Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1877-01-04
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The Corners Decide for War, but
Joe Bigier Unscftles Their
Minds--rlse Sudden Ending of
u Meeting. -4,-..
Toledo BLADE -

Minds--fite Sudden Ending of
u Meeting.
Toledo Blade. f5.--4s
CoNFEDRIT Y ROADS,
WIcH IS IN THE STATE Nv KENTUCKY, I
Dec. 16, 1876. !,
The infamous countin out NV Tilden,
the Reform candidate, in spite NV the
nigger-kiliin. bull -dOzin and intimids,
shnn We did to kerry Floridy, Lozeaner
and South Kerliny, will go down into
histry ez the final stab at the liberties
NV a brave and opprest people. i hev
no words to express my indiguashun at
the deed, or my loathin Nv the deedi
ers. When | think that over thou
sand nigger5 wuz killed in them States,
and that the Eillin Nv that Thousand
scared orf at least thousand more;
when 1 think of the pains we tock to-
keep ablishnists from voting, and
when think Nv the mastery way we
counted in the parishes our rife clubs
took control Nv, and that after all this
We wuz counted out by Returning
Boards, and sich, upheld by the min.
yuus NV Federal power, hev. no hesi-
tashun in assertin that our pretense Nv
liberty is Q holler msckery, and that
the idee Nv a Government by the peo.
pie mite ez well be abandoned to
wunst.
The Corners resolved never to sub
nit to the outrage, and the minut the
Yoonited States Marshal got away, the
war feelin got so intense that it he'd to
hev vent. Their aint only one way for
the Corners to work off its excitement,
and that is by-a meetin. called one
immejitly, and so intense was the feel
ing that every citizen of the Corners
WAS present. ..-.
1 never s. cd sich a feleiu since / " uz
child. Their wasn't any ltnd, blus-
term, Onnf ce$sIry talk-inen\ felt il
wuz no time for talk, but rather for
ackshun. Tber wuz that compreshen
Nv lip, that stern LOOK, that thotful
expreshen that one sees here only in
times of great public danger, or when
BascOm presents his bill to the citizens
with the hairless remark that you
don't git another drop till that is paid.
Dekin Pogram remarkt that the
eOuntin out Nv Tilden wuz a outrage
to wich the Corners would never SUBJ
NIT. The Corners he'd made sacrifices
afore for Constooshnel liberty, and
wood agin. Ez old ez he wuz, he he'd
shot Fedrel pikkets, and tho age he'd
dimmed his eyes and the newnis Nv
BdscOm's likker had affected his nerves
he believed hecood do suthin in that
way yit. He.desired nothin so much
eZ to git crack at an ablishnist. He
preferred KILN ablishuists to niggers
any day. " '
Issaker PUgram Wuz more in earnest.
He Wdntid war anyhow. He wuz tired
Nv all this beatin about the hush. He
he'd killed niggers to keep em from vo-
tin, wich he felt wuZ base colDprO-
mise. 1t wuz an admishin that the
Niger he'd right to vote eff ne wasn't
killed, wich he would never consent
to. He wantid an appele to arms that
the rite Nv the proud Caucasian TO rool
mite be established forever. His voice
wuz for war. He wuZ thirsty for gore.
No compromise for hin-war to the
knife.
Capt. M'Pelter wuz for war. He
he'd suffered wunst and wuz willin to
agin. He WIZ glad that Tilden wuz
countid out, for it showed the South
they he'd nothin to expect from the
ablishn North. War wuz the only re-
course left free people.
The resOlOOshens presentid breethed
warlike sperit wich almost alarmed
me. They wuz ez follows:
WHEREAS, The Dimocrisy nv the
Southern States by virtue NV that eter
nal vigilence wich is the price NV lib
erty, and shOtguns, triumphed over
ablshism in Floridy, South Kerliny
and Los isaner;and wharas, to do this re-
quired constant ridin, and an expendi-
ture Nv buck shot unparalleled in the
history Nv eleckshuns; and wharas,
when you hev killed pigger or hung
white ablishnist you are entitled to
the benefits resultin from it; and whar-
as, Abiishn Offishls and ReturniD
Boards hev cody thrown out all par
ishes where u decent regard for Dem.
okratic triumph compelled US to pre-
vent niger votin, and thus given the
States to the Radical Hayes; therefore,
be it o. l-
Resolved, That the Corners, realizin
the gravity Nv the sitOoashen, and feel
in the importance nv its ackshen, de-
clares that it never will stand it, that
il will never submit TO this outrageous
interference with its rites; that it will
never consent to the inoggerashen Nv
an Ablishnist, but will take I'D arms,
veStige NV Radikelism is wiped out.
Resolved, That the Corners is for
war, and that whether the DimOcrasy
NV the North submits or not, it never
will. .s.a
Resolved, That we accept no COM
promise, but will hev all we claim or
lite. 2.5
Resolved, That what We want is q
Dnnt,hIfn nd for
ever from the North, sch ez wuZ con-
templated in 1861, and for wich We
struggled till We wuZ overcome by the
power of the hords which Linkin
hurled upon US.
These reSOlnOshenS wuZ passed yOO-
unanimously, and three cheers and q IT,
ger wuz given with ferver that show
ed that the old war sperit he'd surviv-
wuz an OppOrtoOnity.
Jist at this mint Joe Bigler rose and
desired to make few remarks. A
nativ Nv Kentucky, he should go with
his State, but he questioned the wis
dom Nv goin. Eff we secede agin, who
is to pay the Southern war claims? He
understood there wuz suthin over
500. 900 NV em in the Corners alone,
and ef yOo cut off the North. who is to
pay EN-? lr-.
Bascom crowd pale, and hitched on
easily in his seat.
And then agin he sposed the breth-
rem wich wuz thirstin for gOar fondly
imagined thet eff we heda republik Nv
our own that every one Nv EN- wood
hev postoffis, and collectOrship. Fa-
tai delooshen! The moment seshesh-
en- wuz established and the moo gov
ernment formed there wood be an in
fiux Nv Nor hern DimOcrats down
here, who wood take every place in
the gift Nv the government. Fernan-
dy Wood will come
The n eetin howled.
Dirty shirt Dean wood come
More howls.
Little sammy Cox wood come