hoes in OF
about every house, and frekently
: shot-guns, which they he'd bin too
E cunnin to lead till they wanted to
: lyoose EN-. t1
And wat WIZ more damnin evi.
!, dence nv their guilt, the moment
t we appeared to EN- the blood thirs.
t ty wretehes, teelin that their pur.
f nose Wuz discovered. RIM like, rab