Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1867-11-22
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This bill he he'd determined to put IN,
becoz NV this property he he'd bin robbed.
Last mite he herd Nv the Moo York and
Moo Jersey elecshens, and he felt that
more yit wuz due him from the uncon-
stooshnel government under witch we are
forst to live. He wanted pay, not only
for his twenty-four thousand dollars worth
of niger, but legIe interest on the amount,
from Emancipashen to date, incloodin wat
he paid to hev the calculation made, and
the interest fggered onto it, and he wanted
it in gold, ez he considered greenbax JET
ez unconstooshnel ez emancipashen..
Issaker Gavitt remarkt that on behalf
NV his fathers estate he he'd claim on
the oppressoys. He he'd made out no Dill,
ez yit, ez the niger witch alluz old the fig
germ for his father he'd got to be 1mpu.
dent, and wooden't do it no more. But he
shood get somebody who Good write to
copy the Deekin's bill, witch wood anser,
ez the the two farms workt about the same
number Nv hands, tho Nv fancy stock his
father he'd alluz kept the most, witch &C
countid for his bein more bald headed than
the Deekin. - n.
Kernel McPelter wantid no pay. He
wantid his niggers To accept pay wood
be to acknollege the rite Nv Illinoy goril-
Ter to releese EN-, witch he wood never do.
He he'd one-he saw her to day-wlch he
wood hev back agin. Her and her hus-
band, WITCH he'd bin married sence they
wuz torn from him, he'd purchist ten akers
NV ground up toards Garrettstown, and
wuz Twin onto it. Nv course, ez the
emancipashen wuz illegal, the produx NV
their labor sence that time wuz hizzen,
Jest the same ez tho they remained in their
normal condishen. The ten akers wood
emit make him good, but they he'd two
children born to EN- sence, witch, eft mig
gers brot any price, wood do suthin toards
it. 3
Bascom preferred to hev Government
pay ther valyoo, and let EN- stay free. He
had arrived at this conclooshun after givin
the subjeck matoor consideration. They
all he'd some property now-leastways
they Good all do wat they pleased with
their money Troo, the heft Nv the pro.
ceeds nv their labor went to Pollock for
dry goods and groceries and SIGH, but he
bleeved that they wuz initiative race.
Eff so, and they followed the eggsample
sot EN- by their white sooperiors, they
wood in time leave the heft Nv it at his
bar. He he'd few Nv EN- under tralnin
now, and he notist that they wuz better
customers than the whites, ez they did MT
swaller their rashens and tell him to "jist
chalk it down."
A sense Nv the meetin wuz then taken,
and majority voted to fust try to re-
dooce them to their normal condishen, and
eff that wuz decided to be impracticable,
then we Good, with still better grace, de-
mad Their valyoo Nv the Government.
yes exclaimed Kernel McPelter, sand
for this great work ther is no better time
than now. The Yoonyun Ell wuzp Fol
Ter me"
And forthwith the entire congregashun
piled out, rushin toward the niger settle
ment on the Garrettstown road.
Arrivin at the settlement, a consulta-
shen wuz held. 1t wuz desided that shood
advance to the doors Nv the houses and
demand surrender, but declined. Kernel
McPelter volunteered, ard we all awaited
the result. He knocked at the door Nv the
first house.
"Wha' dye want?" exclaimed voice.