Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1879-06-20
Nasty.

Nasty.
THE CITIZENS OF ''CoNFEDRIT CROSS ROADS
HOLD MEETING TO GIVE To THE WORLD
THEIR VIEWS AS TO THE GENERAL CoNDI-
TIoN OF THINGs-REv. PETROLEUM V.
YAsBY's REPORT OF THE MEETING.
The citizens NV the Corners hey bin
profoundly moved by the sitooashen NV
things in Washington, and felt called up
on to make sum expression Nv their feel
ings on the topiks that are now agitaten
the kentry.
The Corners felt called upon to express
in public manner that it recognizes the
result Nv the hate war, and desires nuthin
so much ez peace and quiet that it fully
recognizes the fact that the niger is free.
and is entitled to rites and that the Cor
ners is trooly loyal to the Government of
the Yoonited States.
| called the meetin at the meetin-house,
the scene NV so many demonstrations, and
a committee NV ladies' headed by Mrs.
Bascom prepared it for the sollum Okla
sion. 1t was draped with the flags NV the
different confedrit regiments wich wus
raised in this seckshun, and that the
proper excitement mite be prodoosed, all
the reliks nv the war WIZ brot out and
displayed Deekin Pogram's dawtor
Mirandy he'd ON each side NV the pulpit
desk the skulls NV two Federal hirelins
wich her lover brot from Bull Run, illu-
minated with candles, wich WIZ iianl1cd
by the thigh bones NV several other hire
Inns wich Captain McPelter brot from
Andersonville. The drum wich lssaker
Gavitt beet at Fort Pillow WIZ draped
with battle flag Simon Pettus kerried at
the same victory, and other mementoes
NV the great struggle for the lbity 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 mminatoor pinned to their left
brests, heidi by fife and drum under
the stars and bars, and playin ''The
Benny Bloo Flag.
w course | made the opening speech.
| Irepelled with scom the accusashun that
the South he'd any idee that ther WIZ any
feelin NV disloyalty at the Corners. The
Corners WIZ detected in its struggle for
human rites and the perpetooashen NV
Afrikin slavery, and. hevin bin detected,
accepted the sitooashen. The Corners.
espeshlv, vile it Good never forgit how
crooelly it he'd bin disappointed in not
preservin its hevin-bom rites, WIZ as
loyal ez any SIMILAR place, and desired to
live in peece and harmony with ther
brethren NV the North.
Deekin Pogram repealed with skorn the
akkusashun that than WIZ emmy difference
between the two races at the Corners |
Here peece and quiet rains, and there he'd
ben no trouble He knew NV 200 niggers
wich WIZ very quiet, thanks to the shot
guns nv the intrepid Gavitt. and the shiv-
4. A. &c ,%al,a 4
race personnel to make emmy more
trubble thar WIZ, thank hevin, still pow
der and buckshot at the Corners, and
gallant men who never missed a nigger's
head, when they drawed a bead onto it.
The nigger he'd lerned his place and he |
Good ashoor his friends NV the North thet |
he wood never trubble nobody, and that |
he Good safely be left to the gidance NV
his material protectors his former masters. |
And then he demanded freedom NV eleck- |
shuns. He wanted EN- free ez they WIZ |
afure the war, when the citizens NV tire /
Corners Good hang a aberlishunist which
offered TO vote. without feer NV the inter-
fern nv Fedral bayonits. The South
must he free.
The follerin resolooshuns prepared by
myself wuz then red and adopid
Wareas. Thar is IN the North feeln
tibet the Corners is irratatid, and discon-
tendid. and thet thar is n feeling agin the
genral Government wich We feel 1t our
duty to allay. therefore, be it
Resolved That the Corners IL trooly
loval and entirely in akkord with the
Fedrel Government. and will be alluz,
provided it kin git its rites.
Resolved, That these rights ars - fal=
lers:
l. The payment NV Suthern war
clames and the penshunin NV Southern
sojers. Cheers
2 The adopshen NV the prinsipple
that the Yoonyun is Confederashun, not
a Nashun, and the accordin NV the rite
NV each State to remain in or stay out
Jest ez it pleases
3. That the Yoonyun IL Nashm for
the purpose nv payin clames, penshuns
and bildin custom houses and sich, but
for no other purposis.
4 No troops shel be yoosed at the
poles enywhere in the South, except on
the call NV n Confedrit govnor, the citi-
zens NV the South bein supplied with
rifles and shot-guns and bein thoroughly
ooganized in White Leagues, bein amply
able to take keer Nv themselves.
5. All ralerodes and canals wich the
South shall beside it wants, shel be bilt
bv the General Government, 1t bein
Nashun ez afOresed, for that purpus.
G. The harbors of 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
hey show for some NV the furrin trade
NV the kentrv
Z. That the nigger bein an inferior
bein and only understood by u.s. shel be
left ,atirely to our rool and gidance. No
more legislashun by the General Guver-
ment-wich for this purpus is not
NasLun-on his akkount.
s. The wipin out nv all the legislas-
hun NV the war period, the South not
ben IN COngris to give its assent, hevin
Congris nv its own at the time, and the
concession on the part NV the North to the
South nv the control NV the Government
in full 1t ez yoosed to be under Polk,
Pierce and Book-annon.
9 That the tax on distillin ikker
shel not he collected in the Confedrit
States, the Yoonyun bein not "A Naslrm
for that purpus.
TO- The veto power shel not he yoos-
ed. except, by Suthem President, or IA
Noithern one electid by Suthern votes,
wich is the same thing, II 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 hartv
feelin NV yoonyun, and ef ther is another
fratrisidle struggle the responsibility rests
with them q denies us these, our Teson-
able demands.
The resolooshens WIZ adoptid with
grate cheerin. and the meetin ajurned
On our way back to Bascom's we burned
Il nigger school house, and believe a
nigger or two wIch we met WIZ shot
We are troo Yoonyun and entirely peece-
full