Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1879-05-11
PETROLEUM V. NASBY.

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the Charges that Negroes Can
Not Have Their Rights in
! the South.
From the Toledo Blade.
CoNFEDRIT K ROADS,
(Which is in the State Nv Kentucky
April %, 1879.
The North is filled with all sort:
Nv absurd stories NV the treatment
the colored citizens are receivin il
the South, the desire bein, clearly
to preioodis the North agin the
| Suthern seckshun wich wuz crushed
in an unholy croosade agin its rites,
and wich hez never recovered from
the same.
1t is espeshly charged that the
cussid niger has no rites in the
courts, and that when opposed by a
proud Kentucky Cawcashen he is
crowded to the wall, without the
slitest chance for his life. To show
the utter nonsense NV this states
ment, [ give a truthful report NV
a case tried before Square Pettus,
justis Nv the peace tor our town
ship.
Simeon Claghorn, ez he calls his
self now, tho he wuz a slave wunst
Nv that sweet and gilelis saint, Dee
kin POgram (Which family he re-
sembles to a degree that made the
late Mrs. Pogram infooriated when
ever she saw his mother, he havin
the ginoOine Pogram nose), wdz a
tenant Nv the Deekin's and hez bin
for two years. He agreed to pay
the Deekin SO year per akre for
the land, and also agreed to buy his
entire supplies Nv that libral Chris
chen man. At the eAnd NV the first
yeer the. Deekin took his entire
crop and brot him in debt suthin
like $500, wich the niger tried to
work out in the winter cuttin and
gettin out railroad ties from the
Deekin's woodlot, on witch he hez
lived ever since the crooeI war de-
prived him Nv his labor.
The next season the niger found
hisself in debt about $500, and he
submitted the matter to Joe Rigler,
wich is pisen, and Josef, actin ez
his attorney, come down on the in
nosent old Deekin wild demand for
a bill Nv items. Josef demanded
that the niger hev a kerect ac-
count Nv the grain and stuff, wich
he he'd turned over to the Deekin,
also itemized account Nv the sup
plies wich the Deekin he'd furnished
the niger, that it might be made
manifest ez to how the account
stood.
The Deekin wuz enraged. "Why
shood not my word be takin agin a
4 nigger's he demanded. "Inever
wuz called upon for anything NV the
kind afore. 1t is an outrage.
But ez Josef sood him afore
square Pettus for tie full amount NV
the crops which the Deekin he'd |
taken, the good old man WIZ forst
to degrade hisself by comm into
court agin a Ethiopian. 1t wrung
his sole, but he submitted, ez we all |
hev he'd to do since the Linkin dy- |
nasty.
| helped the Deekin out. The
two seasons crops foOtid up $4,000,
and l didn't pay any attention to
the Deekin's books. l made out a
oil charging the niger with $500
worth Nv bacon, 5000 worth Nv
-four, $500 worth Nv mules, and the
balance, to make his claims good,
in silk dresses for bis wife, and SIGH
other goods as sejested themselves
to fertile imaginashun.
The bill L presentid afore the
Justis, wich received it with the
gravity Nv a Grand Chancellor.
The good old Deekin swore to
his account ez he he'd it made, wich
clearly established the fact that the
ligger owed him l,2O0.
The niger presented another &C.
count wich brot the Deekin in debt
o him suthin like 5000.
Joe Bigler remarked that the
Oeekin he'd he'd his sware, and that
he niger shood be put on the
tand 10 swarc to his statement.
protested. Is a niger, in
erior being, to come into this court,
'ver wich Justis is supposed, fgger-
ltively, to be hoverin, and hev his
testimony taken agin one Nv the
proud Cawcrashen race !"
Square - exclaimed the Deekin
n agony, "am l white man. to !
lev niger brot into court to rob ,
ne? Ell my bill amt big enuff to
,ffset his'n and bring him in debt
o me, l kin easily amend it. Don't
ct this gross injustice be done -
1t was a critikle and sollum mo- I