Daily Republican., 1879-06-07
NAsBY.

The Citizens Of the Cross Road
Hold . Meeting to Give to I'M
world Thor Views ~ to tho Gen
oSal Condition OF Things Wha
They Said anu Did.
CoNFEDERIT x ROADS, !
(Wich is in the State Nv Kentucky,)}
May 26th, 1879.
The citizens nv the Corners hsv bin
profoundly moved by the sitooashen nv
things in Washington, and felt called
upon to make sum expression NV Their
feelings on the topicks that are now
agitatin the ksntry.
The Corners felt called upon to ex-
press in public manner that it recog-
nizes the result Nv the late war, aud
desires nuthin SO much ez peace and
quiet that it fully recognizes the fact
that the Niger (d--n him) is free, aud
is entitled to rites and that the Cor
ners is trooly loyal to the Government
Of the Yoonited States.
called the me-tin at the meetin
house, the scene Nv so many demon
strations, and a committee Nv ladies',
headed by Mrs. Bascom, prepared it for
the sollum 0kkasion. 1t wus draped
with the flags Nv the different confedrit
regiments wich wuz raised in this seek
shun, and that the proper excitement
mite BE- prodo0sed, all the reliks Nv the
war wuz brot out and displayed. Dee
kin 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, illuminated with
candles, wich wuz hanked by the thigh
bones Nv several other hirelins wich
Capt. M'Pelter brot from Andersonville.
The drum wich Issaker Gavitt beet at
Fort Pillow wuz drapsd with q battle
flag Simon Pettus kerried at the same
victory, and other momentoes Nv the
CRATE struggle for the liberty Nv the
South wuz properly displayed.
The percession filed out NV Bascom's,
the men dressed in confeirit gray and
the wimmen hsvin the colors Nv tho
in minatoor pinned to their
left brests, heidi by a fife and drum,
under the stars and bars, and playin
"The Bonny Bloc Flag"
Wv course ! made the openin speech.
l repelled, with skorn, the acousashun
that the South he'd any idee that there
wuz any feelin Nv disloyalty at the
Corners. The Corners wuz defeated in
its struggle for human rites, and tho
Nv Afrikin slavery, and
hevin been detected, accepted the sitoo-
ashen. The Corners, sspeshly, vile il
'eod never forgit how crooelly it he'd
bin disappointed in not preservin its
hevin born rites, wus ez loyal es any
similar place, and desired to live in
peeee and harmony with their brethren
Nv the North.
Deekin Pogram repelled with skorn
he akkusashun that there wuz any
Inference between the two races at the
Corners. Here peece and quiet rains,
md there he'd bin no troublS. lie knew
If 200 niggers wich wuz very quiet,
hanks to the shot guns Nv the intrepid
4avitt and the sshivalrous M'Pelter.
And if this wretched race PERSONNEL to
make any more trouble, there wus,
hank hevin, still powder and buck
hot in the Corners, and gallant men
Who never missed nigger's head when
hey drawed bead onto it. The Fig
ger he'd learned his place aud he Good
IshoOr his friends Nv the North that he
would never trouble nobody, and that
10 Good safely be left to the guidance
" his material pertecters, his former
masters. And then he demanded free.
lom Nv eleckshuns. He wanted en-
rec, as they wuz sfore the war, when
he citizens Nv the Corners could hang
IN ablishnist which offered to vote,
Without feer uv the interferen Nv Fed.
el bayonits. The South must be free.
The follerin resclooshens, prepared
~ myself, wuz then red and adoptid
WAREAs, There is in the North a
eelin that the Corners Is irritatid, and
liscontentid, and that there is a feelin
gin the general government, wich we
eel it our dooty to allay therefore be it
Resolved, That the Corners is trooly
oyal and entirely in akkord with tho
'edrel Government and will be alluz,
'ervided it kin git its rites.
Resolved, That these rites are as fol-
OWs:
l. The payment Nv the Suthern war
lanes, and the penshunin of Suthern
odjers. [Cheers.
2. The adopshen Nv the prinsipple
hat the Yoonyun is Confederashun,
lot nashun, and the accordin Nv the
ite Nv each State to remain in or stay
ut, jist ez it pleases.
8. That the Yoonyun is Nashun for
he purposis Nv payin clames, penshuns
nd bildin Custom Housis and sish, but
or no other purposis.
4. No troops shel be yoosed at the
'oles anywhere in the South, except on
he call Nv Confedrit Guvnor, the
itizens Nv the South bein supplied
nth rifles and shot guns, and bein
organized in white leagues,
Elm amply able to take keer Nv them
olv-s.
>. Al ia',,,''a and canals wich ~"
cuth shel TO- az 4. WAITS sIieI 90 "a.
y the General Government, it bein a
ashun ez aforesed, for that purpus.
6. The harbors Nv Boston and Moo
ork shell be filled up at the expense Nv
ne General Government, that the sea
oard cities Nv the sunny South may
ev show for some Nv the furrin trade
v the kentry.
7. That the niger bein an inferior
ain. and only understood by us, shel
o left entirely to our rool and guidance.
% more lesislashen' by the General
overment-wich for this purpus is not
nashun--on his akkount.
s. The wipin out Nv all the legisla-
len Nv the war period, the South not
elm in Congris to give Its assent, hevin
Congris Of its own at the time, and
, - 49,, a>a,;o,, ~, tba art nv tho North