The Portland daily press., 1879-05-05

| Account OF the Kind of Treatmen
Freedmen Receive mt the Corners, shsw.
ing that They Have No Reason for Dis
| satisfaction.
| The North is filled with all sorts nv absurd
stories Nv the treatment the colorei citizens
are receivin in the South, the desire bein,
cleerly, to prejo0dis the North sgin the Suth-
srn seckshun wich wuz crushed in an unholy
croosads sg:n its rites, and wich hez never re.
covered from the same. rrt
1t is especially charged thet the nigger hez
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 nonsense nv this state
ment, give truthful report nv q case tried
afore Square Pettus, justice nv the peece for
l our township.
Simeon ClaghorD, ez be calls hisself now, tho
/ he wuz slave wunst nv that sweet and eilelis
saint, Deekin Pogram, wuz tenant Nv the
deekn's and hez bin for two yeers. He agreed
to pay the deekin $40 yeer per aker for the
land, and also agreed to buy his entire supplies
nv that libral and Chrischen man, At the
eend Nv the first yeer the deekin took his en-
tire crop and brot him in debt suthin like S400
wich the niger tried to work out in the winter
cuttin and gettin out railrode ties from the
deekin's wood lot on wieh he hez lived ever
since the crooel war deprived him nv his labor
The next season the Niger found hisself in
debt about $500, and he submitted the matter
to Joe Bigler, wich Is pisen, and Josef, actin
sz his attorney come down on the innercent old
deekin with demand for bill nv items. Jo-
sef demanded thet the niger hev kerect So
count nv the grain and stuff wich he he'd
turned over to the deekin. Also an itemized
account nv the supplies witch the deekin he'd
furnished the niger, thet IL might be made
manifest ez to how the account stood.
The deekin wuz enraged. "Why shood not
my word be taken agin a niggef's?" he de-
msnded. "I never wuz called upon for any-
thing nv the kind afore. It Is an outraged
Bat ez Josef sood him afore Squire Psttus
for the full amount nv the crops wich the deck
10 he'd taker, the good old man wuz forst to des
grade hisself by comm into court sgin q Ethio-
plan. 1t rung his sole, but he submitted, ez we
all hsv he'd to do since the Lincoln dynasty.
!, helped the deekin out. The two seasons'
crops footid MP $1,000, and didn't pay any at
tenshun to the deekin's books. I made out
bill cbargin the niger with $4OO worth nv ba-
cop, $500 worth nv flower, $400 worth nv mules
and the balance, to make his claim good, in
silk dresse for his wife, and sich other goods
ez sejested themselves to fertile imaeinashun.
That bill 1 presentid afore the justs, wich re-
ceeved it with the gravity nv grand chancsl-
lor. .rs
The good old deekin swore to his account ez
he he'd 1t made, wich clearly established the
fact thet the nigger owed him 1890.
The niger presentid another account wich
brot the deekin In debt 70 hin suthin like 5000.
Joe Bigler remarked thet the dsekin he'd he'd
his sware, and thst the nigger shood be put on
to the stand to sware TO his statement.
Iprotestid. SIS . niger, inferior beiu, to
come into this court over witch Justis is sup-
posed, fggeratively, to be hoverin, and hsv his
testimony taken agin one nv the proud Cawca-
shun race. ,
"Squarep' exclaimed the deekin in agony,
am L, white man, to hev niger brot into
court to rob me? Eff my bill amt big enuff 10
Offset hsn aod bring him in debt to me kin
be dun!"
Il wuz q criticize and sollum moment. On
the decision nv Square Pettus hung the fate Nv
Kentucky. 1t wuz soopreme moment. One
miuft Nv luueClSuuU, OQ6 mlnlt TRltfln. and the
white race nv Kentucky lay grovelin ct the
feet Nv the inferior Afrikin, and we wuz in
chanes forever.
Square Pettus wuz, fortunitly, ekal to the
emergency. Risin In his sect and stiddyin his
self at the desk 10 front nv him, he said that he
knowd the eyes nv Kentucky wuz onto him,
and that Kentucky shood never be dsap-
pinted. -
"I know suthin nv this case" sed the square,
slipping sip nv Bascom's best, wIch he he'd
Rant n him in n rs hotf Nafo
come into court immejitly anticipated that
this planetif wood demand to be sworn, and
that on this joodishel arena the Inferior Afrikin
ard the soopefior Cawcashun wood meet In q
final conflict prepsred myself. I went and
got man witch Good read, and he'd him 90
throo the statoots nv the State nv Kentucky,
passed prior (wicb, ez am informed, means
before) the late unholy croosade. found
there statoot wch perhibits the takin nv the
testimony nv niger in court nv justis,
wich this Is. 1t is troo that the federal ysur-
pashun made other laws, but Kentuckian
don't recognize that A Kentucky justiss only
recognizes his own State, wich is sovren. Rec
ognizin only Kentucky, spittin onto an abolish
I'M Congress, aud ign0rin everythn else, 10 is
the yoonanimus decision Of this yere court that
all federal laws recognzin the rites nv the
cussed Afrikin is unconstitooshnel, and that
therefore his testimony cannot be admitted.
stand by my State +"
"But my wife never he'd q silk dress, nor
anythin but caliko ope'', howled the Niger
at don't make no difference wat 700 say
replied the justis. "rhe deekin, witch is q
Cawkashuu swares that yoor wife he'd four
silk dresses nv him, and ez 700 kan be allow. q
| to aware at all, thare ain't no testimony agin
| hizzen. This court nv law, and Law IL law,
| sz 700 will find out Git one white man TO
sware 700 never got them dresses, and I will
| consider 1t.
az demand to be put upon the stand, sed
Joe Biglsr.
"Ths Court kant admit yoOr testimony, for
josef laffed snd left the court much to the
| squares releef wich continnsred:
81 may say, however. that there may be no
| misunderstandin, that 1 ez indivijile, and not
| ez court, will shoot eny white kuss that dares
to kum into this court and sware for q rigger."
Aud that sturdy old Spartan cooked his
| bubble barreled shot, gun and sot down.
II may ez we'll beside the case here and
| now," sed the square, after q moments thot.
"Verdict for the plaintiff, and the constable
| will immejitly go for the defendant and make
him put up everything he's got for the costs"
The bill nv costs wuz immejitly made out,
| and the constable rushed out 10 the mizrable
| wretch house, and took wat furniture he he'd
Now what did this ongratsfal nlgger do? De.
| spite the fact that the deekin wsntid him to
keep right along, and live in peece and quiet
and plant his little farm, and work it thro the
season, and reap the harvest, that pigger got
together some little money from tho sale nv
mule which We overlooked, 1t bein pastered out
nv site nv the house, and started for Kansas.
| He utterly refoosed to stay among his friends
and pertectors, preferrin to rely upon the cold
| mercies nv calkilstn selfish Northern COM
munity, rather than trust them ez he he'd bin
| brot mp amidst.
| The ongrstefulnis nv this people is suthin
beyond understandin. They don't know when
| they are well enDff off, and they never did
| know who their friends wuz. shall never at
| tempt to do nothin more for EN-. They don't
appreshate us. Over hundred Nv EN- hev left
| already, leavin as without labor, and more
| wood 60, ef they could sell their accumula.
| shens which they hev robbed rs nv.
| The OkOlOua States