The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1879-07-04
NASBY.
The Citizens of "Confetlrit" Cross Roads
hold Meeting to give to the world Their
Views as TO the General Condition of
Things Rev. Petroleum v. Nasby's
Report of the Meeting.

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Things Rev. Petroleum v. Nasby's
Report of the Meeting.
The citizens NV the Corners hey bi
profoundly moved by the sitooashen II
things in Washington, and felt calle
upon to make sum expression NV thei
feeling on the topiks that are now ag
taten the kentry.
The Corners felt called upon to ex
press in public manner that it recop
llized the result NV the late war, an
desires nuthin SO much ez peace an,
quiet; that it fully recognized the fac
that the nigger is free, and is entitle,
to rites; and that the Corners is trool
loyal to the Government of the Yooni
ted States.
L called the meetin at the meetin
house, the scene nv so many demonstra
tions, and committee NV ladies head
ed by Mrs. Bascom prepared It for tn,
sollem okkasion. 1t was draped will
the flags NV the different confedri
regiments wich wus raised in this seek
shun, and that the proper excitemen
be prodoosed, all the reliks NV the wal
wuz brot out and displayed. Deekil
Pogram's dawter Mirandy he'd Oh eacl
side nv the pulpit desk the skulls NV
two Federal hirelins wich her lover
brot from Bull Bun, illuminated will
candles, wich wuz fianked by the thigh
bones NV several other hirelins wich
Captain McPelter brot from Anderson
vile. The drum witch Issaker Gavitt
Deet at Fort Pillow wuz draped with a
battle flag Simon Pettus kerricd at the
same victory, and other mementoes
NV the great struggle for the libty
NV the South wuz properly displayed.
The procession filed out NV Bascoms',
the men dressed in Confedrit gray and
the wimin hevin the colors NV the Con-
fedracy in minatoor pinned to their left
brests, heddid by fife and drum under
the stars and bars, and playin "Thc
Bonny Bloc Flag"
Wv course | made the opening speecb.
l repelled with scorn the accusasbun
that the South had any idee that tber
wuz any iecln NV disloyaltv at the Cor
ners. The Corners wuz detected in lis
struggle for human rites and the perpet-
ooashen NV Afrikin slavery, and heyin
bin detected, accepted the sitooashcn.
The Corners, espeshly, vile it Good new
er forgit how crooeliy it he'd bin dison-
plnted in not preservin its heyin-boin
rites, wuz as loyal ez any SIMILAR place,
ana desired to live in peace and harmo-
ny with ther brethren Nv the North.
Deekln Pogram repelled with skorn
the akkGsashun that thar wuz enny DIFF
ference between the two races Mt the
Corners. Here peece and quiet rains.
and there he'd ben no trouble. He
knew NV 200 niggers wich wuz very
quiet, thanks TO the shotguns NV the
Intrepid Gavitt, and the shivalrous
M'Pelter. And cf this retched race
PERSONNEL to make emmy more troub-
BILE thar wuz, thank hevin, still powder
and buckshot at the Corners, and gal
liant men who never missed nigoer's
head, when they drawed a bead onto it.
The niger he'd learned his place and
he Good ashoor his friends nv the North
thet he Good safely be left TO the oi-
dance nv his material protectors, his
former masters. And then he deman-
did freedom NV eleckshuns. He want
ed EN- fire. ez they wuz afore the war.
when the citizens NV the Corner Good
hang a aberlishunist which offered to
vote, without feer Nv the interferin NV
Fedral bayonits. The South must be
free.
The follerin resolooshuns prepared
by myself wur then red and adoptid:
Wareas, Thar IL in the North fcelin
that the Corners is irritated, and dis
contended, and thet thar is feeling
agin the genral Government wich we
feel it our duty 10 allay, therefore, be it
Resolved, That these rights are ez
tollers:
l. The payment of Southern war
clames and the penshunin of Southern
sojers. [Cheers.
2. The adopshun NV the prinsiple
that the Yoonyun is Confederashun,
not nashun, and the accordin NV the
rite NV each state to remain in or stay
ont jest ez it pleases.
). That the Yoonyun IL Nashun
for the purpose of payin clames, pen
shuns, and bildin custom houses and
SIGH, but for no other purposis.
4. No troops shel be yoosed al the
poles enywhere in the South, except ON
tho call nv Contedrit govnor, the citi-
zcns NV the South bein supplied with
rlhes ana shotguns and bein thoroughly
organized In White Leagues, bein am
ply able to take keer NV themselves.
o. All ralerodes and canals wich the
south shall deside it wants, shel be bilt
by the general government, it bein a
nashun ez aforesed for that purpus.
b. The harbors NV Boston and Moo
York shel be filled up at the expense nv
the general government, that the sea-
board cities NV the sunny South may
hev show fur some NV the furrin trade
NV the kentry.
z. That the nigger bein an inferior
Dein and only understood by us, shell be
left entirely to our rool and gidance.
No more legislashun by the general
guvernment-wich for this pnrpus is
not nashnn-on his akkount.
8. The wipin ont nv all The legisla-
shun nv the war period, the South not
bcin in Congris 10 give its assent, hevin
Congris NV lis own at the time, and
the concession on the part NV the North
to the South nv the control NV the gov
ernment in full, ez il yoosed to be under
Polk, Pierce and Bookannon.
3. That the tax on distillin likker
shel not be collected in the Confedrit
states, the Yoonyun moi bein IA nashun
for that purpus.
10. The veto power shel NOT be
yoosed except by Suthern president,
or Northern one electid by Suthern
votes, wich is the same thing, it bein
crool to keep us out NV the full controle
nv the government until 1880.
Resolved, That ontil these things, one
and all, is done, ther kin be no harty
feelin nv yoonyun, and either is anoth-
er fratrisidle struggle the responsibility
rests with them ez denies us these, our
reasonable demands.
The resolooshens Wuz adoptid with
CRATE chcerin. and the meetin ajurned.
On our way back to Bascom's we burn
ed Niger school house, and believe
nigger or two wich we met wuz shot.
We are troo Yoonyun and entirely
peecefnl.
UNCONSCIOUS SARCASM. -"There were
two men got into fight in front of the
| store. tO-liay - said n North End man nj