Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1867-09-06

Nr. NaS5y goes to NeO Orleans to Ac-
quaint the Presidents friends aoth the
C0ntenapzated, Change. ne d>.u aog Il
PosT Offs, CoNFEDRIT x ROADS,
(Which is in the Staff NV Kentucky,)
gu ayn- e August 20, 1867. "
wuz a settin all so pleasant in the Post
Offs last mite, a musin onto the mutability
Nv human affairs when / received the fol-
lerin despatch, per boy on mule, from the
stashen:
WASHINGTON, Aug. 20, 1867.
! SIeydetermined be President or nothin Shell
nniove Stanton, and immejety thereafter Sheri-
dan, and ultimately the balance Nv en- 90 on to
Moo Orleans and make this known 10 our lrlenas,
Wat thrill run tllfo me ez read this
I rever felt so good but once before in my
life. I wuz in an interior town in Massa-
chusetts four days where the most stimu'
latin beverage was root beer. The occa-
sion when l felt better than did on the
Feceet7uv that-despatch, wuz the 1dentlkle
iminitII struck Moo Y ork and stood at bar.
iOh wat pleasin, soothin, magnetic thrill
run thro. my veins ez the golden liquid
gurggled down down my esotfagus Jest
so thrilled atreedin that despatch. My
thot-contracted brow smoothed agin, the
wrinkles of care left my face, and I wuz
boy agin { wv /. 3 d $
/ left immeiitly, and after pleasant
Journey reached Moo Orleans.
l he'd no trouble in findin them to whom
I wuz accredited. If there's divinity
wich doth hedge-a king, ther must be
suthin also in the face nv troo Dimekrat
WITCH betrays him | wuz tollered to my
hotel by crowd Nv the first men Nv the
city, and when they saw my name onto
the register the scene wuz terrific. They
knowd me; they knowd my comm wuznt
for nothin, and afore | he'd time to say
nay, l wuz hurried to the Lost Coz ="
Club Room and made an onorary member
for life, incloodin the freedom Nv the bar,
witch privilege priced ~ sg
+" Wat neoze from Washington?. shout
id they all with one akkord.
/ p Calm yourselves 4" sed Iimpressively,
"and restrane yOor emoshens. -Four
days ago received this" and l red them
the dispatch. Never shell witness
anuther such sceen. Old men danced
like yooths, while young men wept like
wimmen.
r. AExcoose us sir" sed one, " this weepin
is onmanly, but alb, did 700 know wat |
hev suffered Sence last Joon, year, |
hewitt killed niger nor preacher, and
hev only knocked two Nv 'em down and
for them two [ wuz imprisoned three
months each. But, thank God, I'm free
agin-I'm free F" and he fell onto my neck
and askt me to take drink with him,
which, fearing the effex Nv irritashen on
him, in his present eggsltable state Nv mind,
/ did. Z -''@>4 a
I+wuz asst eff ] he'd ever bin in Moo Or
leens and on sayin that hedn't, my friend
accompanied me to the many objects Nv
interest in the city.
"Here," sed he, ais the buildins in witch
Beast Butler received the surrender Nv the
city, and where he signed the order for the
hangin of Mumford Subsekently, in this
same room, the tother beast, Sheridan,
took his orders from Mayor Monro and
Abel. Ha ha ! twas retribushen," and
he smiled grimly several minits. "Here
is the hall where Dostie and his Ablishn
hordes gathered over year ago, and from
which Dostie wuz carried corpse. At
that angle in the bildin |, with this good
right hand, slew three niggers and Blu
row preecher Right here where we are
standin, o cart containing the killed came
along. | wuz eggsited and Infatuated at
their obstinacy IN holding the COnven-
shen In my revolver there wuz one load
in the cart under the corpses wuz niger,
groanin. I mounted the cart and turned
over the corpses--the wounded Niger had
on a blue cote-inflamed with rage at the
site I pulled the trigger, and he groaned
no more" ,.,---,-,r~t-
GLORIOUS sperit y .,sed i, in eggstacy,
Wringin his hand.
"Just in front Nv where we stand thirty
| odd niggers wuz killed, and one or two Nv
| them Burow teachers. 1t don't become
me to say how many 1 killed, but want
| idle. In three weeks thereafter / received
la pardon from the President, and am now,
| thank God, citizen. n III /if~A4 q
By this time we reached the Club again,
and for hours listened to tales of oppres-
sion ON the part of military satraps WITCH
| made my blood run cold.s A citizen he'd
shot asnigger-and forthwith he wuz torn
| from the buZzum Nv his family and inkar.
| serated in the common prizen Another's
| wife he'd throwd a buckit NV bilin water
over wench in the street, Nv witch the
perverse creacher died, and she, too, WIZ
arrested. Policemen he'd bin discharged
| for refoosin to arrest men whose spirits
coodent brook niger ekality, and who he'd
| banged them about somewhat, and others
| had bin dismisst for hurrahin for JEFF Da
Wis and pullin down Fedral flags. There
| he'd bin no liberty Nv speech nor ackshen
| This Club room he'd bin invaded, and pts
tolls and shot guns he'd bin taken out BY
these despots, WITCH wuz grindin the citi
zens into the dust But the most oppres
sive case wuz that Nv one Nv our first citi
/ zens, who had girl5in his family who
| would persist in attendin skoots after h(
| he'd positively forbid her dom So He tiec
her up, and in the most patriarchal man
ner gave her one hundred AID fourteen
lashes. She wuz obstinit and died. ID
gave her Chrischen berriel, but neverthe
less he wuz pulled up, and fined and i'm
prizened! Fined and imprizened for wal
lopin niggerl aoL ssasl ~ ias'iaa 'e", o
Then biznis commenced Lists were be
ing made out, the purport Nv Wich l com
; perhended. Enter up, sed one, Aoiiln
revolver, "the nest Nv lniggers on the al
ley jist around the corner from my house
They hey ther a chapel, in Wich they he'
preechin Sundays, and skools doorin til
week Aside from the annoyance it is t
my family, it's really dangerous. Tw'
hundred niger childen attend it, ,besid
the adult niger classes" W A0AJ11
ENTER up" sed another, CLEANUP out
shot gun, "the grocer on the same street
He is from Iowa, and teaches a Sunda
skool class in the same chapel. SIGH II
cendiaries we can never tolerate" " Their
is a niger church two squares from m
that must be abated," sed another, "ianC
by the way, a agent Nv the niger mission
f airy sosiety and two teachers from Conne'
I ticut boards next door. Put EN- down.
Ia my part Nv the city," sed anothe
t there's four niger draymen who hev bi
j limnudent enuff 10 scrane together enuff |