Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1868-01-17

Well do remember the day. A draft
wuz impendin. The tyrannical Linkin,
revelin in the gorgus halls Nv despotic
power at Washinton, he'd isshood his
oppressive decree for "three hundred
thousand morer % / went, confidently,
to the eggsaminer's offs for my egg
sempshen, but in the face Nv the most
positive ashoorence on my part that he'd
bronkeetis and liver complaint at that
| time, and he'd he'd at different times NV
my life delirum tremens, | wuZ laft to
skorn, and prenounst eZ sound ez brick.
I determined not to imbrue my hands in
| the blood NV my brethren nv the South.
shuddered at two ijees First, at being
punctured myself, and, second, at pune
turin any NV my friends Nv the Confed-
| eracy. Therefore, made my way ez best
mite to that refuge from the persekutor,
Canady Need / dilate onto the terrols
| NV that passage? Need l state how l
walked from my then place Nv residence
to Detroit, and how l SWAN across the
river at that pint on a log, and how, when
on strkin the sacrid soil, | struck taboo
| and shook my fist at the stars and stripes,
witch saw waYin on the tother sides No.
For all Wv yoo hev done it, eff not in
! Canady, somewhere else. The draft wuz
over, and returned, supposin it wuz all
rite. Skarcely he'd | reached my humble
! home, when | WIZ arrested, and dragged to
military camp. Ihed bin drawd, and /
| wuz taken ez deserter. did not serve
I tho. Ruthes than to carry Fedral muskit,
III DESERTED in ERNST, and wat military life
| cid see, j saw in the Confedrit ranks.
But that Wuz short, The Kurnel Nv my
regiment appreciatin my style, ordered me
TO be discharged, on the skore that l Good
| do the Contedrisy more good operatin
| with the Dimocrisy NV the North than L
Good carryin muskits in the ranks NV her
brave defenders. He wuz pleased to say
| IhatI wnzat, worth b d--n ez soljer,
81 yhoWli 54soa anH III osa
Ny second inkarserasbun wuz iva more
trylu nacher. he'd ben called to organ
ize i'd dl!ll q county which he'd deter
mineG como veal, come wO, they never
wood, Under any circumstances, submit to
be dragged to fight in coz WITCH they
didn't believe In. They he'd resolved in
their meetins to die In their own door
yards q thousand times each, ruther than
submit to the drafts which wuz lmpendin
too often, or to the oncOnstitooshnel taxes
which the monster at the he'd Of the Gov
eminent wuz a levyin. We wuz in camp,
900 strong when company of sojers wuz
set 8gin us. Wun by wun the defenders
NV their rites betbot themselves w biznis
which they he'd at home. Wun's wife wuz
momentarily expected to be confined, an
other he'd forgotten to feed his cattle, and
a thirds Oldest son, the heir OF his house,
wuz to be married that mite. Eggsoftih
NV us to fife brayely for our rites, and die
rite there before submittin, they lett, fust
wun at time, then five in squad, then
ten, then hundred, ontill all wuz gone
but me and nineteen others. L wuz re-
strained by pride; the nineteen others
couldn't git away OWN to bari OF Whls-
ky witch he'd been rolled onto the ground,
and which they he'd monopolized atween
EN- the only tin cup he'd in the camp.
They were. ez reward for their herOism
and the sufferins that ensoOd, all elected to
Gifts that fall
2 wuz treated with frightful severity. |
wuz kept on the ordinary rashens OF pri-
yate soljer. / wuz not allowed the peroo-
eel Nv the Richmond papers, and | wuz
compelled, afore being released, to take the
oath Nv allegiance to the Federal Govern
ment. ~
h And wot hev got for it {? Good Lord,
I shudder when think nv the ongrateful-
mis- Nv man! The party for WITCH l suffer
cd all this never so much ez gave me
thing. I wuz never made the recipient Nv
snothin ontil g reformed Abolishnist wuz
made President, who he'd to hev party
and who he'd to take only sioh ez wuz for
sale. But for this fortunate circumstance
I mite now be forst TO beg my bread. |
spare VOC more detales. Suffice it to say,
| approve Nv the meetin. 1t wont do me
ez much good ez it will 700; yoor sores
amt heeled, yoo hev bin smart enuff to
keep irritatin Nv EN-. Yoo hev kept
proddin Nv en- with rusty pales, and tearin
NV EN- open with yoor fingers, af0re auien-
zces and Id the noosepapers, ontil they Aev
RELY come to be q stencil in the nostrils.
Let us unwrap EN- agin. Let the cold
wind Nv ingratitood blow onto en- ontil
they get so infarned that they will attract
sttenshen. Let VailaDd!gham onwind III
abandages and show the hole the engious
Burnside made. Heller /" ASA" aain and
agn in the ears Nv Democracy ontil they
heer yoor cries and stop EN- with the Sen
atoIslip. Yoo, Odds, repeet the piteous tale
NV how 700 wuz deprived uy yoor Bible
sOntil 700 he'd well nigh forgotten Ham,
Hager and Onesimus, and that even waste
paper wuz denied 700. 700, Mliligen and
bOWieS, TepSSt aSiH tuC eIolF Nv yOof Oap-
tivity aud release, and see too it that 700
get coz hair dyed white, and that VOC
come into the CoEvenshun laanin otno g
cane, or, if possible, onto the shoulders nv
two young men who wuznt imprisoned.
| probably shant be there myself, for |
want nothiD. / am peTvided for. I hey
n0thin 10 make But "a men who suffered
even goo did, 81 for The same coz, my
sym pathies are with goo. Fraterraily, =
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