Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-04-18
M,scE@ANIl:
Massey AND THE SOUTH.
The Citizens of the Corners Are
So Depressed by Military
Rule That They Cannot
Work.
No Troo Kentuckian Kin Hoe his
Corn While There Il a Blue
coat in Louisiana.

No Troo Kentuckian Kin Hoe his
Corn While There Il a Blue
coat in Louisiana.
-CoNFEDRITX ROADS,
WIcH is IN THE STATE OF KENTUcKY.{
Thor is no disputin the fact, the
Corners is not prosperous. Their amt
no buildin goin on Their amt no trade
NV any account, and Their is yooni-
versel dizziness, witch is discouragin
to the well-wisher NV his kind. Not
that it makes eny cspcshcl difference
to me, for all that require is my
likker regler, and plenty NV the same,
without labor; but a entcrprisin man
witch blecves that progress is a good
thing wood be dishartened at the
condishn NV things at the Corners.
En- for me, 1 kin sing
Whene'cF walk to take the air,
How many poor see;
Bus Kin say that don't care
Ef they all starvs but me.
/ hcvn't got ez many or ez extensive
bowels NV c0mpashun ez yoost to
hev. My sympathies is constlpatid
1t isn't at all difficult to determine
the reason for the depreshn that eggs
lists here. When Tilden and Reform
wuz countid out, to Z, and the yoo-
serper Hayes wuz inoggcratid, we
expected that the leest he wood do
wood be to recall the troops from the
South, and make us free men agin.
He hez done it in South Kerliny,
but how is it elsewhere? No troo
Southcrner kin be enterprisin and
progressive so long ez he is ground
down under the iron heel of military
power. Our citizens feel their con-
dishun so kcenly, they are SO deprest
by the continyooence NV military
rool, that they hewitt dun a stroke Nv
any kind nv work for yeers. Their
feeds are left uncultivatid except ez
they kin indooce new niggers witch
come here to work in EN-, but ez they
hewitt anything to pay EN- with they
never work second time, WITCH makes
EN- anything but shoor dependence.
1t is one Nv the most techin sites in
nacher to see the people layin on their
backs at Bascom's and leanin on his
bar, deplorin the okkepancy NV the
South by military, and their conse-
kent inability to hoe Their corn or cut
their grass.
Only last week hecrd Issaker Cav
lit remark:
"Wat's the yoosc NV putin in crop
this spring, cf the South is to be over
run by blookoted hirelings, perpet-
yooally ?"
And then when Bascom refoOzed to
give him credit for another drink,
Issaker turned sadly to me, and sed,
with a voice choked with emotion:
"You see how it is? Oh, the cussid
tyranny NV an unconstooshnel admin
listration oh, the grindin efieck NV
military okkepashen Wat kin men
do under SIGH circumstances?
1t is troo that Their amt no soljers
at the Corners, and never hev bin
sence the village wuz okkepied by the
Federals in 1862, but that don't make
any difference. Also we hev vOtid
here jist cz we pleased, and we hcv
kept the niggcrs and carpet-baggers
from votin, but that don't make any
difference nuther.. Their is troops in
Loozeaner and Packard is de facto
Governor NV the State. How kin a
troo Kentuckian put in crop or hoe
his corn SO long ez SIGH a state NV
things eggsist? How kin Their be any
enterprise or any development NV re-
sources, or any progress, when we hev
to spend all our time clankin the
chanes of our brothers further
South? All that kin be expected NV
us is to hang our harps on the willers
at Bascom's and drown our grcefs at
his bar
And scnce it is settled that we amt
goin to hey the Federal oflises, Bas-
com hez refoosed us further credit,
and the poor comfort NV his likker
Cor to speak more akkeritly, the COM
fort NV his poor likker) is denied us.
When drouth is added to slavery the
sitooashcn is terrible indeed.
Wat the yooscrper wants to do is to
withdraw the troops from tho South.
Take the grasp NV nine hundred
soljers from the throtes NV the three
millions NV Southerncrs, and let us
brecthe. And this done, give the
offises, in spirit Nv conciliashen to
the constitooshnel patriots witch wuz
pardoned by A. johnson, and all will
be well agin. l kin never be recon-
SLED SO long ez Their is niger in the
post offs at the Corners-never.
/ keer very little, though. Ny biz
mis- through life hez bin, mostly, strug-
glin with yicissitoods, and my strug-
giles is rapidly DRAWN to a close
Persnelly I hev little interest in it,
tho ! wood like to hev my pathway
to the tomb smoothed by reasonable
credit and, consistently, regler sup,
plies. But when / look around me
and see how iron-heeled opprcshr
kills out enterprise In the Corners,
cannot help but enterin my sollnm
protest
May the yooserper heed the warnin,
and let up on the South afOre deliri-
UNI tremens so withers the populashen
ez to leave no Dimecrats to be re-
leeved. PETROLEUM V. MASSEY,
/ Ex.Reformer.