Litchfield enquirer., 1862-03-27
BUCKNER TO PRENTICE.

4 CALL FOR wHIsKEY AND THE LOUISVILLE |; 4D A' . JOURNAL. ,.7 -~- 2.
 "To tue Editors of the Louisville Jourmai: "FoRr WARREN, Mass, March 4. 1862. "GESrLEMEy: Amongst other luxuries of which Ihave been deprived since my imprison- ment is the pleasure of perusing those chaste and refreshing notices with which for some time past your paper. has honored me and although, in my progress through the North, have met with many attempts on the part of the press at an imitation of your peculiarly felicitous styleof misrepresentation, have found none to equal the original. I am therefore under the necessity of applying to the fountain head. I inclose two dollars, for which please send me your country daily to the following address: st 3-a
 "General s. B. BuckEER,
 "Care of Col. J. Dimick,
 "Fort Warren, Mass. ""P. S-Since writing the above, our friend, Col. R. w. Hanson, has reached this celebrated resort, and desires me to add that the present of ! demijohn of whisky, which he learns you have promised him, would never be more acceptable than at this time-the locality and the latitude, as we'll as the sentiments of our neighbors up the harbor, holding out most tempting induce ments to cultivate taste Cor that delightful bev craze. As matter of caution, however, he ur- ges me to add that he hopes, if tk liquor be of good quality, you will not venture to taste it, as he might thereby incur much risk in losing it altogether, privation which, however agreeable to yourself, would be attended with serious in convenience to him during the prevailing 'nor'- easters.' "S. E. B."
 Prentice, in his reply, expresses his delight at learning that the bagged rebel" is in such good humor and then alludes to Hanson as follows:
 "As for Roger Hanson's message to us, it shall of course be attended to- We did prom ise Roger some fine whisky, and it is on hand It is already jugged-like Roger himself. And truly we can recommend it. While 1t is passing down his throat he will, perhaps, almost forget the disagreeabe sensation that, in his moments of reflection, he no doubt feels about his neck He begs us, if the liquor is good, that we will not venture to taste it ourselves as in that case he might lose it altogether. We'll, he seems en- tiley aware that there is no danger of our drink i any but good" liquor.. If his taste had been equally nnexeaptionable, if he hadn't burn ed up one half of his senses and two halves of h:s patriotism with mean whisky, he never would have turned rebel, never would have challenged us to mortal combat, never would have been an inmate of Fort Warren cursing the flag of his country almost within the awful shadow of Bun ker Hill and it's mighty shaft; never would have felt choked for the want of a drop to drink or loohed 1orwaru Wltn aPprenenslons ol peihS SUI. worse chsked one of these days by "a drop too much -.. s' We are not without hopes that one demijohn of good whisky, or at least two or thfee, will make Roger Union man again. We don't look for him, however, to be what he declared himself short time before his apostasy, a Un- ion man without ifs or buts ; he may be Un- ion man without an if, but certainly not without a most ponderous butt. We don't wonder at his and Buckners disposition to take to drink dur ing the prevalence of the nor'easters,' for, in those winds, the glorious old flag that streams from the liberty staff of Fort Warren points di rectly toward Fort Donelson."