Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1868-09-02
NASBY.
The Conversion of Elder Pennfbacker--
F1e Sees n Vision which Puts ms rect
on Solid Democratic Ground.
From the Toledo Blade.

! August Is, 1868.
Joy to the world! Elder Penniback-
| er, Wich, ever since the Moo York Conven-
shun, hez bin skoffer and sore he'd, is
wunst more within the fold. There wu2
more rejoicin when he came back than
over all! within the fold, for he wuz ven
cradle lamb wich he'd gone estray. Like
the prodigal son, we Stayed for him the
fatted calf
wuz particularly pleased with his re,
turn, He wuz the kindest Nv men, and
made the best corn whisky in this seek
shun. He he'd alluz bin in the habit of
sendin, now and then, jug to his paster
at the post offs, but since his dlssatisfack-
shun and consekent estrangement, these
delekit attenshuns, so grateful to one in
trail helth, hez bin intermitted. But that
is all over, thank Heven. Yesterday
mornin he came into the offs bearin that
which to me is the most blessid Nv peece
oferins, the old famyler jug, wich settin
down, he fell onto my neck and wept.
"Parson !" sed he, his veice quiverin
with emoshun, and teers chasln each other
down his nose, "it's over. I've sinned,
and hev repented. Forgive me p
Glider" sed [, assoomin a dignifed air,
''he who departs and cometh back (don't
kick over that jug, for the stopper amt in
tite, } is more preshus to me than eff he he'd
not kicked over the traces, Bless 700 my
son. Here's tin cup wich 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 believe in Sey-
more, coz he is pledged to pay the debt in
gold, and he detested Blair becoz he was
wunst blookotid hirelin, and becoz in
marryin him we marry the entire Blair
family, wich is too much He didn't be
leeve that either Nv EN- was to be trusted.
He didn't believe either Nv EN- waz troo
to the South. Feeling pekoolyerly bit
ter, he went to bed the mite afore, and
nursing his wrath he fell asleep and
dreemed That dreem saved him.
He dreemed that he was in vast as
semblage Nv the Dimoekrasy, very like the
Nashnel Conversion. There wuz shoutn
and hollerin, but he walked about gloomy
and sad, filled with the most feerful fore
bodins.
Presently in his dreem he upproacht the
grand stand which wuz okkepied by the
leaders and devoted to the moosic Nv the
occasion. Here a most peckoolyer site
met his gaze. He notist one small but soft
toned instrument, holler and very much
like flute, evidently made for peece-
full strains, out Nv wich Wade Hampton
wuz stranin and BLOWN the most fero-
shus and warlike sounds. The he'd Nv the
instrument wuz Seymores he'd, and ez he
lookt closter he found it assoomed the
general appearance Nv the man. It tried
hard to keep the smooth melojus tones to
wich it wuz normelly adapted, but the
grim-visaged Hampton, whose wind is in
exhaustable, blowed sich strong blasts and
fingered the holes 50 adroitly, that it play,
ed his toons and his only.
Just beside him stood Boregard plavin
a brass instrument Wich Wuz shaped SO
like Blair ez to be him, Wich instrument
wuz Nv tie trombone nacher. 1t wuz ez
diseordant nachrelly ez it Good be, and it
wuz splendidly adapted to the capassity of
the player.
[ give tie dreem hencefourlh in the
Elders own words:
"Wat in thunder" sed to man wich
seemed to be sort of engineer in the con-
cert, swat in thunder is Seymour and Blair
and sich ez them furnishin moosic for
Strate Suthern Dimoerisy for +? Are we
to be compelled to submit to the tool Nv
bonholders, and to Fedral soljers and sich :?
Ez for one, will never"
Don't talk like an egrejis ass !' sed
this man. "Heven't you any sense Can't
you see that Seymour and Blair are mere
ly the instrooments wich 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 swells
out onto the air and fills the surrondin
space And see, ez Boregard shoves out
the trombone how it hez knockt off the
stand all wich from former attachment to
the instrooment wuz close to it, and how
sweetly the pizen breath wich is bein
bloWed, tho its combined with that Nv the
instrooment itself, has smothered all them
whose presence wood hev embarast US.
Miles ORllly it killed, and all that pestif-
erous breed Nv war Dimocrats like him
are layin, overpowered with it, fiat onto
ther backs They may possibly survive,
but they are SO stoopefed that they wont
git up till after ther oppol tunity of hurtin
US is passed"
Then" sed the Elder, "my dreem
changed. Methawt the eleckshun wuz
over, and that we he'd triumphed. IWuz
to home in Kentucky. All here wuz
peece. The Buro ofisers he'd folded ther
tents like the Arabs, and silently stole
away The m litary wuz withdrawn, and
ther wuz nothin bloc in the South save
and except the faces Nv the few Northern
men wich coodent sit away. The very
air wuz full Nv the costs Nv the ded Fed
raj soljers in the South, all Nv which wore
an expression nv hoomiliashen ez tho hey
felt they he'd bid manufactured into costs
for very considerable less than nothin.
Reconstruckshen he'd bin undone, and all
laws enfranchisen niggers and deprivin our
heroes Nv suffrage wuz bustid. We Wuz
| free. Their had a general eleanin out w