Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-12-25
Nasty.

.... Ds--e-
M. Nasty Utters Protest against
the "Hoscls" Of the Northern Re.
publican Press Over the Prevention
orNegroes Voting in The South.
From the Toledo Blade.
CoNrEpRiT X ROADS, witch il in
the State Nv kentucky, December 10.
lSfS.-l foresee trouble. My pro-
phetic sole looks forrerd year or
two, and perceeves q cloud loomin
up In the fucher, wich bodies up Nv the
South no good. foresee raid wich
will be made onto the euffrin South,
and possibly II may be successful.
foreseea revival NV the hustilities
wich led to fratricidle struggle be-
twixt the sexshuns in 1861, and pos
sibly gore.
The North is not content with
things ez they are. The North per-
sists in bleevin that the rights NV the
niggers in the South hez bin violated,
and that they hev bin deprived NV
the priviligis Nv freemen, witch they
fortify by assertin ez a fact that in the
Cross Roads alone seventy five mig.
gers wuz killed FOR insistin upon vot-
in the Republican ticket, and thst 500
wuz kept away from the poles by
force
AT least let the people nv the North
bev the truth. Our enemies will find
that nOthin kin be gained by misrep-
resentashun and false statements. /
will give the exact facts:
There wuz only seventy-two killed,
the other three bein merely severely
woundid. One Nv the woundid may
hev died sence but am not certain.
There wuznt 500 druv away from
the poles the exact number wuz 49l
| Itis by such falsehoods that the
sufrin South 10 beiu prejoodist. II is
by the means Nv such lies that Con
girls will be Influenced agin givin by
SIGH appropriateness as we desire, and
payin the Southern war debt, and
penshunnin Southern soljers. I, is
by sich stupenjus lies that the radi-
kels hope to elect President in 1880.
Neither will tine subsidized Rsui-
KEEL press give the troo, reasona, or
rather the philosophy Nv our ackshens
in this matter.
The fact il, we did not deny the
rite Nv the niger to vote. We desir-
ed EN- 10 vote. We went into their
settlements and implored em, ez they
loved Kentuck, to come and deposit
their ballots like freemen. We re.
minded en- that many Nv en- he'd the
best blood of Kentucky in their
vanes, that there " uz those among em
who could proudly point to the Bias.
CONS, GaviIts, and Pograms ez their
ancestors. vs. askt EN- to jine US In
effort to save the South from hoomil.
iashen by sendin up clean DimecrAt.
ic delegashuu, and by sich msjori,iet
ez wood teech the Vanual North thai
the State wuz yOOnit agin their un.
holy ekeems Nv subjoogashen.
We reminded em that they he'd an
ekal interest with us in prokoorin ap.
proprisshuns. st 10 troo," We said
to em, "that you will not have contras
on the ship canal, or even on the Gus
tom House at the Corners, nor vii
you be penshuued for servis in tn,
COnfedrit army, butt money will
come here, and ez You furnish all tht
pervishuns, we not bein fond NV Ia
Dor, II will git around to yon il
time"
Il Aud We reminded EN- NV a grea
many more things.
They come to the polls on our In,
vitation, 49l, wich wuz q majority
They came unarmed. save with iha
2 weapon wich is firmer set and strong
. er than the bayonet, tho ballot. TX
r our horror we diskivered that every
last ono NV the black cusses Ihed Re
publikin tickets and proposed to vot'
emil
Nv course this woodn't do. w,
a wantid em TO exercise the rite Nv suf
TRACE, but they mustexercise it OF W
wanted EN- to.
! We closed the poles immejitly, til
We Good hasten homo and git on
! shot-guns and rsvolvcrs. Then VI
, opened the poles agin aud remonstra
) ted with em agin this outrage. w
!, felt that we wuz bein coerced in per
: mittin unholy R.dikel majority q
. the Cornere, witch hez aliuz bin Dim
q ekratie, and which shell ailuz be. W
. told em they shood vote, but the
4 must vote the Dimekratic ticket lii
q free men. Ell they felt they coo len
: do that, they had better not iufar,
1 the Corners and provoke bloOdshe'
by stAyin around the poles.
II One Nv EN- demanded the rite 8
: vote " ne pleased, when Isaaker Cav
). lit, wich il naturally quicE, blew al
r top Of his head of with charge u
. buck shot. HeviA tasted blood, " gen
) teral ba..oo ensued in witch seventy
n two NV eM wuz killed, and the res
5 took 10 ,her heels. snd refoosed l.
!. vote.
i This Is all there " az In the matte,
+ Possibly there wuZ more Nv EN- ki'ie,
: than wuz strik,y necessary. Posi-
8 bly, KILN fifty, or perhaps twenty
i five rood hev answered the pnrpi
E jest ez well. Ef so we are sorry an
are willin to apologize to the friend
Il W the deceast. We desire allus t
do the proper and manly thing.
But when we are asked to permit
9 Republican majority AT tho Corner.
, we say no! anc we will say it at tn
muzzle Nv a shotgun, eff needs beth
we bed ruther not. We wood niue
: PREFER that the misguided men WOO
listen to reason and come into III
Dimekratic fold by peaceful means
:. but come. they must or suffer the con
] sciences.
Why, look att. Without hevin
4 solid South how kin we aekoor th
!, speshl appropriations witch we mus
y hev2 How kin We drive the Mort
8 into the pay ment Nv our debt. an tth
penshuns NV our soljers? How XII
Il we elect the next President, aud ru
!. the Government in the interests Il
y the South? Withs divided delegs
D. shun 1t wood be impossible. Let ID
I North think Nv our necessities an
= we are shoor they will approve GU
Il ackshen.
= l do not know that this simple STATE
= ment will have any effeck upon th
.. besotted Northern press, but 1t isa
Ie we kin do. Ef We are to be maia
II suffer for protectin ourselves, then .
1t must be. We at least will die iii
,. heroes. PETROLEUM V. NAsRr,