Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1879-05-02
THE pEAkEn AND HIS Niger.

\ HUAUS,
(Which is in the State of kentucky.)

CoNFEDRIT X ROADS,
(Which is in the State of Kentucky
April %, 1875.
The north is filled with all sorts NV abb
surd stories Nv the treatment the colored
citizens are receiving in the south, the de-
sire bein, cleerly, to prejoodis the north
agin the suthern seckshun wich wuz crush
ed in an unholy croosade agin its rites, and
witch hez never recovered from the same.
1t is espeshly charged that the cu,sid
niger has no rites in the courts, and that
when opposed by q proud Kentucky Cav
cashen he is crowded to the wall, without
the slightest. chance for his life. To show
the utter nonsense Nv this statement, I give
a truthful report Nv a case tried afore Square
Pettus, Justice w the peace for our town.
ship.
Simeon Claghorn, ez he calls hisself now,
tho he wuz 4 slave wunst Nv that sweet and
gilelis saint, Deekin Pogram (which family
he resembles to a degree that made the late
Mrs. Pogram infooriated whenever she saw
his mother, he havin the ginooine Pogram
nose), wuz a tenant Nv the Deekin's, and
hez bin for two years. He agreed to pay
the Deekln $40 a yeer per akre for the
land, and also agreed to buy his entire sup
plies Nv that liberal and Chrischen man.
At the eend 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 wood-lot, on
wich he hez lived ever since the crooel war
deprived him Nv his labor.
The next season the Niger found him.
self in debt about $500, and he submitted
the matter to Joe Bigler. witch is pisen, and
Josef actin ez his attorney, come down on
the innosent old deekin with q demand fol
q bill Nv items. Josef demanded that the
niger have q kerect account of the grain
and stuff wich he he'd turned over to the
deekip, also a itemized account of the sup
plies 'wich the deekin he'd furnished the
niger, that it might be made manifest e7
to how the account stood.
The deekin was enraged. why shood
not my word be taken agtn . nigger's? he
demanded. II never wuz called upon fol
anything Nv the kind afore. 1t is an out
rage"
But ez Josef sood him afore Squire Pet
tus fer the full amount Nv the crops which
the deekin bed taken, the good old mar
wuz forst to degrade hisself by comm into
court agin q Ethiopian. It wrung his sole
but he submitted, ez we all hev he'd to d.
sence the Linkin dynasty.
helped the deekin out. The two sea
sons crops footid up $4,000, and I don
pay any attention to the deekin's books.
made out q bill charging the niger will
800 worth Nv bacon, 5000 worth Nv -four
$500 worth of mules, and the balance, Il
make his claim good, In silk dresses for hi
wife and such other goods az sejssted them
selves to . fertile i%msginashun.
That bill [ presented afore the justus
witch received 1t with the gravity Nv q CRANE
chancellor.
The good old deekin swore to his &C
count ez he he'd 1t made. wich cleerly 81
tablished the fact that the Niger owed hin
1920.
- The niger presentid another accoun
wich brot the deekin in debt TO him sunthil
like $500.