Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1877-05-04
NASBY,
More Trouble AT the COrners-COlOr
Bothers the Saints In IA New Way.
CoNHDRIT ROADS

wIcH rs IN THE STATE Nv KENTUCKY,
April H. 1877
We he'd to hev an eleckshun for Jus.
tis NV the Peece at the Corners, last
week, to fill vacancy. Eliphalet Boyer,
who has filed the pOsishen to the entire
satisfacshen Nv the people, that is the
white people, for the last forty yeers,
FINELY succumbed to Bascotfl's likkeI and
the unconstoosenl eleckshun NV Hayes,
and went to his long home. PeeCe to his
ashesl He was gilelis man, and good
one. 1t wuz his constant boast that in
his 40 yeers Nv servis he alluz Civ YER
dick for the plaintiff. I" Ef the plaintiff
wuZn't in the right wat in thunder did he
500 for?" wuz his remark. When the un-
constooshnel Fifteenth Amendment wuz
passed, Squire Boyer devotid his entire
energies to decidn agin them niggers.
lie varied his practis so much that it didn't
make any diffrens whether the niger wuz
plaintiff or defendant, the verdick wuz
invariably agin him. His rool wuz that
whenever two white men dispoots one NV
en- must be rite, but that it wuZ impossi-
BILE that nigger shood be rite under any
circumstances. So healthy and vigrus a
prejoodis he'd he agin the niger that hev
knowd him, when one niger sood an
other, to give verdiCk agin both Nv en-,
wich wuz triumph NV correspondence.
And they felt themselves lucky eff he
didn't commit en- for contempt Nv court.
Good old man! We shell never see his
like agin.
Squire Bower hevin gone hentz we he'd
to elect Justis to fill his place, and in
the Convenshun Deekin Pogram and Alb
81, Do tI,n
developed good deel NV strength, but
the Deekin hevin invitid the Convenshun
out to take suthin, it turned the scale and
he wuz Illuminated. Pettus swore he
wood never stand that kind Nv tactics,
and he declared hisself an independent
candidate, at which we laft, for the Dim
ocrisy Nv the Corners are firm bleevers in
the sanctity Nv rcGler nominashens.
The Radikels, mostly niggers, heidi
by Pollock and Bigler, met anu resolved
to make no nominashen, and so the con.
test wuz between the good old Deekin
aund this wretched disorganizin Pettus,
and a very lively canvass it wuz.
The niggers called a meetin, wich per-
ceedin filled us with astonishment. Sich
thing had never happened here before,
and we all wondered what it meant.
"Uv course this can't be permitted"
sed the Deekin.
g Not any," sez I. "It's angin nacher,
and must be prevented"
And so on the mite Nv the meetin
Issaker, Capt. McPelter and the rest Nv
the faithful went to the hall over Pol
locks store, where the niggers wuz in
session, and pullin our revolvers advised
en- to git. The niggers didn't git, for up
sprung Pettus and about dozen Nv his
friends and made some few remarks.
"Theze gentlemen" sed Pettus, is
citizens of the Yoonited States, and ez
sich hev rite to meet and consult ez to
the condishn Nv our common country.
They are goin to do it, or 700 hev me
to fite, ez we'll ez them. This thing is
played out"
wuz struck dun with astonishment,
Why, this is revolooshen! This is
anarkyl This is turnin and an up
heevle The dee NV white man and a
Dimekrat sidin with niggers and radi-
kels! Pettus, wat do yoo mean? Set
down, sir! The Dimocratic party holds
700 to your allegiance"
Course the Dlmerkratic party" wuz
the reply Nv this infiddel. 81 want to be
Justis and Pm goin to be! l perpose
to beet that old sucker"
The niggers held their meetin and re-
solved to cast their ballots for Abslum
Pettus, Esq.
Will they be allowed to voter" askt
the Deekin, his voice quiverin with emo
shun.
Never" sed l. "Ef they vote, then
chaos comes agin."
The elecshun wuz held last Monday
Early in the mornin Pettus, and dozen
or two NV renegade Dimocrats, with Pol
lock and that infamous Joe Bigler, all NV
EN- with revolvers, wuz on hand when
the poles wuz opened, with more than a
hundred niggers. Instid NV hevin Po-
gram, Bascom and McPelter for the Board,
wich hez bin the custom for yeers, they
insistid upon bein represented themselves,
and ez they wuz largely in the Majority
they put nigger on the Board.
The Dimocrisy rallied but it wuz evi
dent they wuz demoralized. Pettus
talked all day about the rites NV all citi-
zens TO vote, and ez the niggers he'd bin
made citizens he swore they shood vote,
or he'd know the reason why, espeshelly
ez they wuz all votin for him, And
Pollock and Bigler backed him up, and
the niggers took heart, hevin support
from so many white men, and they came
in in droyes, and votid ez materially ez tho
they he'd bin alluz yoosed to it,
And ez we he'd no chance to do the
countin by ourselves, OWN to that mig
gers bein on the Board with Pettus and
Bigler standin right behind him, the
ornary cuss wuz declared electid, and
Deekin Pogram defeetid, by large ma
| Jority.
This is the end NV all things. Pettus
hez declared for the administrator Nv
the yooserper Hayes, and hea changed