The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1876-09-07
From Che Toledo Blade.l
ELsBT AZ 4 RKFORAEK.
Ar. EasbJ Gives an Account or 4 La
menLabIe Occurrence at
the Corners.
How Ihe negroes IHsuIted the UhlEai'
~ By WORKING In tho Fields,
and How they were
Punished.
CoNFEDRTT Y ROADS,
WIcH rs IN THE STATE wv KY,
August 18th, 1876.


To prevent misrepresentation at
the North hAssen to give s troothful
account nv an occurrence wien TOOK
place at the Corners last week. wich
is regretted by every Citizen 1t Will
10 publisht in every Ablishun paper
Nv the North that the DemOefisy Nv
the Corners killed six niggers last
ToOsday, without coz. The killing L
admit-the coz l Insist the niggers
furnisht themselves.
This is a troO statement Nv wal
will be called the "COrners Massacre"
John Pogram, the Deekin's Oldest
son, is, and alluz hez bin, and alluZ
will be, troO Southern shivalry. He
Wuz reconstructed, and accepted the
sitOoashen, bat nigger rifles him, wich
be is not to be held accountable for,
for it's eonstOoshnel.
John Wuz in q frame nv mind ToOs-
day mornin. He he'd four akers Nv
grass Wieh needed cuttin, and he he'd
tried in vane to git some one TO do 1t.
Not a niger could he hire for love or
money, ez they wuz all cuttln their
own, and eZ we hevnt any Northern
whites here, Nv cOuse no white man
Good be he'd to do msDyel labor.
And to add to his discontent, Joe
Bigler he'd sejested to him that to save
the gross he (Pogram) mite cut it his
self, wich insult he dsrsent resent,
Joe bein handy with his revolver.
John he'd bin Iayin on his back In
BAscom's fur two hours, argOOin that
the South wuZ q gOin TO rOOin for
want NV labor, when some one re-
markt to him:
There goes JOe."
Joe wuZ I say iOH5, fur Joe Isn't
noW) formerly slave Nv Johns faith
er, and John knew that he he'd moth
in 10 do that wuZ presSlu, and he
went out and hailed him:
stop, you id black son OF a."
"Wat do yoo want ?" Wuz his in
solent reply.
81 want 700 to cut that grass Nv
mine back Nv the barn, d-H your
black heart ~
"I can't do it" wuZ the Anser.-
will rot give the conv6rsAshen ia
full, but enutf to say that the niger
wuz ez impOodent ez he Good be.
Finally, when pressed fur = reason
fur not cuttin the grass, the Niger
sed plumply that he'd do the work Of
John wood pay him s., so that he'd
owed him for work over two years,
and pay fur this in advance
Nv course, John he'd but one thing
t. do. Reused by this insult TO mad
Miss, he sailed into Joe, and Joe he'd
the insOlencs to strike hack. And
the awdAshus niggsr wOOd hev Uhal-
ed him ef the rest Nv US hadn't same
to the reskOo.
In the melse the Niger wuz killed,
and we went back and took drink.
It occurred TO Us that this aekshsn
Nv Joe's wuZ intendid to bring on a
collision betwixt the two races, and
We determined to nip it In the bud.
Antieipatin a dredful cOnflik we
armed ourselves determined To sell
our lives dearly. Race wars are alluE
bloody.
We went to the late JOe's house
and found that he he'd a shotgun, an
ak, and hoe, evidently arms To be
yoosed agin US,
On the way to another nigger's
house to search for arms We diskiver-
ed the niger in his field pretendln to
be at work. On seein US he run ontil
Issaker Gavitt, who Is death OH a
Niger at sixty yards, put ball
through him, and he stopped.
Nv courSe that nigger intendid to
rise agin the whites. Ef he didn't
wat did he run fur? TrOO, we he'd
shot-guns, rifles, and revOlvers, but
wat rite he'd he to spose that we ment
to yOose 'em on him /?
The next house we cum to we found
the niger lOafinG in his front door
yard. He he'd his hayin all done, and
was harnessin his mules to cum to
t2Elys 12eElsyly There Good be but one inter.
yuz a goin to the Corners, to Jine the
movement agin US. When We asked
him "Where in hi he wuz a gOin,"
he ansered in the most feendish man
ner that he Wuzn,t aware that it wuz
any NV our biznis, and went Oh har-
nessin his animals.
Ez measure Nv safety his he'd wuZ
blowed off, and We went on.
1 cannot defend the ackshen NV our
people after this, except by ssyln that
they wuz maddened by wat they he'd
diskivered, and shot every nigger
they Good find. Nor kin blame EN-.
The niggers hev withheld from US
that confidence nesessary to good
feelin. Ever sence they got the
nooze NV that Hamburg tFoubls they
hev showed themselves eZ little ez
possible, and when they came to the
Corners TO trade they irritated US by
goIn to PoIIOck's, and gettin home ez
suddenly ez they Good.
Think NV it. Here we wuz In the
midst NV q populashen NV inferior
beins a thirstin for our blood, armed
ez 1 hev showed, and menacin US In
i every way. We found axes and hoes
in or about every house, and frekent-
ly shOt-guns, wleh they he'd bin too
cunnin to load till they wanted to
yoOse EN-.
And wat wuz more damnin evi.
dencs Of ther guilt, the moment We
appeared 10 em the blOOdthirsty
wretches, feeling that ther purposes
wuz discovered, run like rabbits. Not
one Nv em he'd the hardlhOod 10 stand
afore us and anser the questions we
put to EN-.
Twill say that things wuz done un-
der the heat Nv passion wieh cant
apologize for. Two wimmin wuz
killed, but 1t wuz accidental. Issaker
Gavitt he'd his rifle ded onto the hus-
band Nv one NV em, and the imprl-
dent woman rushed afore him, and
reserved ball that wuZn't intended
for her. The other RbOOsed Captain
McPeltsr by ordering him out Nv her
house, and Nv course his shotgun
went of and she expired.
|, l hev no apology to offer for thu
takin off nv the first two niggers
our sitooashen must be considered
These people vich IL a thirstin for on
blood wuz wunst our property and vi
eggsactid Nv em not only obejeDc
, but respect. Now, by the sekshen u
! a tyranicle government, they hev be
, come voters, and insist that afore tn
law they are our ekals, When the,
meet us, they bow, but they rsfoOse +
take orf ther hats, or acknowledg
! that they are, I'm any sense, inferiO
i beins. They come to the poles besid
! us, they won't work for as onlsss the
choose to, and in every way they i'm
|, = kin . hiqh-tonsd Shivelry endoo
this l.? IT can't be expected. We wan
n peece, but they must observe the Onl
: condishns onto wich peece is posi-
!, BILE.
4 And In their insubordinashen the
!. ara abbetted By that feend Joe Bigle
4 When Deekin P0gram, that blessi
q saint, wanted yslIer Tom, wich WI
q afore the war bis Niger, to work 4
II him. Joe BigIer mOckingly urged hiI
n to DO it- G4aE
;, There Is a scriptoorsl injunckshe
n onto you" sed joe to the nigge
" sswicE Is, Honor thy father and th
q l.nOther, that thy daze may be long
J. the land.' YOor mother wnz 40
le South afore the war when 700 WIZ
year old, so yOO can't honor her; b
700 hev yOOr father spared to 700"
Ez Tom is half white, and ez by
singler coincidence be resembles u
Deekin, it wuz an insalt 70 that goo
D. man witch the niggers al jined 10.
But despite all this provocashen
spose the North will howl In this ca
a. eggsaekly ez it did in the mstter
Hamburg, and yoose itagsinst u.s.
Instid OF its bein yOOsed as 3 reast
for voting aginst Tilden, it affords &
y best reeson for suppOrtin the great
former. Elect him, and we will ha
Id the niggers in sich q shape that tn
cannot give Us reasons for KILN
a. en-. Give ns the cOntrOie Of the go
- eminent four years, and We will ma