Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1879-06-12
NASBY.
The Citizens of the Cross Roads
Hold n Meeling-What They
said and Did.
Toledo Blade.


| (Wich is in the State NV Kentucky :
| - sN May 26, 1879.
The citizens NV the Corners hev bin
profoundly moved by the sitOoashen NV
things i'll Washington, and felt called
upon to make sum expression Nv their
feelings ON the topiks that are now agi-
tatin the kentry. = p
The Corners felt called upon to ex-
press IN a publick manner that it rcOgni-
zes the result NV the late war, and de-
sires nuthin 80 much ez peace and qui-
ct; that fully recognizes the fact that
the Niger (d-n him) is free, and is en-
titled to rites; and that the Corners is
trooly loyal to the Government Nv the
Yoonited States.
| / called the meetin at the meetin-
house, the scene NV so many demon
lstrations, and committee of ladies
headed by Mrs. BascOm prepared it for
| the sOllGm Okkasion. r It wuZ draped
with flags NV the different Confedrit re-
giments wich wuZ raised in this seek
shun, and that the proper excitement
mite be prOdOosed, all the relics Nv the
war wuz brot out and displayed. Dee
kin Pogram's dawter Mirandy he'd on
each side NV the pulpit desk the skulls
NV two Federel hirelins witch her lover
brOt from Bull Run, Illuminated with
candles, witch wnz hanked by the thigh
bones Nv several other hirelins wich
Captain McPelter bret from Anderson
vile. The drum witch Issaker Gavitt
beet at fort Pillow wuz draped with a
battle dag 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
women hevin the colOrs NV the Confed-
eracy in minatoor pinned to their left
brests, headed by fife and drum under
the stars and bars and playin "the Bon
ny Bloc Flag
Nv course made the openin speech.
repelled with skorn the accusashun
that the South he'd any. idee that ther
wuz any feelins Nv disloyalty at the
Corners. The Corners was defeated in
its struggle for human rites and the per-
petooashun NV Afrikin slavery, and
hevin been defeetid accepted the sitooa-
shen. The Corners, espeshly, wlle
| it Good never forgit> how crooel-
ly it had bin disappinted in not presery-
in its hevin-born rites, Wuz eZ loyal ez
any similar place, and desired to live in.
peece and harmony with ther brethren
uA the North. r+4f4 w
Deekin Pogram repelled with Skorn
the akkusashen that ther wuZ any differ
ence between the two races at the Cor
ners. Here peece and quiet rains, and
ther he'd been no trouble. He knew wv
200 niggers witch wuz very quiet, thanks
to the shotguns of the intrepid Gavitt
and the shiYalrous MPelter. And eff this
wretched race PERSONNEL to make any
more trouble, there wuZ, Z,thank hevin still
powder and buckshOt in the COrners,and
the gallant men who never missed a
nigger's head when the drawed bead
onto it. The nigger had 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 pertec-
tors, his former masters. And then he
demanded freedom NV eleckshuns. He
wanted EN- free, ez they wuz afore the
war, when the citizens NV the Corners
Good hang ablishnist wich offered to
Federel bayonits. The South must be
free.
The follerin resolooshens, prepared
by myself. wuz then red and adoptid:
WAREAs, Their is in the North a feel
in that the Corners is irritated, and dis
contentid, and that there is feelin agin
the general Government, wich we feel it
onr dooty to allay, therefore be it
Resolved, That the Corners is trooly
loyal and entirely in akkord with the
Fedrel Government and will alluz be,
pervided it kin git its rites.
Resolved, That these rites are ez fol-
lers:-
/. The payment NV Suthern war
elames, and the penshunin NV Suthern
soljers. tCheers.
2. The adopshen NV the prinsipple
that the Yoonyun is Confedrashun,
not Nashun, and the accordin Nv the
rite NV eech State to remain in or stay
out jist ez it pleases. r :
8. That the Yoonyun is Nashun for
the puoposis NV payin clames, penshuns
and bildin Custom Housis and sich, but
for no other purposis.
4. No troops shell be yoosed at the
poles anywhere in the South, except on
the call NV the Confedrit Govnor, the
citizens of the South bein supplied with
rifles and shotguns and bein thoroughly
organized in White Leagues, bein am
ply able to take keer of themselves.
5. Ali railroads and canals wich the
South shel beside it wants shell he bilt
by the General Government, it bein
Nashun ez aforesaid, for that purpus.
6. The harbOrs NV Boston and Moo
York shel be filled up at the expense Nv
the Genrel Government that the sea-
board cities of the sunny South may hev
show for some Nv the furrin trade Nv
the kentry.
Z. That the Niger bein an inferior be-
in and only understood by us, shell be
\ left entirely to our rool and guidance.
No more legislashen by the Genrel Gov
ernment-wich for this purpus is not
Inashen-on his akkount.
8. The wipin out of all the legisla-
shen NV the war period, the South not
bein in Congris to give its assent, hevin
] a COngris uv its own at the time, and
the concession on the part NV the North
to the South Nv the control NV the Gov
ernment in full, ezitEyoosed to be under
Polk, Pierce and Bookannon. -f-
o. That the tax on distillin lkker shel
not be COLLECTED in the Confedrit States.
the Yoonyun being not a nashun for
that purpus. @
10. The veto power shell not be yoosed,
except by Southern President, or a
Northern one elected by Southern votes,
Gich is the same thing, it bein crooel to
keep us us out ov the full controle Nv
the Government till 1880.
Resolved, That ontil these things, one
and all, is done, there kan be no harty
feelin wv yoonyun, and eff there is an
other fratriside struggle the response
bility rests with them ez denies us
these, our reasonable demands.
% The resolooshens wuz adoptid with
great cheering, and the meeting ad-