The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-05-16
Nasty ON THE EXODUS.
The Corners in Trouble with the Ever
lasting BOthersOme Negroes.
From the Toledo BIade.l

From the Toledo Bladel
CONFEDERATE X ROADS, !
(Which is in the State Nv Kentucky :
April ~, 1879.
We are havin truble with the niggers
here, witch will end, the Lord above only
knows where. The bother kin be stated
in Il few words
SIGH Nv the niggers in the vicinity NV
the Corners eZ don't own their own land
too many Nv EN- do), hev to leese land NV
the white citizens witch is the material
proprietor NV the soil. Every Kentucki-
an heZ a consOOmin desire for the welfare
NV the niger, and that the niger lessor
may be happy and cOntentid. He lets
him hev land for, say $40 an akre a
year, the sed land bein wurth about that
in fee simple.
1t liz troO that the niger generally
comes out in debt to the proprietor sew
eral hundred dollars; but we hev never
bin hard onto EN-. We hev allus give
EN- the privilege Nv workin out what
they owed by cuttin cord wood or gittin
out ralerodc ties in the winter, witch,
conslderin we Good demand cash, is a
cOnseshun.
They are an Ongrateful people. Deck
IN Program let one Nv EN- hev 20 akers NV
his farm. and the niger worked it well.
lie made good crops NV corn and pota-
toes and SIGH, and congratulated hisself
on the prOspeck Nv Twin comfortable
during the winter. When the time for
settlement come, in the fall, the Deekin
took the entire crop and demonstrated
to the ongrateful man that he wuz in
debt to him eggsactly $500. The niger
couldn't understand 1t, but renewed the
leese another year, paying off 800 NV
his debt gettin out railrode ties In the
winter.
This may be considered exorbitant by
the unthinkin, but it will be readily seen
that gentleman can't live and play draw
poker, and bet on races on anything less
And then it must be taken into account
that the niger wuZ the substance NV the
proud Cawcashun afore the war, and we
see no reson why he shood not be the
same now.
And to the end that he shell not git too
rich it is alluz includid in the leese that
the niger shell buy everything that he
eats, drinks and wears, Nv the owner, and
that his crops shell be held by him till all
these advances are paid.
This second yeer wuZ tuff one on the
Deek1n, as he lost power Nv money at
the Louisville races, and, CONSISTENTLY, in
the fall the niger was brot in debt $500
Mlrandy Pogram kept the accounts.
Now wat does this cussid ongrateful
niger do? Remarkin that it struck him
that eft he kept on workin the Deekin's
land, and worked hard and faithfully
enuff, he wood, in time, owe more than
the nashunel debt, he undertook to leeve
for Kansas.
This wuz an attempt at repudiashcn :;
and while white state may properly re-
poodIate its indebtednis, Il niger indi-
yIlJle kin never be permitted to do it.
we nlpt this attempt at swindlin the
Deekin in the bud. The niger wuz no.
tilted that we must hev his labor. to the
end NV developin the resources NV the
kentry, and that he must STAY and labor
ez he alluZ he'd dun, and be content, ez
he shOod be-
Despite this warnin he did get away
to the river and wuZ waitin for down
bound boat when he wuz mysteriously
shot. Who did the richeous act will
never be known, but it wuZ sed that
Isaaker Gavitt wuZ in that neighbOrhood.
and that jist after the report smoke wuz
seen to issue from the muZzle Nv his
trusty double-barreled shotgun.
EZ ther amt only one way that we
KIN DO blZnis with this people, and ez
the case hev citid is about the repler
thing, the niggers are discOntentid gen
orally, and are all DESTROYS NV gittin
away. They say that they amt allowed
to vote, that they can't hev any skools,
and that they are robbed NV their labor,
and that ther amt no redress for en-, for
the courts and SIGH are agin en-. They
can't understand that they are morally
our property anyhow-that we wus or
iginally robbed NV EN- by that feened
Linkin, and that we are entitled to Their
labor. Wat kin they want NV skools,
when the whites NV this seckshun hev
got along without EN-? Ez for votin,
that is absurd. They havn't the intelll-
gence.
The entire colored populashen hev bin
notified that they can't go, and must
live with US, and enjoy here the blessins
NV freedom. But they keep slippin off
all the time, and there is the doleful
prospeck Nv the corners becomin a des-
ert for want Nv labor
! spose the radikels NV the north will
raise howl agin this, but we don't keer.
We hev got poseshun nv the capital, the
northern DimOcrisy hev resoomed their
old posishun, and we can smile at their
protestashuns. Eff we let the liggers off
this easy they may consider it lucky.