The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1879-05-07

CoSrEDRI1 Y ROADS. }
(which Is 10 the Stale Nv Ky,) :
April %, 1879. }

The North lie Elled with all aorts
NV absurd stories Nv the treatment
the csivred citizens are receivin 10
the South, the desire bein. clearly, to
prejoodis the North agio the South
era Secksbuu which wus crushed 10
au uuholy croosade sgin its rites,
and xich hes never recovered from
the same.
Ii is e-peshly charged that the cus-
sid nigger has no rites 10 the Courts,
and that when opposed by a pr I'D
Kentucky CaWeasben he is crowded
10 the wall, without the slightest
chance for bis life. To show the Ut
ter nonsrnse uv this statement, L
give a truthful report uv a case tried
afore Square Pettus. Justice Nv the
Pesce Tor our Township
Simeon ClsghOrn, ~ be calls him
self nov. tho BE wuz u slave wuust
Nv that s~eet aud gilelis ssiat, Dee
kin Pogfaw (sich fsmily he resem-
bie- 10 a degree that made the late
Ms. Pogran infoorialed whenever
she raw mis- mother, be basin The
eiBooiue Pugrsm nose). WIZ a ten
act # The Deekiu's. aud bez been Tor
9 geers. lie agreed 10 pay the Dee
kn $40 4 yeer per akre for The land,
aua also sgreed to buy his entire
supplies NV that libral sud Cnriscben
mas Al the e, nd ns the Irst yeer,
the Drekiu took his entire crup and
bFot him in debt saIbia Ike Si00,
wbich TIE nigger tried TO work out
il The winter catJio aud gettin out
railroad tie, from The Deekiu's wood
lot. on which be btZ lived ever since
th- crooel war deprived him Nv his
labor.
Toe next season the bigger found
bi-selfia debt about $500, aud be
submitted The matter To joe Bigler,
weIcn Is piseD, aud josef acIin az bis
attorney, come ds@n on the lnnosenJ
old Deekin with a demand that
The Niger heg G kerect account
Nv tue grain and stuff which
be bad turned over TO the Deekln.
al~s a tented recount Nv the sup
plies which the ID ekin bad furnished
a uteger, that il might be made
maaifest ~ to bow The accouu stood
Tn. De.kiu wuZ outraged why
shood moi my word be taken agIn a
Niger . p be demanded Il never
wuz called upon for anything av tue
kind afcre. IL is sn outrage!
But u Jcsefsood min aiore Square
Pettus Tor the full amount nv The
cryps which the DceRin bed taken,
the good did man WIZ fJrst TO de-
gr~de himself by comm into court
agin q Ethiopian. IL wruDg his sole.
~. &c saunn,tsd, eZ We AL hev bed
I d. SERGE the Linkin dyuassy.
/ helped the DeekiD out Toe two
ss~-sp's crops footed up $4,000. and
/ didn't pay any attention to the
DeeKIn's books. | mace u a bill
charging the niger with $500 worth
Nv bacou, $500 worth Nv fur, $500
worlb Of mules, aud The balance, to
make bis claim good, in silk dresses
for bis wife, and SIGH other goccs Ell
sgiested themselves 10 a fertile imsg-
i~ns-hun.
That bill | presented afo:e the jus
ticr. wich received II with The graS-
itv Nv d Grand Cnaacellor.
fDe good old Deekin swore to his
account e be he'd it made, wien
clearly eslsblished the fact that the
nigger owed hlm $1,000
The niger psesen ed another ac-
couu. ~Icu orot d De.kio iu debt
10 ban sualhiu like $500.
Joe Blgler remarked that the Dee
ki0 bed led bis sSare, aud that the
n,sger shood be put onto the stand
10 sWare 10 his statement.
4 protestd. ;'ls u digger, a .iaieri-
or bella, 10 come into this Court, over
wieh Ju-,ice Is supposed. t%isgerative-
ly, 10 be hoserln, AID hev bis testl
mony taken aga q Nv the proud
Cawcashen race
square" exclaimed the DeekiO
in agony, Fam 1, a white man, 10
ber a niger brot into Court 10 rob
me? TT nav bill amt biz enuf to
Offset bisa anr bring him in debt 10
me. | a ea-ily amend iL. Don't lei
tbis gross i~rjustis be doDe."
"a wuZ q criukle and solunm no
ment.
Va the decision Nv Square Pettus
haog the fate Nv Kentucky. IL wuz
C soopreme moment.
0ne miuHit OF indescision, one min
nit falterin, aud the white race "
Ken ucky lay grovelin at The feet Nv
the Inferior Afrikin, and we wuz in
chanes furever.
Square Pettus wuz, ~iortinitiy. ekal
to the emergency.
Risin 10 his seat and Studying bis
eelf at the desk 10 front Nv him, be
sed that be knowed The eyes Nv
Kentucky wuz INTO him, d that
Kentucky shood never be disappint-
ed.
Il know santhin ne this case"
ssd the Square, sippin a sip Nv Bas-
CONS best, wich be bed Sent owe TO
him in q quart bottle, "afere it come
into court. immeejitly antissipatid
that this plaintiff wood demand TO
be sworn, and that Oh this joodisbel
arena the inferior African and the
sooperior Csweashun wood meet 10
a snal conflict. | prepared myself
l went and got Q a. wich Good read,
and he'd him 20 tbro the ststoots Nv
the State ~ Kentucky, passed prior,
lwich ez ! am informed, means be-
tore), the late onholy croossde. |
found there a statoot wich perhibits
the takic Nv the testimony nv a mig
ger in a court Nv iusiis, wieh this is.
1t is troo that the Federal vuurpa,
shen made other laws, but C Kentuc-
khan don't recognize that. A Ken
lucky Justis only recognizes his own
State, witch is sovren. Recognizen
only Kentucky. spittin onto an sbo-
lishn Congress, and ignorin every
thing else, it is the y~oonanimous de.
eision Nv this yere court, that all
Fedrel laws recognizen the rites Nv
the cussed African is UncoDstitoosh-
mel, and that therefore bic testimony
a not be admitted. stand by the
State"
"But my wife never he'd a silk