Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1876-09-27
Nasty.
Why the Niger Is a TrnbbIe, a Worriment
and an Errttashen-HOyv n Hawty. Shty-
elrms People Hev Bin Obleexed to Succum
to Force,

FROM the Toledo Blade.
CoNFEDRIT X ROADS, wICH Is IN TIL
STATE OF hENTUCKY, September 4, 1876
, -Reedln Northern newspapers for som
weeks past, hev come to the concloo
shen that the people NV the North don
understand the troo status Nv thing
down here, and I feel it nav dooty *
enliten EN-. 1t is not nacheral that
Northern man kin understand The feel
ms Nv Southerner. The Eortherne1
never wuz aristocrat like us-he never
wuz sooperlor race. But bein mere
labrln men, or mere men Nv biznes, O,
SIGH. they kin hardly be expected &c
comprehend how some things strike the
minds OF hawty, shivelrus people, wich
hev'bin obleeged to succum to force.
That the niger is a trubble to us ther
amt no question, and nobody denies
Nv it. He is worriment and an irrita-
shen, and more than that an absloot
noosence, and Their never kin be peace
SO long ez he is onrestrained and oncon-
trolled.
1. We are in constant feer Nv him.
Here IN the Corners Their is about 200
Nv em-there wuz more, but there re-
peeted assaults onto us hez ended in
there bein thinned out somewhat-and
them 200 keep us in constant feer. They
form body by themselves, and hev
doubtlis organized to act agin us. I
myself hev frekently seen two Nv EN-
In close converse, and they hev their
| own religious meetins, which is doubt
lis cover for their nefarious desines.
We hev never suffered from any out.
L
prompt. Whenever we anticipate dan
ger, and feer risin, we immeiitly sally
out and kill dozen or SO, wich nips it
in, the bud.
2. They will not labor for us, and
stand III the way Nv the progress NV
the country. This season the follerin
losses wuz inflicted on citizens NV the
Corners by these people refoosin to work
for EN-:
Issaker Gavitt, four akers Nv grass.
Capt. McPelter, six akers, ditto.
Deekin Pogram, five akers, ditto.
Elder McGrath, four akers, ditto.
And others too tejus to menshun. I
shudder to think that shood hev lost
all NV my crop eft I'd he'd any. But ez
L amt, l wuz mercifully spared.
This loss come direckly upon the
people by the absioot refoosal Nv the
niggers to cut and get in the hay.
Every man Nv az wuz at Bascom's every
day doorin the haydn seeson, implorin
them wretches to get it in, but they re-
tossed, Slvln as a reeson that they had
Their own to take kser NV. One nv en-
insultinly asked why we didn't go and
git it In ourselves? He never asked no
more questions. Their wuz only So, SO
on his body. And ez we lost the hay
crop SO we shell lose our corn. Tt hez
not been ploughed or hoed, becoz we
coodent git the labor, and how wat lit
tie ther is Nv it is to be cut and husked,
is the question that we are perpetyooal-
ly askin ourselves at Bascom's,
3. They are not contentid race, and
are onittin themselves ez fast ez they
kin to be an inferior people. They hev
skools among themselves, which is taut
by emissaries from Moo England. They
are not only learnin their children to
read, and SIGH, but they are fyin ia the
face NV Providence by learnin their
selves. They hev the impudence to dis
cuss things, and in one neighborhood
they hev recently started a debatin
skool Nv coarse, all this worries us.
Ef they keep on this way they wont be
fit to be agin redoosed, even if we do
git Dimecratik President. I amt
shoor that it amt too late now, and that
even eff Tilden shood be electld I doubt
ct we Good bring 'em to anything near
wat they yoosed to be.
4. They are inslent to us to degree
that is unbearable. They refoose to
take OFT their hats wen they meet us.
and teach ther children to show us the
same disrespect. To a true Suthern
gentleman, one Nv the sooperior race.
this is sufficient to drive him to madnis.
He hez aiinz taken great comfort in the
ldee that Their WIZ a race beneeth him,
and it cuts 10 the quick to destroy the
illushen. Niggers wich only few
years ago wuz the property Nv our citi-
zens now pass US with Their heads erect
and Their hats on, and even irritate us
by appearin with better cloze than we
kin wear. Isaaker Gavitt's wife wuz
only last week driven to the very verge
OF madnis by seeing Mirandy, the wife
Nv one Nv Their niggers, on the street
with black silk dress on, suthin Mrs.
Gavitt heznt he'd sence Isaaker sold
Mirandy's daughter to get one for her
in 1860. This prodooses insubordinashen
In our families. Mrs. Gavitt made it
lively for Isaaker. She told him eff he
wood quit loafn around Bascom's and
go to work ez Mirandy's husband did,
possibly be mite get her another dress.
Isaaker coodent make her understand
that shivelry cooldn't be expected to
work in the field, like niger, and to
escape her tongue ne didn't 60 home for
two days, but slept on the floor at Bas-
CONS.
5. This inferior race insists on votin
and taking p art in public affares. At
meetings called to decide ez to levying
taxes for roads and ether purposes,
they come in and vote and spek, just ex
tho they wuz white, claimin that becoz
they pay taxes they have rite to voice
in the disposihen Nv EN-, forgettin that
an inferior race amt no rite to mix in
anything. At a meeting last week to
consider the extenshun OF road, one Nv
these degraded beings come with e
paper, on which he had written the cost
per mile, and all about it, and he had
the impudence to hand it to the Secre-
tary, Isssker Gavitt, to reed. I he'd to