The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1877-02-08
NASBY.
THE CONERs DECIDE FOR WAR, BUT JOE
BTGLER UNSETTLES THEIR MINDS-THE
SUDDEN ENDING OF A MEETING.
CoNFEDRIT X ROADS,

SONt ~ hOADS,
(WICH Is THE STATE wv KENTUCKY, {
The infamus countin out Nv Tilden, the
Reform candidate, in spite NV the niger
killid, bulldozin and intimidashun we did
to kerry Floridy, Loozsaner add South
keriny, will go down into histry ez the
final stab at the liberties Nv brave and
oppreSt people. | hev no words to express
my indignashen at the deed, or my loathin
Nv the deeders. When l think that over
a thousand niggers was killed in them
States, and that the KILN NV that thous-
and scared for at least a thousand more ::
when | think Nv the pains we took to keep
abllshinists from votin, and when | think
NV the mastery way we countid in the
parishes our rife clubs took control NV, and
that after all this we wuz countid out by
the Returning Boards, and sich, unheld
by the minyuns Nv Fedrel power, hev no
hesitashcn in assertin that our pretense Nv
liberty Is holer mockery, and that the
idee Of "a government by the people mite
ez we'll be abandoned at wanst
The Corners resolved never to submit
to the outrage, and the mint the Yoonitid
States Marshal got away, the war feelin
got so intense, that it he'd to have vent.
Their amt only one way for the Corners to
work off It's excitement, and that is by
a meetin. | called one immejitly, and so
intense wuz the meeting that every citizen
Nv the Corners was present.
L never seed sich a feelin since I wuz
child. There wuzn't any loud, busterin,
Unnecessary talk-men felt it wuz no time
for talk, but ackshen. Their wuz that com
preshen NV lip, that stern look, that thot-
tul eXpreshen that one sees here only i'm
times Nv CRATE 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 Pugram remarkt that the cOuntin
out Nv Iilden wuz an outrage to wich the
Corners wood never submit. The Cor
ners had made sacrifices afore for constitu-
tional liberty, and wood agin. Ez old ez
he wuz, he had shot Fedrel pikets. and
the age he'd dimmed his eyes and tt e
newnis Nv, Bascom's likker he'd affected
his nerves, he believed he Good do suthin
in that way yit He desired nothin so
much ez to cit crack at an ablishnist He
preferred KILN abishnists to niggers any
day.
Issaker Pogram wuz more in earnest.
He wantid war anyhow. He wuz tired NV
all this beatin about the bush He had
killed niggers to keep EN- from votin, wich
he felt wuz base compromise. 1t wuz an
admishn that the Niger he'd rite to vote
he wuZn't killed, wich he wood never con-
sent to. He wantid an apple to arms that
the rite Nv the proud Caucasian to rool
might be established forever. His voice
wuz for war. He wuz thirsty for gore.
No compromise for him-war to the knife.
Capt. McPelter wuz for war. He had
suffered wunst and wuz willin to agin. He
wuz clad that Tilden wuz countid out, for
it showed the South that they he'd nothing
to expect from the ablishn North War
wuz the only resource left free people.
The resolooshens presented breethed a
warlike sperit wich almost alarmed me.
They wuz ez follows:
WAREAs, The Dimocrisy Nv the South
ern States by virtune NV that eternal vigi-
lence wich is the price Nv liberty, and shot
guns, triumphed over ablishism in Floridy,
South Kerliny and Looisaner, and
WAREAs, To do this required constant
ridin, and an expenditure Nv buck shot
unparalleled in the history Nv eleckshurs,
and.
WAREAs, When you hev killed mig
ger, or hung a white ablishnist you are
entitled to the benefits resultin from it, and
WAREAs, Ablishn offishls and Return
in Boards hev cody thrown out all parishes
were decent regard for a Democratic
trump compelled US to prevent nigger votin,
and thus given the States to the Radical
Hayes therefore, be it.
ReSokced, That the Corners, realizin the
gravity Nv the sitoashen, and feelin the
importance Nv its ackshen, declares that it
never will stand it, that it will never sub
nit to this outrageous interference with its
rites that it will never consent to the
inograshen Nv an Ablishnist, but will take
up arms, and never lay EN- down till the
last vestige of Radikelism is wiped out.
Reso{oed, That the Corners is for war,
and that whether the Dimocrisy Nv the
North submits or not, it never will.
ReSOtred, That we accept no compro-
mise, but we will hev all we claim or fite.
Resoited, That what we want is South
ern Republic, and a divorce forever from
the North, sich ez wuz contemplated in
1861, and for which we struggled till we
wuz overcome by the power of the hordes
wich Linkin hurled upon us.
These resolooshens wuz passed yoonani-
mously, and three cheers and a tiger wuz
given with ferver that showed that the
old war sperit he'd survived, and that all
that was necessary wuz an oppertoonity.
Just at that mint Joe Digler rose and
desired to make few remarks A native
NV Kentucky he shood go with his state,
bat he questioned the wisdom Nv goin. Eff
we secede agin, who is to pay the South
ern war claims He understood there wuz
suthin over 100000 Nv EN- in the Cor
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