The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1868-09-04
from the Toledo Blade.l
NASBY.
The Conversion of Elder Pennibacker-He
Sees Vision Which Puts his feet on Sol
i'd Democratic Ground.

yenshun, hez bin n skoffer and sore
he'd. is wunst more within the fold.
There wuZ more rejoicln when he come
back than over all within the fold, for
he wuz venerable lamb witch he'd gone
astray. Like the prodigal son, we slayd
for him the fatted calf.
wuz particularly pleased with his
return. He wuz the kindest of men,
and made the best corn whisky i'll this |
seckshun. He he'd alluz bin in the hab-
it of sendin, now and then, jug to his
pastor at the post offs, but sence his
dissatisfackshun and cOnsekent es-
arrangement, these delekit attenshuns,
so grateful to one in ffail helth, heZ bin
intermitted. But that is all over. thank
-Heven. Yesterday morning he come
into the offs bearin that which to me Is
the most blessid Nv peece offerins, the
old familyer jug, witch settin down, he
fell onto my mex and wept.
'.Parson," sed he, his voice quiverin
with emoshen, and tears chasin each
other down his nose, 'it's over. I've
siIfned and hev repentid. Forgive mel"
Elder" sed l, assoomin dignified
air, che who departs and cOmeth buck
don't kick over that jug, for the stop
per amt in tite-is to me more precious
than if he hedn't kicked over the traces.
Bless yOO, my son. Here's tin cup
witch will do"
The Elder then told me how he he'd
bin converted. He he'd determined not
to vote at all. He didn't bleeve in Sey-
more, coz he is pledgd to pay the debt
in greenbax, and he detested Blare be-
coz he wuz WunSt q bloo-kotid hirelin,
and becoZ in marryin him we marry the
entire Blare family, witch is too much.
He didn't bleeve that either NV EN- was
troo to the South. Feelin pekoolyerly
bitter, he went to bed the night afore,
and nursin his wrath he fell asleep and
dreamed. That dream saved him.
He dreamed that he was in vast as
| semblage 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 approach
| the grand stand witch wuz okkeDied bV
the leaders and devoted to the moosic
NV the occasion. Here a most pekool-
yer site met his gaze. He notist one
small, but soft-toned instrument, holIer
and very much like a flute, evidently
made for peaceful stranes, out NV witch
| Wade Hampton wuZ a strainin and
BLOWN the most feroshus and warlike
sounds. The he'd NV the instrument Wuz
| SeymOre's he'd, and eZ he lookt closter
| he found it asSoOmed the genral appeer-
ance NV the man. 1t tried hard to keep
the smooth melojus tones to witch it wuz
normelly adapted, but the grim yisaged
Hampton, whose wind is ineXhaustible,
bloWd SIGH strong blasts and fingered
the holes so adroitly, that it played his
toons and his only.
Just beside him stood Boregard O
playin a brass instrument witch wuZ
shaped so like Blare ez to be him, witch
instrument wuZ NV the trombone ma
cher. Boregard he'd no trouble with it.
1t wuZ eZ discordent nacheraIly ez it
Good be, and it wuz splendidly adapted
to the capacity NV the player.
give the dreem henceforth in the
Elders own words:
swat in thunder" sed to man witch
seemed to be sort nv engineerin the con-
cert, ''wat in thunder is Seymore and
Blare and SIGH eZ them furnishin moo
sic for strate Suthern democracy for !?
Are we to be compelled to submit 20
the tool Of bondholders and to Federal
soljers and SIGH? EZ for one, l will
never"
"Don't talk like egrejis asst" sed
this man. "Hevn't you any sense !?
Can't you see that SeymOre and Blare
are merely the instrOoments witch are
played onto, and that Boregard and
Wade Hampton are the individooals
who furnish the wind and finger the
holes. Listen, how grandly Dixie and
the 'Bonny Bloc Flag swell out onto
the air and fill surrOundin space. And
see, as Boregard shoves out the from
bone how it heZ knockt off the stand all
them witch from former attachment to
the instrOoment Wuz close to it, and
how sweetIy the pizen breth witch is be-
in bowed, tho its combined with that
NV the instrooment itself, has smother
ed all them whose presence wood hev
embarast us. Miles O'Riley it killed,
and all that pestiferous breed of War
DEMOCRATS like him are layin, overpow-
cred with it, fiat onto their backs. They
may possibly survive, but they are so
stoopefied that they wont git up till af-
ter ther opportoonity for hurtin us is
passed.
''Then" said the Elder, 'my dreem
changed. Methawt the eleckshun was
over, and that we he'd triumphed. i
wuZ to home in Kentucky. All here
wuz peece. The Buro officers he'd fold
ed Their tents like the Arabs, and silent
ly stole away. The military Wuz with
drawn, and Their wuZ nothin bloc in the
South, save and except the faces NV the
few Northern men witch coodent git
away. The very air WuZ full NV the
costs NV the ded Fedral soljers in the
South, all Nv witch wore an expreshun
of humiliashen eZ tho they felt they
he'd bin manufactured into costs for
very considerable less than nothin. Re-
Iconstruckshen he'd bin undone, and all
laws enfranchisin niggers and depriyin
our heroes nv suffrage WuZ busted. We
wuz free. Their he'd bin a gineral clean
in out NV Northern settlers, carpet bag
gers and Obstreperous niggers. / no.
4 fist with infinit pleasure PoIlock's store
he'd bin Quilted, and 10 Bigler's corpse
Che spoke this in low tone, and lookin
fearfully over his shoulder to make
shoor no one heerd him) wuz lyin on
the square.
'sSich NV the niggers ez Good be con-
trolled were at work under laws we he'd
passed for EN- regulatin labor, at an av-
erage NV 81 per month, and sich ez he'd
become too Independent for that, he'd
either bin shot or driven out NV the
country. The amendment, givin Nv EN-
votes and SIGH, he'd bin oYerruied, and
in Tennessee and the other stats they
he'd bin redoost to their normal speer,
and the power WIZ wunst more i'll the
hands NV SIGH patriots eZ Forrest, and
SIGH. Brownlow he'd bin hung, ther
lnoosepapers destroyed, and them witch
supported EN- scattered to the four
winds In the Corners all wuz peece.
We he'd niggers on our plantashuns ez
before the war, and We, the roolin race,
wuz relieved NV the degradin labor
witch so onfits Caucashen for the en-
iovment NV life. The entire Corners hev-
in nothin TO do and plenty to live on,
d wuz perpetooaIIv gathered in front of