Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1866-10-31
MASH Y.
The October EIeeti0n-The EGeet the
Result produced I'm Kentucky as Mar
rated by MI. Nasty.
written for the Toledo Blade.I

Written for the Toledo Blade.J
CoNFEDRIT x ROADS,
(which is in the Staff Nv kentucky
October 18th, 1866.
There is mournin in Kentucky. The re-
suit of the elections in Ohio, Injeany, Penn
syIvany and Iowa reached me yesterday
through a louisville paper witch wuz drop
ped of the cars at SecessionvIlle witch is the
nearest station to Us, and witch, 1 hapnin to
be there, I picked up.
Ohio-40,O00 Ablishin
Injeany-2O,O 900 Ablishin!
Pennsylvany-20, 900 Ablishinl
IUwa-30,0 600 Ablishn
ABLIsHIH? Wat O dreery waste Nv Alb
lishin Not a single oasis Nv Democrisy any
where-nary-rvat on witch our ark kin rest
in safety but all around US the mad waves
NV Ablishin rearin their crestid heads much
1 felt it my dooty 10 make this fact known.
to nay neighbors, for, sposin thst His Serene
Highness trip wood secure us enuf deestricts
to make the next Congress safe, and conse-
kently make US certin Nv admission. they he'd
bin maxim arrangements for restorln things
to their normal condishpn, eE they were be-
fore the war.
In fact two weeks before, in view Nv the
expected success NV the Democracy, a meetin
he'd bin held on the subject. Some wuz for
at once seezin the niggers wherever they
Good be found and putin EN- at work, but
the conservatives overruled this. They held
that slavery had bin abolished and it ought
not to be restored, in fact, that to act in good
faith II Good not be Fe-established. Deekin
Pogram announced 8 plan. The town su-
thoritles shood pass q ordinance fOT the prop
or government Nv the niggeFs. Their good
and ourn demanded it. For instance, they
shoodentb be permitted to be out after 7 O'clock
P. NJ. in the evenin; they shoodent leave the
| plantation INTO witch they wuz employed:
they shood work every day till Z, and do
away with the pernicious work Nv the Freed
mems Bureau, no mar and wife wich he'd
bin married by q chaplin NV the Bureau or
by any one else shood be employed On the
same plantashun, and also no father or mother
and child. Sich ez violated these ordinances
shood be arrested by anybody and fined, and
in default Nv payment Nv the fine ann costs
shoOd be sold to the person who would take
his or her labor for the shortest number
of years and pay the fines and costs aforesed.
stEz a conservative" sed the Dsekin, 81 re-
port this plan"
"Do you want to know my definition Nv
the word conservative" sed Joe Bigler, a re-
turned Confederate soljer, who / bleeye hez
seen enough Nv war, sits a man who goes a
roundabout way to do q deVilish mean thing.
Deekin why can't 700 go to the devil by a
straight road ez l dO?"
The interruption Nv the emoralized wretch
Wuzn't notist, and ez the trustees Nv the
township wuz all present, the ordinance wuz
passed, and that mite two-thirds Nv the mig
gers within five miles ny the Corners wuz ar
- II ILL - ,-i+b.n 4-o rnaoHs auarrr
one he'd bin capeherd.
l hied me to the Corners, and the first man
1 saw wuz Bascom, the grocery keeper, en-
gagged in the congenial biznis Nv tappin a bar
rel NV contentmenG, wlch he he'd just received.
L wuz a goin to tell him the dread intelll-
gence, when he caught site Nv me. "Taste
that Parson," sed he, holdin out q tin dipper
full. ! drank it off, and one look at hin on
mand me. "Kin 1 o'ercloud that smilin
cheek" thot ! ez in a fit Nv absent minded
mis-, WITCH 1 hey every now and then, l held
out the empty dipper to be filed agin, wich
If wuz-"no! for a time he shell be spared, 3"
and I borrowed his mule and rode p~ensiYely
away.
L Wuz goin fust to Deekin POgram's for he
wuz the most interested Nv eny in the settle
ment. After the meetIn mentioned above
the Deekin had caused the arrest Nv SIGH mig
gers ez he Good ketch, and had had EN- fined
in sums Nv S275 and upwards, witch bein I'M
able, ez a rool, to pay the fine, he he'd kindly
bid en- in.
He he'd picked up here and there all Nv his
old servants, ceptin those wich he'd bin killed
In the army and the few misguided ones witch
he'd made their way North, and that mornip
the plantashen wuz to be reconstructed upon
the old patriarkle system. Mrs. Deekin Po-
gram wuz marshellin four Nv the likeliest
wenches 1 ever saw in the Kitchen; his son
Tom wuz chucking a yalleF girl under the
chin, witch he'd bin born on the place about
eighteen years before, and wich, owing to q
unfortunate resemblance to the Deekin, had
caused a onpleasantnis between him and his
wife, wich endded in the loss Nv the most nv
his hair and the sellin Nv the girls mother to
Moo Orleans. The two girls he'd each their
waiting maids, and wuz a putin EN- through
their PAGES. There he'd bin some trouble in
gettin EN- reconstructed, it bein deemed nee
essary to take the consent out ny en-, which
they wuz all a doin. Ez 1 rode up, the old
lady had Just knocked one Nv EN- down with
a fire shovel and wuz dancin a Highland
fling on her postrate body. Almira, the old
est gal, he'd her fingers in the wool Nv hel
gal, and tother one wuz a thumpin bern q
redoose her to her proper level and the Deck:
in hisself wuz q deeiiR with one Ongrateful
wretch, who objected to bein pat to work on
them terms, not realizin that the Buresq wa:
gone. Ez the Deekin he'd . revolver he
yieldedthe pint, and submitted 70 be logged,
wieh the Deekin wuz dom ez neatly ez
ever saw, eonsiderin he he'd bin out Nv prac'
us for four years. He he'd him tied up TO
tree and was a Wollopin Nv him gOrjus--
While he WI a convinsln Nv him with hil
whip that there wuz trooth in the skripter