Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1877-06-15
NAsBY.
His Views as 60 the Presidents Policy
A Few UnimpOrtant Demands.
CoNFEDRTT X RoADs,
wIoH Is IN THE STATE w KENrUcKY,
NAV 1877

A Few UnimpOrtant Demands.
CoNFEDRTr ROADS,
WIoH IS IN THE STATE Wy KENruoKY,
May %, 1877.
The Yooserper Hayes is nothin hut
Disappointment to the Corners. He
duzn't give me half chance, and seems
to take delite in disappintin my ex-
pectashens. When he removed the 900
soldiers from the South, and thus eman.
cipatcd from the grinding effex NV mill.
tary despotism three millyuus NV people,
IL seemed TO be so dreckly aimed at my
interest that took 1t ez a personal mat.
ter. Them soldiers he'd bin board, lodgin
and likker to me for a great mennyyeers
Whenever we, NV the Corners, wuz re-
preached for not doin nothin, Good sl-
luz infame the people in Bascom's and
wither the reproacher by askin wat Good
be expectid when the Corners wuz a
groanin under military roolf "Dose Po-
land go forrerd in the path Nv progress?"
askt. Pint me in histry to any sub
joogatid nashen that ever did anything
when the iron hands NV military power
wuz onto their throats. Even the Jews
when in captivity hung their harps onto
the willers, and refused to sing in strange
lands. Give us our freedom agin, and
we may once more hist q cheerful stave
and warble gaily. But ez it is-Bas, ON,
jist one more, ef there's room on the
slate"
But now that the 900 sojers is removed
and ez we hain't got no excoose for not
Quittin Bascom's and goin out and doin
somethin, Pollock and Bigler jeer at US.
The meetin NV Congris which wuz to
hev taken place in Joon wood hev given
us suthin to go on. he'd speeches keer-
fully prepared to shoot of at the Admin
istration, wich wuz to hev furnisht our
member Nv Congris, wich was scathin
denunshiashens NV Hayes, and ez they
wood hev come in afore the froots of the
yooserper's policy had showed itself, and
ez we Good predict all sorts Nv trubble,
it wood help keep alive the wanin hopes
NV men like me. But now he hez gone
and postponed the meetin till October,
by wich time them recreant Southerners
pond will hev got things ther own way,
and we be left helplis. It's too provokin.
But ef he thinks we are goin to be
satisfied with the concessions he hez
made he Is mistaken. The Southern
heart once fired keeps smolderin long
time, and amt so easily squenched. The
Corners hez demands to make, and the
Corners hez got to hev wat it wants afore
it will be satisfied, or consider the work
of reconstruckshen properly done. The
Corners wants prosperity, and the Cor
hers demands that the Government makes
the Corners prosperous. We heven't got
the money to do it, but we want it, and
ef the Government wants that acquies-
ence that it seems to consider so desra
bic, the Government will see that it is
done.
The Corners demands NV the General
Government, ez follows:
/. The slack-watrin NV Slawter erik,
to make it navigable for boats Nv the
largest class, at all seasons Nv the year.
1--WE may demand that the Government
put the boats on, but will let that go for
the presently
2. The guaranteein NV the bonds NV
the Confedrit X Roads & Secessionville
Railroad, and the compleshun NV that
road, that we may avoid haulin, by teens,
the likker and other necessaries Nv life
wich We hev to buy in louisville.
8. The immejit bildin uv an arsenal at
the Corners, and the ofliserln Nv the
same from the citizens thereof, that
some kind Nv manufakterin may be done
here.
4. The immejit bildin Nv levee on
Slawter erik, that the lands of Deekin
Pogram and Issaker Gavitt, and sich
lands ez l may hereafter purchis may not
be overfiowed.
5. The compleshun Nv the plank road
from the Corners up Red Run, by the
way of POkerville, to avoid the nigger
settlement at Freedom, wich are custom
ers Nv Pollock's, wich is carpet Dagger,
and amt Republican, and ain t there
fore entitled to no considerashun what
ever from consiliatory administrashun
8. The buildin Nv permanent post
offs and Government bildins at the Cor
ners.
Z. The dredgin out NV the mouth Nv
Sandy Run, to make u landin there, that
we kin hev proper markit for our prod
oose when we git niger laber cheap
enuff to begin to raise some.
Their are some other things wich we
shel want, that we may be properly con.
siliated; the compleshun Nv the Davis
eshen Nv lands to finish the "Biblikle In
stitoot," wich never got further than the
layin Nv the corner stun, but them things
will come up afterward. Wot hev
enoomerated will do for the present.
The South wants nussin, and won't be
passifed without 1t. How are we goin
to enter upon career Nv prosperity on
less the Government furnishes the means?
We are an high-spirited but an impover-
isht people, and want to be cared for.
The war took away our labor and left us
helplis. Go into Bascom's any day, or
any mite, and you will see ther hundred
helplis men, whose fields are untitled,
and all NV EN- groanin over the condishn
Nv things. Our railroads are not built,
our slack-watrin amt dun, and every
thing is at a stand.still. The niggers
wich wuz wunst ourn are labrin for their
selves, and spendin ther earnins on their
selves. They are prospectus? Troo.
But they amt the ones to be prosperus.
We, the sooperior class, are the ones
wich must heV the festerin keer Nv a pa
ternal and maternal Government.
Let the Government do this for us and
ther will be peece.
Deny us these modrit rekests, and
there will continyoo to be that sullen
feelin wich alluz exists in a proud tho
people. May the yooserper
and his Senit be wise.
PETROLEUM V. Massey,
Wich is opprest.
p. S.-My appintment to the Postoffis
At the Corners wood go CRATE way to
ward cOnsiliatin the Corners II wood !
consulate two, me and Bascom. Itwood |