Rensselaer Union, Volume 1, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 April 1869 — NASBY. [ARTICLE]

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vAm mrt t i ™. cUS «««. HU jiL'WMW— CAFT. M>ILTU DEEr.thn Dknocrisy «▼ the North ornt jatlnflrifW thl« time tint the ultintto in* tamtam'w the Ablhhnteu la to rabjoomte am util redoone on to the level nr the Nigger, the voice nr one riain from the deed woods'! avail nothin. Teeter day the teat outrage wich % chivalrous people haa bean compelled to beer, wut perpetrated onto e citizen nr the Cornera A Nigger is now an ejJU bolder at the Corner*! I ahel state the obm calmly : •The poeiahen uy Aaaeeaor nr Internal to#/ibe Deeetrick nr wich the Corners la the centre, her bln held aenoe A. Johnson bea bln President, by Capt Hugh MoPelter, late nr Morgan’s Cavalry, C. 8. A. That he hes filled the poeiahen to the aadwaction nr the citizen* ut the Cornera, no one denies. He la a distiller, in Act he and Elder Pennlbacker run the two distilleries in the town, and' they her did a thri vin binds. McPelter whs Assessor, and Pennibacker Ki consekence none ie Corners hen bin ad to Washington to serea there. K* no on the wbtaky at hez bln enabled to l at fire cents per unns, wnua everywhere else the regler price is ten and fifteen. There woz other advantages in harin the Aseessonhip and CoMbtorshlp in their bands By Simply hinM* to em that it was my dooty eza Fed - ral clfi«-holder to investigate their modes nv doin the Government Dizni*, I hev not only bin the happy recipient uv scores uv two gallon jags, bat I hev bln enabled, at divers and sundry times, to prokoor loans uv em of various amounts, the lowest bein $ 1.75, and the highest reaching S2O. This happy condishun uv affairs is bustid. Gabrel Babcock, a nigger—that is, a half nigger, formerly the property nv Debkin Pogram, and who looks ennff like the Deekin’s oldest son Jehiel to be kis half*hrMhnr, won last week appinted, and confirmed Assessor in the place of Capt McPelter, and imejitiy he entered onto the discharge av his dooty. There are many feechers pekolyerly agravstin in the appointment. To begin with, this Babcock wnz notoriously obnoxyas to the Comers doorin the late unpleasantnis. At the beginnin thereof he run away from Deekin Pogram and entered the Federal servis. He wnz pertikerly activ and cussid. His knowledge uv the country nude him yooeeful to the Fedral officers ez a guide and scout, and at least one Fedral victry is chargeable direct to the information he brot Then his wife wnz knowd to hev hid five Fedral soljera who bed escaped from Anderaonville. When he finally fell into the hands uv Oapt McPelter at Fort Pillow kin it be wondered a} that he wuz left for dead ? or kin it be wondered at that the people uv the Corners wuz surprized when he appearpd amqpg em at the close uv the war with one leg off and one arm stiff ? Not much. Capt McPelter, wuzn’t in the habit uv half doin his work, and the appearance uv this nigger who had passed throup*liH bands rather astonished the °TSS&. his absence he bed learned to read and write, and he wuz made a teacher in the Freedmen’s Skool wich wuz established in this dace, and now he is Assessor, with Pollock on his bond. Eza matter uv course we despair uv the Republic. Wat Freedom can there be for us with a nigger in offlshel posishen to tyranizs over us ? Wat man uv culcher, uv edjucashen, ut refinement, kin afford to live in a community where a disgustin mulatto is made not only our ekal but our aooperior * Deekin Pogranrsaid this indignantly to Joe Bigler, whe immejltly askt the Deekin whether or not he didn’t count Babcock’s mother his ekal thirty years ago? Wich question wich was askt in the presence uv the Deekin’s wile, who hez a temper, wuz the occasion uv severe remarks between the worthy pair. Joe Bigler delites in opening old sores. The first act uv this Babcock in his offlshel capassity wuz the shuttin up uv Me Pelter't and Pennibacker’a distil eries, and Ba?coin's bar on the skore that none uv em hed never taken out licenses, or even paid any taxes. Ther wuz tke most terrific eboUshenuv feelin at this act of tyranny that it hez ever bin my lot to w.tBZSB. ——-~n—r ~ -* . •.' '» ■

“ Kill the d d nigger!” “ Hus the black cues!” “ Down with the Afrikin despot!” Shouted the enfuriated citizens. With a refinement ut crooelty wich cood only be the offspring UVVtnost depraved and vishus mind, he stmt up these places at 7 o'clock in the morning, before one uv the citizens hedhed his mornin bitters! Hedhe postponed it an hour we might hev fought it out, for some one else wood hev prokoored a supply before noon, and things wood hev gone on normal But here wus the entire pcpulashen uv the Corners at seven a. m, with throats like lime-kilns and nary a drop to be bed for love or money. The skeem wuz well considered and successful. The citizens cood hold out but fifteen minutes, and they all surrendered. They gave bonds to wich they all appended their marks to indemnity the Government for back taxes, and compelled Baacom to take out license. This done the nigger, who wuz backt up by Bigler and Pollock, opened his doors and the multitood surged in and wuz satisfied. To think uv a nigger holdin the destinies uv the corners inhis hands! Ez a matter uv eourae Eider Pennibacker wUI follow next; indeed he wants to fesign now, for, sez he, “ with the Ass ssorship in hostile hands uv wat avail is it; to; be Collector? And then, bow long will my head stay on my shoulders ? Is a nigger to take my place!” Already Bascom hat raised his price to 10 eta. per drink, and notified me that likker from this time out is cash, and already hez Pennibacker and McPclter refoozed to lend me a cent t My Kingdom is crumblin. The aleckahen nv Grant wuz the wedge wich is rivin me from stem to stern. I she] be compelled to go hentz a broken man. Good Hevings why coodn’t I hav died while Johnson wuz still President! The blindness uv this present Adminis t rat ion is trooly astonishen. Things wuz wwffwxHnfnpaclfled andDeekin Pennibacker likewise. They wuz not satisfied with the government, nor did they approve uv anything it did, but they Were passive. Sow the old sores is opened. Now McPelter is breathin slaughter and is for lettin slip the dorgs uv war. And what hez Grant got in return? Why, a nigwho wuz already hizzsn, and the two white* at the corners who voted for him will agin anyhow. Gen. don’t want to pacify us—he stmt carthe soothe, nor hex he a clear id «*«XWhitU needed to conciliate. I shall gojusA . There Is to be a meetin held “J*?!*** *«ittUiaeechanges, wont avail nothin. We are al! Pxtbousum V. Hasbt. F. M^ The following M « voluntary tribnte unobtrmfim^Mattocouragef M^geneSh^n^Motftottoe^t