Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1879-05-16
CoNFEDERATE ROADS.
WfCH Is IN TIN STATE or KENTUCKY,
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absurd stories NV the treatment the col
ored citizens are receivin in the South,
the desire bein, cleerly, to preioodis the
North agin the Suthern Seckshun wich
wuz crushed in an unholy croosade
agin its rites, and wich hez never re-
covered from the same.
1t is especially charged that the
cussed niger has no rites in the courts,
and that when opposed by proud
Kentucky Cawcashen he is crowded to
the wall without the slightest chance
for his life. To show the utter nom
sense NV this statement, give truth
full report NV a case tried afore Square
Pettus Justice NV the Peace for our
Township.
Simeon Claghorn, ez he calls himself
now, tho he wuz a slave wunst NV that
sweet and gilelis saint Deekin Pogram
(Which family he resembles to a degre
that made the late Mrs Pogram infooria-
ted whenever she saw his mother, he
havin the giHooine Pogram nose), wuz
a tenant NV the Deekin's, and hez bin
for two yeers. He agreed to pay the
Deekin so yeer per akre for the land,
and also agreed to buy his entire sup
plies NV that liberal and Chrischen
man. At the eend NV the first yeer, the
Deekin took his entire crop and brot
him in debt suthin like S400, which the
nigger tried to work out in the winter
cuttin and gettin out railroad ties, from
the Deekin's wood lot, on wich he hez
lived ever since the crooel war deprived
him NV his labor.
The next season the uigger found his
self in debt about $500, and he sub
mitted the matter to Joe Bigler, witch
| is pisen, and Josef actin ez his attorney
come down on the innosent old Deekin
with demand for bill NV items. Jo-
sef demanded that the niger have ke-
rect account of the grain and stuff wich
he he'd turned over to the Deekin, also
itemized account NV the supplies wich
the Deekin had furnished the nigger,
that it might be made manifest ez to
how the account stood.
| The Deekin was enraged. "Why
shood not my word be taken again a
nigger's,n he demanded. Il never
wuz called upon for anything NV the
kind afore. 1t is an outraged
But as Josef sood him afore Squire
Pettus fer the full amount NV the crops
which the Deekin had taken, the good
old man wuz forst to degrade hisself by
comm into court agin Ethiopian. 1t
wrung his sole, but he submitted, ez
we all hev he'd to do sence the Linkin
dynasty.
l helped the Deekin out. The two
seasons crops footid up $4,000, aud l
don't pay any attention to the Deekin' S
| books. ! made out bill charging the
nigger with S400 worth NV bacon, 5000
worth of flour, S400 worth of mules,
and the balance, to make his claim
good, in silk dresses for his wife and
sich other goods az sejested themselves
to fertile imaginashun.
That bill presented afore the Justis,
wich received it with the gravity Nv a
grand chancellor.
The good old Deekin swore. to his ac-
count ez he he'd it made, wich cleerly
established the fact that the nigger
owed him 1900.
The nigger presented another ac-
count, wich brot the Deekin in debt to
him sunthin like $500.
Joe Bgler remarked that the Deekin
he'd he'd his sware, and thet the nigger
shood be put onto the stand to sware to
! his statement.
l protested. ''Is nigger, a inferior
bein, to come into the court over which
Justice is supposed, ggeratively, to be
hoverin, and hev his testimony taken
agin one NV the proud Cawcashen race. :"
"Squarer exclaimed the Deekin in
agony, "am /, white man, to hev a
nigger brot into court to rob me? Eff
my bill amt big enuif to offset hisn and
bring him in debt to me, kin easily
amend it. Don't let this gross injustis
be doner'
1t wus a critikle and sollun moment.
On the decision NV Square Petrus hung
the fate NV Kentucky. 1t wus a 500
preme moment. One minnit of indecis-
ion, one minnit faltrin, and the white
race NV Kentucky lay grovelin at the
feet NV the inferior Afrikin, and we wuz
in chanes furever.
Square Pettus was, Fortunately, ekal
to the emergency. Risin in his sect
and Studying hisself at the desk in front
NV him, he sed that he knowd the eyes
NV Kentucky wus onto him, and that
Kentucky shood never be disappointed.
Il know suthin NV this case,' sed
the Square, sippin sip Nv Bascom' s
best, wich he he'd sent over to him in a
quart bottle, "afore it come into court.
l immeiitly antissipated that this plain
tiff wood demand to be sworn, and
that on this joodishel arena the inferor
African and the sooperior Cawcashun
wood meet in a final conflict. | pre-
pared myself. went and got Il man
wich Good read, and he'd him 90 thro
the statoots NV the State NV Kentucky,
passed prior, (Which ez | am informed,
means before,O the late unholy croo-
sade. l found there q statoot wich
perhibits the takin NV the testimony NV
a nigger in court NV iustis, wich this
is. 1t is troo that the Federal yusurpa-
shen made other laws, but Kentuck-
iun don't recognize that. A Kentucky
justis only recognizes his own State,
wich is a sovren. Recognizin only
Kentucky, splitting into an abolishn
Congress, and ignorin everything else,
it is the yoonanimus decision NV this
yere court, that all Federal laws recog-
Min the rites of the cussed Afrikin is
unconslitooshnel and that therefore
his testimony can not be admitted.
stand by my State" p"
But my wife never had silk dress,
mo- anythin' but caliko one" howled
the nlgger.
cit don't make no difference wat
700 say" replied the Justis. "The
Deekin, witch is a Cawcashun, swares
that yoor wife he'd four silk dresses NV
him, and, ez yoo can't be allowed to
swear at all, there amt no testimony
agin hizzen. This is a court NV law,
and law is law, ez you will find out,
Git one white man to sware that you
never got them dresses, and l will con-
slider it."
81 demand to be put on the stand
sed Joe Bigler.
"The Court can't admit your testi
mony, for you are prejudist witnis. v
Josef lated and left the court, much
to the Squire's releef, which contin'