The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1868-08-28
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The Conversion of Elder Penniback-
er-He Sees Vision which Puts
his feet en- solid Democratic
Ground.
Post Oils, Confcdrit \ Roads, e
| fWich is in the State nv Ky.,f
81 Aug. Is, 1s6s)
Joy to the world! Elder Penni
backe- wich, ever sence the Noe
York Convenshun, hez bin skoilel
and q sore head, is wunst more with
in the fold. There wuZ more reJolc
in when he come back than over al
. within the fold, for he WIZ a venera
BILE lamb wich he'd gone estray
Like the prodigal son, we Stayed 10
him the fatted calf.
Iwuz particularly pleased with hi
return. He wuz the kndest NV men
and male the best corn vlIiskey il
this section. He he'd salluz bin in tn,
habit of sendin, now and then, jus
to his Paster at the Post Oils, bu
sence hiz dissatisfackshnn and con
sekent estrangement, these deleki'
attenshuns, SO grateful to one in frai
helth, hez bin lntermitted-But thai
is all over, thank Heven. Yesterday
morning he come into the offs bear
in that witch to me is the most bless
in NV peece offerins, the old familyei
jug. wich settln down, he fell onto
my neck and wept. ~
"Parsonl" sed he, his voice quiv-
erin with emoshen, and tears chasln
each other down his nose, ''it's oyer.
I've sinned and hev repented. For
give mel"
s.Elder p sed1, assoomin digni
fed air, che who departs and cometi
hack-don't kick over that jug, for
the stopper amt in tite-is to me
more precious than if he hedn't kick
ed over the traces. Bless 700, my
SON. Here's tin cup wich will do"
The Elder then told me how he
he'd bin cOnvertid. He he'd deter
mined not to vote at all. He didn't
bleeve in Seymore, coz he is pledged
to pay the debt in greenbaX, and he
detested Blare becOz he wuz wunst
blookotid hirelin. and becoz ia
marryin him we marry the entire
Blare family wich is too much. He
didn't bleeve that either NV EN- wuz
to he trusted. He didn't bleeve that
either OF en- WIZ troo to the South.
Feelin pekoolyerly bitter, he went to
bed the mite before, and nursin his
wrath he fell asleep and dreamed.
That dream saved him.
lie dreamed that he wuz in vast
assemblage Nv the Democracy, very
like the Nashnel Convenshun. There
wuz shoutin and hollerin, but he
walked about gloomy and sad, filled
with the most fearful forebodins.
Presently in his dreem he approacht
the grand stand wich wuz Okkepied
by the leaders and devotid to the
moosic NV the occasion. Here a
most pekoOlyer site met his gaze.
He notist one small but soft-toned in
strument, holler and very much like
a flute, evidently made for peeceful
stranes, out NV wich Wade llamp
ton wuz strainin and BLOWN the
most feroshus and war like sounds
The he'd NV the instrument wuz Sey-
more's he'd, and ez he lookt closter
he found it assoomed the general ap-
pearance NV the man. 1t tried hard
TO keep the smooth melojus tones to
wich it wuz normally adapted,
but the grim-visaged Hampton.
whose wind Is inexhaustible, blowed
sich strong blasts and fingered the
holes so adroitly, that it played his
toons and his only. !
Just beside him stood Boregard a
playin brass instrument wich wuz
shaped SO like Blare ez to be him,
wich instrument wuz Nv the from
boone nacher. BOregard he'd no
trouble with it. 1t wuz ez discord
ent nachrelly ez it Good be, and it
wuz splendidly adapted to the capas
'ity NV the player.
give the dreem henceforth in the
Elders own words:
"Wat in thunder" sed l to man
Vich seemed to be sort NV engineer
in the concert, swat in thunder is
Seymore and Blare and sich ez them
moosic for strate Suthern
Demockricy fur? Are we to be com
Delled to submit to the tool NV bond
holders and to Fedral soljers and
itch? E? Ez for one, / will never"
"Don't talk like an eggrejis ass y
,ed this man. ''Hevn't yOO any
sense? Can't 700 see that Seymore
md Blare are merely the instrOo
nents wich are played onto, and that
8oregard and Wade Hampton are
he individeoals who furnish the wind
md finger the holes. Listen, how
yrandly "Dixie" and the "Bonny Bloc
Flag" swell out onto the air and fills
space! And see, ez Bore
gard shOves out the trombone how il
lez knockt off the stand all them
vich from former attachment to the
nstrooment wuz close to it, and how
weetly the pizan breth wich is bein
,lOwed, tho is combined with that
" the instrOoment itself, hez smoth-
red all them whose presence wood
lev embarast US. Miles O'Reilly is
Tiled, and all that pestiferous breed
" War Dimokrats like him are lay
n, oyerpowered with it, fiat onto their
acks. They may possibly survive,
ut they are SO stoopefied that they
1ont git up till after ther opportooni-
y for hurtin US is passed.
"Then," sed the Elder, "my dreem
Methawt the eleckshun wuz i
yer, and that We he'd triumphed. / t
ruz to home in Kentucky. All here a
ruz peece. The Buro ofiisers he'd :,
,lded ther tents like the Arabs, and II
ilently stole away. The military "
Tuz withdrawn, and ther wuz notlIin d
loo in the South, save and except
he faces nv the few Northern men
'ich coodent git away. The very y
ir wuz full Nv the costs nv the ded n
'edral soljers in the South, all Nv wich Il
'ore an expreshun Nv hoomiliashen O
z tho they felt they he'd bin manu- =
.ktered into costs for very consid.
rable less than nothin. Reconstruk- IL
hen he'd bin undone, and all laws fl
niggers and deprivin
ur heroes NV suffrage wuz bustld. o.
4e wuz free. Their he'd bin q GIN -
ral cleanin cut Nv Nnrtharn settlers L