Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1867-08-30
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The Kentucky and Tennessee EEec u
TIE Hopes Of the Democracy o. me JoT-
MGR Stdte-Hoao they Erpect to HoS@ III.
PosT OFFIs, CoNFEDRIT x ROADS,
witch is in the Staff Nv Kentucky
August 16, 1867.
1t wuz conlenyel party. Their Wuz me,
and Deekin Pogram. and BaSc0m, Nv
course, for it wuz at Bascom's, ana Capt.
McPelter, and Issaker Gavitt, and Joe Big
Ter, who wuz, naterelly, mischeeVusly IN
toxicated. We he'd met to reJolse over .ne
result NV the Kentucky eleckshun ana Inc
removal NV Stanton and Sheridan, ana we
reioist. We he'd rejoist for several hours,
when the Deekin. blessins on his frosty
pow, perposed that we take one more
drink, to witch we ackseeded with alacrlty.
Ez Bascom handed back the Deekln
his change, the old man observed among
it a most yillainous counterfeit ten cent
postal currency. Bascom, sed ne IN an
inioored tone, areally can't take thai
it's counterfeit" gf.Certin It's, Deekln,
sed George w., "certin, but what's, the
odds? Ez matter Nv course, Deekln, LII
git it agln afore to morrer. It's evenchOo-
ally my. loss, amt it, .ez git all the money
that floats here? Garry it till ittcomes
around to me, Deekin, in the material course
Nv evence. Let lis bear each others bur
'dens, Deekin ran Bascom smiled sweetly
onto him. T8cT ,T9dW9f
I don't know when felt Sc. happy. Ken
lucky he'd spoken. We he'd elected Helm
by. a majority, of forty odd thousand, and
he'd with hlm elected a strate State ticket,
incloodln all the Congressman. The Alb
lishnists he'd no show watever. The can
didates were strate Demokrats every one
NV EN-. Sum Nv EN- he'd bin accoosed NV
leanin towards the Fedrel side, but they
he'd by affidavits proved themselves troo to
the Delnocrisy. One candidate he'd bin
charged, by q .envious cuss, Nv hevin fur
nisht the Fedrel forces with bosses, but
he Indignantly repealed the charge. His
enemies brought forrerd the documents
shown that he he'd furnisht the Fedrel for
ces with bosses, and | trembled fer him.
But he smilingly cum to the scratch. He
he'd contracted TO furnish 'em with bosses
he led taken their accused greenbacks,
but Wherefore e. Wuz it to benefit 'em !?
Wuz it to add to the resources of the goril-
La Linkin, or the Tcverse? Let the facts
answer. When wuz the bosses delivered?
Ha! ha Did the Fedrel offiser git 'em
He did Did he keep EN-? Alars! That
mite John Morgan, who seeied his devo-
shen to the Confederacy with his blood,
scooped 'em, and them bosses which the
Fedrels paid for did servis in the Confedrit
army. He wood ask his maligners wheth-
er it was sinful for troo Confedrit to take
money NV the Fedrels for furnishin sup
plies to the Confederacy.?y He'd these hos
ses remained in the, hands NV the farmers
Nv Kentucky, John Morgan wood hev felt
delicacy in takin EN-; ez the farmers he'd
he'd valyoo received he wuz free and he
took EN-. Sich rcaSO1lin Good not fail to
convince, and the candidate wrz NV course,
electid. The shafts NV his enemies fell
pintless. ''''N ,r,l ii rs 5... .srst .et
Therefore felt happy. The waves NV
Ablishnism rolled over all the other States,
but aginst Kentucky they struck harmless
Kentucky is a brite oasis in the desert
Built onto Ham and Hager, bleevin in the
sooperiority Nv the white race, and that
same race holdin in their hands the priv
legc Nv sayin who shood and who shood
not vote, they wuz SAFE And we sot in ST.
lence, contemplation our happiness. ,57l
AT last Deekin Pogram spoke. He sigh
ed ez he spoke. He he'd heard NV Tennes-
see. He he'd seen the lection returns and
he wuz ez much afflicted ez we .wuz rejoist
Wherefore" sed he, y" shood we feel good
while our brethren in Tennessee are wailin
over ther woes The niger with us is in
his normal speer.9a Sence this eleckshen
they bow their heads In silence, and dodge
by ez eff they were afraid Nv us, witch is a
good sign. They hey lost the air they
asoomed afore, and are more like slaves
and less like men. hev twelve Nv EN- a
sweatin on my farm, and four expiatin
the cuss Nv Noer in my kitchen The men
yield to the power Nv the stronger race,
and the females bow meekly Ito their desti
ny. Tom, my oldest son, is happy and
stays at home, and my other sons is ez con-
tentid ez they kin be. But it is not SO in
Tennessee There they are not normal.
There white men bow beneath q power
they can't resist. There the niger holds
up his he'd and the confedrit white man
sncaks There the abnormal niger hez a
vote, and the white man, who follered his
State, is disfranchised' My God Z? how kin
man be happy under SIGH circumstances?
How kin Dimokrat rejois when iist
across the line he sees liberty weepin,
PROSTATE, and the white man, who struck
j for his rites, pinin becoz NV his 'depriva-
shen Nv the rite Nv suffrage ?"' He Good
feel good over Kentucky, but he wept over
Tennessee. -------------.-
Bascom remarkt that he too, felt for Ten
IiesSee, but he wlZ consoled. Kentucky
he'd proved troo, and Johnson, one worthy
son NV Tennessee, he'd removed Stanton
Wat more Good we want Kentucky he'd
gone Dimocratic and Johnson he'd removed
Stanton .'' - 5,fgaf I a5i,7ss iAs
""And Tennessee he'd elected Brownlow,
and johnson had appointed Grant" Whis-
pered Joe Bigler, 30 9 ''''' g : 's''8 as3s
"And," spoke-up McPelter, "and Shcr-
idan is removed" IA, .a.,o.,or
"Troor troop retorted Bigler,, and
put Thomas in his place. The man who
Iwhaled us in the Shenandoah Valley is de-
pose to make room for the man wat Whaled
us in Tennessee" o..
This bit us. This griped u.s. This is
wuss nor cathartic to u.s. Ef Kentucky
is oil, Tennessee is aquafortis. p Eff Stanton
is soothin, Grant is pizen. Wherln are we
better with the one than with the other p
is question which VIC askt ourselves over
and over agin. '''' UT a..
But we felt good after all. Tennessee is
10 the Democracy dark cloud, but Ken
lucky is the silver 1inin to it. Ef no Con
federlts wuz allowed to vote in Tennessee.
thank the Lord no other kind Wtz permit.
ted to hist in ballots in Kentucky The
troo, sterlin Democracy Nv Tennessee may
suffer, and it is probable they will suffer.
There the Ethiopian votes by State law,
but Kentucky is herself alone. Kentucky
will never be so afflicted Kentucky hez
yetthe making of her own laws. She will
let them vote ez she sees fit and none
others Relyin on Ham and Hager, she
will deny the niggers that rite and will
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