The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-06-12
Nasty.
The Citizens of the Cross Roads Hold a
Meeting to Give to the World Their Views
as to the General Condition of Things
What They Said and Did.


witch is in the State NV Kentucky
May %, 1879.
The citizens Nv the Corners hev bin
profoundly moved by the sitooashun NV
things in Washington, and felt called
upon to make some expression Nv their
feelins on the topiks that are now agi-
tatin the kentry.
The Corners felt called upon to ex-
press in a public manner that it recog-
nizes the result NV the late war, and de-
sires nothin so much ez peace and
quiet; that it fully recognizes the fact
that the niger is free, and
is entitled to rites; and that the Cor
ners is trooly loyal to the Government
Nv the Yoonitid States.
I called the meetin' at the meetin'-
house, the scene Nv so many demonstra-
tons, and committe Nv ladies, head
ed by Mrs. Bascom, prepared it for the
sollum okkasion. It wuz draped with
the flags Nv the different Confedrit
regiments wich wuz raised in this seek
shun, and that the proper excitement
mite be prodoosed all the reliks Nv the
war wuz brot out and displayed.
Deekin 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, illum-
mated with candles, wich wuz fianked
by the thigh bones Nv several other
hirelins witch Capt. McPe lter brot from
Andersonville. The drum wich Is
saker Gavitt beet at Fort Pillow wuz
draped with battle flag Simon Pettus
kerried at the same victory, and other
mementoes Nv the great struggle for
the liberty Nv the South wuz properly
displayed.
The percession filed out Nv Bascom's,
the men dressed in Confedrit gray and
the wimmin hevin the colors NV the
Confedracy in minatoor pinned to
their left breasts, heidi by a fife and
drum under the stars and bars and
playin " the Bonny Bloc Flag"
Nv course I made the openin speech.
repealed with skorn the accusashun
that the South he'd any idee that Their
wuz any feelin Nv disloyalty at the Cor
ners. The Corners wuz detected in it's
struggle for human rites and the per-
petooashen Nv Afrikin slavery, and
hevin bin defeetid accepted the sitooa-
shen. The Corners, espeshly, vile it
Good never forgit how crooelly it he'd
bin disappointed in not preservin it's
hevin-born rites, wuz ez loyal ez any
similar place, and desired to live in
peece and harmony with ther brethren
Nv the North.
Deekin Pogram repealed with skorn
the akkusashun that ther wuz any diff
ference between the two races at the
Corners. Here peece and quiet rains,
and Their he'd bin no trouble. He knew
Nv 200 niggers witch wuz very quiet,
thanks to the shot-guns Nv the intrepid
Gavitt and the shivalrous M'Pelter.
And eff this wretched race PERSONNEL to
make any more trouble, there wuz,
thank hevin, still powder and buckshot
in the Corners, and gallant men who
never missed a nigger's head when they
drawed bead onto it. The niger he'd
learned his place and he Good ashoor
his friends Nv the North that he wood
never trubble nobody, and that he Good
safely be left to the guidance Nv his
material protectors, his former masters.
And then he demanded freedom Nv
eleckshuns. He wanted EN- free, ez
they wuz afore the war, when the citi-
zens Nv the Corners could hang alb
lishnist WITCH offered to vote, without
feel Nv interferen Nv Fedril bayonits.
The South must be free.
The follerin resolooshens, prepared by
myself, wuz then red and adopted:
| WAREAs, Their is in the North feelin that
the Corners is irritatid and discontentid, and
that there is feelin agin the General Cover
ment, witch we feel it our dooty to allay; there
| fore, be it
Resolved, That the Corners is trooly loyal
and entirely in akkord with the Fedrel Gov
erment, and will be allus, pervided it kin git
it's rites
Resolved, That these rites are ez follers:
| l. The payment Nv Suthern war clames and
| the penshunin of Suthern sojers.
| g The adopshen Nv the prinsippIe that the
Yoonyun is a COnfederashun. not nashun. and
| the accordin Nv the rite Nv eech State to re-
main in or stay out jist ez it pleases
| g. That the Yoonyun is nashun for the pur-
posts Nv payin clames, penshuns and bildin
| Custom Houses and SIGH, and for no other pur-
posts
f. No troops shell be used at the poles any
where in the South, except on the cali Nv Con-
fedrit Govnor, the citizens Nv the South, bein
supplied with rifles and shot-guns, and bein
thoroly organized in White Leagues, bein
amply able to take keer of themselves.
s. All railroads and canals witch the South
shell beside it wants shell be bilt by the General
Government, it bein nashun ez aforesaid, for
that purpus.
| g. The harbors Nv Boston and Moo York shell
be filled up at the expense Of the General Gov
eminent that the seaboard cities Nv the sunny
South may have show for some Nv the fur
rim trade Nv the kentry.
T. That the niger bein an inferior bein, and
only understood by US, shell be left entirely to
our rool and guidance. No more legislashen
| by the General Government-wlchfo for this pur-
| pus is not nashen-on his akkount.
s. The wipin out Nv all the legislashen Nv
the war period, the South not bein in Congris
to give its assent, hevin Congris Nv its own
at the time, and the concession on the part Nv
the North to the South NV the the controle Nv
Government in full, as it used to be under
| Polk, Pierce and BoOkannon.
g. That the tax on dlstillin likker shell not be
COLLECTED in the Confedrit States, the Yoonyun