Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1861-08-09
THE WAR FEVER IN BALDINsvILLE.
BY ARTEMAS WARD.

BY ARTEMAS WARD. ...
AS soon as Ihad recooperated my phys
1kil sistym, | went over to the village.
The peasantry was glad to see me- The
skool master said it was cheerin to see
that gigantic interleck among EN- oncet
more. That's what he calls me- | like
the skoolmaster and alters send him to-
hacker when Ime off on travlin campane.
Besides, he's a very sensible man. Such
men must be enkuraged.
They don't get news very fast at Bal
densville, as nothin but plank road runs
in there twice week, and that's very
much out of repair. So my nabers were
not much posted up in regard to the war.
Squire Baxter sed he'd voted the dim
icratic ticket for goin on forty year, and
the war was dam black republican lie.
10 Stackpole, who kills hogs for the Squire,
and has got powerful muscle into his
arm. sed he'd bet S. he could lick the
Crysis in fair stand up fight; if he
wouldn't draw a knife upon him. So it
went--sum was for war, and sum was for
peace The skool master, however, sed
the Slave Oligarky must cover at the feet
of the North ere a year had flowed by, or
pass over his dead corpse. :" Esto perpet-
ua p he added, And sine qua non alsor'
sed I, sternly wishin to make an impresh-
un onto the villagers. " Requiescat in
peace ~ sed the skoo. master. "Troo,
troo, troo, troo," answered, :" it's scan
derlus fact y n.e.#
The newspapers got along at last, cbock
full of war, and the patriotic fever fairly
bust out in Baldinsville. Squire Baxter
sed he didn't b'lieye in coercion, not one
Of 'em, and could prove it by file of
Eagles Of Liberty in his garrit, that it
was all Wing lie got up to raise the
price of whiskey and destroy our other
liberties. But the old Squire got putty
rily when he heard how the rebels was
cuttin up, and sed he reckoncd he should
scour up his old muskit and do q little
square ftn for the Old Flag which had
alters bin on the ticket he'd voted, and
he was too old to bolt now. The Squire
is all right at heart, but it takes longer
for him to fill his venerable Biler with
steam than it usei to when he was young
and frisky. AS | previously informed
you, | am Captin of the Baldinville Kun.
perny. | riz gradooally but majesticly
from drummers Secretary to my present
position. But found the ranks wasn't
full by no means, and commenced for tC
recroot. Havin notlst a gineral desire or
the part of young men who are into the
Crysis to wear eppylits, / derarmiued to
have my kumperny composed exclusively
Of ofissers, everybody to rank as Briga
deer Gineral. The follerin was among
the varis questions which put to recroots
Do you know a masked battery from Q
hunk of gingerbread I aa 4.
Do you know eppylit from piece o
chalk I? ?, tlrea fH asF =
If trust you with real gun, how
many men of your own kumperny do yol
speck you can manage to kill durin th
war? yf8 q)B b5B ga.I W lHw
Hev you ever heard of Gineral Price 0
Missouri, and can you avoid similar acci
dents in case Of battlc2 as ,,.,i 3E
Hev you ever had the measles, and j
50 how many aioaHe-rebs igda a
How are you now?oi igiIua " v
Show me your tongue, &c, &c. Sun
Of the questions was sarcusstical. n ioa
The kumperny filled up rapid, and las
Sunday we went to the meetin house il
full uniform. ! bad o seris time gitin in
to my military harness, as it was bilt, 70
me many years ago; but | finally got in