Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: III. NEGRO EMIGRATION. Wingert's Corners, April the 2d, 1862. There is now 15 niggers, men, wimin, and childern, or ruther, mail, femail, and yung, in Wingert's Corners, and yisterday another arrove. I am bekomin alarmed, for, ef they inkreese at this rate, in suthin over sixty years they 'll hev a majority in the town, and may, ef they git mean enuff, tyrannize over us, even ez we air tyrannizin over them. The danger is imminent! Alreddy our poor white inhabitants is out uv employment to make room for that nigger; even now our shops and factories is full uv that nigger, to the grate detriment uv a white inhabitant who hez a family 2 support, and our poor hows and jail is full uv him. I imploar the peeple to wake up. Let us hold a mass meetin to take this subgik in2 consider- ashen, and, that biznis may be expeditid, I per- pose the adopshen uv a series uv preamble and resolooshens, suthin like the follerin, to-wit: Warea's, We vew with alarm the ackshun uv the Presydent uv the U. S., in recommendin the immejit emansipashun uv the slaves uv our misgidid Suthern brethrin, and his evident intenshun uv kolonizin on em in the North, and the heft on em in Wingert's Corners; and Wareas, In the event uv this imigrashun, our fellow-townsman, Abslum Kitt, and uthers, whose familis depend upon their labor for support, wood be throde out of employment; and Wareas, When yoo giv a man a hoss, yoo air obleeged to also make him a present uv a silver- platid harnis and a |3oO buggy, so ef we let the nigger live here, we are in dooty bound to let him vote, and to marry him off-hand; and Wareas, When this stait uv affares arrives our kentry will be no fit place for men uv educa- shen and refinement; and Wareas, Eny man hevin the intellek uv a brass-mounted jackass kin easil...