The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1879-01-02
'n'." CoSFEDRIT Y RoADs, !
witch Is in the State Nv Kentucky

r. CONFEDHT y ROADS
(Which Is In the State Nv Kentucky :
' N'' December %, 1878. }
Idon't want no Senatorial committee
down here. don't want nobody pryin
around bringin' nigges upto testify es to
wat they know abo It eleckshuns, and vo-
lin and SIGH. Eiggers is preludist, and
their mental vishuns Is distorted. They
don't understand rolytix, and hev very
dim and conioosed notions Of relilun.
Their amt Niger necr the Corners wich
don't firmly bleeve that tho Fifteenth
amendment meens that they shell hev the
rite TO vote, untettered and unhampered,
and that they hev the rite to vote ez they
pleese. Theycan't be made to understand
that thessooperior intelligence that lays
mostly around Bascon's wuZ designed by
Providence to guide and direct EN-, and
that they ought to be thankful that II is
here to keer for EN-,
To put niggers onto the stand for exatni.
nashun is to convict ourselves. Their amt
ez many NV us TO swear ez ther wuz the
mornin' Nv the elecshun, but there Is
enuE. o4 '' i'a .-.
That the country shel hey the troo in.
wardnis NV wat did RELY happen eleck-
shun day, | hev already held an examina.
shun, and here IL is:
Issaker Gavitt sworn-Wuz present at
the poles last elecshun day, and he'd votid.
Come without my double-barreled shot
gun, for did not antissipatc trouble Nv
any kind. He'd understood tibet the mig
gers he'd all agreed to vote the strate Dim.
ekrattic ticket, In which case wood ez soon
they wood vote ez not. Ruther encour.
aged EN-. Remember acceptin an invita-
shnn to take suthin with one NV EN-, and
wood hev accepted invitashuns with oil Nv
EN-, Am fast loosin the prejodis witch
every white man hcz agin color.
HEY got SO tibet I kin tolerate a
Niger, with money, If he is lib
eral. Two Nv EN- he'd votid Them wuz
the two Republican tikkets wich wuz
found in the box) when We dIskivered that
every one Nv EN- he'd Republican tIkkots,
instid Of Dlmekratic, and that they p0r,
posed to vote EN-. Felt materially enraged.
Dashed the nIggerS away from the winder
and he'd the poles closed. Rushed home
and got my shotgun, ez did peekip Pc.
gram, Capt. MePelter and the rost NV us.
Immejitly notified the niggers that this
kind Nv thing wooden't do, and that
while We desired EN- to exercise Their rites,
they must exercise EN- in accordance with
the ijeeS nv the dominant race, and nothin
else. Otherwise they cooden't exercise
en-. There wuz som6 trouble witch result.
ed in the KILN Nv perhaps seventy pY en-
Can't state exactly how many wuz Killed,
ez we didn't count EN-.
Bleeves in President Hays, espeshelly
sence the appintmentuy 4Iosby o. Consul
to Hong Kong. Thinksit wood DO Crate
measure nv pasiicashen Of he (Gayitt) Good
be appinted to suthin.
Deekin Po9raip testified 10 about the
same thing that Isaaker did. Wuz willin
that the niggers shood vote OF they would
only vote tho. DImecratlc tikket. He'd
overcome the prCjodls oyery Cawcashun
wuz bound to hey agin the inferior race
but shood insist alluz, that the inferior race
shood be guided and directed by the
sooperior. Ell the sooperior race wants to
vote the DimecfRtic tikket, the inferior
must do likewise, and 50 on. Otherwise
we can't let en- vote, We shell Insist on
hevin EN- countid in whom We make up
our Congressional repreSentashun, but We
control their votes. Otherwise the bloRtid
North wood hev the bulge on US. APP.
proves tho Presidents polisy, espeshelly
his appointment uy Aoshy CT Minister, or
wateyer It Is, to Hong Kong. GQthip SO
consillAtes the Southern mind ez an ap-
ointment, Would like 10 hev 1t tried on
hisself.
Colonel McPelter testified To sIootjp
perhaps seven or eight NV en-. BleeYed he
wuz justified, and appealed to the North
ern sense Nv rite. He'd the nIgqors yotid
the Republican tickit, it wood hev
bothered US to elect the Dimooratic
tickit, suthIn that the Corners al
luz he'd done, and alluz expected to
do. Coodcnt and woodent stand innoVa-
shuns. Fl the niggers want to vote let
EN- vote rite, and Their will be no objeck-
shuns to it. Otherwise we can't permit.
l didn't consider It nessary to take any
more testimony. Butthis he'd sworn 10,
before Bascom, who sealed 1t oflshelly
with the end Nv whisky glass, and shell
forrerd 1t to Blame, hope 1t will hev
proper effeck. Hope the North will see
thet we desire 10 recognize the amend
ments, and that We are willin to go jist or
fur eL possible. We must, however, pre-
serve the integrity nv the old Qimecratic
party, and must retanc our majorities.
When this Is understood, tller will be no
more trouble. When the niger gifts into
the proper-fFam nv mind Nv Votin OF We
want him to, all the bother will end, and
Their will DO that espeshel kind NV peece
that we desire. Otherwise thor will DO
more worry and more trubble.
PETROLEUM V. Nasty, Statesman.