The Portland daily press., 1879-06-06


The citizens Nv the Corners hev bin pro-
| foundly moved by the sitooashen NV things in
| Washington, and felt called upon to make sum
expression NV their feelings:.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 late 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 Corners is trooly loyal to
the Government of the Yoonited States.
called the meetln at the meetin-house, the
scene NV so many demonstrations, and COM
mittee Nv ladies headed by Mrs. Bascom pre-
pared it for the sollum okkasion. 1t wuz
drap ed with the flags NV the different confed-
rit regiments wich wuz raised in this seckshun,
and that the proper excitement mite be pro-
doosed,, all the reliks NV the war wuz brot
out and displayed Deekin Pograms dawtor
Mirandy he'd ON each side nv the pulpit desk
the skulls NV two Federal hirelins witch her
lover Drot from Bull Run, illuminated with
candles, wich wuz fanked by the thigh bones
NV several other hirelins wich Captain Nc
Pelter brot from Andersonville. The drum
wich Issaker Gavitt beet at Fort Pillow wuz
draped with battle flag Simon Pettus kerried
at the same victory and other mementoes NV
| the great struggle for the libity NV the South
| wuz properly displayed.
| The percession filed out NV Bascoms' the
men dressed in Confedrit gray and the wimin
hevin the colors Nv the Confedracy intmina-
toor pinned to theis left brests, hedid by fife
and drum under the stars and bars, and play
in "The Bonny Bloc Flag
Wv course made the opening speech. l re-
PEELED with skorn the accusashun that the
Sonth he'd any idee that ther wuz any feelin NV
disloyalty at the Corners: The Corners wuz
detected in its struggle for human rites and
the perpetooashen Nv Afrikin slavery, and,
hevin bin detected, accepted the sitooashen.
The Corners espeshly, vile it Good never for
git how crooelly it he'd bin disappointed in not
preservin its hevin-born rites wuz as loyal ez
any similar place, and desired to live in peece
and harmony with ther brethren NV the North.
Deekin Pogram repelled with skorn the ak
kusashun thet thar wuz emmy difference between
the two races at the Corners. Here peece and
quiet rains, and thar he'd ben no trubble. He
knew NV 200 niggers witch wuz very quiet,
thanks to the shot-guns Nv the intrepid Gavitt
and the shivalrous M'Pelter. And eff this
retched race personnel to make emmy more
trubble thar wuz, thank hevin, still powder
and buckShot at the Corners, and gallant men
who never missed nigger's head, when they
drawed bead onto it. The niger he'd Termed
his place and he Good ashoor his trends NV the
North thet he wood never trubble nobody, and
thet he Good safely be left to the gidance NV his
udltTdl prOttCbOrS, Ills IOrmer masters. ana
then he demanded freedom NV eleckshuns. He
wanted EN- free ez they wuz afore the war,
when the citizens NV the Corners Good hang
aberlishunist wich offered to vote, without feer
NV the interferin NV Fedral bayonits. The
South must be free.
The follerin reSOloOShunS prepared by myself
wuz then red and adoptid:
Wareas, Thar is in the North feelin thet
the Corners is irratatid, and discontentid, and
thet thar is feelin agin the genral Government
wich we feel it our duty to allay, Therefore be it
Resolved, That the Corners IL trooly loyal
and entirely in akkord with the Fedrel Gov
ernment, and will be alluz, provided it kin git
its rites.
Resolved, That these rights are ez follers:
l. The payment NV Suthern war clames and
the penshunin NV Suthern soiers. [Cheers.]
g. The adopshen Nv the prinsipple that the
Yoonyun is a Confederashun, not Nashun,
and the accordin NV the rite NV each State to
remain in or stay out jest ez it pleases.
3. That the Yoonyun iz a Nashun for the
purpose NV payin clames, penshuns and bildin
custom houses and SIGH, but for no other pur-
posts.
4. No troops shell be yoosed at the poles
enywhere in the South, except ON the call NV
a Confedrit goynor, the citizens NV the South
bein supplied with rifles and shot guns and
bein thoroughly organized in White Leagues,
bein amply able to take keer NV themselves.
8. All ralerodes and canals wich the South
shel beside it wants, shell be bilt by the Gener-
al Government, it bein Nashun ez aforesed,
for that purpus.
6. The harbors NV Boston and Moo York
shell be filled up at the expense NV the General
Government, that the sea-board cities NV the
sunny South may hev a show for some NV the
furrin trade NV the kentry.
Z. That the nigger bein an infereor bein and
only understood by us, shell be left entirely to
our rool and gidance. No more legislashun by
the General Guverment-wich for this purpus
is not Nashun--on his akkount.
g. The wipin out NV all the legslashun NV
the war period, the South not bein 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
Guverment in full ez it yoosed to be under
Polk, Pierce and Bookannon.
9. That the tax on distillin likker shel not
be collected in the Confedrit States, the Yoon-
yum bein not a Nashun for that purpus.
10. The veto power shell not be yoosed, ex-
cept by Suthem President, or a Northern one
electid by Suthern votes, wich is the same
thing, it bein crooel to keep us out NV the full
controle NV the Guverment until 1880.
Resolved, That ontil these things, one and
all, is done, ther kin be no harty feelin NV
yoonyun, and eff ther is another fratrisidle
struggle the responsibility rests with them ez
denies us these, our reasonable demands
The resolooshens wuz adoptid with crate
cheerin, and the meetin ajurned. On our way
back to Bascom's we burned nigger school
house, and believe niger or two wich we
met wuz shot. We are troo to the Yoonyun
and entirely peeceful